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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Entertainment
Andrew Stafford

Kevin Mitchell: ‘90% of us are loving, peaceful people. A few bad eggs are making us all look bad’

Musician Bob Evans eats a bubble o bill ice cream at dusk, wearing a red Coca-Cola t-shirt
‘Suburban Songbook is the best thing I have ever done’ … Bob Evans aka Kevin Mitchell. Photograph: Sophie Howarth

What was the most liberating thing about becoming Bob Evans?

I think just the ability to step outside the confines of a four-piece rock’n’roll band, you know. Jebediah does Jebediah better than anybody else, but I was becoming more and more inspired by other kinds of music, and I wanted to explore a broader range of instrumentation that just seemed difficult to get over the line with Jebediah.

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