Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders has revealed how recording new album AM was almost derailed when he split a bone after punching a wall while drunk.

Helders was fitted with a metal plate in his hand after the incident, which took place while the band were recording their chart-topping album, AM. He had previously refused to reveal the reason behind the injury, but has now opened up in a new interview with Q Magazine.

"It wasn't a fist fight with a person, no," says Helders. "I didn't hurt anybody, except for myself. It was... a bizarre incident... with a wall... that was harder than I expected... The next day I did (feel like a fool)... It was just me being stupid."

"I weren't (sic) even that angry, cos (sic) I'm not an angry person. I was just messing about, drunk. Everyone I've told said, 'We've all done it.' I just managed to hit the wrong wall. The bone popped out - not out of the skin but it was stuck up. I went to my girlfriend, 'I think we need to go to hospital.' They put a plate in it. I'm having it taken out at Christmas."

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The band's frontman suggested Helders may not have been telling the whole truth however, saying in the same interview: ""Oh, is that what he told you? Yeah, he's been telling some people that."

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