Liverpool Sound City planning festival tribute to Viola Beach

The organisers of Liverpool Sound City have confirmed they will be paying a special tribute to Viola Beach at this year's festival in May.

Band members Kris Leonard, 19, River Reeves, 19, Tomas Lowe, 27, Jack Dackin, 24, and their 32-year-old manager Craig Tarry, all died when the car they were travelling fell from a bridge into a canal on the outskirts of Stockholm, Sweden on Saturday 13th February. 

Viola Beach, who were from Warrington, were due to be playing the festival on Saturday 28th May and in a statement on Sound City's Facebook page, organisers said: "We have decided to leave the band listing on our poster and we will talk to the family and those closest to the band to see what kind of a fitting tribute we can put together for them at Sound City this year. RIP Viola Beach." 

Meanwhile a campaign spearheaded by friends and family of the group is aiming to propel the band's debut single, 'Swings and Waterslides' into the UK charts.