Cillian says: “I’ve always enjoyed a good hoax. There was a very famous fake Howard Hughes autobiography in the ‘70s, and William Boyd did a great literary hoax in 1998 – he wrote an autobiography of a completely invented artist, and fooled everybody.
"You don’t often hear about [hoaxes] in music, but I got fooled recently. I discovered this artist called Marvin Montiac, which is an amazing name. But Marvin Pontiac isn’t real. He comes from the imagination of an American composer, author and director John Lurie. He created this character because apparently he didn’t like the way his own singing voice sounded – which I identify with.