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“Here’s the thing about our band,” says gymnast guitarist Ryan Phillips slightly impatiently. “We’re a band who watch presidential debates, read books about the cosmos and care about the environment. At the same time there’s nothing better than laughing when someone gets their dick out or throws up outside the tour bus. You figure it out…” Let’s.

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Are you dead yet? Story Of The Year are known for their gymnastic live shows: back-flips, guitar-spinning and throwing their instruments to each other. But we get injured climbing stairs, so how has SOTY guitarist Ryan Phillips faired?

1) I’m missing two teeth
2) I’ve had massive lumps on my head from where I’ve tried to thrown guitar round and missed
3) I’ve had stitches in my shin
4) I’ve had Shin splints
5) I have back problems. Once I landed on my heels badly and it sent a painful twinge through my back which affected me for ages.
6) I had to go to hospital when I did a back flip and hit my throat on mic stand
7) I fractured my right heel
I almost cut my uvula off
9) Once he [Dan] was doing his punching-the-air move, and he caught the end of my guitar and he just punched the fucking headstock OFF! Off of an $8000 guitar – one of a kind.
10) Phil’s had stitches in his eye twice.
11) Adam had to wear this ankle brace boot thing when he damaged his foot.
12) I’ve been damaged from jumping into the crowd and being thrown back on stage.