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This is totally crazy! Usually we hear about a drummer or bassist dying in a band - but the entire band dying at once is almost unheard of! That is exactly what happened to young British band Viola Beach as they plunged to their deaths by driving off an open bridge in Sweden on Saturday. The band was in the country on their first (and last) overseas gig took place last Friday at the Where’s the Music? festival in Norrköping, Sweden.
Four band members, plus their manager died: Kristian Leonard, 20; River Reeves, 19; Tomas Lowe, 27, Jack Dakin, 19; Craig Tarry, 32.
According to telegraph.co.uk, there was a little snow earlier in the day... but, personally speaking, if I was in a foreign place (with Swedish signage), I could have mistakenly done the same thing.
Excerpt from their publicist:
For updated list, head over to Musicians who died in 2016.
February (31)
[15 Feb 2016] Vanity (Vanity 6), 57, sclerosing encapsulating peritonitis
[15 Feb 2016] Joey Floyd (Toby Keith's Easy Money Band), 54, cancer
[14 Feb 2016] L. C. Ulmer, 87, natural causes
[14 Feb 2016] Anselmo López, 81, not given
[13 Feb 2016] Viola Beach (Entire band, plus manager: Kristian Leonard, 20; River Reeves, 19; Tomas Lowe, 27, Jack Dakin, 19; Craig Tarry, 32), 19-32, accidentally driving off bridge
[13 Feb 2016] Robin Ghosh, 76, respiratory failure
[12 Feb 2016] Gene Stuart (The Mighty Avons, The Homesteaders), 72, long illness
[11 Feb 2016] Kim Williams, 68, not given
[09 Feb 2016] Hillary Lukyamuzi (aka New Testament), 24, killed by Police car
[08 Feb 2016] Ray Dunne (Armagh Rhymers), 34, tragic circumstances
[07 Feb 2016] Rick Wright (Connie Smith's backup band The Sundowners), 57, car accident
[07 Feb 2016] Berre Bergen (The Scabs), 53, protracted emphysema
[06 Feb 2016] Gilles Brown, 73, not given
[06 Feb 2016] Sam Spence (NFL Films), 88, ill health
[06 Feb 2016] Dan Hicks (Hot Licks), 74, liver cancer
[06 Feb 2016] Eddy Wally, 83, cerebral hemorrhage
[06 Feb 2016] Shan Johnson, 29, cardiac arrest
[06 Feb 2016] Gaby Shoshan, 66, unknown
[05 Feb 2016] Mikey Clement (Valleys), 23, car accident
[04 Feb 2016] Maurice White (Earth, Wind and Fire), 74, Parkinson's Disease
[04 Feb 2016] Joe Dowell, 76, heart attack
[03 Feb 2016] Alba Solís, 88, unknown
[03 Feb 2016] DJ Big Kap, 45, heart attack
[02 Feb 2016] Steve ‘Tregenda’ Childers (Black Witchery), 49, car accident
[01 Feb 2016] Robert Hamlett (The Fairfield Four), 84, unknown
[01 Feb 2016] Jon Bunch (Sense Field), 45, unknown
[01 Feb 2016] Jim Reeves (Sqeezer), 47, murdered
Read more: Musicians who died in 2015.
Four band members, plus their manager died: Kristian Leonard, 20; River Reeves, 19; Tomas Lowe, 27, Jack Dakin, 19; Craig Tarry, 32.
According to telegraph.co.uk, there was a little snow earlier in the day... but, personally speaking, if I was in a foreign place (with Swedish signage), I could have mistakenly done the same thing.
Excerpt from their publicist:
They were a truly great team of young men and about to the take on the world together. The four piece recently put out their second single 'Boys That Sing' on the 22nd of January on Communion Records.
All proceeds made from the single will be donated from Communion Records to the band and Craig’s families.
Communion Records: Viola Beach had only recently come into the Communion family, and had everything going for them – great songs, passion, talent, drive… everything that a band should have. To sit down with the band was to sit down with a group of guys whose band you wanted to be in, and to be in the presence of a band who knew just what it would take to make it. This is why the band had been in Sweden, rather than sit back and wait for it to happen to them, Kris, River, Jack and Tom were determined to go out into the world and play every show they could until the world was singing along with them, and now that dream has been sadly taken away from all of us. Equally, Craig, their manager was possessed by a passion to help the band achieve everything they wanted to, and to speak with Craig about Viola Beach, and music in general was an absolute pleasure – you knew he was doing it all for the right reasons. Everyone here at Communion is in a state of total shock and sorrow, and our thoughts go out to the families and friends of Craig and the band.
Truly shocking and sad.
All proceeds made from the single will be donated from Communion Records to the band and Craig’s families.
Communion Records: Viola Beach had only recently come into the Communion family, and had everything going for them – great songs, passion, talent, drive… everything that a band should have. To sit down with the band was to sit down with a group of guys whose band you wanted to be in, and to be in the presence of a band who knew just what it would take to make it. This is why the band had been in Sweden, rather than sit back and wait for it to happen to them, Kris, River, Jack and Tom were determined to go out into the world and play every show they could until the world was singing along with them, and now that dream has been sadly taken away from all of us. Equally, Craig, their manager was possessed by a passion to help the band achieve everything they wanted to, and to speak with Craig about Viola Beach, and music in general was an absolute pleasure – you knew he was doing it all for the right reasons. Everyone here at Communion is in a state of total shock and sorrow, and our thoughts go out to the families and friends of Craig and the band.
For updated list, head over to Musicians who died in 2016.
February (31)
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