The Slade classic Merry Christmas Everybody has been unavoidable in shops, pubs and at parties these past few weeks – but it was a less than happy one for the band’s lead guitarist Dave Hill, who fractured his elbow after colliding with a cyclist in Brighton last Friday, according to the band’s website.
The incident happened as the 70-year-old took a morning walk after performing in the town on Thursday evening with the band – now without former frontman Noddy Holder – on the last date of their Christmas tour.
Forthcoming dates in January and February have been cancelled, the band’s management said.
The glam rock group’s agent, Abbie Carter, was quoted in The Argus as saying: “Hopefully it isn’t too serious. It looks like a clean break and Dave will be back performing in a couple of months.
“He’s chomping at the bit to get back performing again.”
No details were given of the cyclist, but we’re guessing he or she wasn’t riding a red-nosed reindeer.
Hill can count himself luckier than U2’s Bono, who sustained serious facial injuries and shattered his humerus in six places after falling from his bike in New York City’s Central Park in 201, giving rise to fears he would never be able to play the guitar again.
> U2 frontman Bono may never play guitar again due to New York City bike smash
14 thoughts on “Slade guitarist Dave Hill breaks elbow in collision with cyclist”
Why has no one made some sor
Why has no one made some sor of landing on his head as he’s been sleighed joke?
“Hill can count himself
“Hill can count himself luckier than U2’s Bono, who sustained serious facial injuries and shattered his humerus in six places after falling from his bike in New York City’s Central Park in 201, giving rise to fears he would
neverbe able to play the guitar again.”Fixed that for you.
The cyclist must have
The cyclist must have confused him with another Dave Hill.
Fact check. The band is only
Fact check. The band is only Dave & Don these days. If Noddy was still there the tour would have made big headlines.
sidesaddle wrote:
Ah cheers, news of Noddy’s departure didn’t make it as far as road.cc Towers, article amended.
Slade Alive anyone?
Slade Alive anyone?
interesting that the article
interesting that the article talks about the pedestrian colluding with the cyclist, anything to back this up? or is it more likely he was struck by the cyclist. I’m pretty sure the forum gets quite worked up when cyclists collide with cars. Also making puns would definitely not be acceptable if a cyclist had suffered a fractured elbow in s road traffic accident.
wycombewheeler wrote:
One would make a guess that it was on the cycle lane along the seafront. The cycle part being a magnet for pedestrians for some reason. Maybe due to the somewhat ineffective barrier between the two of a line of paint.
That said, the stolen rustbucket on the pavement commandered by chavs syndrome is pretty rife in Brighton so maybe not.
wycombewheeler wrote:
But the first line of the linked Argos news item reads
So the article here is surely just inverting that bias? Fair turnaround, no?
Since when did papers ever report car-bike collisions as “cyclist suffers injury after being driven into by a driver”?
wycombewheeler wrote:
I was thinking the same thing. Quite flipppant and light-hearted comments about the injuries that have been suffered, but if it were one of us that had suffered those injuries at the hands of a car driver, I am sure that the comments would be quite different.
Peds wandering about in the
Peds wandering about in the seafront bike lane is an everyday occurance, it’s not really fit for purpose.
well to be accurate as per
well to be accurate as per normal reporting should be in collison with cycle as we never see collisons with drivers do we ?
Wouldn’t have happened if he
Wouldn’t have happened if he’d been wearing hi-viz?
All got a bit lively in the
All got a bit lively in the comments section.