THE guitarist of Warrnambool band Crossfire Hurricane has lived up to his band's name by getting accidentally shot in the finger.
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Daniel Unwin, who grew up in Cobden, recently moved from Warrnambool to Melbourne to pursue his music career, taking up a job with a removalist company to support himself. On Tuesday, on just his third shift, the guitarist was shot in the finger and rushed to hospital.
“I was on my last job of the day and we were moving a wardrobe,” he said.
“The fella who I was working with pulled the gun off the top of the wardrobe and said ‘if this hit you in the head it would hurt’. I said ‘give it to me’ and as I held it, it just went off.”
Royal Melbourne Hospital surgeons operated on his finger on Wednesday morning.
“I was quite lucky – it missed the bone and missed the tendon and went straight through,” he said.
The injury will keep Unwin and his band Crossfire Hurricane out of action for a couple of weeks, but he said he hoped to be ready in time for the launch of their first vinyl single in September.
