Hopeful Thing was born in 2018, the brainchild of Irene Shapes and Sandro Moro; cousins and, respectively, singer/keyboardist and guitarist. They were soon joined by Wewo on drums and Francesco Colonna on bass. 

All the members of the band have a long-standing musical background and have previously been part of relatively well-known groups in the Italian rock underground, all belonging under the umbrella of alt-rock. Wewo and Sandro have also long played together in the same band. 

After the primordial fluctuations of the 90s, and due to the gravitational effects of a strong artistic affinity between Irene and Sandro, the four collide in this new formation, Hopeful Thing, which places itself within the fragile universe of Indie. 

The centre of operations is located in Meduna di Livenza, the birthplace of Irene, Sandro and Wewo, in the Province of Treviso in the middle of the Venetian countryside, within the four walls of a small room inside a dilapidated warehouse, converted into a rehearsal room as well as recording studio of the debut album Things without Us released in 2020. 

However, sometimes, this quiet realm assumes, for the four, the appearance of an unavoidable confinement. The surrounding landscape of musical perspectives appears ambiguous and uncertain to them. 

For the Hopeful Things it has been clear from the outset that their interlocutors are everywhere-in-nowhere. This means that they look elsewhere, and that influences can come from anywhere. 

Nobody would prevent you from saying that these influences are that charm of indie music or alt-rock that they love, however it is as if these traces are lost in the same moment that they are found. And they themselves would indeed say that their influences come from everywhere.