All members of the promising UK band Viola Beach have sadly passed away on the 13th of February. The group consisting of Jack Dakin, Kris Leonard, Tomas Lowe and River Reeves, along with their manager Craig Tarry, died after their vehicle drove off of a bridge, falling into a canal whilst driving through Sodertalje, Sweden.

Viola Beach had performed at the Where’s the Music? Festival in Norrkoping, Sweden on Friday, February 12th.

Releasing their ‘Swings & Waterslides’ in 2015, with their tracks ‘Boys That Sing’ and ‘Like a Fool’ out January 22nd via Communion Group, the loss of the Warrington band is truly devastating.

All proceeds from the band’s latest single on Communion Group will be donated to their families.

In a press statement, Communion Group wrote:

“Viola Beach had only recently come into the Communion family, and had everything going for them – great songs, passion, talent, drive… everything that a band should have. To sit down with the band was to sit down with a group of guys whose band you wanted to be in, and to be in the presence of a band who knew just what it would take to make it. This is why the band had been in Sweden, rather than sit back and wait for it to happen to them, Kris, River, Jack and Tom were determined to go out into the world and play every show they could until the world was singing along with them, and now that dream has been sadly taken away from all of us. Equally, Craig, their manager was possessed by a passion to help the band achieve everything they wanted to, and to speak with Craig about Viola Beach, and music in general was an absolute pleasure – you knew he was doing it all for the right reasons. Everyone here at Communion is in a state of total shock and sorrow, and our thoughts go out to the families and friends of Craig and the band.”