Sunday 22 August 2010

Fan dies Swell Season concert

What the hell is going on lately? First, on Wednesday night an unidentified man was critically injured at Jones Beach Theatre in New York when he fell 25 feet from a balcony at a Phish show. Then, last night a person jumped to his death, in an apparent suicide, at a Swell Season show at the Mountain Winery in Saratoga, Calif.

According to SF Weekly’s blog, “Several who were at the concert tell All Shook Down that the man climbed up onto the roof from the side of the building, then sprinted and stumbled to the top before jumping off as the band was finishing a song. He fell approximately three stories, possibly through lighting rigging, then landed on a speaker on the stage less than three feet from Swell Season vocalist/songwriter Glen Hansard.”

Hansard apparently walked over to the man, and when he realized what had happened, him and his bandmate, Marketa Irglova, left the stage. A doctor who was in the audience apparently tried to revive the man with CPR but he was pronounced dead at the venue. The band released this statement: “The band, crew and all involved with them are shocked and saddened by the unfortunate events of last night. Their hearts go out to the victim and his friends and family.”
by:Jonah Bayer

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