Nope – this is isn’t Modest Mouse frontman Isaac Brock’s attempt at giving a literal spin to the nautical themes of his band’s latest LP, We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank. Instead, it’s what happens when someone lobs a bottle at his head.
The volatile singer had to undergo surgery following an alleged bottling incident, forcing the band to cancel a number of European dates.
Footage of Brock telling a fan at a June 7 Berlin gig that he was “hit in the face with a bottle” has surfaced on Youtube, with the singer mumbling something about “a fracture” and “surgery tomorrow” amid noise from the audience, although it isn’t clear exactly when he was injured or whether it was during a performance. He has been photographed with bruises to his left eye as early as June 4 at a festival gig in Bologna, Italy.
The band's publicist declined to comment on the incident.
Three of the cancelled European gigs (Frankfurt, Cologne and Copenhagen) have so far been rescheduled for early July. Provided Brock's surgery went swimmingly, Modest Mouse should resume their European tour on June 19 in Luxembourg.
Photo: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/sarenrow/P5290026.jpg
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I love Isaac Brock.
I believe it was
Nottingham when he got hit. Thats what he said at the Manchester gig (the day after?) anyway.
could've been worse
if it was Nottingham, he could've got shot. looks like he got off lightly.
It wasn't Nottingham
Not at the show, anyway. I was there, I saw it with my own eyes. We love Isaac.
Yeah
I was there too - didn't see any bottles being thrown.
Unless of course they got mugged after the show, which to be honest wouldn't suprise me...
they are different incidents
in nottingham, i was told by the promoter of the show the next day...
that he had some teeth knocked out
But he was wearing
the eyepatch during the Machester gig and had the cut on his nose. And he said 'Nottingham took my eye'. I'm guessing it was in Nottingham but after the gig.
ahh
guess so then, apologies!
He looks like a pirate :D
He'd make a good one, he seems to enjoy writing about the ocean.
wireless
so what about thursday. Are they not playing wireless??
That photo is great
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/sarenrow/P5290026.jpg
He's even got matching nautical buttons!
Isaac Brock...
Is a complete legend. This was totally out of order.
They're
not doing Wireless.
I'd
love to go drinking with Brock...
aww
i hope it wasn't some idiot in the crowd.
weird i just read an article on bottling crowds...
he doesn't deserved to be bottled.
he had that
eye thing at Primavera festival so whats that 1st June time ? his eye looked pretty fucked up
german site
http://www.intro.de/news/23041567
don't speak german. i translated the statement and at the one crucial part (the bit where it tells you what happened to him) it failed me:
"There we wanted to high-put the feet in expectation of the weekend and in Vorfreude on a successful start into the new week with concerts of Modest Mouse, there reach us the unfortunately following message: "due to face injuries as consequence of a over case in the last week itself singer Issac Brook must (sic!) for the next days into medical treatment go. From the refusal unfortunately also the two following concerts are concerned in Germany and cannot to be taken place not as planned apart from appearances in Holland and Denmark."
over case? i think the german word is "uberfalls"
überfalls
is attack in this context.
it doesn't say much that isn't here, just says he had facial injury in the last week and will spend the next few days in hospital.
(i'm english but currently live in frankfurt, in case you're wondering)
bf
not knowing the first thing about this band, I thought this article was about the modest mouse frontman getting bitten in the eye by a badger
I'm almost sad that isn't the case
i just see
brock and think of pokemon
Nottingham's musician assault team have better taste
Brian Harvey Machete Strike!
WOW
He looks like me now. I have to wear an eyepatch for medical reasons, and actually look slightly like him anyway.
I knew it would catch on eventually. Look out for eyepatches all over the trendy hoxton bars.
BULLSH*T!
I was at the Bologna gig in Italy, I saw him hit himself in the eye with his guitar while playing and start bleeding. Of course this is very uncool, so the official version is "he got caught with a bottle".
ha
hahahaha!