Friendly Fires drummer Jack Savidge hasn't been having much luck of late. This week he nearly missed the band's performance at the Mercury Prize ceremony because he was admitted to hospital with a rash on his leg. Now it's been revealed that he recently got roughed up by Brazilian police after trying to leave a club without paying his bar bill.
The band's Ed Macfarlane told The Mirror: "They have this stupid system where they give you a credit card when you turn up, you buy drinks with this credit card and then pay when you leave, so basically spend loads of money that you don't have. The queue to leave the venue was ridiculously long and Jack basically didn't have enough money to pay for any of his drinks and decided to do a runner for it".
He continued: "He got through the door, it was pissing it down with rain, got round one corner, got round another one, pegged it down the street then two Brazilian police caught him and slammed him pretty hard on the floor. And then they threw him back in the club, which was probably the worst thing about it, because the club was horrible it was playing really bad music".
Plus, the bar would have still had his credit card. I'm not sure how much he'd really thought this whole thing through.