Sebastien Grainger, drummer and vocalist with Canadian buzz band Death From Above 1979 has been forced to undergo emergency throat surgery whilst on a tour of North America.
He told NME.com: "The doctor sprayed my throat with a local aesthetic that numbed me so bad it felt like everything in my mouth was a foreign object. Then he injected local aesthetic directly into my tonsils on each side. Then he began to laser out the tonsils. The actual instrument looks like a long silver pen and is attached to a tall power source. There is no matter removed, they just dehydrate and burn away in a puff of smoke, so really for half an hour I was inhaling and exhaling my own flesh. Now the back of my mouth looks like someone took a blow torch to it. The pain comes in and out, but I have 'happy pills.'
I'm in good hands." Euugh.
The band return to the UK in May:
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May: Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms
19 May: Bristol Fleece
20 May: Leicester Charlotte
21 May: Liverpool Academy 2
22 May: Manchester Academy 3
23 May: Edinburgh The Venue
24 May: Newcastle University Union
25 May: Leeds Cockpit
+26 May: London Scala