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. Republica's lead singer Saffron describes their music as "Techno pop punk rock", and with her startling vocal delivery suggesting an unlikely union between Debbie Harry and Poly Styrene, Republica have come a long way to embracing the eclectic blueprint they promise for their first album. In 1994 Republica debuted with a number of elusive promo discs: Out of this World and Bloke, the latter becoming a much in demand 12", championed in clubs like Liverpool's Cream. These releases created a small awareness of the band, but were dwarfed by the scale of their early live performances which frequently included supporting slots at stadium gigs. The early nucleus of the group grew out of the songwriting partnership of Tim Dorney and Andrew Todd. Dorney at the time was the main songwriter in the stranged and fractured media darlings Flowered Up, who amidst a bewildering blizzard of newsprint, reached their creative peak with the astonishing thirteen minute Weekender 12" and accompanying 20 minute film. He had originally approached Andrew Todd to help record the band's ill starred second album, which collapsed before completion in drug fuelled chaos. Repairing to France he enlisted Todd's help again in programming tracks for Soul Family Sensation, where they decided to form a band. Initially they planned to record a modest instrumental white label 12" for the burgeoning club scene until fellow musicians suggested that the track sounded like it should have a vocal. A mutual friend recommended a singer/songwriter called Saffron. Born in Nigeria with an exotic blend of Portuguese, Chinese and English ancestry, Saffron had trained as a ballet dancer since she was three. "They used to beat your feet with spoons, saying you're not a dancer until you have blood in your shoes, so I started singing and writing songs". She has recorded and written with Jah Wobble and Mark Moore and most recently had one of her songs The Right Thing covered by Soul diva Geanie Tracy of The Weathergirls. A writing partnership was formed between the three and the finished track Out of This World was taken by Saffron to Deconstruction Records (who had previously hired her to sing live dates with N-Joi). The as then unnamed band were signed on the strength of that recording alone and were forced to come up with a name in two days in order to sign the contract! Calling themselves Republica, their first concert was at the unlikely venue of the Royal Albert Hall, as guests of the infamous Black & White Ball. Simultaneous to the club scene fragmenting into what Saffron called "the opposite of everything it was meant to stand for", the band's started to tire of dance music's simple palette and Republica's music took on a more song based form, with electric guitars fleshing out and hardening the sound of their new songs. Much of this had started to crystallise in an early appearance on Channel 4s The White Room, where the band's aggressive stance and Saffron's Banshee-like vocals prompted M-People's Mike Pickering to comment "She's like Siouxsie meets Techno". Republica by this time were already seasoned performers who had played to surprisingly large audiences, supporting acts like Moby, M-People, and The Grid. Their mixed and varied musical tastes which included Underworld, The Prodigy, early Human League, Cabaret Voltaire, X-Ray Spex, Blondie and The Clash, started to filter into and enhance their riveting live performances.