Chrome Hoof for Fact

"Chrome Hoof's doom disco feels space" was the title of this, the first band preview I did for Fact, from way back in January 2007:

“Our twelve foot tall ram got caught in our Disco Ball during one gig.” Bouncers had to wrestle him free, which they weren’t best pleased about,” says Chrome Hoof bassist Leo Smee. Making it possible to write sentences like that isn’t the only reason that the Hoof will destroy everything, but it’s up there. The real reason is that they play the most horrendous doom metal with glistening disco-funk soldered on. That and they sound like MDMA Valhalla live.
Leo, bassist with Death/Doom gods Cathedral, started playing warehouse parties with his brother Mylo on drums about five years ago. They had both been massive fans of funk and disco for years, and yearned to play the sort of music that they’d been digging for so long. They also wanted to have fun live with as many people as would fit on a stage. First to be recruited was Chloe, the Bassoonist. “I met her on the street, and started talking to her about her instrument, and told her she should play with us. That’s how most people joined: I scared them on the street.” Before long, the beast grew and grew into the twelve plus member’d behemoth it is now.
The stage show eats every other band alive. Besides the aforementioned 12” ram, there are street sweepers, robots and day-glo monks, all combining to produce the most amazingly stupefying (and stupid) live show since Funkadelic. “Dressing up’s very important. The visual sense, it gives a band an identity, and its been lost over the years, I think. It’s basically having a right laugh, and some people’ll get, and some won’t. It’s creating a visual story, something that people can go away and talk about.” I tell him, slightly over-excitedly, that the Hoof will rule the world one day. Then I ask how they would change the world. He thinks and says “play one note that starts a tidal wave that engulfs the world. And make it more interesting, with better stories. Yeah, that’s about it.”

Beyond Zade EP out on Rise Above records, album out in the summer

www.myspace.com/chromehoof