Idlewild have been forced to postpone work on their seventh album because guitarist Allan Stewart has injured his hand.
The band's frontman Roddy Woomble says: "song writing sessions with Allan were postponed after he fractured his right hand play fighting. We're taking a page out of Blur's book, and have been meeting up for lunch instead". Which is presumably a reference to the fact that the members of Blur have in recent times met for lunch, but that no music has issued forth from any proposed reunion. Or something. Anyone knows something I don't know about Blur and lunch, answers on a postcard. Actually, email is better.
Anyway, that's the news. Poor Allan. They're an accident prone bunch though, aren't they? Guitarist Rod Jones fell down some stairs and broke his arm in October, if you remember.