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PRIMAL Scream frontman Bobby Gillespie is being flown home to the UK by air ambulance today.

The singer cracked a vertebrae and split his head open last week after falling seven-foot from a speaker stack while on stage at the Caribana festival in Crans-près-Céligny, Switzerland.

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Doctors have ordered complete bed-rest for the singer who is unable to travel by a scheduled airline due to his injuries.

Having been forced to cancel the show after 40 minutes following the Swiss concert – which led to the singer being stretchered from the festival site – Primal Scream are expected to announce the cancellation of a number of live concert appearances in June as he recouperates.

The band had been due to play shows in Spain, Ireland and France in the coming weeks.

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The band’s shows at Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Bandstand on August 11 and Electric Fields at Drumlanrig Castle in Dumfries & Galloway, taking place, on August 26 and 27, are likely to be unaffected.

The 53-year old has been ordered to remain flat on his back while he recovers from the fall.

His injuries are not said to be life-threatening.