Glass Animals drummer Joe Seaward was recently hit by a truck while out on his bike.
“Last Monday my best friend, and our drummer Joe was hit by a truck while on his bike here in Dublin,” the band posted to Instagram at the time. “His leg was broken on impact and he became tangled in the truck’s trailer where his skull suffered a complex fracture.”
The incident saw the immediate cancellation of three festival shows earlier this summer, and Joe has now offered an update on his condition.
“In the last couple of months I have learnt to walk, talk and read again,” he says on social media. “Watching a body heal in real time has been quite amazing, saying more than ‘I’ is actually very complicated and tiring, so is adapting to lots of metal in your limbs. I have always taken my body for granted, I won’t anymore.”
“Apparently,” he adds, “brain injuries can lead to wildly increased creativity – less inhibitions – so basically perfect timing for getting back on my kit, which I have just started doing.”
Read his full message below.
