The Huffington Post reported:
A man jumped at least 20 feet to his death onto the stage of a Northern California concert in front of hundreds of horrified music fans, the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office said Friday.
The Swell Season was playing an outdoor show at the Mountain Winery in Saratoga in front of a crowd of about 1,900 when the jump happened Thursday night.
Sheriff's spokesman Sgt. Rick Sung says authorities are treating the death as a suicide. Sung said the man's identity will not be released.
Sung says the man left a friend in the audience around 10 p.m. and soon appeared on a roof that covers the stage. Witnesses say he jumped off the roof and landed on stage near the band's lead singer, Glen Hansard.
Witnesses said Hansard removed his guitar and walked over to the man's body.
The jumper was pronounced dead by a doctor in attendance who spent an hour trying to revive him.
So, what the hell? I guess if someone is that fucked up either emotionally or on drugs, it is irrelevant where they decide to off themselves but I guarantee there were loads of kids at this show (there were in Portland) and come on - The Swell Season? Not exactly music you want to kill yourself to.
Suicide is so selfish but in this and all other cases it outa be private too. Why do this in front of thousands of people trying to have a nice evening? Bullshit.
The person who posted the below video on YouTube wrote: I filmed this about two minutes before a man jumped from the roof behind the stage and killed himself. I hope it conveys some of the intense beauty of The Swell Season's music and the type of evening that was taking place when it ended abruptly with a thud as the man hit the stage roughly where the violinist is standing in this video. It went from such an emotional high to a tragic low in an instant.
Oh and the song they were about to go into? Falling Slowly, from the movie Once. Bizzaro...
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I heard about this via Glen's twitter. Creepy. I almost went to the Portland show. Was it good, despite the band's potential trauma?
~Dan
Hey Dan - yes, it was top notch as usual. Perhaps a little shorter than other of their shows I have seen but that I am sure was due to Zoo curfew. The animals do need their beauty sleep after all.
I had no idea anything had happened until yesterday. They did not say anything onstage, nor did I feel the show was down at all. And maybe most suprisingly, I did not hear any audience members talking about it.
Salutations buddy!!
I just wanted to say that I think you’re super considerate for saying “suicide is so selfish” and that everyone who does commit suicide is a selfish dickhead. Oh wait, wrong person. I think you are the SCUM of the earth you disgusting buffoon. There was no law saying that you had to explain your inconsiderate, stupid, and downright false opinion to everyone, but you did anyway. No one asked you to, no one cared about your opinion, and you gained absolutely no benefits from saying this. In fact, you are literally just making the situation worse. You know what calling suicidal people “selfish dickheads” would do? It would mean you are literally being an asshat to someone that is already struggling, causing even MORE suicides! Are you still happy about what you’ve done? Ah, so you haven’t changed one bit, haven’t you? Well, I guess that’s a given. You can’t really change someone’s mind about something if they don’t even have a mind to begin with. Well, I don’t have time to correct idiots like you, I have schoolwork to get back to. But just wanted to say . . . You’re the literal SCUM OF THE EARTH and I hope you die in a hole with no one except a empty fur suit and a sea of face-up legos attending you’re funeral, you selfish dickhead ; ).
Well, toodles!
- a random, rightfully pissed off person researching lost media
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