I thought you wern't going to run a story on this?

DFA1979 are playing there? Oh god, I might have to go now.

Last time I was at Brixton it was two days after someone fired a gun at a Nas gig and now I'm gonna go here after someone DIES.

Death from Above? Bit of an inappropriate name don’t you think?

Oi, don't get sarky Gareth :P

I was gonna make that DFA joke, but I decided against it...

In 1974, no-one died
In 1975, no-one died
In 1976, no-one died
In 1977, no-one died
In 1978, no-one died
In 1979, no-one died
In 1980, someone died
In 1981, no-one died
In 1982, no-one died
In 1983, no-one died
In 1984, there was the incident with the pigeon
In 1985, no-one died
In 1986, I mean I could go on

Colin's lost the F**king news.

Your lying in a grave Brian,

whats written on the headstone?....

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

If I was ever in Club NME I'd want to fall off a balcony too.

The kills isn't much better come to think of it

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

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

NME mention this?

Nope, new bit on Babyshambles tho...

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

I know someone who was there. Apparently, he was drunk and saying "Will I break my leg if I jump off?"

It wasn't an accident. You have to climb over the rail to fall off. What a fucking idiot. Even ducks learn to fly by starting on the ground.

Duck Smarter Than Drunk.

Suprised no one has linched Conor McNicholas - that seems like the reasonable thing to do, being as he's persoanbly to blame for all this.

Or maybe you'd nlame Mr Stella for making the beer that made the guy drunk enough to fall off the balcony?

Or maybe Mr Metal - the guy who made the balcony?

The new Coldplay single is pretty arse isn't it?

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

As ever when you get an exchange of diametrically opposed views, both sides miss the point.

We can't pussyfoot around death - it happens, natual and accidental. But we shouldn't be making jokes about it either.

I mean, the odds of someone who knows the deceased reading this are possibly small, but hardly remote. It's like when I read the other day about these kids who grew up with Yorkshire Ripper jokes being told to them, because none of the kids knew that he had killed their mother.

That's not political correctness, it's just being decent. Sorry if my line on this bores any of you.

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.

its a difficult one this really. of course to joke about someone dying isn't a particularly clever or indeed nice thing to do however i think its slightly severe to state that people lack compassion.

events that have no direct bearing on ourselves, as in do not directly affect us or our surrounds it it means its easy to be distant from, and indeed make comments that may be deemed 'inappropriate'. however, in reality comedy is used to make light of a situation, whether rightly or wrongly. nothing is meant by it, its just satire. so to be perfectly honest, i think its far from incompaasionate to make comments of the two bands playing the following day or making references from The Day Today. its morbidly amusing!!!

To call the bloke an idiot for falling off however, isn't especially funny.

awful.

its all too awful
pete doherty sneezes-8 pages NME
carl's take on said sneeze etc.
guy presumably sucked in by the whole NME £1.90's
worth of not worthy to wrap chips in world of cheap mcgee
band suck goes for innocent night out,lines these twits pockets with another £3 and dies into the bargain.
double tragedy

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.