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Fronted by singer/songwriter Joe Sumner — who is the adult son of pop/rock superstar and former Police vocalist Sting — Fiction Plane is a mostly British alternative pop/rock band that started to acquire a U.K. following in the early 2000s.
The fact that Sumner is Sting’s son has inevitably been mentioned quite a bit in the British press, and yet, Fiction Plane’s members have never gone out of their way to exploit the Sting connection. If anything, they have downplayed it; when MCA did a promotional mailing for Fiction Plane’s debut album, Everything Will Never Be OK, in 2003, the official bio didn’t even mention that Sting was Sumner’s dad. Thus, no one can accuse Sumner of trying to ride his father’s coattails. Nor can Fiction Plane be accused of going out of its way to emulate Sting or the Police; even if Sting has affected some of Sumner’s singing and writing, U2 is actually a more noticeable influence. His voice, in fact, has a somewhat Bono-ish quality. But while the highly sociopolitical U2 can be very idealistic, the words that are typically used to describe Fiction Plane’s lyrics include cynical, dark, melancholy, and world-weary — and it should be noted that Sumner has cited ’90s angst-rockers like Nirvana and Smashing Pumpkins as influences.
