Fiction Plane Are Unfamiliar With Festival Hosts Disco Biscuits

Posted on Jul 22nd 2008 7:00PM by Benjy Eisen
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Fiction Plane was not the only band at Camp Bisco this past weekend to come all the way from the U.K. The seventh incarnation of the three-day festival, now held in Mariaville, N.Y., featured a handful of British groups including the Egg and a cluster of acts from the revered electronic Twisted record label. However, Fiction Plane may have been the only band there who willingly admitted to being unfamiliar with Camp Bisco's host and headliner, the Disco Biscuits.

"I never heard of the Disco Biscuits until I read it on the sheet today," confessed bassist (and Sting's son) Joe Sumner. "You know what I'm going to do? We finished our gig; I'm now going to get slightly inebriated and discover the true nature of the festival."

Unwittingly, Fiction Plane had already shared a bill with the Biscuits just two weeks earlier at the inaugural Rothbury in Michigan, which was attended by 35,000 fans. "Rothbury was awesome," says Sumner. "It was reminiscent of Glastonbury." Sumner attributed the small showing during their Camp Bisco kickoff set to audience members "setting up their tents or else taking a nap." Guess he shouldn't feel so bad about not knowing the Disco Biscuits; turns out the Biscuits' fans don't really know Fiction Plane, either.