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A man committed suicide at a concert by the band Swell Season at Mountain Winery in Saratoga, California last night. The unidentified man reportedly climbed to the top of the roof of a building behind the stage and jumped off, landing a few feet from band frontman Glen Hansard. Ironically, Swell Season are best known for their Academy Award-winning single “Falling Slowly.”
One audience member writes:
“Glen was just finishing a little song that one of his band members had made up. The crowd was singing along with him and he was looking for the band member as we finished singing along. I just happened to look up and I saw this guy falling from the top of the roof on the right side of the building behind the stage. He landed about 3 feet to the left of Glen on a speaker and he was motionless, like a rag doll. It was about 10pm. At first there was a split moment where everyone was like, what is going on and then people started to scramble to help. They did CPR. The show stopped immediately. The crowd was in shock, but pretty cooperative exiting the venue.”
Read more on this unfortunate story here.
Update: The band writes in a statement on their website, “The band, crew and all involved with them are shocked and saddened by the unfortunate events of last night. Our hearts go out to the victim … and to his friends and family.”
were they that bad?