On Friday, following his band’s performance at Belgium’s Pukkelpop Festival, Ou Est Le Swimming Pool frontman Charles Haddon took his own life, jumping from a telecommunications tower in the backstage parking lot. He was 22.

There are reports that another band member seriously injured a concertgoer after jumping into the crowd at the completion of their set, an incident some suspect led to Haddon’s later suicide. Whatever the precipitating reasons might have been, the tragedy has left Haddon’s friends and fans shocked and bewildered.

Ou Est Le Swimming Pool had released three singles to date, prepping for the electropop group’s full-length debut, the brilliantly titled Christ Died For Our Synths The Golden Year, due in October. La Roux’s Elly Jackson dedicated yesterday’s set at England’s V Festival to Haddon’s memory (the two bands had toured together), and The Kooks’ Luke Pritchard also paused to pay tribute with a solo acoustic song.

Frankmusik, aka Vincent Frank, posted a note on Facebook that Ou Est Le Swimming Pool was “one of the only bands I loved and communicated with.” He found himself so deeply affected by Haddon’s death that he recorded a cover of Ou Est Le Swimming Pool’s “Dance The Way I Feel,” and uploaded it to YouTube with this note: “Thank you for being able to make me smile while wether [sic] it’s Newcastle or at the top of a mountain in the French Alps. May you rest in peace.”

Frankmusik’s tribute to his friend is starkly emotional and deeply moving. The song’s lyric, “Imagine none of this is real” is particularly resonant, now an unanswered plea in light of this sad new reality:

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