Terry Hoax

Terry Hoax
Terry Hoax live at the ZHG Göttingen, 2010
General information
origin	Hanover , Germany
Genre (s)	skirt
founding	1988, 2008
resolution	1996
Website	www.terryhoax.de
Founding members
singing	Oliver Perau
Guitar , background vocals	Ingo Schröder
Guitar, background vocals	Martin Wichary
bass	Armin Treptau
Drums	Eric Gauthier
Current occupation
singing	Oliver Perau
Guitar, background vocals	Marcus Wichary
bass	Kai Schiering
Drums, percussion	Hachy M. Hachmeister
Guitar, background vocals	Jenzzz Gallmeyer
former members
Keyboard	Lutz Krajenski (1995 to 1996, only featured on the albums as a guest musician)
Guitar, background vocals	Martin Wichary (until 2011)

Terry Hoax is a rock band from Hanover . It was founded in 1988 and disbanded in 1996 after a farewell tour. In 2008 Terry Hoax celebrated the reunion.

history

After drummer Hachy M. Hachmeister and singer Marcus Wichary from the band Trashing Groove joined Terry Hoax, they recorded their first albums in the Peppermint Park Studios under the direction of producer Jens Krause and thus have a background similar to Fury in the Slaughterhouse and Cultured Pearls . For the time of their existence Terry Hoax were mostly in the shadow of these bands.

The band's most successful single in 1992 was a cover of the Depeche Mode song Policy of Truth. The song comes from the band's most commercially successful album, Freedom Circus , on which u. a. Sabine Bulthaup (from Frühstyxradio ) can be heard as a background singer.

The following album, Splinterproof , was musically much heavier and rockier, but without completely giving up the catchiness of the predecessor.

After the success of Freedom Circus and Splinterproof , Terry Hoax performed Dead Set of Destruction, a song for Hüsker Dü -Tribute Case Closed? At the international compilation of Hüsker Dü Cover Songs and then went to Los Angeles to record the fourth studio album . The 1995 released The children are fine, and they let greetings (the lyrics of which were in English despite the German album title) already showed that within the band many musical currents competed with one another. The album with Dreamer - the man who always wants to sleep also features unusual experimental elements.

Shortly after the album was released, it was announced that the kids are fine and they say hello would stay the last Terry Hoax studio album and that they would split up after the tour that had already been booked due to musical differences. Singer Oliver Perau in particular (who is only listed as "Perau" in all Terry Hoax booklets) was, according to his own statements, increasingly dissatisfied with singing in a rock band and wanted to make music that was more soul and jazz-oriented under the pseudonym Juliano Rossi.

On October 28 and 29, 2005, Terry Hoax met again ten years after the split for two highly acclaimed and sold-out “one-time reunion concerts” (according to the band themselves) on the occasion of the opening of the Lindener Freiheit club and event center in Hanover together. In the opening act - under the pseudonym “The Five Glorious Six” - Fury in the Slaughterhouse played . The operator of the event center was friends with the band and was able to persuade the members to reunite.

In April 1996 some of the musicians found a new musical home with the Terry Hoax successor band Shimmer . Martin Wichary and Hachy M. Hachmeister were immediately there (together with bassist and keyboardist Roman Henze), Armin Treptau followed in 1998.

The Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung reported suddenly on December 15, 2007 that Terry Hoax would appear in the original line-up at the last two concerts of Fury in the Slaughterhouse's farewell tour at the end of August 2008. In fact, the band was very busy that August and played a few concerts on the “Fury” farewell tour. The band was reunited for the first time on August 2nd, 2008 as headliners at the Fährmannsfest -Festival in Hannover-Linden. After this series of concerts Armin Treptau left the band for personal reasons. On September 4, 2009, Band of the Day was released, the first single after the reunion.

On October 2, 2009, the next album followed after the reunification, which was also called Band of the Day . On November 24th of the year the associated tour of Terry Hoax followed.

Since August 6, 2011 Terry Hoax have been working on a new album in the Peppermint Park Studio Hanover. The work on this has already been completed and the album should be released on January 27, 2012 under the name Serious . The first single ("Ready") from this album was released on December 17, 2011.

Also on December 17, 2011 Terry Hoax announced at a concert at the Musiktheater Bad in Hanover that before the recording of Serious Martin Wichary had left the band due to lack of time. According to Oliver Perau, he will remain closely connected to the band.

From November 11, 2016, Terry Hoax collected funds for the new album Thrill! Via the crowdfunding platform pledgemusic . , which was released on October 13, 2017. After just 48 hours of the campaign, 109% of the financing requirement had been reached.

In 2019 Terry Hoax went on the 30th Anniverary Tour .

Discography (albums)

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Freedom Circus   DE 7th 47/1992 (4 weeks) Splinterproof   DE 39 10/1994 (10 weeks) The children are alright   DE 60 35/1995 (6 weeks)

Singles

Policy of Truth   DE 49 11/23/1992 (7 weeks)

• Life in times of ... (1991)
• Freedom Circus (1992)
• Splinterproof (1994)
• The kids are fine and they say hello (1995)
• Happy Times - Live (1996)
• Best of - Life in Times after Terry Hoax (2001)
• Band of the Day (2009)
• Serious (2012)
• Thrill! (2017)

Perau (solo project)

• Today (1999)

Juliano Rossi (solo project)

• If My Friends Could See Me Now (2003)
• If My Friends Could See Me Now (2004, re-release)
• ... Swings with happiness (2005, standard promo CD)
• Free Runner (2009)
• Lutz Krajenski Big Band meets Juliano Rossi (2011, together with the Lutz Krajenski Big Band)

Participation in samplers

• ... From the Middle of Nowhere Vol.2 (1990): Hanover Sampler
• Stop Chirac (1995): Terry Hoax control the B-side Smile of the single Dreamer, which is not available on an album . The man who always wants to sleep at
• Case Closed? An international compilation of Hüsker Dü Cover Songs (1994): Terry Hoax covers Hüsker Düs Dead Set of Destruction
• We are 96 (2011): Terry Hoax and Juliano Rossi each contributed a song from their current studio albums to this sampler.

literature

• Matthias Blazek: The Lower Saxony Band Compendium 1963-2003 - Data and facts from 100 rock groups from Lower Saxony. Celle 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-018947-0 , pp. 141-142

Web links

• official homepage
• Terry Hoax news blog
• Juliano Rossi's website
• Interview with Oliver Perau from 2002
• Terry Hoax at laut.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ www.terryhoax.de
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4. ↑ rockszene.de , shimmer-hannover.de . See Blazek (2006), pp. 141 f.
5. ↑ Terry Hoax ( Memento of the original from February 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @ Myspace.com 
6. ↑ Charts-Surfer.de