hope he's okay

hope he's okay [2]

I hope this isn't another Justin Lowe situation.

Hope he's okay [3]

hope he sucks at suicide :/

[4]

trending on twitter in the UK, so much love out there for Scott

fuck fuck fuck

please let this end well

feeling quite sick about this

This sounds really bad. Hope he saves suicide for another year every year.

I haven't heard of this guy before, but I hope he's found by the people that care about him and that he gets any help that he needs.

[5]
Haven't really listened these guys, but really hope it all ends well.

boy do i hope he's found alright. those tweets though. doesn't sound ideal.

:-/ not good.

[6]

Been meaning to check Frightened Rabbit for a long time

Fuuuuuck I really hope he's okay.

sounds like he could have just gone on vacation for a bit if you take him literally, hopefully anyway

I would literally cry.

"Been meaning to check Frightened Rabbit for a long time"

The Midnight Organ Fight is basically the universally accepted starting point AFAIK, but Pedestrian Verse is also an awesome record.

TMOF is definitely the obligatory starting point.

Just discovered them in early 2017, but Frightened Rabbit have truly gotten me through some shit. Hope he shows up soon.

This is crazy. I heard my very first Frightened Rabbit song yesterday, digging through indie rock/folk charts for a rec comp. I had never heard of them before, and now this happens.

hope he's okay [8]

As time goes by, it's more and more concerning.. but for all we know, and the best outcome, is he meant 'I'm away now. Thanks.' as a way of saying he'll be off the radar for a little while.

The Winter of Mixed Drinks is a classic for me. I hope he remembers some of the lyrics he wrote on that if he is considering the worst. If that is the case, though, the fact he reached out through social media shows some sort of a cry for help, as most individuals don't bother with it once they have made a definite decision, or so I've read. Good vibes his way, wherever he is.

He’s gone on the hop

I really hope this turns out well.

This isn't looking good. The band has said like an hour ago that they still haven't heard from this guy.

this is fucked.

it’s all I’ve been able to think about since the news broke, dumb but it almost feels like a friend

yeah this band is pretty big in scotland, I think a lot of people would notice his face. if he was in a city he would have defo been found by now cos our cities are pretty small. hope he just went off hiding in the countryside and will come back soon

@anatelier same, ive been checking google and their FB every couple hours or so, this isnt cool.

Yeah something about this doesn't feel good at all. This dude got me through some pretty rough times. I'm jamming his Frightened Rabbit and Owl John material until more news surfaces. "A Good Reason to Grow Old" lyrics making me sick right now.

The lyrics to "Floating in the Forth" reference a suicide near the location he disappeared to right? The Forth Road Bridge. Can't imagine how distressing this is for family and fans.

yeah on floating in the forth the narrator contemplates but ultimately decides against suicide. you hate to jump to conclusions but police have seen two people crossing the bridge on cctv not long after his last appearance so it’s starting to point in that direction

fuck. he's a really good guy and should not be so hard on himself.

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dc1WZzHWsAAvdQu.jpg

This doesn't sound good. There's no rational or positive reason somebody would walk out their hotel at 1 AM on foot and disappear. He left his phone behind. Not good.

Heartbreaking to see an artist who obviously has had his bouts with depression and heartbreak, something I've had and been able to bond with deeply with the band and Scott's music, and to see this unfold the way it has. I can only imagine how depressing it may be for some of these rock stars and celebrities who we idolize and think are just the coolest people when in reality they live very lonely lives and have no one.

i haven't listened for years, but i do like his stuff, but when i think back to his music's lyrical content it doesn't look too promising. i am worried

Oh my god that makes my stomach drop

I feel sick.

still not found. fuck...

Probably my favorite artist of all time and his songs have gotten me through some shitty times. This is just heartbreaking shit.. I hope he's OK.

https://www.stereogum.com/1995557/search-continues-for-missing-frightened-rabbit-frontman-scott-hutchison/news/

Grant did a short interview talking about Scott. He sounds pretty shaken.

Here's another interview with Grant and an older brother. Shaken indeed.
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/the-brothers-of-missing-frightened-rabbit-singer-scott-news-footage/957398244

Please be okay.

