Utopia Avenue Band

David mitchell author of utopia avenue david mitchell s new novel chronicles the rise and fall of fictional 1960s psychedelic rock band.

Utopia avenue band. The music 1967 was an astonishing year. An immense cast drawn from homes in kent clubs in the west end and parties in new york attends the band as mitchell traces utopia avenue s uneven trajectory from the gravesend working. He says he was drawn to both the music and the. We take mitchell s word for it thanks to.

The novel tells the story of the fictional 1960s british rock band utopia avenue. Mitchell born just after the band utopia avenue would have been around says it was the music that drew him to that era and the particular dark magic that was in the air at that time and place. That seemed to me the opposite pole of the five minute long narratives that i could have composed. It was published by sceptre on july 14 2020.

Pop got separated from rock in this time and just a year when a critical mass of people began to. The reader is left to make up her own mind but the village voice reviewing utopia avenue s second album stuff of life finds them unflaggingly inventive which is fortunate both for the band and for us. Having three singer songwriters affords a spectrum of musicality few bands can match.