Band news still centres on the subject of injury (or potentially so). We've used a small degree of theatrical effects as part of the show for a little while now in the form of a small flash-bomb explosion.
Unfortunately it requires a certain small sense of rhythm to ensure that the explosion coincides with the music the band happen to be playing at the time and my partner-in-crime, Akkers, doesn't possess such a thing. So he managed to miss the cue for pressing the button to set the bombs off and Pete (vocals), surprised and disappointed but determined, carried on regardless.
Only to feel a sharp pain in his nether regions minutes later as Akkers decided to use his initiative and blow his employers trousers off instead. Fortunately Pete's bottom is not as crucial to his singing as Jim's hand is to drumming (although some would dispute that) and so the band are carrying on regardless with emergency replacement trousers.