Pukkelpop is for the moment the biggest pop festival in Belgium.

The Anniversary Edition of Pukkelpop is overshadowed by an second fatal incident. Charles Haddon, the lead singer of British group Où Est Le Swimming Pool is Friday night in the parking lot of the festival committed suicide.

The news was Friday provided by a visible very excited Chokri Mahassine at a hastily convened press conference. The family of the deceased artist has since been informed, as did the attorney and organizer of Hasselt known.

Friday night there was confusion about the identity of the group. It was not clear whether the keyboardist / singer was or frontmanzanger. The organization of Pukkelpop could not confirm who it was.

Saturday communicates the organization even further. But it would certainly go for the blond frontman after the concert in the audience and not jump to the brown-haired band member Joel Hutchinson, as previously reported.

Jumped into the audience

Où est le swimming pool had "Dance the way I feel like a solid discotheekhit address. The remixes of the song to beat. In the early afternoon gave the 22-year-old Haddon tasted an appearance in the Dance Hall.

The gig ended in a minor key when Haddon after the last track, "Dance the way I feel, in the audience jump. He landed roughly on a girl who was carried off with an ambulance.

The group members were so good on the card and had the friend of the victim is asked to contact the appropriate compensation if required to regulate.

It is not clear whether there is a connection with the accident of the afternoon. But Haddon was clearly moved and felt guilty after the incident.

Où Est Le Swimming Pool was just a steep climb career started. The concert of the group is fully booked until mid-October. A statement by the group is not there yet.

Previously fatal incident

Thursday night was when the first fatal incident. The 60-year-old Michael Been, singer of The Call and the father of bassist Robert Been of the American rock band Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, is deceased. The father was also the sound group of his son.

A few hours after the onset of his son backstage he was unwell and was in cardiac arrest. Emergency services, such as the Flemish Cross and the present mugteam, reacted very quickly and immediately began the resuscitation. The man was still at the Hasselt Salvator Hospital transferred, but he died.

Source: VRT