Emerging from London’s psychedelic scene in 1967 and fronted by folksinger Elf Holloway, guitar demigod Jasper de Zoet and blues bassist Dean Moss, Utopia Avenue released only two LPs during its brief and blazing journey from the clubs of Soho and draughty ballrooms to Top of the Pops and the cusp of chart success, to glory in Amsterdam, prison in Rome and a fateful American fortnight in the autumn of 1968. Utopia Avenue are the strangest British band you’ve never heard of. Here’s the full description from Mitchell’s UK agency, Curtis Brown: Can a novel made of words (and not fitted with built-in speakers or Bluetooth) explore the wordless mysteries of music, and music’s impact on people and the world? How? Is it possible to dance about architecture after all? Utopia Avenue is my rather hefty stab at an answer. David Mitchell’s captivating new novel tells the unexpurgated story of Utopia Avenue of riots in the streets and revolutions in the head of drugs, thugs, madness, love, sex, death, art of the families we choose and the ones we don’t of fame’s Faustian pact and stardom’s wobbly ladder.
Songs (mostly) use language, but music plugs directly into something below or above language. (I suppose he has some time now that he’s done writing The Matrix 4.) Mitchell said in his announcement that the idea for the book came in part from the maxim that “writing about music is like dancing about architecture.” 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. Today, Cloud Atlas author David Mitchell announced his next project: Utopia Avenue, which will be first full-length novel since 2014’s The Bone Clocks. Utopia Avenue (Paperback) Published May 12th 2021 by HACHETTE.
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