First fatal stage dive by a musician

Bad Beat Revue frontman Patrick Sherry (UK) died of “unsurvivable” head injuries after jumping from the stage at the Warehouse club in Leeds, UK, on 20 July 2005. The charismatic 29-year-old vocalist fractured his skull when he plunged head-first from a lighting gantry while performing the closing track of the Club NME show. At Belgium’s Pukkelpop music festival on 20 August 2010, Ou Est Le Swimming Pool vocalist Charles Haddon (UK), 22, committed suicide after fearing he’d crippled a girl who sustained serious back and leg injuries when he dived off the stage at the conclusion of his band’s set. An inquest revealed that Haddon had died as a result of hanging. Initial reports suggested he had jumped from a telecommunications mast on the festival site. Note: some of this information was initially included in a new paragraph as part of the record text under the heading worst stage-diving incidents but it perhaps should not be published given the sensitive nature of the information and the fact that Haddon’s death, although widely believed to be as a result of his ill-fated stage dive, was in different circumstances to Sherry’s.