[NOT ATTENDED: August 14, 2019] Death Valley Girls/The Distillers [rescheduled from June 1, moved to October 7]
On June 1, I drove to Union Transfer to see Starcrawler and The Distillers only to learn:
“Brody has a herniated disc and can not stand. She’s at the hospital getting treatment now.”
So I went home with the knowledge that the show was going to be rescheduled for August 14.
Then on August 3rd, I received this email
Hello Distillers fans,
Unfortunately another member of The Distillers was recently injured and they have to postpone their Philly date again. They are dedicated to make it back to Philly and play for you!!! So all tickets will be honored. Including tickets originally purchased for the original June 1st date.
The official word from the band came via their Instagram site:
Andy was in a really bad accident a few days ago that resulted in two very deep gashes ,a broken middle finger and a concussion. He was riding his bike down the street and a woman who was struggling with her toddler inside her car , kicked the car door open and in a split second attempt to avoid it , Andy was badly injured , his right hand taking most of the impact and requiring 40 stitches. This kind of trauma takes time to heal and unfortunately we’ve had to cancel / postpone our upcoming August American tour before reading and Leeds in the UK. The doctor believes Andy will be healed enough in about 3.5 weeks time and that’s why we are going forth with Reading and Leeds. Hope you can understand , it’s disappointing for us to have to cancel and postpone but Andy’s hand is crucial to what he does and what we do. Much love to you all ,
See you soon ,
The Distillers xxxxP.S – the following pictures 4,5,6 contain very graphic images of trauma to Andy’s hand and may make some people queasy, please do not scroll through if this is the case.
The pictures are indeed pretty gruesome.
I can’t get over the bad luck that The Distillers and Philly have had. But at least we had advanced notice for this one!
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