DIRTY PRETTY THINGS - BARAT BROKE COLLARBONE IN DRUNKEN MOTORBIKE CRASH

BARAT BROKE COLLARBONE IN DRUNKEN MOTORBIKE CRASH

LATEST: DIRTY PRETTY THINGS singer CARL BARAT broke his collarbone in a drunken motorbike accident in Taiwan last week (ends06AUG06). The BANG BANG YOU'RE DEAD hitmaker will continue with his vocal duties on the group's US tour, which got underway in Los Angeles yesterday (08AUG06), but has been replaced on guitar by THE PADDINGTONS' JOSH HUBBARD. And the former LIBERTINE reveals, "I went to karaoke and drunk a lot of sake, came outside, and people were stood out on their motorbikes, they were driving Triumphs which was a surprise to me, I asked to have a go and I did, and I fell off. "I revved it up, and flew off the handle bars, only in a car-park, I didn't endanger anyone but myself."