Man dies at Club NME

We didn't have any details then. Now we have official statements and information, it's fair to report upon.

It's a bit of an oversight that it's hardly been touched upon anywhere to be fair.

Although i think its fucking awful that the nme havent at least published a message of condolance (sp?) to the poor guy's family, the fact is that its the venue's fault not the nme's.

Yeah, dont think it should be the issue either. Just pre-emptively posting before someone starts nme bashing.

To be fair, if he only died in hospital yesterday, the mag ships on what, Tuesday? There'll probably be a mention in next weeks issue if there's going to be one.

I get what you're saying, but there's no mention of it on the website either...

The Day Today. It's better than falling off a balcony.

Look at the ground and say sorry.

hahaha

NEWS!
Colin, thank you.
was gonna say how inappropriate the death from above thing was as well

DiS Newsfelch: coming soon

lol

£3 to see DFA1979! I can lower my standards for that.

Some guy died. Stop being so f**king heartless.

"Some guy died"

FEEL the heart in that.

considering a few of us are so quick to remark on the insensitivity of the nme for not making a public announcement about this (likely to be pretty futile anyway), this thread is mostly an embarassment to DiS and it's readership.

i agree with the above statement

Clearly in the lack of respect being given to the guy's friends and family by people being so quick to wise crack about the band names and what have you.

I think we can all see the irony in the band names, it doesnt need to be commented on.

err the crap jokes, finger pointing and ambulance chasing mostly.

Be fair: reporting the facts some five days after the incident is hardly ambulance chasing in any sense.

But yes, some comments here are a little, well, inappropriate.

Christ, get off your high horse. Even Mel Brookes said:

"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die."

you are an insensitive idiot who clearly has no idea what it is like to lose someone very close to you. this guy dies in the prime of his life and you're saying 'deal with it'.

one day you're gonna regret your utterly selfish comments just as a friend said similar things to me when i nearly lost a member of my family, 6 months later the table was turned and he expected sympathy. did he get any, no... but he bloody expected it!

Doing something stupid does not = deserving to die for it.

maybe we should find some way to blame the strokes!!!

and The Kills is ... appropriate?

so it shouldn't be too much to do with the nme?
so why make the headline about nme and not koko? i think a venue on the gig circuit says more than a weekly night run there. also there are a bunch of club nme venues...
i'd say it makes the story more catchy though.

I didn't say he deserved to die. I just said that if you dangle yourself off a balcony at a club and you're drunk, what do you expect?

Pre-fucking-cisely.

I don't see how the arguments of 'nobody knew him, its not like you're all greiving, lets crack out the jokebook' stands here. If you don't have anything to say in the form of a condolence, what is the point of even posting?

It was clearly for cool points, and that's a bit of a sad statement on many readers of this site innit.

which one would that be then?

notice the cunning use of the 'reply to this' button.

I was at the club to watch my mates band play when the guy appeared on the ground 10 mentres behind us. I can assure you that seeing a guy lying there obviously fighting for his life in pools of blood is no laughing matter and one of the worse things I've had to witness.

I wouldn't wish that on anyone and find some peoples comments on here disgraceful.

"Apparenlty" usually equals, what I'm about to say is probably not correct/even happened, but It's interesting/I want something to say. You, as far as I know, weren't there, so you can't really spread stuff like that unless you know it is true. Not having a go, just think you should be 100% before you say stuff like that.

Well said Babbel, what a bunch of cun#s.

what right do these fools have to have a fucking opinion on this - its not a debate... Its been reported because there were so many rumours flying around and people who were there were concerned to know what happened to the fella - like you would be if youd witnessed such a horrific thing.

If people cant say anything "nice" then why bother commenting at all.

its called basic human compassion for fucks sake.

idiots.

Apparently he's not dead.

For all those concerned about the poor guys well being.

it's not funny. but it is true.

Shouldn't be making jokes about it?

Are you sure? But death is really funny! And given the choice between po-faced "sensitivity" for something I have absolutely no real feelings about whatsoever, and a good joke, I'd choose the latter. Hell, I hope people say funny things about my death!

And yes, your line on this bores me.

http://www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/120505/n120505_17.htm

Clubber’s horror balcony jump

A CLUBBER who jumped headfirst from the balcony of a Camden Town nightclub on Friday night walked out of hospital yesterday (Wednesday).
Police had mistakenly earlier confirmed the death of the 30-year-old, who has not been named, after he jumped from the dress circle at Koko and landed headfirst on the busy dancefloor.
He is understood to have told a friend he intended to jump just moments before making his 20-foot leap at the Camden High Street club. Fellow clubbers at the NME-branded night rushed to his aid immediately. They included several staff from sandwich chain Pret a Manger, which had hosted a private function at the club earlier in the evening for all of its London employees.
One said: “I was helping him on the dancefloor but there was not a lot we could do. It was a terrible sight.”
The club shut shortly after the 11pm incident and stayed closed on the normally busy Saturday night while police investigated.
A police spokesman said: “The management of the club has been very helpful.”
A spokesman for Koko said: “Koko takes the safety of its customers very seriously and works hard with our security team to ensure a safe environment for everyone that enters the building.

Call me evil, I don't care. The dumb fucking cunt should've died and rid the world of an idiot.

Or maybe its his fault for being a bit too drunk.