A chat with Fiction Plane
By Kristin Schall
Fiction Plane’s debut album Everything Will Never Be Ok.
The British indie rock band, Fiction Plane is currently on tour in the U.S., promoting the upcoming release of their first major label album "Everything Will Never Be Ok". Bassist Dan Brown, Guitarist Seton Daunt, Drummer Pete Wilhoit, and Guitarist/Vocalist Joe Sumner will be playing across the nation, including Irving Plaza on February 11 with Something Corporate and Vendetta Red. The Pace Press got a chance to talk with them last week before their performance at CBGB's.
The Pace Press: Musically, who are your influences?
Dan: I guess what really inspired us to get into a band and start playing music would be the whole grunge movement, like Nirvana. And really, that is more of an American thing. Then there's British music like Radiohead and classic bands like Pink Floyd. Just a load of different stuff.
Joe: I like The Specials.
PP: If you weren't playing music what would you be doing?
Joe: I'd be working at a camp in the summer. I don't know about the rest of the year
Pete: Playing Baseball
Dan: I'd be a chef.
Joe: I'd be very depressed.
PP: What was the most unusual, memorable or funny that that has happened while touring?
Dan: We were taken out by some woman once, for drinks after doing a show. This was in San Francisco. And we got so drunk, and she just kept paying for these drinks, and she insisted on getting us a hotel room in the Sheraton Palace Hotel. And we worked out at the end of the night that she must have spent over a thousand bucks taking us out, getting us drunk and getting us this hotel room. Then about four in the morning she said, "I better be getting home to my fiancée." And we were like...yeah. She had asked us to sign her body as, like, a souvenir of the night, so we had written in byro pen all over her legs and her arms and places. Anyway so we wake up in the morning in this hotel room, and I see the orange light flashing on the phone that says message and I got the phone and it was her fiancée that said he was going to come down to the hotel room and beat the sh*t out of us. He was like "You don't f*cking write on people's fiancées" and we're like "Yes we do." So, we had to get out of San Francisco very fast. That was probably the most rock and roll night.
PP: What's your favorite thing about being a musician?
Joe: Getting to play music.
Dan: Getting to do what you absolutely love doing.
Seton: It's the best job in the world.
PP: What's your favorite movie?
Seton: I saw City of God recently, which I thought was an amazing film. That's probably my favorite contemporary film.
Dan: Rocky
Pete: (sarcastically) Kangaroo Jack
Joe: Ace Ventura: Pet Detective's got to be way up there. Jim Carey films.
Pete: (sarcastic) We're glossing over all the classics like The Muppets Take Manhattan.
PP: What are your hobbies or interests besides music?
Dan: Soccer
Joe: Yeah soccer. We play soccer in L.A. when we go, and we play against Mexicans.
We'll play when we get to Indiana--it's somewhat warmer there.
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