There is a benefit show taking place on Sunday May 16th at Cats Cradle in Carrboro NC to help defray the medical bills of Michael Triplett of Fin Fang Foom / Go! Rehearsals. Bands playing include Q And Not U, Engine Down, Cub Country and Cheers to No Tomorrow (Mike G and Eddy from Fin Fang Foom). The event will be hosted by Jon Wurster of Superchunk.

You can find updates on Mike's condition at Lovitt Records, or head to the band's site for a detailed update from Mike himself. In short: on February 11th the guitarist was was admitted to hospital for an unknown illness, originally thought to be spinal meningitis. After numerous tests and inconclusive examinations the final illness was reported as aseptic meningitis, encephalitis, aspiration pneumonia, collapse lung, and neuropathy. Mike went into a coma after 3 weeks of these tests and awoke paralyzed from the waist down and partially paralyzed in his upper body from the neuropathy and the atrophy of lying in a bed for 21 days. He is currently out of the hospital an working though rehab in Florida. In his last update Mike said he was currently walking with a cane and vows a return to rock someday soon.

For those of you that can't make it out and wish to make donations, you can do so via Paypal using the email address michaeltriplett@earthlink.net.