“Being called the future of rock’n'roll is the worst thing that can happen to a band,” says Vennum “It’s so much to live up to. That’s good enough for me.”Their bewilderment at the Strokes’ success is part of a wider concern at the media scrum that surrounds new rock bands. “I’m glad you want to talk to us but I can’t sit worrying about whether or not you or anyone else likes our album,” says the singer Lisa Kekaula “We’re not looking for validation The fact is that I like our album. It’s also refreshing to talk to a band that doesn’t worry about being liked – the Bellrays couldn’t care less.
The Bellrays’ passion is oddly inspiring; their long list of favourite bands, old and new, is testimony to their love of music. Those bands don’t go out and improvise and take chances on stage but we do every night.”Such indignation could be interpreted as envy although this doesn’t seem to be the case. “They’re geared towards getting on the cover of magazines or getting free endorsements. They may as well be in a boy band.”
“A lot of these guys aren’t thinking about how to make great music,” grumbles Tony Fate, the band’s guitarist. “Why do you guys like them so much? They’re trying to pump them in America too but people aren’t really going for them They’re not for real, they’re a bunch of trust fund babies. “What the hell is that all about?” drawls the bass player Bob Vennum, a grizzled-looking individual who might have just stepped out of an American road movie. Their principal gripe is the British obsession with the Strokes.
They may as well be in a boy band.”
The members of the California soul-punk band the Bellrays have a few things they’d like to get off their chests. The members of the California soul-punk band the Bellrays have a few things they’d like to get off their chests. He added: “We must also be careful to avoid a situation where the privacy of people working with HIV is removed without just cause.”. He said lawyers for the hospital had succeeded in fighting attempts to ban the identification of which hospital and department the individual worked in, and when he worked there.Derek Bodell, from the National Aids Trust, said patients had little to fear. There have been no reported cases in Britain of HIV-positive healthcare workers passing the virus to patients.A spokesman for the Hull Trust said its healthcare worker had undergone a full medical check before being employed and was passed fit in accordance with national guidelines.Richard Carey, chief executive of Highland Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, said theatre lists and the medical records of about 4,300 patients had been examined to establish those potentially at risk from its worker.
In a statement, its medical director Dr John Dyet said the situation was “regrettable”, but added that the risk of infection was “very low”. The worker has been granted a court order preventing identification, which limited the information available to patients who received a letter warning that they were “potentially at risk”.In another development, the Highland Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, in Inverness, revealed it had written to 116 patients explaining they had undergone a procedure performed by a male healthcare worker who was HIV-positive.The Hull Trust has checked the records of 7,000 patients to identify those who were treated by the worker. More than 600 former patients were offered HIV tests yesterday after two hospitals each revealed that a healthcare worker was infected with the virus.
The Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust said a staff member was diagnosed last Friday and immediately stopped clinical work. “We do not really know why the bacteria suddenly caused the infection Many of us carry the bacteria with no ill-effects.”. He added that it could not be confirmed that the prick triggered the bacteria that killed Mrs Harris.He said: “This is one of the most unusual cases I have ever had to deal with.”Professor Neil Shepherd, a consultant pathologist at Cheltenham General Hospital, said that he had noted the rare effects of necrotising fasciitis – the rapid dying of skin tissues – which, he said, could have been brought on by bacteria carried through the rose thorn.”This is a rare condition that just picks on isolated people,” he said. She died six days after being pricked.The coroner, who recorded a verdict of death by natural causes, said the death was due to septicaemia and necrotising fasciitis. A woman died days after being pricked by a rose thorn, an inquest was told yesterday.
Jeanne Harris, 61, pricked her left finger when pruning roses last June, her husband said in a statement to Cirencester magistrates’ court.Two days later her left elbow had swollen, and he took her to the doctor.Mrs Harris, a part-time cleaner from South Cerney, Gloucestershire, vomited on the way there and was referred to Cirencester Hospital.Her condition deteriorated and she was taken to Cheltenham General Hospital for surgery.
