Horselover Fat are named after a character in a book. It's a book that some of Horselover Fat have read all of, some have read some of, and some have read none of. There are at least four of them. Onstage and off, Horselover Fat have played and played with theremins, guitars, bass guitars, toy keyboards, non-toy keyboards, violins, harmonicas, saxophones, xylophones, laptops, desktops, sequencers, sine waves, saw waves, square waves, drums, boxes with things in, and something called a 'kaossilator'.