Johnny Marr has said that his future live shows are in jeopardy after he broke his band earlier this month.
The guitarist and singer fell while he was out running in London last week, and now has his hand in plaster (see picture above).
In a statement, Marr said: "I was running pretty fast and just went straight over. I banged my shoulder and then realised my hand was in a bad way. Obviously we’re hoping there’s no long term damage."
Neil Young reportedly told off the crowd for clapping during the first date of his four-night residency at New York's Carnegie Hall.
The incident took place on Monday [January 6].
According to one eye witness, the audience began clapping during "Ohio", which apparently threw Young off time.
There is a man in a flat cap standing in the middle of the stage, looking pensively at some large twigs while his bandmates work up ten minutes of bleary musique concrete. Eventually he picks up a bass and the six of them lumber into a passage of magisterial, martial psych. It mutates into waterlogged beatnik blues, then a kind of splenetic krautpunk. One of the guitarists, incidentally, now has a cardboard box on his head. There’s a mannequin’s head on top of the box. After a while, he conscientiously ties a scarf round its neck.
As I've mentioned before here, the marketing department next door aren't too fond of the primordial swamp jams that come out of the New Weird America, and for the past couple of weeks they've been particularly aggravated by the new album by Sunburned Hand Of The Man.
