Late Late Nite FDL: Watch Your Head!

Okay, at the end of this video, ex-Moloko singer Roisin Murphy gets hurt by smacking her forehead into a chair that was left on stage from a previous song. That’s soooo not why I’m posting it. I’m putting this up because the song is amazing and I can’t find any other video for it on YouTube. I think it’s called “Primitive”. Even with the crappy bootleg video sound quality, this song gives me the shivers.

Murphy returned to the UK yesterday (October 28) where she has undergone an operation under general anaesthetic.

According to a statement: “Despite serious concussion and losing a lot of blood, her vision is unimpaired.”

Her European dates for the next seven dates have been cancelled, but it is hoped that she will make a full recovery before her UK and Irish tour begins on November 26.

Poor baby. I did that once, back in 1993, except it was the stock of my guitarist’s Rickenbacker that I plowed my forehead into, and the resulting injury was just a messy gash with no skull fracture.

Roisin was smart. She left the stage and went straight to the doctor. I took off my shirt and wadded it up and pressed it to the wound to keep the blood out of my eyes for the last two songs of the set. (For the record, we were doing a cover of Aretha Franklin’s “Save Me” at the time of the collision.) It had been a smokin’ set up to that point and I wasn’t ready to let go of the mic just yet. These days I would probably just squeal, “Owwww! Oh, my god!” and run off stage. I’m not quite the rawk and roll theropod I once was.

Anyway, you can send Ms. Murphy get well wishes via her MySpace page. Extra credit to the commenter who can find us an email address.

This made me wonder, do touring musicians from other countries totally walk on eggshells and pray they don’t get sick or hurt in America? I wonder what the cost of Murphy’s ER visit in Moscow was versus how much it would have cost in Atlanta or St. Louis.

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