Macondo features Wayne on vocals/keyboards, Steve on keyboards and Vickie on keyboards/vocals. The band formed in the early part of 2000 and are currently in the process of recording their debut album.

All three hail from Essex in the UK"not too far away from electronic music Mecca Basildon".

They like to think of themselves as a synth pop band that doesn't take itself too seriously.

Sum up Macondo in three words

Wayne, Steve, Vickie.

How did you first discover OMD?

1. Heard OMD on the radio as a kid. Went round collecting their singles from boot sales in the late eighties.
2. Formally introduced by a friend.
3. Retrospectively

Your version of Tesla Girls is certainly different. It's also very funny. How did you decide on choosing the song?

It's our favourite OMD song and one which we'd been looking for an excuse to cover for years. We wanted to do something a bit different rather than try and copy the original which, already being the perfect pop song, would have been pointless.

Do you have any other favourite OMD songs?

Souvenir:
You don't need a chorus when the rest of the song's this good.

(Forever) Live & Die:
I'll never know, I'll never know, I'll never know, I'll never know why...I like this one. Maybe it's because it's an uplifting, bass slapping, bugle blasting diamond of a song.

Enola Gay :
Just one of the seminal playovers of the eighties alongside Just Can't Get Enough, Party Fears Two and Take On Me (oh, and Wishing)

The New Stone Age:
You can go a long way on two chords! Powerful, innovative, confusing and a cracking way to start an album.

What other artists and music are you into?

Human League, Magazine, Frazier Chorus, Pet Shop Boys, I Start Counting, Pulp, and more recently Mirwais, Laptop and The High Fidelity.

Where does the name Macondo come from?

It's a chain of Portuguese fast-food restaurants that no-one goes to anymore.

What plans have you got for Macondo in the future?

We're locked in a room with one plug socket, six four-ways and nineteen synths working on some new material for release on Damaged Goods later this year.

About the same time, we'll be carting nineteen flight cases around some London Venues.