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Posted By: Steve Peto - 11/06/2007 19:16:29

Transatlantic rockers (2 x Brits, 1 x Yank!) FICTION PLANE release the 'Two Sisters' single on July 30 on Bieler Bros. Records.

Taken from their new album 'Left Side Of The Brain' (itself due for release on August 20), it is a potent mix of jagged melody and infectious grooves.

The band are also supporting The Police on their world tour, including the much anticipated UK dates throughout Sept and October 2007.

Produced by Paul Corkett (Radiohead, Björk, The Cure), it is the formal debut of the band as a three piece - Joe Sumner on bass and vocals, Seton Daunt on guitar and Pete Wilhoit on drums - with the departure of keyboardist/bassist Dan Brown to raise a family.

"In a way, this album is about us letting it all hang out," says Daunt. "It's a bit more bold and obnoxious, guitar wise. It's louder and prouder." "It's sort of a coming out party for us," says Wilhoit. "We sort of unleashed the animal within."

Sumner talks about the meaning behind track "Death Machine" - war: "I really understand the desire to protect your country, and the desire to fight for what you believe in, but the people who are telling you what you should do in order to do it, I just don't trust."

Nepotism, meanwhile, is at the heart of "Running the Country": "It discusses how unqualified and possibly unsuitable people can be, who find themselves in positions of power because of who they are." says Sumner. It's a track that surely has relevance to the precarious position he finds himself in being the son of one of rock's biggest superstars: Sting. That lineage is one that Sumner has grappled with all his life, trying to establish himself as both his own man and his own musician.

"I spent many years lying about it, and avoiding it," he says. "Even if I took a job in a pub in the middle of nowhere, someone would figure it out." His desire to step out from that shadow loomed large in the band's decision whether or not to take the offered opener's slot on this summer's massive Police reunion tour. To be blunt, in the end, Sumner just said f**k it: "I just figured if it's gonna happen anyway, I might as well take full advantage. I think we're ready, we've got a great band and great songs."

Check out their new single 'Two Sisters' on their Ecard :

http://www.bielerbros.com/media/fiction_plane/ecard/fictionplane-ecard-mini.html

Catch the guys at one of their up-coming UK shows:

Sep 04 Birmingham, NIA
Sep 05 Birmingham, NIA
Sep 08 London, Twickenham Stadium
Sep 09 London, Twickenham Stadium
Oct 06 Dublin, Croke Park
Oct 15 Manchester, MEN Arena
Oct 16 Manchester, MEN Arena
Oct 19 Cardiff, Millennium Stadium

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