Death From Above 1979 Drummer's Emergency Op

Poor old Death From Above 1979 drummer Sebastien Grainger has had an emergency throat operation during their tour of North America. Well, not actually whilst onstage, obviously. But that'd be quite a stunt...hmm.....rock!

A spokesperson for the Canadian rockers reveals that Grainger has had to have his tonsils “lasered off”. Enjoying your mini eggs, folks?

Sebastian croaks, “The doctor sprayed my throat with a local aesthetic that numbed me so bad it felt like everything in my mouth was a foreign object.

”Then he began to laser out the tonsils. The actual instrument looks like a long silver pen and is attached to a tall power source. There is no matter removed, they just dehydrate and burn away in a puff of smoke, so for half and hour I was inhaling and exhaling my own flesh. "

Bleeee!!

“Now the back of my mouth looks like someone took a blow torch to it. The pain comes in and out, but I have ‘happy pills’...I’m in good hands.”

Aw, bless him. But it's Easter weekend - will he be able to manage a hot cross bun and a cuppa tea, though, that's what I want to know?