My Federation

My Federation are: Lee Muddy Baker - Vocals and Guitar. Neil McKenzie - Bass and Vocals. Dylan Amey - Drums. Gregory Saunder's -Hammond and Synth. Robin Waterson - Rhodes and Vocals.

Describing themselves as Psychedelic electro rock with balls and bells. It’s perfect pop packaged for the dance floor, or in Lee’s words, “a ‘60s vibe with a fat synth and lots of harmonies”, and best witnessed at one of their joyfully intense live shows. Their sound is a concoction painlessly birthed from their various disparate influences, which range from The Who, The Flaming Lips, Timbaland, Jean Michel Jarre, Mozart, and the day Lee bunked off a trip to Windsor Safari Park to hang outside the house of, and eventually meet, Jimmy Page. “If our second album can sound like something between The Raconteurs and The Flaming Lips I’ll be a very happy man,” he declares. The album is due to drop next March and is shaping up to put a smile on his face.

Most of all though, the music - and everything My Federation do - is injected with a super sized hit of fun. From the sticks of Brighton rock with their name in to some hand-painted silk screens to accompany the next album, their merchandise and image is unusual to say the least. They even got covered in black paint and jumped in the bath for a recent photo shoot. “It wasn’t a particularly pleasant experience” winces Neil, “Dylan’s balls looked like the last chicken in the shop.”

All this doesn’t mean they’re strangers to debauchery though. “We set fire to our dressing room once.” Neil declares, “although it’s not as rock and roll as it sounds. Lee’s suit carrier was hung round the bulb above the mirror…”

My Federation are having the time of their lives, blazing across Europe and converting crowds to their good-time vibe with a trailer full of tunes, but if it all goes tits up, at least Greg can return to his acting heyday. “You may remember him as ‘dead gay rent boy in Prime Suspect 3’” Neil says, “or from the German Duplo chocolate ads,” This fact is, believe it or not, true.

With any luck and justice, the world will enlist in the bizarre cult that is My Federation before that happens.