There’s tragic news from Saratoga in California where a man committed suicide last night at a Swell Season gig.
According to eyewitnesses relayed to Hot Press, the concertgoer who’s yet to be named crashed through the lighting-rig landing just a foot away from Glen Hansard as he played.
Reports the San Jose Mercury newspaper: “At about 10 p.m., lead singer Glen Hansard had just finished a song and was bantering with the crowd, poking fun at a guitar player in his band when witnesses say a man suddenly jumped off the roof near the lighting rig.
“‘I saw him standing there on the edge of the roof, I thought it was a part of the act, and then he took off running and jumped, did a couple of flips and landed on the stage,’ said Kyle Rivers, who attended the concert with his wife. ‘It was pretty traumatic.’
“Witnesses said that after the man hit the stage, Hansard put down his guitar and walked over to the body while several others, including doctors in attendance, tried to revive him. Sheriff's authorities and paramedics later rushed the area while concertgoers were left shaken, many of them crying, witnesses said.
"’It was intense,’ Rivers said, ‘and pretty horrible.’”