Throw the Fight announced today via their myspace blog that singer James Clark has been diagnosed with testicular cancer.  Below is the official statement from the band:

Hello everyone,

Sad news in the Throw The Fight camp today. We just learned a couple days ago that our vocalist, James, has been diagnosed with testicular cancer.  He will be having surgery this coming Thursday and there is a period of 2 weeks where he will have to recover.

Since our show in Superior Wisconsin on June 20th falls in this 2 week window, we are going to have to back out of the show. At this point we are not sure if James will have to have radiation or chemotherapy after so it is possible that more dates will have to be canceled as time goes on.

The worst part is that James is currently living without health insurance and medical bills are expected to be well over $50,000.

It is possible that we will be setting up a benefit show for james in the next couple months. We will keep everyone posted with details of that if it happens.

If anyone was thinking of buying a shirt or cd lately, now would be a great time to do that. We will be giving the majority of all the money the band makes to James to help cover his costs. Thank you for all of your support!!

THROW THE FIGHT’S ONLINE STORE

We will be posting a video update in the next week. Stay

tuned for that.

Throw The Fight (James, Ryan, Cory, Aaron, Joey)

(Throw the Fight Myspace Blog)

Throw the Fight is one of Minnesota’s premier hard rock bands, and Borangutan’s hopeful thoughts go out to James’ family and friends during this difficult time.

Below is a short film by Throw the Fight, promoting their last album release In Pursuit of Tomorrow.  If you have time (and a myspace account), swing by the bands myspace page and verbalize your fond support.

Links

Throw the Fight – Website / Myspace

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posted June 8th, 2009 at 3:07 pm Music News Throw the Fight