William Beckett to perform benefit show for Andy Mrotek on Stageit
After the recent injuries former Academy Is drummer Andy Mrotek sustained from an assault, ex-frontman-turned-solo-artist William Beckett will be performing a live show via stageit.com with all the proceeds from the show going to benefit Mrotek's upcoming time in the hostpital. Mrotek was allegedly assaulted while walking in the Humboldt Park area of Milwaukee, WI. According to his tweets, Mrotek got "jumped," which included a vase's getting smashed in his face and kicked in his eyes. The injuries the former The Academy Is... drummer cites are: a broken jaw (in 5 places), fractured orbitals and lacerations that required 25 stitches. He says he will undergo plastic surgery in a week, presumably to fix the facial damage sustained from the injuries. Read a statement from Beckett below: "Last week, my good friend and musical brother Andy Mrotek was jumped and attacked by multiple people, leaving him in need of reconstructive surgery. As procedures like this are very expensive, I wa...
After the recent injuries former The Academy Is... drummer Andy Mrotek sustained from an assault, the band's ex-frontman (now solo artist) William Beckett will be performing a live show via stageit.com with all the proceeds from the show going to benefit Mrotek's upcoming time in the hostpital.
Mrotek was allegedly assaulted while walking in the Humboldt Park area of Milwaukee, WI. According to his tweets, Mrotek got "jumped," which included a vase's getting smashed in his face and kicked in his eyes. The injuries the former The Academy Is... drummer cites are: a broken jaw (in 5 places), fractured orbitals and lacerations that required 25 stitches. He says he will undergo plastic surgery in a week, presumably to fix the facial damage sustained from the injuries.
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Read a statement from Beckett below:
"Last week, my good friend and musical brother Andy Mrotek was jumped and attacked by multiple people, leaving him in need of reconstructive surgery. As procedures like this are very expensive, I wanted to do something to help Butcher through this horrible time.
On August 6th I will be playing a benefit show on Stageit.com in which all proceeds will be donated to Andy to help pay for his time in the hospital. I will be playing some of Andy’s favorite TAI songs in his honor.
If you have not attended a Stageit show before, its basically a live stream performance that you can watch me play from your computer at home. I’ve set the show up so that you can pay anything that you want from 10 cents to whatever. Keep in mind that this is a special benefit for Andy Mrotek and all proceeds will go towards helping him pay for his surgery.
Thanks, and see you there. Get your tickets now!"
You can purchase tickets here.
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