Beez of the Smugglers suffers heart attack!

Smugglers bassist and Beauticians lead singer Kevin
Beesley-Hammond, known to many simply as "Beez", suffered a
heart attack on the afternoon of Saturday June 4, 2005. He is
expected to make a full recovery. Beez had just gotten off the ice
at the North Shore Ice Sports arena in North Vancouver BC,
having just played a hockey game with his team the Vancouver
Flying Vees. While seated in the locker room with the rest of his
teammates, Beez complained that he was feeling abnormal pain
and numbness in his arms and chest. Luckily, the Vees have a
doctor on their roster ("Flowin'" Kevin Rowan) who immediately
noticed tell-tale heart attack warning signs. Smugglers
bandmate and Vees teammate Grant Lawrence called 911, and
soon Beez was under the attention of six paramedics and
firemen on the floor of the locker room. Beez was adminstered
oxygen and nitroglycerin, and once stablized, was rushed by
ambulance to the Emergency Room of Lion's Gate Hospital.
Shortly thereafter, Beez was transferred to Saint Paul's Hospital
in downtown Vancouver for a surgical angiograph, which
revealed 100% blockage of an artery that creates blood flow to
the arms and shoulders. The blockage was removed, and a
titanium stent was surgically inserted to permanently keep the
artery open. Beez was then tranferred back to Lion's Gate
Hospital where is currently recovering. While still a little shocked
at what exactly went down, Beez is in fine spirits and is "feeling
great". He'll be taking a couple of weeks off and expects to be
back at work at Mint Records soon... For those who didn't know, Beez
recently
became a co-owner of Mint Records.

For the record, the Flying Vees won the game 6-3.

You can get in touch with Beez c/o Mint Records

Mint Records
PO Box 3613
Vancouver, BC
V6B 3Y6