Tim Barry breaks hand during onstage fight

Avail front man and solo artist Tim Barry has explained in a recent interview with ThePunkSite.com how he broke his hand during an onstage fight with a heckler.

Barry explained:

"I was standing on stage and I was saying that I wrote this song ("Wait at Milano") with my buddy Travis in mind because he is chronically depressed and I wrote it for him before he passed away and never told him it was about him. And I was quickly explaining that this song is about now and living lightly and more kindly in ways that perpetuate good so that there are things left for the people coming after us and as I’m trying to explain this the fucking guy just keeps heckling me brutally, so I invite him onstage. I said no one can hear you so I gave him a microphone. So I said now that you have had your say I’m going to explain to you again what this song is about. So I repeated my words “My best friend Travis killed himself” and he replied “well he doesn’t sound like much of a friend” and I just beat the living shit out of him on stage. And I am not at all proud of that because I tried deeply not to be the person I used to be because I used to fight a lot. It’s not healthy. I just snapped you know. I still don’t know what he meant. But he certainly couldn’t envision what was going through my head when he said that."

Tim Barry will be in Australia in April/May as a part of the Revival Tour featuring Chuck Ragan (Hot Water Music), Frank Turner and Ben Nichols (Lucero). Click here for the details of that tour.