While sportsmen have long accepted injuries as part and parcel of their trade, if the last few weeks are anything to go by, it seems musicians might soon have to find room on the tour bus for a Physio.
Injuries to The Edge and Dave Grohl
Already this year, U2’s The Edge has toppled off stage, Dave Grohl has broken a leg in similar circumstances in Scandinavia, while Michael from 5SOS has sustained facial injuries from onstage fireworks. Unlike their sporting counterparts, and to their eternal credit, none of the above were seen rolling around in agony following their pretty serious injuries. Grohl, in particular, proved the legend he is by living out another showbiz legend: the show must go on.
Writer injuries hardly compare
As this is a writer’s blog, I must now give the above a tenuous writerly link - and it’s thus: are we as writers exempt from the fear of injury and able to ply our trade without having to take a few weeks off to get fixed up?
Perhaps not. Eye strain is a serious and real problem for those forced to stare at screens for hours on end to satisfy our need to write. Then there’s posture problems caused by spending those same hours on end on our asses (how time flies when the creative juices flow). But apart from the odd back ache or attack of cramp, there’s little else. And that’s one of the worst (but also the best) things about being a writer. You’re unlikely to come to any physical harm doing it. There's very little danger.
The show must go on
None of the injuries we can sustain plying our trade enables us writers to hold a candle to musicians and sportsmen in the injury stakes. All we can do is use our talent to string sentences together to express our eternal respect for performers with the talent to get out there and put their bodies on the line for their art.
*No fingernails were broken in the typing of this article.
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