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The Saffs were a Cambridgeshire (East Anglia,UK) 4 piece indie rock band that existed throughout the 1990's. They began as Saffron's Daughter and for a brief period Slapper.''

They were formed in early 1990 by vocalist/guitarist Greg Ward, with the line up: Juliette Jones (drums), Paddy Hulson (bass) and Nic Davis (guitar). Soon after the first demo Nic and Saffron's Daughter parted company due to musical differences. Aidy Pinder was brought in as the new guitarist.

After a period of roughly two years Aidy decided to leave Saffron's Daughter to continue with a career that relocated him to Dorset. Chris Lawson quit a local Goth band to replace Aidy. However, due to the again musical differences this was short lived and Saffron's Daughter were soon on the look out for their fourth guitarist. This led to a very barren period for the band that performed only a couple of gigs in as many months. What fan base they had acquired had all but disappeared along with a lot of the other local bands they knew.

Eventually, Justin Crane aka Jazz was recruited and along with the unfortunate name change Slapper, and newer songs, the band got back to it. Things improved greatly for Slapper after they supported Irish Indie rockers Sultans of Ping FC at the packed out Boatrace venue in Cambridge. A reintroduction to a music scene that had previously forgotten about them had immediately given them large local following which continued to increase. Slapper's concerts tended to be rather chaotic and the fan-base mainly consisted of teenage Emo girls, young transvestites along with aged rockers and punks that were still stuck in seventies.

Slapper was dropped and the band chose the name The Saffs, which was often used back in the bands early days instead of the full name Saffron's Daughter.