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This weekend is the 10th anniversary of the deaths of the 4 band members Kris Leonard, River Reeves, Tomas Lowe and Jack Dakin along with their manager Craig Tarry, in a tragic road accident whilst on tour in Sweden. The band were from my hometown of Warrington, where a new tribute has been created in the town centre, of a ā€˜V’ made from rainbow umbrellas.

RIP šŸ’”šŸ˜¢

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  • Suedehead2
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    They had such tremendous promise. They took a brief break from supporting Blossoms on tour to go to Sweden. Shortly after the accident happened, I went to see Blossoms on that tour and they played a r

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    10th Anniversay vinyl confirmed for 5th June https://violabeach.tmstor.es/product/viola-beach-picture-disc-repress-lp-picture-disc

  • RIP. 😢 I remember reading about this when the news story broke. Utterly devastating!

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Yes aside from the horrendous human tragedy, they were a fantastically promising band and of course had a posthumous number 1 album. They were very well regarded locally. It hit our whole community very hard, one of the boys went to the same 6th form college as my daughter.

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They had such tremendous promise. They took a brief break from supporting Blossoms on tour to go to Sweden. Shortly after the accident happened, I went to see Blossoms on that tour and they played a recording of a Viola Beach set at the time they would have played sad

I never knew about them until I saw this on the news. I can't believe it's been 10 years already. RIP.

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