Drill mishap upsets ‘Sanchez’ tour
Fans of TV series Dirty Sanchez will not be surprised to hear their live tour has been cancelled after a group member put a drill through his hand.
The only shock is that he did it accidentally rather than on purpose.
Imagine three reckless Welshmen and a Londoner all but torturing themselves and you have the programme format.
The accident happened as a 25-year-old known to admirers as Pritchard was filming a new series of the MTV and Channel 4 show.
He was using a high-speed electric drill when it slipped and went straight through his left hand.
The accident, described as “pretty horrific”, meant he needed emergency surgery at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff.
The group were due to perform a live “homecoming” show at Cardiff University students’ union on Wednesday but had to cancel it and three other shows as a result of the accident.
They have now rescheduled the Cardiff date for 14 March 2005.
The four – Welsh trio Matthew Pritchard, Lee Dainton, Pancho (Mike Locke) and Londoner Dan Joyce – have become required viewing through their extreme stunt shows, which air on MTV and Channel 4.
They started out as extreme skateboarders but developed into increasingly more outrageous pranksters, in the same vein as the US TV show Jackass.
Nettles
Some of their eye-watering, cringe-making stunts, all captured on camera, have included sandpapering their backsides until they bleed, nailing sensitive parts of their bodies to wood and jumping naked into nettles.
The quartet genuinely seem to enjoy their wincingly painful exploits, which perhaps explains the attraction of the show to the non-sadists among us.
The remaining – and so far uninjured – trio decided against starting the tour without Pritchard.
Dainton issued a general apology to fans deprived of the full-frontal Dirty Sanchez experience in the (tortured) flesh.
But he explained: “We felt it wouldn’t be the same without him.
“It would be like the Rolling Stones without Jagger.”
