Artist description Four Piece consisting of: Two unique guitarists/Vocalists melding melodic fuzz rhythms with supersonic lead breaks a la Lou Reed as well and mysterious drummer who also happens to be an amazing author and plays like Mo Tucker and Hal Blaine and A Grinding melodious bass plucker with blisters on his blisters - like Flea meets Mingus at 3am on a hot night in St Kilda. All members are committed to crafting songs with structure, interesting structure, but allowing for spontenaity, especially live, where 3 minute pop classics become 10 minute art-rock waves of distorted melody and 7 minute jam-outs are converted into simple country infelcted ballads.The band is renowned for radical reworkings of its catalogue, a high turnover of material and the odd cover of Devo. All members are extremely charismatic and witty.

Music Style Mood Driven Melodic Fuzz with Hooks, Twists and Pops in all the right places!

Musical Influences Velvet Underground; Talking Heads; Devo; Sonic Youth; The Feelies; The Go Betweens; Ed Kuepper; Elvis Costello; early REM; The Pixies; Vinyl Death Pop; Television; Flying Nun Bands; Luna; The Stevens; The Beach Boys; The Byrds; Patti Smith; The Flaming Li

Similar Artists um....lets just say its like little bits of the above artists all swirled together in a cocktail glass. like a margharita on a sunny sunday arvo. but completely different and in a class of its own.

Artist History Formed 1993 in a bedroom. Previously known as "Box Office Diversion", "Wheat" and "Clifftop Desire".Released two opus's in Australia: Kickboxer 1995 and Straight A's 1997. Both highly acclaimed by Australian rock critics.Played hundreds of gigs, been arrested for "bill posting" and beat the wrap; done the odd "chikenwire" gig in country australia; written and directed and appeared in two movies on the band "no injections please" and "a history of us" both being aired at film festivals around the country and on tv; played with diverse range of Australian acts including the Dirty Three; Kim Salmon; Something For Kate amongst many others; refused sponsorship deals from massive unfriendly tobacco corporations; once had an audience member fall off a roof onto the drummer - lawsuit settled over a bottle of Jack Daniels.

Group Members All have official ministry's in the Hoova Administration: Ricardo Raberro: Department for Chronic Soundscapes, Misinformation and Anti Logic.Esteban Castanyos: Special Branch for Rythmic Guitar, Propaganda and Necessary Verbal Combustion.Eduardo Hesusos: Central Commission for Bass Rhythm and Spontaneous Barbeque Management. Pedro Barretto: Minister for Beats, journalistic hullaballo and ruffled hairdos.

Instruments Drums, bass guitars, electric guitars, abacus, blender, cakes, humour.

Albums Kickboxer 1995; Straight A's 1997

Press Reviews Hoova are ace. Straight 'A's is a completely surprising release that moves through a variety of genres with complete ease. This is happy music that jingles and jangles and pops and punks and rocks and rolls. They are a three piece that know how to manipulate their songs to stop the listener becoming bored. The title track seems scarily reminiscent of an old 80s song, yet the sheer joy of the arrangement and vocals sucks the listener into its web rather sneakily. Another standout track is Then And Only Then which seems to pop along faster than the former, demonstrating Hoova's ability to use their sharp wit and honest appraisal of situations to create a lyrically fresh and crazily endearing song. Behind takes us into country territory, whilst Underplaying of the Universe takes us down another musical track entirely. Hoova have surprised me, I had them pegged as another 3 piece indie pop band - I waswrong. They have too much skill and variety to be so easily categorised. They are simply a square that will never fit into a round hole. Natalie McPhee - InPress Magazine August 13, 1997.

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Location Melbourne, Victoria - Australia

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