NEW YORK — They May Be Giants singer-guitarist John Flansburgh was severely injured in a automobile crash this week whereas being pushed dwelling from the choice rock band’s first gig on a pandemic-delayed tour, prompting the postponement of reveals at the very least till late August.
In the meantime, the driving force of the automobile that police stated instigated the wreck was awaiting arraignment Friday after being arrested on drunken driving and different costs.
The collision occurred early Thursday in Manhattan’s East Harlem neighborhood.
Writing from a hospital mattress, Flansburgh instructed followers he was taking a automobile service dwelling from Wednesday’s present at Manhattan’s Bowery Ballroom when the automobile was T-boned, flipped onto its aspect, and began smelling of motor oil and smoke.
In line with police, the driving force who was arrested ran a crimson gentle, jumped a curb and plowed into the gate of a housing complicated, hitting two automobiles alongside the best way.
It’s not instantly clear whether or not the 26-year-old driver has an legal professional who can touch upon the costs, and no phone quantity may instantly be discovered for his Bronx dwelling.
Everybody in all three automobiles have been taken to hospitals, police stated. Flansburgh, 62, wrote that he suffered seven damaged ribs, a few of them fractured in a number of locations.
Fashioned within the early Eighties by Flansburgh and John Linnell, They May Be Giants rose to fame with intelligent, catchy songs and a not-afraid-to-be-geeky persona. Identified for tunes together with “Birdhouse in Your Soul,” “Boss of Me” and a model of the quirky 1953 tune “Istanbul (Not Constantinople),” the duo went platinum with the 1990 album “Flood.” The brand new tour is a belated celebration of the disc’s thirtieth anniversary.
“It was so great to lastly be again up on stage and taking part in for all of you once more,” Lindell wrote to followers in a message saying that the remaining June dates are postponed. The band hopes to renew the tour Aug. 30 in Asbury Park, New Jersey, he stated.
Flansburgh wrote that whilst he sat in a CT scanner shortly after the accident, he was occupied with find out how to get again on the street.
“Sometime we’ll rock once more – and for me, that day couldn’t come quickly sufficient,” he wrote. However for now, “I shall be watching reruns of ‘Intercourse within the Metropolis’ till I’m sturdy sufficient to succeed in the distant.
“Want me luck,” he added. “I’m going to want it.”
