At about 6am, Wyoming time, while everyone was safely tucked in their bunks, the bus hit a patch of ice just outside Rawlins, Wyoming and slid - ending up facing the reverse direction in the median.
The trailer, containing all the gear and supplies wobbled and bounced out of control - landing sideways in a snowy ditch. The trailer doors had ripped open, so all around the site of their accident the ground was covered with equipment cases, CDs, boxes of T-shirts, etc.
Due to the shake-up they are canceling tonight’s show in Salt Lake City, Utah - and will use this unexpected lay-over to analyze the best way for continuing the tour.
Car (or bus) crashes are nothing to laugh at. I know from my own experiences, especially the time I flipped my car over a deer fence a few years ago back in Scotland. A deer fence is about 10 feet high, so use your imagination to figure how lucky I was to escape from that unharmed. [And also how stupid I was to have been driving into a corner at about 90mph!!] Glad that the band escaped with the only problem of having to pick up all the merch and gear that got thrown from the trailer.
It seems to be the season for rock bands to be involved with crashes. There was the Travis Barker plane crash a few weeks ago. Then a few days ago the entire tour bus of American band Kill Hannah went up in flames while they were on the road somewhere in the Swiss Alps. (You can see photos of the incident on Kill Hannah's Myspace page, but you'll probably want to hit the stop button on their music player.)
Against Me! are currently on a tour accross the US, before they travel to mainland Europe in December for a few shows in France, Switzerland and Spain. I saw the band earlier this year at Virgin festival in Toronto where they were one of the best bands of the weekend, and where I also had the pleasure of meeting and interviewing AM! drummer Warren Oakes.
Brian, the editor
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