"I was in a mosh pit at (Tokyo concert venue) Koiwa Bushbash when Shingo landed on top of me and dislocated my shoulder."
Shinpei "Ponta" Watanabe, the vocalist, synth player and occasional guitarist of mutant posthardcore art-rockers The Mornings is explaining the injury that put his arm in a sling for a month at the beginning of last year. The Mornings, however, don't do things by halves, and within days of Watanabe's accident, guitarist and co-vocalist Junya Kishino had put himself out of action in another unfortunate incident.
"I was stage diving and gave myself a hernia," explains Kishino, although with their intense schedule and furious live performances, frequently culminating in bouts of destructive rockrabatics, what's more surprising is that injuries aren't more frequent.