About Coolstar

A fictional band with real songs

Coolstar appears throughout the Fatal Equation trilogy as a working band, with songs attributed to its fictional songwriter and protagonist, Ali Kurmi. Those songs also exist as fully recorded tracks in the real world, written and created by author Gethyn Jones.

The aim isn't to tie every song directly to plot points or character arcs, but to capture the feel of a genuine band that just happens to feature in the books. The tracks appear in the story, they're played and referenced by the characters, but they can be enjoyed entirely on their own as standalone music.

Coolstar is, in concept, a little like Spinal Tap: a fictional band whose music exists outside the joke, in this case with a straight-faced rock band born from the pages of a novel.