"They have sold out venues on both sides of the Atlantic. Their first-ever gig was opening for a former member of Arcade Fire. Their 2024 album has been acclaimed as sounding like a lost classic of 1970s rock. Their two top tracks, Bright and Masquerade, have notched up 700,000 streams on Spotify. In fact, by the numbers, they're having one of the most buzzy rock debuts of recent years. Yet they don't really exist. They don't even have a name."
"The band is in fact the unnamed five-piece featured in Stereophonic, a hugely successful, Tony-winning drama, currently playing in London's West End. Written by David Adjmi, with music by former Arcade Fire member Will Butler, Stereophonic earned five stars from the Guardian, which praised its moments of creative transcendence, including a late-night epiphany so electrifying that the sound waves will excite your internal organs."
"Critics dismissed The Commitments until Elvis Costello said: If you want to know what it was like, read this' Making it in the music industry is often framed as a triumph of individual artistry and hard sweat. Yet a huge number of bands invented for novels, TV shows and films have ended up with real songs and even real hits."
They have sold out venues on both sides of the Atlantic and opened for a former Arcade Fire member. Their 2024 album has been acclaimed as sounding like a lost classic of 1970s rock, and their tracks Bright and Masquerade have notched 700,000 Spotify streams. The unnamed five-piece appears in Stereophonic, a Tony-winning drama currently playing in London's West End, with music by former Arcade Fire member Will Butler. Stereophonic earned five stars from the Guardian for moments of creative transcendence. Fictional bands from novels, film and TV have produced real songs and commercial success, including Spinal Tap, The Commitments and Daisy Jones & the Six.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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