{"id":7545,"date":"2024-08-14T07:45:01","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T07:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/bicep-member-matt-mcbriar-reveals-tumour-surgery\/"},"modified":"2024-08-14T07:45:01","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T07:45:01","slug":"bicep-member-matt-mcbriar-reveals-tumour-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/bicep-member-matt-mcbriar-reveals-tumour-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Bicep member Matt McBriar reveals tumour surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Matt McBriar said the surgery had gone well<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Matt McBriar, one half of dance music duo Bicep, has announced he is receiving treatment for a \u201clarge and pretty rare\u201d brain tumour.<\/p>\n

The Belfast-born producer posted about his condition on his Instagram account<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He said a non-cancerous tumour had been found on his pituitary gland in his brain.<\/p>\n

He said he had surgery on 9 August, that it had gone well and he was recovering in hospital.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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McBriar with the other half of Bicep, Andrew Ferguson, at the 2021 Brit Awards<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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“Towards the end of 2023, I got some intense localised headaches matched with a weird fatigue that felt new,” McBriar said.<\/p>\n

“I got several blood tests in spring 2024 which came back indicating that something was wrong, so my GP arranged an MRI followed by a CT scan.”<\/p>\n

He said it was at this stage the craniopharyngioma tumour was discovered.<\/p>\n

“The good news is firstly, it\u2019s almost certainly not cancerous and secondly, I\u2019ve caught it in the earlier stages of damage,” he added. <\/p>\n

“I\u2019d been very lucky to get those initial blood tests followed by an MRI. <\/p>\n

“Had it been much longer I might\u2019ve lost some eyesight and a load of other problems due to the size and position of the tumour pressing on my optic nerves.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The duo performing at Coachella festival in California in 2017<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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He said he had “decided to carry on living life and playing shows as normal and it was personally important to keep my mind busy” during the initial treatment.<\/p>\n

He said the post-surgery recovery would take six to eight weeks “and a long road of aftercare but I\u2019m feeling incredibly grateful and lucky”.<\/p>\n

Belfast-born\/London-based duo Bicep – McBriar and Andy Ferguson – are childhood friends who bonded over a shared love of dance music.<\/p>\n

They have been gigging and playing live for more than a decade, and have become one of the biggest names in both underground and mainstream dance music.<\/p>\n

McBriar said Ferguson would continue performing upcoming shows as Bicep solo until further notice.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n