It doesn’t sound good for him. He’s been battling depression for years, hope he comes through. He had a meltdown over Christmas, so sort of knew this would happen as didn’t get help just went into Mastersystem.

Seeing Scott sing ‘Poke’ acoustic live was one of my favourite moments ever

What meltdown are you talking about? I never heard anything about it.

Oh no. Hope they find him soon. His family and friends must be devastated.

Damn, this is like the Justin Lowe situation from After the Burial. Hope it doesn't end like that one did

as much as i hate to say this, i think he's dead. please god let me be wrong though

Please please come back. This band literally got me through the 6 months or so after the release of their last one.

Sounds like the guy is in a bad place, hope he’s alright and this all ends well.

I dont really have any hope left at this point...if he was gonna change his mind he would have showed up by now. Im gonna be devastated if that turns out to be true.

Yeah, me either. I think any day now they'll find his body somewhere. Why aren't people looking at the last location he was at? Apparently he went over some bridge. I don't hear any discussion about them looking under the bridge or anything.

People don't leave hotels at 1:00 AM and go wandering somewhere in the dark without their phone on them. It's obviously unusual for him not to contact his band mates for long periods as they are reacting in a concerned way. One of them is his own brother. No contact to his family at all.

Not looking good. You have to imagine that if he were around he'd make contact.

He never returned to the hotel to get his phone or any of his belongings. That's probably the only part you need to know.

"The Midnight Organ Fight is basically the universally accepted starting point AFAIK, but Pedestrian Verse is also an awesome record"

Noted, thanks

This shouldnt be all that surprising considering a lot of his lyrics.

I think ill save suicide for another day

If happiness wont live with me, think i can live without
You can keep all of your oxygen, hand me the nitrous gas

Im dead now, check my chest and youll see the life has been mined from me, burned for the heat
Im dead now, can you hear the relief as life's belligerent symphonies finally cease

They've found a body. Yet to be officially identified, but Jesus Christ, I was hoping all the signs were wrong

Oh my fucking christ no.

Holy fuck, why? Someone know whats going on?

This is horrible. It's gotta be him. That'd be a hell of a coincidence.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/breaking-police-searching-missing-frightened-12516321

"Police in Edinburgh can confirm that the body of a man was found at Port Edgar near South Queensferry around 8.30pm on Thursday."

I don't know how to fucking deal with this.

Heart's breaking right now, for scott, for Grant, Jesus fucking Christ

trying my best not to tear up at work

my heart has broken

Midnight Organ Fight on repeat all day

You know, unfortunately, even though this is tragic, people will be sad for a while but nothing will really change in regards to how people accept (or don't accept) mental illnesses like depression as real, tangible things.

RIP...

I dont even know how to process this, i cant believe its real.

Many musicians I know had died, but no one I liked as much as Scott. I'm absolutely devastated. Thoughts and prayers to his family.

They found a body; did they confirm it's his?

Poor bastard must have found life really hard. i don't know what to say, other than RIP

I'll be spinning his last album with mastersystem (released last month) all day and try to listen to his final lyrics.

I think they didn't confirm it was his body yet, but they found it at the exact place where he was expected to be. So I guess there's still a chance, but it looks really unlikely at this point.

this is so sad man.

Fucking horrendous news

I'm so fucking angry and drained I can't believe it
Rest in peace

Still not confirmed yet, although highly likely. Must have been a mess : (

His last album with Mastersystem was good, I struggled to listen to the depressive lyrics though

BBC have now confirmed its him.

Genuine fucking tragedy.

Fuck mental health problems, and the lack of care people treat them with.

looks like he jumped from the Queensferry Crossing bridge. tragic

R.I.P.

R.I.P.

Depression is a fucker. Tragic.

R.I.P.
Hope his family and friends are ok

I can't fucking believe this

mental illness aint nuttin to fuck wit

rip

and yet every year in the UK the funding for helping it gets cut...

had to go to the toilets at work so i could take a deep breath. there's something uniquely devastating about this story in particular - the details playing out like a movie, his depression taking the form of this insurmountable, illogical guilt. looking at their facebook page, everything was so normal a couple of days ago and now it all seems like a distraction. this man was so special and clearly equally as fucked up. this one hurts.

