Poor, poor Róisín!

During last nights concert in Moscow our beloved Róisín Murphy headbanged as usual to 'Primitive' and hit her face on a chair that was standing next to her! As a result she broke her supraorbital bone (see image of the scull below)! Ouch! We are so worried and we hope she is ok. Of course, the whole thing is on youtube so if you wanna you can see it for yourselves.

Update on Monday, October 29, 2007 at 9:47PM by GANGSTER

EMI press release about the accident

Singer Róisín Murphy suffered a nasty injury on stage on Saturday night (27th October) at Moscow’s Ikra Club. Whilst performing the track 'Primitive' from her hugely acclaimed new album 'Overpowered' she hit her head on a chair and severely damaged her eye socket.

She left the stage immediately and was raced straight to a Russian hospital for emergency treatment and was then flown back to the UK early on Sunday morning. Last night she had an operation under general anaesthetic to repair the damage to her eye socket and eyebrow. Fortunately, despite serious concussion and losing a lot of blood, her vision is unimpaired.

Róisín is now recovering well but her European tour dates have been cancelled for at least the next seven days as have all promotional commitments.

It is hoped that Róisín will return to the stage within a week’s time but she is under doctor's orders to rest until fully recovered so the recovery time may need to be extended. However her UK and Irish tour dates starting on 26th November should be unaffected.

The cancelled tour dates will be rescheduled for later in the year.