Swell Season Suicide (When Your Minds Made Up, Mountain Winery, 08.19.10)

The National Post is reporting that a man named Michael Pickels committed suicide during the Swell Season's performance at the Mountain Winery on Friday August 19.

On Thursday night in Saratoga, California, Irish act The Swell Season were well into their concert at the Mountain Winery when a 32-year old man was seen atop the roof of the amphitheatre. When the band completed their song “When Your Mind’s Made Up”, the crowd saw an object hit the stage near singer Glen Hansard. The object was Michael Pickels, who attended the concert that night with a friend.  Hansard rushed over to Pickels, and a doctor was soon on stage, but the man had died, and the concert was ended.

Read more: http://arts.nationalpost.com/2010/08/23/a-sad-refrain-the-week-of-concert-suicides/#ixzz0xTXxHFVt

(Please. If you are thinking of suicide reach out for help. You are loved even if you do not realize it.)