Hula Hoop

Hula Hoop were an American alternative rock band from Louisville, Kentucky, comprising of Eric Stoess, Chuck Geisler, Stephen Jones and Rachel Grimes (later became a member of the Rachel's). The band released four albums and several singles between 1993 and 2009.
==Links to Peel==
In an article with the Louisville Music News, published in March 1993, the band talked about how Peel discovered them and their debut session recorded in November 1992: 
"Hula Hoop put out a seven-inch single on the Louisville label Automatic Wreckords last summer, and thanks to diligent distribution, 30 copies made their way to England. One copy was plucked from a London record store by John Peel, he of the prestigious Peel Sessions radio show. He liked it. He played it on his BBC show, and word got back to the band via a friend in Leeds. Stoess called the BBC to try to get a copy of the airing. The operator at the BBC said that they really didn't release that sort of things, but she would patch him through to the studio.
Eric Stoess, vocalist and guitarist, is the other half of the Hula Hoop songwriting team.
"They said it was going to be an engineer on the show, and it was him," Stoess said with a still-shocked grin.
Stoess asked Peel out of curiosity how the Peel Sessions worked. Suddenly, Stoess found himself invited to do a session, the launching pad for dozens of big artists. Stoess said Peel doesn't like bands to plan a special trip to England for the show, but when Peel asked him if Hula Hoop had plans to come over to England, Stoess didn't hesitate to say yes." 
In November 1993, the band recorded a second session for Peel's programme.
==Sessions==
1. Recorded: 1992-11-10. First Broadcast: 09 January 1993. Repeated: 27 March 1993
*Leave Time To Go / Sometimes I Feel Just Alright / Blues From A Vaseline Gun / Oh Toby
2. Recorded: 1993-11-30. First Broadcast: 15 January 1994. Repeated: 03 December 1994
*Jodhpur / The Coolest Thing / Butterfingered / Wisteria
==Other Shows Played==
;thumb|220x220px1992
*01 August 1992: The Sweetest September (7" - Motorkerékpár) Automatic Wreckords 
*10 August 1992 (BFBS): Winter Farming (7" - Motorkerékpár) Automatic 
*14 August 1992: The Sweetest September (7" - Motorkerékpár) Automatic  
*24 August 1992 (BFBS): The Sweetest September (7" - Motorkerékpár) Automatic 
;1994
*14 January 1994: ‘She Comes Alone (If At All) (LP - My Sweet Amputee)’ (Fluff)
*28 October 1994: Butterfingered (7") Silver Girl
*29 October 1994 (BFBS): 'Butterfingered (7")' (Silver Girl)
==External Links==
*Louisville Music News
*Discogs
*Silver Girl
Category:Artists