Hoax Funeral

"Anjy Hall's Hope Sandovalesque vocals are a trump card... Lincolnshire's Mazzy Star."

~Q Magazine (UK)

"...if you have a chequebook with a blank cheque, why not sign them up and win lots of Brit Awards and retire to a house in the country with a pink Rolls Royce.

~Rob da Bank, OneMusic BBC Radio One (UK)

"Lovely!"

~Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie, BBC Radio Two (UK)

"Genius!"

~James Wickham, BBC Radio Lincolnshire (UK)

"Who would’ve thought that atmospheric almost shoe-gazey guitars can have a place in an alt-folk setting? It really does work and Hoax Funeral has cornered the market for it."

~Indie Music Chatter, Philippines

"...Hall’s voice shines in all its crystalline, dark beauty above an enchanted sound composed of a few harmonic lines and acoustic arpeggios blending with an almost ambient chord structure."

~Raffaello Russo, Ondarock (Italy)

"Hoax Funeral are one of the most complexly layered indie-folk bands I have come across... an album full of illustrious moments."

~Obscure Sound (USA)

"(the music) shines with a magic beauty."

~ Giuseppe Marmina, Good Morning Captain, Radio Lupo Solitaro (Italy)

"American singer/songwriter Anjy Hall leading the band through their international folk influences, and finding some interesting musical points from the UK/US traditions."

~Fresh Sides (USA)

"...evocative lyrics and a traditional sound augmented by strings."

~Americana UK

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Hoax Funeral is a UK based Anglo-American alt-folk band fronted by American singer- songwriter- guitarist Anjy Hall and playing a unique hybrid of folk (with influences from both sides of the Atlantic), indie and Americana.

Formed in 2005 when Hall and British multi-instrumentalist - songwriter Chris Gregory began playing sets at folk clubs in the villages around Stamford in the English East Midlands the band added Al Jordan (fingerpicked guitar, banjo, octave mandola, concertina) and Cherish Burk (percussion, keyboards, melodica, mandolin).

A well received demo featuring 7 tracks recorded in the band’s home studio received airplay in the US, Australia, Italy and on BBC Radio One’s One Music with Rob Da Bank was released last in 2005 and followed by a couple of home-recorded EPs in 2006. Hall provided guest vocals on the track “Leaving Dusty Footprints” by another East Midlands band, Pacific Ocean Fire on their critically acclaimed album “From the Station To The Church We Are Under The Same Stars”, meanwhile Hoax Funeral was playlisted by Folk Radio UK and appeared at Stamford’s Riverside Festival and in numerous other gigs.

The debut album “Pour Away The Ocean” was released in 2007 on the band’s own Scared Crow label. Recorded at the Sick Room studio in Norfolk, UK between August 2006 and March 2007 and produced by Magoo’s Owen Turner (whose previous production credits include Broken Family Band, Rory McVicar and Bearsuit as well as Magoo) the album features 13 original songs incorporating a wide range of styles and instruments culled from music shops and junk yards alike.

Comparisons with other artists have been plentiful but none quite captures the uniqueness of Hoax Funeral’s sound. Parallels have been drawn with artists as diverse as Mazzy Star, Shearwater, James Yorkston, Amandine, Cowboy Junkies and Monkey Swallows the Universe.

Chris Gregory - Lead & slide guitar, mandolin, banjo, lap steel, harmonica, backing vocals

Karl Douse - Bass

Cherish Burk - Drums, keys and various percussion

With help on occasion from Al Jordan, Michael Kaiser, Richard Groom, Penny Stevens, and Les Woods.