Bermula pada awal 2008, Nabil, seorang pencipta lagu dan penulis lirik yang amat meminati musik eksperimen , jazz, dan surf, bercita-cita untuk mewujudkan sebuah kugiran di Malaysia untuk memenuhi cuti musim panasnya di tanahair setiap tahun yang mendatang.Berplatformkan layar putih internet yang sinis, Nabil memulakan pelayarannya mencari bakat-bakat besar yang bersembunyi di balik industri musik indie negara.

Pertemuan dengan Tatyana , pencinta musik alternatif yang berpengalaman luas dalam bidang nyanyian, dan Apit, penyanjung musik garage + indie,yang giat dalam penciptaan lagu dan lirik untuk kugiran indie rakan-rakan seperjuangannya , seperti telah ditakdirkan. Pertukaran pendapat dan idea dalam penghasilan musik bagaikan mencetus kemaraan bersama gabungan menjadi satu formula dalam pengwujudan sebuah kugiran bernafas baru dalam industri musik Malaysia.

‘Bicara’ , lagu lama nukilan Nabil beberapa tahun sebelum , menjadi tunggak pertama pengubahan semula oleh Selamat Pagi Gadis yang nama kugiran ini diberikan oleh Tatyana secara spontan.

Dalam pada SPG giat mengolah dan menggubah lagu-lagu baru , Nabil memperkenalkan Zizie , rakan lamanya yang juga mempunyai minat yg mendalam dalam seni muzik tempatan dan luar negara dan juga pernah bergiat dalam orkestra institusi pembelajarannya sebagai drummer, kepada Tatyana dan Apit, lalu menerapkan Zizie di dalam kugiran SPG.

Sekepulangannya Nabil tanahair awal Jun 2008, SPG mula bertemu dan bermain di studio tanpa bimbingan bunyi bass tetap. Syed Ali, pemusik genre funk+fusion, rakan rapat Nabil sewaktu di luar negeri, kemudiannya dipanggil menyertai SPG secara tidak di rancang pada mulanya untuk membantu proses rakaman, namun keserasian Syed Ali bersama SPG membuatkan Syed Ali kekal di dalam kugiran ini lalu wujudlah kugiran Selamat Pagi Gadis yang lengkap barisan pemusiknya.

Pada waktu warkah ini ditulis, SPG telah selesai merakamkan 2 buah lagu secara kasar di Studio Enchik. Shami, Gombak dan akan menyambung proses rakaman beserta beberapa buah lagu lagi untuk dipenuhkan secara padat di dalam produk EP pertama SPG yang diberi nama ‘Kinetik Hati’ yang akan keluar tidak lama lagi. Untuk memenuhi permintaan rakan-rakan dan pendengar, SPG melahirkan produk single pertama berjudul Waktu Indah Dahulu berserta bonus lagu Bicara di dalamnya secara D.I.Y terlebih dahulu.

Di sini Selamat Pagi Gadis ingin mengulungkan jutaan ucapan terima kasih kepada keluarga, sanak saudara, rakan-rakan seperjuangan, rakan-rakan dan kenalan yang tidak putus-putus membantu dan menyokong. Tanpa anda semua, siapalah kami yang bergelar manusia pemusik kerdil industri musik Malaysia. Terima Kasih kalian. Teruskan bersama kami!

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It started in the early 2008. NABIL, Song cum lyric writer and experimental music junkie thought of forming a music band that could sweep off anyone’s feet just by listening to its song for the first time. But in order to achieve this he will need manpower or minions.. or in the music industry we call it bandmates. Therefore he embarked on a few months journey to the hyperspace (youngsters called it MySpace. Don’t know and don’t care) to find any potential sycophant. TATYANA was browsing carelessly like a deer jumping around aimlessly and was unaware of any entities stalking her profile, NABIL(will be known as the hunter hereafter). Without hesitation the hunter pressed the ‘add to friends’ button on his spaceship called FTec.

TATYANA , an alternative music addict and very well experienced in singing joined forces together with APIT, garage+indie music buff and very active in song and lyric writing for his comrades. Their meeting with ‘the hunter’ triggered some ideas and opinions and later they realised that, “hey we got chemistry!”. Together they worked hard to form a formula that none of you geeks can find in any mathematic textbooks.

‘Bicara’ or known in English as ‘conversation’ was aeons ago created by the hunter as a secret weapon. It just that the hunter believes that Bicara is like a wine, the longer u keep it, the more precious it will become. This song is the first one to be re-arranged by ‘Selamat Pagi Gadis’ or in English, Good Morning ma Lady. (Yes people, our band do have a name)

ZIZIE, an old friend of the hunter who was so into the local and international music scene and previously from a local institute of orchestra as a drummer, was later introduced to the victims; TATYANA and APIT at that time was humanly trafficked online. After negotiating for awhile, he agreed to join Good Morning ma Lady wholeheartedly and some said he was in tears.

The hunter returned to his hometown and Good Morning ma Lady then grew without a permanent bassist. Syed Ali, (standing ovation) a good friend of the hunter while in Glasgow was summoned from the shadow to help nurture Good Morning ma Lady. Syed Ali @ Alejandro put the rest of them in awe (yes literally, they went “awwwwwww!”) after nailing the bassline with a crappy semi functioned 5-string bass rented from the studio. Yes pity the charming alejandro since he left his shiny beatkeeper somewhere far far away. It was historical when Alejandro team-up with the rest of the gang.

Good Morning ma Lady currently has recorded 2 songs at MR SHAHMI’s breeding ground and in the future will produce their first EP that will be named ‘kinetic soul’. We would like to extend our gratitude to you music lovers and to the peeps who took their few minutes of their life paying attention to us and especially to the ones that had carved something in the comment box. nyaahaha

Selamat Pagi Gadis.

[P]ost-punk + [A]lternatives + [G]arage + [I]ndie = PAGI