our story*

eddie dharmawan, nyoman kurniawan, kadek suryawan

the beginning

it's all begun on the early years of 1996, when nyoman loves to go to beaches all over bali, where he met all of his aussie surfer friends. nyoman quit his study at STP college in bali, the reason is 'get bored' and especially he hate that college system. when he quit, he doesn't feel sad about it, feel happy and free actually.

at the time he doesn't like to stay at home, because his parents always get mad of him for quiting his studying. he spend much of his time on the beach to surf. some of his surfer friends from australia are also musician, they play rock of course. nyoman are likes to listen to grunge and punk, some of his favourite bands are : sonic youth, nirvana, dinosaur jr., the clash, etc. but he couldn't play guitar, he learn about how to play guitars from his aussie friend. he find the similarity of music taste with them, which is make him so easy to learn guitar. now the history of the band just get started.

 

after his surfer friends left to hawaii in november 1996, nyoman decided to make his own grunge band. he called his long time friend, eddie, who works in a flower shop. eddie is a huge fans of nirvana and when nyoman ask him if he likes to make a grunge band with him, he instantly scream :'cool !'. eddie want to play bass, becuz it's his favourite instrument, so nyoman became the singer and guitarist for the band. but they haven't had a drummer yet. through made gunarsa ( bassist of 'obligasi' ), eddie's friend, they met kadek on a tape store ( he works there ), who had never been on a band before but the myth said good at drumming, probably becuz his cousins owns a music studio. after a few talking he joined the band.

the first gigs

they started the band by playing session or cover versions of nirvana's, sonic youth's and silverchair's songs on a music studio that they rent for an hour or two, or sometimes on delta music studio that belong to kadek's cousin. when they starting play good as a band on the studio, they starting to wrote their own songs.

they also try to find the band name. nyoman are always love to watching the beautiful sky during the sunset on padang-padang beach, one of the most gorgeous surfing spot in bali ( at that time ). so peaceful he said. then they decided to have scenicsky as their band name.

scenicsky first stage experience was on february 1997, on an underground gigs in legian, kuta beach area. they perform their own songs. on june, nyoman starting his first semester on his new college 'state polythechnic of bali' where he mets his future bloody mate, putra "kablut" dana, a member of a grunge band called 'morgans'.

the event that had a major impact to scenicsky are 'grunge is dead' on september 1997, the show that make them well known. they share the stage with other grunge bands : fakatreyu, stupid tunnel, morgans and two names that already famous on the underground world in bali : utero and obligasi. thru this gigs, they also met and known the artist community of sastra faculty (udayana university), that promote the show. after the show over, the four bands (scenicsky, utero, obligasi and morgans) are became a very close friend. that spend a lot of time together, share events info, get drunk together, practice on studio together, celebrate crazy birthday party, etc. a grunge community. the community are sometimes also join the artist community of sastra faculty on nias street, denpasar city. the friendship that still happens until now.

the demo tape

on september 1998, scenicsky records their first full demo tape on khrisna gita records (#@!*^*$% sucks !!!). but they're not quite happy with the results. too soft nyoman said, lack of noise and guitar feedback distortion. so they record it again on na surya studio two month laters. and then they have their 'real' demo tape.

on 1999 the demo tape are on the air around the island of bali, played by cassanova FM, and the band are also having an interview live on the radio. on 2000 the demo tape are also played by mgt FM (city of bandung). the demo tape reach the rank 23 from Indie Top 50 on the Year 2000 radio request.

the side project

on the closing years of 1999, scenicsky had to vacuum for a while, during kadek's activities on his college(fucking nerds !). their last performance was on the underground events 'kediri bawah tanah' in the district of tabanan.

nyoman and eddie can't live without on a band, so they make a very sick hardcore session band along with jody iswantoro/guitar + kablut/drums (morgans) and ian subagyo/bass (zero 2 nine), the band are porn superstar. nyoman are the vocalist and eddie are the lead guitarist. after 7 (seven) show, on september 2000 nyoman and eddie are request to out from porn superstar, since they want to concentrate with their 'original band'. but the hardcore band are succesfully well known on the world of underground rock in bali and succesfully run a friendship business by build a cafe & music studio in pulau bungin street (denpasar city) that called 'negative cafe & musick studio' using an unused old big storage. this place expected to became the home of the underground rock community. but then nyoman and ian are out from the business for a personal reasons, off course it's not ruin the friendship among them. these days nyoman's and eddie's position on the band are replace by lembo and tewe (ex member of 'obligasi').

current myth

scenicsky now has return to the world. they're on stage again at the underground gigs 'tabanan anti vakuum' along with 'total idiot', 'depresi', etc. , in grokgak sports hall, the district of tabanan, on november 18th 2000. After the success show, they perform again on Sastra Music Unplugged VI on 24th of April 2001.