Fay Milton is perhaps best known as drummer for all-female post-punk quartet Savages.



Fay Having cut her teeth in samba, jazz, and orchestral percussion, including a gamelan band, Milton never saw herself doing something as pedestrian as rock drumming. Outside this somewhat academic context, her pre-Savages bands were short-lived experiments with avant-garde and krautrock stuff. Now after three years of being in Savages she's learned to live a little.



As far as the physical kit goes Fay Milton is something of a Luddite, preferring a vintage Hayman. "It's much easier to tune the older drums." It's a bold move for a one-time SJC artist, but the romantic pull of a storied British brand was too powerful.