![]() Concentration and recall were two of the biggest things impacted by his operation. The moment served as one of the dummer’s only memories in the hospital. When “Zombie” by Fela Kuti started up, Seaward began to tap his foot in time with the music. “ For the 30-year-old singer, who first met the Glass Animals drummer when he was 13, the assuredness of his friend’s rehabilitation arrived after playing music for him a few days following brain surgery. In this interview from Entertainment Weekly, the group talked about the period after the accident: Before moving along, I wanted to stick on the subject of Seaward’s accident and what the rehabilitation process was like. It is pleasing the band are a unit again, and that they are on the road to recovery and strength. Although their new album has been made with their drummer, I think the accident of 2018 has impacted their approach and feeds into Dreamland. I can only imagine what it was like for Glass Animals when they heard the news and what their lives were like how they managed to keep going and change plans. When any group is rocked by an unexpected setback, everything takes a backseat. I couldn’t stop thinking about how lucky we were”. I remember just being so thankful that we could still do this. At one of our first shows in Manchester, everything clicked again. Bayley says that being back on stage in February was the greatest feeling: “It felt like a miracle and it was a miracle really. After two years of rehabilitation, Seaward had returned to performing following a series of warm-up gigs earlier this year. “Everything that made me… me was taken away,” Seaward says. He couldn’t walk, talk, eat, read or write. On waking, he found that he had no short-term memory. As well as a severely broken leg, Seaward suffered brain damage after a complex skull fracture: he required two lengthy, life-threatening operations to repair the damage. ![]() In July 2018, Seaward was hit by a truck while riding his bike in Dublin. “Everyone was very close to losing a friend, a brother, a boyfriend, a son and a bandmate.” His eyes fill with tears. “I think that my accident shook everyone to the core,” he says, balancing his head in his hand, his fingertips tracing the outline of a deep scar on his skull. “ It feels like a miracle to be talking to Joe Seaward, drummer of Oxford’s indie quartet Glass Animals. Glass Animals were interviewed by NME earlier in the year, and they were asked about the accident and how they have adapted since: Now, a couple of years after it happened, things seem a lot better, even if Seaward is still feeling the effects. One cannot really predict things like this, so Glass Animals had to adapt when the accident happened. I remember hearing about the accident a couple of years back and being pretty shocked. ![]() It came out of the blue, and it was a real blow for the Oxford-formed group. Or maybe people have just run out of weed and started to be more productive”.Īn accident involving Glass Animals’ drummer, Joe Seaward, almost threatened to derail the band and set them back. “Maybe the stress and the anxiety of all this, plus the isolation, could be quite healthy for people’s creativity in a weird way. ![]() “I think everyone’s in an interesting headspace,” he continues. At the other end of the creative spectrum, the band have just begun selling two types of toilet roll in their online merch store, one dotted with the four Oxford school friends’ faces, the other printed with the words “Ass Glanimals”. They include, as of next week, filling their website with downloadable music samples and images so that fans can make their own versions of Glass Animals songs and artwork. “Between me and the guys, we have a lot of ideas for how to keep things ticking - almost too many ideas,” he tells me. “ Sitting in his home studio in Hackney, just out of two weeks’ quarantine and still a long way from his music life getting back to normal, Dave Bayley of Glass Animals is feeling optimistic. Glass Animals’ lead, Dave Bayley, was interviewed by The Standard in April, where he talked about lockdown and creativity: One of the things that impresses me is that, during lockdown, so many artists have been creating music and putting some fantastic stuff out there. They have a new album out, Dreamland, and it is one of their best! It has been a hard time for the band, and I will discuss a terrible incident that affected Glass Animals and impacted their career. In this review, I am tackling Glass Animals. And we are in lockdown, music is providing a sense of relief and stability.
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