If you're going to get your nose broken, at least get it broken during a basketball game between Pearl Jam and Arcade Fire. And then thank them very much for breaking your nose.

If you're going to get your nose broken, at least get it broken during a basketball game between Pearl Jam and Arcade Fire. And then thank them very much for breaking your nose.

That's exactly what happened to music fan Sherif Hassan's nose, which he claims was broken during particularly rowdy basketball game between Pearl Jam's Jeff Ament and Arcade Fire's Win Butler at Australia's Big Day Out Festival.

In interview with Triple J Radio, Sherif said that Jeff Ament was "aggressive" during the game and that "he broke my nose," perhaps slightly underplaying the fact that a member of Pearl Jam touched him. On the face.

"It was actually the last play of the game," he said. "All I heard was Win [Butler] going off about how the rules are rubbish down here, and throwing balls around and chucking a bit of a hissy fit."

It's unclear which world-famous musician broke his face, and with what. In our wildest dreams, we're imagining that Jeff and Win delt an epic high-five to each other on the court after scoring the winning basket, and Sherif's nose was just kind of in the way of their hands.

But Sherif's really good day didn't end there; in exchange for his face being met with Jeff Ament's fist, the rest of him got to go backstage at the festival and meet Lorde, Major Lazer, and Mac Miller in exchange for his injury. "Eddie Vedder gave me a shout out," he added. Worth it.