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When Isaac Brock isn't subjecting his own body to physical harm, it seems someone else is. According to several reports from readers over in Europe, and confirmed by Brock himself (via YouTube), the Modest Mouse frontmaniac was "hit in the face with a bottle" recently. Seriously, dudes, you can do this to Panic! at the Disco, but Modest Mouse?

As a result, Brock had to undergo surgery, and the band was forced to cancel a number of overseas shows. Thus far, three of those gigs have been rescheduled for early July: Frankfurt, Cologne, and Copenhagen.

Thanks to reader Daniel Gerhardt for the tip.

The video evidence, meanwhile, comes from a June 7 Modest Mouse show at Berlin's Postbahnhof. A fan asks Issac what happened to his eye. Brock replies, "I got hit in the face with a bottle," and then mumbles something about a "fracture" and "surgery tomorrow" amid crowd noise. The eye-- Isaac's left-- is difficult to see, but in another clip from the same concert (audiophiles are advised to mute their speakers before viewing) it almost looks as though Brock may be wearing a glass eye.

Brock's clearly wearing an eye-patch, meanwhile, in several photos from another recent Modest Mouse show. And it's presumably not part of the We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank shtick-- some cuts are visible along Brock's nose in this candid shot (also shown in excerpt above).

It's not clear when exactly Brock was injured, nor whether the bottling occurred during a performance or somewhere else-- indeed, the wound could very well be self-inflicted after all. Brock's left eye does show some bruises as early as a June 4 festival gig in Bologna, Italy, however, based on the evidence available. The band's publicist declined to comment on the incident.

Provided Brock's surgery went as planned and barring any further incidents, Modest Mouse will resume their European tour June 19 in Luxembourg.

Dates (with rescheduled dates in bold):

06-11 Cologne, Germany - Live Music Hall
06-13 Copenhagen, Denmark - Vega
06-14 London, England - O2 Wireless Festival
06-16 Interlaken/Schweiz, Switzerland - Greenfields Festival
06-17 Nickelsdorf, Austria - Nova Rock Festival
06-19 Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Kulturfabrik
06-20 Paris, France - Elysée Montmertre
06-22 Glastonbury, England - Glastonbury Festival
06-23 Scheeßel, Germany - Hurricane Festival
06-24 Neuhausen ob Eck, Germany - Southside Festival
06-26 Aarhus, Denmark - Voxhall
06-28 Gothenburg, Sweden - Accelerator Festival
06-29 Stockholm, Sweden - Accelerator Festival
06-30 Arendal, Norway - Hove Festival
07-02 Copenhagen, Denmark - Vega
07-03 Cologne, Germany - Live Music Hall
07-04 Frankfurt, Germany - Batchkapp
08-01 Morrison, CO - Red Rocks Amphitheatre *#
08-03 Kansas City, MO - City Market *#
08-04 Washington, DC - Virgin Festival
08-05 Chicago, IL - Grant Park (Lollapalooza)
08-08 New York, NY - Keyspan Park *#!
08-11 Tokyo, Japan - Summer Sonic Festival
08-12 Osaka, Japan - Summer Sonic Festival
08-15 Columbus, OH - LC Amphitheater *#
08-16 Cleveland, OH - Warner Cable Amphitheatre *#
08-17 Northampton, MA - Pines Theater #
08-18 Mansfield, MA - Tweeter Center (Download Festival) *
08-19 Philadelphia, PA - Festival Pier *#
08-21 Louisville, KY - Louisville Gardens
08-22 Nashville, TN - Ryman Auditorium
08-25 George, WA - Gorge Amphitheatre (Download Festival)
08-27 Troutdale, OR - Edgefield
09-01 Stradbally, Ireland - Electric Picnic
09-02 Argyll, Scotland, England - Connect Festival

* with Band of Horses
# with Love as Laughter
! with Clipse