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14th Jun 2015

Video: Guitarist’s hair catches fire during live Wembley gig due to pyrotechnic accident

Rock n' roll, baby

Eoghan Doherty

You wait for one worthy rock n’ roll story to come along and then three come along at once.

First of all, Dave Grohl, who’s still fightin’ that Foo, admirably continued his performance at a Swedish gig as medical staff treated his broken leg on stage.

Secondly, just this morning, we published a story about this super-cool singer who caught a full pint in mid-air and polished it off, all while crowdsurfing on top of his adoring fans.

Impressive stuff from both musical men.

Now though, footage has emerged of Michael Clifford, a guitarist in the Australian band 5 Seconds Of Summer, as he was caught on the head by a jet of fire shooting out of an on-stage flamethower as the band were perfoming in Wembley Arena in London.

https://twitter.com/ImIn5SOSLand/status/609832911525838849

Thankfully, the 19-year-old singer is now recovering and tweeted a pic that is sure to keep both fans of the band and Gotham City bad guys happy.

Hat-tip to i100.

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