David Mitchell's next book is about a band

David Mitchell has announced a new book after five years. Titled 'Utopia Avenue' it will tell the “unexpurgated story” of a British band after whom it is named.
David Mitchell is a well known English author, whose books 'number9dream' and 'Cloud Atlas' were both shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the latter even won British Book Award's Literary Fiction award and the Richard & Judy "Book of the Year" award and has a movie adaptation.His last book was Slade House which released in 2015.
He hasn't written a book for five years but just announced that his next book will be about “the strangest British band you’ve never heard of”. He quoted a maxim that said “writing about music is like dancing about architecture” and went on to explain that, “songs (mostly) use language, but music plugs directly into something below or above language. 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?” Mitchell wondered, “Is it possible to dance about architecture after all? Utopia Avenue is my rather hefty stab at an answer,” as reported by The Guardian.
The book will be named after the band Utopia Avenu who emerged from London’s psychedelic scene in 1967 and was “fronted by folk singer Elf Holloway, guitar demigod Jasper de Zoet and blues bassist Dean Moss”, said the publisher Sceptre.
“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,” according the publisher, who went on to say the book would speak 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”.
'Utopia Avenue' will release in June 2020.