Instrument: Bass guitar / Star Sign: Gemini / Marital Status: Single

GEAR...
Live on Stage: Musicman Stingray Bass - WAL Custom Bass - Ampeg SVT Pro2 head and Ampeg Speakers - Roland GP5 Digital Bass Pedals - Triton Module

In the home studio: Gibson Les Paul Custom guitar - Fender USA Stratocaster - Line 6 Accoustic guitar - Line 6 Spider Guitar processor - Pro-tools G4 Apple mac system - Tascam Mixing desk - SM 58 Mike - Alesis Quadraverb - Boss compressor - Korg M1 Keyboard - Line 6 Bass Pod.

FAVORITE BANDS...
Deep Purple (Mrk2), Black Sabbath (With Ozzy), Judas Priest (With Rob), Led Zeppelin, Yes, Rush, AC DC

FAVORITE ALBUMS...
Black Sabbath / Sabbath Bloody Sabbath - Rainbow / Rainbow Rising - Deep Purple / Made In Japan - Rush / All the worlds a stage - Yes / Yessongs - Led Zeppelin / Physical Graffiti - Tori Amos / Little Earthquakes - Queen / Queen 2

FAVORITE MUSICIANS...
Bass - Chris Squire, Geddy Lee, Jacko Pastorius. Guitar - Ritchie Blackmore. Alex Lifeson. Michael Schenker. Jimmy Page. Drums - Niel Peart, John Bonham, Bill Bruford. Vocals - Russ North (He has the best voice in metal!) Rob Halford, Ronnie James Dio, Tori Amos, Laura McCormick.

http://www.lauramccormick.me.uk

FAVORITE BOOKS...
Lord of the Rings - J.R Tolkien, Spike Milligan war memoires - Spike Milligan, Groucho and me - Groucho Marx, Sandman Novels - Neil Gaiman.

FAVORITE TV SERIES...
Ren & Stimpy, Young Ones, Monty Python, Black Adder.

FAVORITE FILMS...
Alien, The Blues Brothers, Scarface, Saving Private Ryan, Spiderman, Lord of the Rings, Duck Soup -Marx Brothers.

FAVORITE FOOD...
Greek ( Thanks to promoter Greg ). Indian. Chineese. Italian. French.

FAVORITE DRINK...
Vodka and tonic, Tea.

FAVORITE CLOVEN HOOF SONG...
All of them!!!

BIGGEST BAND HIGHLIGHTS...
Playing the AN Club in Athens and getting the welcome of our lives after all these years. The fans stood by us and I want to thank them from the bottom of my heart...You were fucking unbelievable!

Making the first EP "The Opening Ritual" and seeing it get into metal charts at number 18.

Touring Europe in 84.

Recording sessions for Tommy Vance on Radio One.

Getting a publishing deal with Bill Churbishley and Trinifold. On the verge of signing a huge big budget deal with CBS.

BIGGEST DISSAPOINTMENT...
When the CBS Deal fell through! Russ North not being able to commit to the band due to too many ties in Spain. He is back now thank goodness.

FAVORITE COUNTRY VISITED...
Greece of course! ( Best Metal fans in the whole world. Athens we love you!) Germany, Holland, Belgum, America.

INTERESTS...
Writing songs, Reading Comic books, Illustrating, Computers. Supporting Wolverhampton Wanderers FC. Trying to train my Sha Pei dog "Teddy" from biting all my visitors... And failing!

Teddy... This dog is NOT the postmans best friend!

PERSON YOU WOULD MOST LIKE TO MEET...
Caroline Munro (Wow I have just met her... A goddess!) Tori Amos, Ritchie Blackmore. Ali Landry (the Doritos girl) Christine Applegate.

BIGGEST WISH...
To sign a major recording contract.

PERSONAL ASSESSMENT...
I began playing the guitar at the age of 17. I switched to bass after 6 months because I love the power and drive that it has in heavy metal. I structure my bass lines to give counter melody and provide bottom end. There are a lot of intricate runs and complex progressions in Cloven Hoof music so it gives a lot of scope and interest for me particulary in a live setting. On stage I feel the band is at it's best, but that is not to say I don't like the disciplines of a studio enviroment. It is just so much more exciting to feed off an audience. The studio can be so sterile sometimes.

One of the biggest thrills for me even now is when I work on a song and present it to the band and we record it for the first time. It is like giving birth almost, creating a song and then watching it come to life is a fantastic feeling. There is a tremendous amount of work in the process, but it is so rewarding when a track comes to fruition. I will never tire of the thrill song writing always gives me.

Away from the music, well I would describe myself as a typical Gemini, with a keen sense of humour. I can be the life and soul of the partly, and larger than life on stage. I am a tremendously loyal friend who appears to be usually upbeat on the surface. However I have the duality of being sometimes a moody bastard and over sensitive.

With me there are no half measures or middle ground, everything tends to be black and white. As a rule I give total 100% commitment. This makes me Intense and sometimes over bearing. If I meet obsticles I want to kick down the doors and meet difficulties head on.

I have always been creative and artistic even from very young with a lively and active imagination. Science fiction and horror films have always been a staple diet and the facination with these topics have always become manifest in my writing with Cloven Hoof... Music is my Life!