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The Playground is what For Our Hero was formerly called before getting more members. They have several videos on YouTube, of songs they never released, and performances on Australian TV shows and Syn Radio. .

There are six bands with the name "Playground": 1) Playground is a cult Post-Punk band from Herne Bay, Kent (UK) that started as an idea in 1985 by both Richard Johnson and Andy P. (who together were also respectively editing/publishing and writing the popular Grim Humour 'zine). Rehearsals intially comprised them and their friends Dylan Hollinsbee, Harvey 'Havoc' Francis and a couple of others improvising a kind of industrial-tainted noise-rock around a drum machine. As well as guitars, the band would use backing tapes and a keyboard sometimes. During the course of a year, however, the sound developed from being...

Marcy Playground is an American alternative rock and post-grunge band. Named for the formative location in lead singer John Wozniak's childhood (the Marcy Open grade school in Minneapolis, Minnesota), Marcy Playground emerged in the late 90s. They had been influenced heavily by Kurt Cobain and his band Nirvana. The influence is quite clear on Marcy Playground's self-titled album, with songs like The Shadow of Seattle and Saint Joe On The School Bus. Wozniak's first effort, Zog BogBean - From the Marcy Playground, was self-produced, recorded in his bedroom studio with some help from his then-girlfriend Sherry Fraser and her brother...