Displacements have lucky escape

Leicester band The Displacements cheated death on Saturday night while driving to a gig at Kingston University. They suffered a blow out while travelling in the fast lane (at "70 miles an hour" according to the press release - which sounds unlikely) which sent the car careering across three lanes before flipping three times and landing on the embankment side of the motorway. All very dramatic. Fortunately, except for a few cuts and bruises, no one was badly hurt, though the band were needless to say rather shaken up, and their instruments didn't fair so well. Apparently producer Owen Morris, who worked on the band's next single 'Lazy Bones', had called them the day before to warn them to not drive to any more shows, which is all a bit eerie. There's a full report on the whole incident at: http://www.myspace.com/thedisplacements