A review by Ian McMillan in the Yorkshire Post.
‘Now Ada has produced Red Army Faction Blues, and his aim in this beautifully-written novel is to write about rock music in the same way that David Peace wrote about football in The Damned United, as a mirror of contemporary history, as a glass through which to view the world. Wilson feels there’s a great hunger for history that happened yesterday or the day before, and he also feels that a creative approach can pay a different kind of dividend to the purely non-fiction line. Wilson believes that writers like David Peace are inventing a new form “made possible by the internet and the deluge of information available”. This multilayered realism, achieved through placing actual people and places under fiction’s microscope, certainly underlines the novel’s contemporary echoes of unrest, surveillance and a sense that things are getting a little out-of-hand politically and culturally and nobodyquite knows what’s going on. Ring any bells?’
