The Blackout Talk Near-Death Brain Injuries
The Blackout frontman Sean Smith has been telling Rock Sound about bassist Rhys Lewis' recent life-threatening accident.
The Blackout frontman Sean Smith has been telling Rock Sound online about bassist Rhys Lewis' recent life-threatening accident.
The bassist fell from a moving bus on a runway in LA after being taken ill from eating a "dodgy burger".
“He’d eaten a dodgy burger and he felt a little bit sick so he went and stood by the door and felt a bit woozy. His final words were, ‘Oh fuck’ and he fell out of the bus, landed on his head, had a bleed on the brain and was kept in LA in intensive care for a week." Sean explained. “It was apparently worse than a haemorrhage as it wouldn’t stop bleeding. At one point they were going to drain his skull and take a piece out and stick a tube in and drain the blood out, but luckily for him and us he got better.”
According to the frontman, the bassist is in fine health again and has even gained superpowers as a result.
“He is still as mad as ever, he’s the quiet one in the band but it’s the quiet ones you have to look out for because he’s mental. He can read minds now and set things on fire just by looking at them!”
The Blackout start their UK tour this week
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