UK band Viola Beach killed in Sweden, The four associates of British indie bandage Viola Beach and their administrator accept died in a car blast in Sweden.
Kris Leonard, River Reeves, Tomas Lowe and Jack Dakin and administrator Craig Tarry were dead if their car plunged added than 25m (82ft) from a artery arch into a canal.
The blow happened in the aboriginal hours of Saturday abreast Stockholm.
BBC Radio 1's Huw Stephens said the Warrington bandage had toured with bigger bands and were "incredibly promising".
"We can affirm that 5 British nationals died in a car blow in Sweden on February 13," the Foreign Office said.
"We are in acquaintance with bounded authorities and acknowledging the families at this actual difficult time."
'Swings and Waterslides'
The bandage were allotment of the agency for Swedish music anniversary Where is the Music? on Friday and were due to play a gig in Guildford in Surrey on Saturday.
The Boiler Room - the Guildford area they were due to play - said it was "saddened and devastated" to apprentice of the baleful crash.
Blossoms, the bandage which was meant to be headlining the gig, tweeted: "Absolutely devastated for the accident of Viola Beach and Craig Tarry. Our thoughts are with their accompany and families."
Viola Beach appear their admission individual Swings & Waterslides endure year and had featured on BBC Introducing, which showcases advancing music artists.
The four piece's endure column on Facebook was on 2 February, if they wrote about arena a gig in the US next month.
Tributes accept been cloudburst in for the band.
Music apostle Dave Pichilingi appointed the bandage for the Liverpool Sound City anniversary endure year and they were appointed to play afresh this year.
They were a "hungry, energetic, amazing" bandage who "were on the border of abundant things", he said.
BBC Radio Merseyside presenter Dave Monks, who was a part of the aboriginal to play their music on air, said they were "great guys" who had "so abundant traveling for them".
Lee Harman, editor of the Warrington Music website WAM who knew the band, said they were "very dedicated" and had a "real affection for what they were doing".
Travis advance accompanist Fran Healy tweeted: "So sad. @Viola_Beach :("
Ross Jarman, from The Cribs, tweeted: "Heart goes out to the Viola Beach guys and their families."
Indie bedrock band, The Enemy, tweeted: "RIP Viola Beach and their manager. Such abundantly adverse and sad news. Thought with the accompany and families of all complex x"
Viola Beach
Four-piece bandage from Warrington, Cheshire
Kris Leonard - guitar, advance vocal; River Reeves - guitar; Tomas Lowe - bass; Jack Dakin - drums
Officially formed in May 2015
Released admission individual Swings & Waterslides endure year
Played several BBC Introducing Sessions
Performed at Reading and Leeds Anniversary in 2015
Swedish badge said they accustomed a alarm about 02:30 bounded time (01:30 GMT) and were on the arena aural 5 minutes.
They said defined recovered the bodies of the victims - age-old amid 20 and 35 - afterwards their Nissan Qashqai plunged through a gap in the arch which had opened to let a baiter canyon underneath.
The arch has a average area that rises anon upwards after tilting, abrogation a gap that the car collection into, the badge said.
A barrier afore the aperture has aflame lights and admonishing signs, the administrator administration the case said, and added drivers were cat-and-mouse abaft the barrier.
Inspector Martin Bergholm said: "For some reason, the car collection through the barriers and comatose down into the canal.
"The assemblage just saw a car beside them and affectionate of disappear."
Eyewitness Jonny Alexandersson told the BBC he was cat-and-mouse for the arch to go down if he saw a car advancing actual fast on the larboard side.
"It was actual tight," he said. "They anesthetized me and in foreground of me was a auto and the car burst the ancillary of this car and again they go in the barrier, again I don't see annihilation added of the car, the lights were gone."
Kris Leonard, River Reeves, Tomas Lowe and Jack Dakin and administrator Craig Tarry were dead if their car plunged added than 25m (82ft) from a artery arch into a canal.
The blow happened in the aboriginal hours of Saturday abreast Stockholm.
BBC Radio 1's Huw Stephens said the Warrington bandage had toured with bigger bands and were "incredibly promising".
"We can affirm that 5 British nationals died in a car blow in Sweden on February 13," the Foreign Office said.
"We are in acquaintance with bounded authorities and acknowledging the families at this actual difficult time."
'Swings and Waterslides'
The bandage were allotment of the agency for Swedish music anniversary Where is the Music? on Friday and were due to play a gig in Guildford in Surrey on Saturday.
The Boiler Room - the Guildford area they were due to play - said it was "saddened and devastated" to apprentice of the baleful crash.
Blossoms, the bandage which was meant to be headlining the gig, tweeted: "Absolutely devastated for the accident of Viola Beach and Craig Tarry. Our thoughts are with their accompany and families."
Viola Beach appear their admission individual Swings & Waterslides endure year and had featured on BBC Introducing, which showcases advancing music artists.
The four piece's endure column on Facebook was on 2 February, if they wrote about arena a gig in the US next month.
Tributes accept been cloudburst in for the band.
Music apostle Dave Pichilingi appointed the bandage for the Liverpool Sound City anniversary endure year and they were appointed to play afresh this year.
They were a "hungry, energetic, amazing" bandage who "were on the border of abundant things", he said.
BBC Radio Merseyside presenter Dave Monks, who was a part of the aboriginal to play their music on air, said they were "great guys" who had "so abundant traveling for them".
Lee Harman, editor of the Warrington Music website WAM who knew the band, said they were "very dedicated" and had a "real affection for what they were doing".
Travis advance accompanist Fran Healy tweeted: "So sad. @Viola_Beach :("
Ross Jarman, from The Cribs, tweeted: "Heart goes out to the Viola Beach guys and their families."
Indie bedrock band, The Enemy, tweeted: "RIP Viola Beach and their manager. Such abundantly adverse and sad news. Thought with the accompany and families of all complex x"
Viola Beach
Four-piece bandage from Warrington, Cheshire
Kris Leonard - guitar, advance vocal; River Reeves - guitar; Tomas Lowe - bass; Jack Dakin - drums
Officially formed in May 2015
Released admission individual Swings & Waterslides endure year
Played several BBC Introducing Sessions
Performed at Reading and Leeds Anniversary in 2015
Swedish badge said they accustomed a alarm about 02:30 bounded time (01:30 GMT) and were on the arena aural 5 minutes.
They said defined recovered the bodies of the victims - age-old amid 20 and 35 - afterwards their Nissan Qashqai plunged through a gap in the arch which had opened to let a baiter canyon underneath.
The arch has a average area that rises anon upwards after tilting, abrogation a gap that the car collection into, the badge said.
A barrier afore the aperture has aflame lights and admonishing signs, the administrator administration the case said, and added drivers were cat-and-mouse abaft the barrier.
Inspector Martin Bergholm said: "For some reason, the car collection through the barriers and comatose down into the canal.
"The assemblage just saw a car beside them and affectionate of disappear."
Eyewitness Jonny Alexandersson told the BBC he was cat-and-mouse for the arch to go down if he saw a car advancing actual fast on the larboard side.
"It was actual tight," he said. "They anesthetized me and in foreground of me was a auto and the car burst the ancillary of this car and again they go in the barrier, again I don't see annihilation added of the car, the lights were gone."
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