Stereophonics' Kelly Jones Nearly Loses His Career

Kelly Jones was just one millimetre away from never being able to play guitar again thanks to Wednesday night’s fight with bouncers at London’s Amika bar.

The Welsh rocker gashed open his arm in the scrap and after friends rang for an ambulance Jones was eventually taken to Chelsea and Westminster Hospital at 1.30am yesterday (September 20).

He was seen to at 4am and received the first of two operations a couple of hours later.

Speaking to The Sun from his hospital bed Jones explained: “The surgeons said if the gash had been just one millimetre nearer the tendon that could have been it — I might not have been able to pick up a guitar again.”

The altercation began after Jones was found with a friend in the ladies toilet, and he still protests his innocence: “We put our heads in the door to tell a couple of friends that our car was outside.
 
"Then a bouncer says ‘What are you doing in the ladies’ toilet?’ But we didn’t even go in the toilets — a cleaner was in there. The bouncers then tried to grab hold of us and I pulled away and gashed my arm on a glass vase.”

The Stereophonics man then received further threatening from the doormen: “The bouncers had me in a headlock and had hold of my feet and arms. One said, ‘If you don’t keep still I’m gonna break your ****ing neck.”

Jones is still currently recovering in hospital, meanwhile Stereophonics are due to play the ULU on October 6 and release new single ‘It Means Nothing’ on October 1.

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