Limelight
THE HARE AND HOOFE
Meet the atmospheric London quartet who struggle to be pigeonholed.
THE DUALITY AT the heart of The Hare And Hoofe is precisely what makes them tick – and it all came together in the wee small hours.
“It’s such an evocative name and it literally came to me in a dream,” explains bassist Kate Hodges. “Things can be separated into ‘Hare’ and ‘Hoofe’. The new album, Compasse, is split into that. If things are kind of heavy and menacing then that’s a Hoofe thing…”
“The more pastoral side is the Hare,” expands guitarist Stu Perry. “Each bandmember is either hare or hoofe. There’s a mythos about it. We spend a lot of time in rehearsals making up this fake history of The Hare And Hoofe; there’s a whole science about whether you’re a hare or a hoofe and it translates to the music.”