Fiction Plane is a rock band consisting of lead vocalist and bass player

Joe Sumner Joseph Sumner (born 23 November 1976) is an English singer-songwriter and bassist for the rock band Fiction Plane, and co-founder of the company Vyclone, which made an app for recording video from multiple angles. Personal life Joe Sumner i ...

, guitarist

Seton Daunt Seton Daunt is an English guitar player and songwriter, best known as lead guitarist for the British rock band Fiction Plane. Guitarist At 19 years old, Daunt met Dan Brown, who introduced him to Santa's Boyfriend. The band was playing the ...

, and drummer

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History

When Sumner was a teenager in

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, he was inspired to write songs after he heard Nirvana's album ''

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''. Sumner, having grown up around the music industry with his father Gordon “Sting” Sumner, already knew how to play guitar and drums, so he started a band with Dan Brown, a friend from school who played bass. Fiction Plane began to form in 1999 when they were joined by guitarist Seton Daunt. At a live performance a few years later, they attracted the attention of

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, a producer who escorted them into a studio to record their debut album, ''

Everything Will Never Be OK ''Everything Will Never Be OK'' is the debut album by the rock band Fiction Plane. The track "Wise" contains the hidden track "Bongo" after five minutes of silence (making the track's total running time 15:50). Track listing All songs writt ...

''. Lacking a full-time drummer, they invited

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, a session musician who had played with them before. After the album was released, they hired

, a drummer from

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, and Fiction Plane was launched. The band contributed the song "If Only" to the film ''

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''. The song's lyrics are mostly based on a recurring poem from the film and its source novel. The film's soundtrack album was released in April 2003, only a month after the release of ''Everything Will Never Be OK''. Following their debut, the band released ''

Bitter Forces and Lame Race Horses ''Bitter Forces and Lame Race Horses'' is an EP by the rock band Fiction Plane, released on 11 July 2005. Critical reception In a review for AllMusic, Mark Morton wrote that the EP is "darker in nature" than Fiction Plane's debut album, '' Every ...

'' (2005), ''

Left Side of the Brain ''Left Side of the Brain'' is the second album by the rock band Fiction Plane. The band supported the album in 2007 when it was the opening act for The Police Reunion Tour The Reunion Tour was a 2007–2008 worldwide concert tour by The Po ...

'' (2007), '' Paradiso'' (2009), '' Sparks'' (2010), and ''Mondo Lumina'' (2015). Fiction Plane's popularity increased in 2007 when they were the opening act for The Police's reunion tour - Joe Sumner is the son of Police lead singer Sting.

Discography

Studio albums

Extended plays

Live albums

Band members

Current

– lead vocals, bass *

– guitar *

– drums

Former

* Dan Brown – bass, keyboards, backing vocals

References

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