Music Festival of Death

[sglowrider]

Charles Haddon Dead: Suicide During Ou Est Le Swimming Pool Concert
| 08/21/10 12:30 PM |


BRUSSELS — The lead singer of a British pop trio climbed a telecommunications mast behind the main stage at a Belgian rock festival and leaped to his death in the parking lot below, police said Saturday.

Twenty-two-year-old Charles Haddon of Ou Est Le Swimming Pool died late Friday during the Pukkelpop festival in Hasselt, a town in eastern Belgium. District attorney Marc Rubens said police were treating the death as a suicide.

Festival organizers said Haddon's family has been notified.

On Thursday, Michael Been, frontman for the U.S. group The Call, died of an apparent heart attack at the same festival. The 60-year-old was working as the soundman for his son's band, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club.

 

[VeevaVee]

That's pretty random to say the least.
Love their song 'Dance the Way I Feel'.

RIP.

 

[Pexbo]

Don't want to be the internet police in a respectful thread but I've given my words here:

https://www.redcafe.net/f27/charles-haddon-rip-306538/

Lead singer of electropop group Ou Est Le Swimming Pool commited suicide last night, jumping off a telecomunications mast behind the main stage at Pukkelpop Festival, Belgium, where they had been performing this weekend.

Terrible loss of a young life, only 22, and a very talented musician.

I had the pleasure of seeing them earlier this year at an event on a clifftop in Cornwall and they were fantastic.

Thoughts with his Family, Bandmates and Friends.

 

[Mr Chutney]

Shit

RIP

 

[Zebs]

Terribly sad.

Wasn't there a similar suicide at a Swell Season gig last week. A man jumped from above the stage, landing on it and dying. Very sad.

RIP