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Charles Haddon laid to rest
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 6 September 2010
The funeral of late Ou Est Le Swimming Pool frontman Charles Haddon was held on Saturday afternoon in the Northamptonshire village of Yelvertoft. As previously reported, Haddon committed suicide at the Pukkelpop festival in Belgium last month, jumping from a telecommunications mast just hours after performing at the event.
According to the Press Association, about 300 mourners amassed at the village’s All Saints Church for the service, with fans joining friends and family to pay tribute to Haddon, who was just 22 when he died, and at the start of a promising music career. His band’s debut album, ‘The Golden Year’, will still be released on 3 Oct.
The band had been due to play a festival in Austria on the day of Haddon’s funeral, before returning to the UK for a Bestival performance next weekend. Details of the events that led up to Haddon’s death are still sketchy, but Belgian police have confirmed they are treating the incident as suicide.
