Band of Hope

The Band Of Hope are a multi-instrumental, mixed gender, seven-piece indie-folk-rock sort of group from the very un-rock’n‘roll town of Wallingford, Oxfordshire. Individually, it’s members have performed with artists as varied as Mew, Danny & The Champions Of The World, The Rout Ensemble, Amy Winehouse, A1 People and Axwell. Together, their music has been described by struggling journalists as “big-hearted gospel-pop”, “Mississippi jazz-folk”, “spiritual Americana” and even “emo-folk-country”, but it’s just good songs played well.As well as recording their own material, they have recently worked with Mojave 3’s Neil Halstead as the backing band for his forthcoming solo long-player.‘¨“Causing a stir on both the BBC Introducing circuit as well as the unnaturally vibrant Oxford scene, Band of Hope are experts of dark, inherently tragic country-folk, in the realms of Villagers and the ballads of Jonny Cash.” The fourohfive.com