RIP so hard

Him in a recent interview ('Talks at Google') :

"I go back to real life when I go home.
I go on tour and succeed at that, I'm comfortable there.
I'm happiest when I'm performing, in a way.
And I go home and it's just like : pfff what the fuck do I do ?"

What really hits me is that he killed himself pretty much exactly like he said he would in Floating in the Forth; to do that 10 years after talking about it has to mean it was always in the back of his mind

the fact that it was the guilt of not treating his loved ones well ahhhhh. by all accounts he was the loveliest, most selfless person, so the fact that he managed to convince himself otherwise is both terrifying and heartbreaking. depression eschews logic.

sounds like when he was home hed sit around and mull, for those of us who've dealt with the black dog know thats the absolute worst thing you can do

if youre feeling down fam get out and move, talk to people, exert some energy, etc, dont fall into isolation and let your brain take you down a rabbit hole of irrational introspective hell

We don't know for sure what happened. He might’ve just gone for a walk to clear his head and accidentally slipped in.

...

you dont slip off that bridge... the barriers are 8 feet high

I’m just emphasising delusional thought in times of tragedy. When people insist on steering away from the facts.

no one knows anything ever happened anywhere if they did not witness it firsthand but i am pretty sure all signs are going to point to this being officially ruled a suicide yeah

It would be irresponsible to say it was anything else based on the current evidence unless anything else comes out about it

RIP... my best friends favorite band, it's hitting him extremely hard right now and I feel so bad.

i mean regardless i would like to encourage anyone who feels hopeless or depleted or anhedonic or irreparable to reach out to whoever they feel comfortable doing so with, and if you're feeling particularly shit run don't walk to your nearest hospital. if you're in a position to do so make ur friends who u know are having a rough time know they can call you too.

really fucking awful news that i'm struggling with tbh. floating on the forth will never be a hopeful song again.

may as well update this to scott hutchison dead :/

Wait so this dude jumped off a bridge that he wrote a song about jumping off? Holy shit

was it the same one? im not sure

Yep, he jumped off the Forth road bridge...

And fully clothed, I float away
(I'll float away)
Down the Forth, into the sea
I think I'll save suicide for another day.

And I picture this corpse
On the M8 hearse
And I half run away to sleep
On a rolled up coat
Against the window
With the strobe of the sun
And the life I've led
Am I ready to leap
Is there peace beneath
The roar of the Forth road bridge?
On the Northern side
There's a Fife of mine
And a boat in the port for me,

And fully clothed, I float away
(I'll float away)
Down the Forth, into the sea
I'll steer myself
Through drunken waves
These manic gulls
Scream it's okay
Take your life
Give it a shake
Gather up
All your loose change
I think I'll save suicide for another year.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-44079462 This is really sad
BBC confirmed his death

"looks like he jumped from the Queensferry Crossing bridge."

Couldve sworn it was the Forth.

Heartbroken. Just got into them recently with PoaPA and I was planning to jam their earlier discog soon.

"Couldve sworn it was the Forth."

well the new bridge is the Queens Ferry Crossing. it was only opened a year or so back. It was built to replace the Forth road bridge that sits right next to it. I didnt realise till today that its actually still open to public transport like buses and taxis... so it is still possible for someone to walk onto it I guess

RIP hard

That’s NUTS. Sorry to see this happen to someone who obviously had such an impact on so many people. RIP.

Fuck all of this.

Fuck, this is so tragic. RIP
Guess it's time to jam Panic Attack for a while. :c

Ughhhh I couldn't resist and listened to Floating in the Firth and Nitrous Gas. Feels like shit.

definitely gonna spin Midnight Organ Fight today. Hard RIP :'[

RIP.

In my Top 10 favourite bands at least, if not Top 5, absolutely gutted, but all I lost was his future music, can't imagine what the band, his friends, his family etc. are going through. The guy clearly had a lot of troubles, but damn he could turn it into something beautiful, I guess this time it was a stretch too far.

Rip

R.I.P [∞]

This so fucking sad.

RIP

Midnight Organ Fight was one of the first albums that ever spoke to me emotionally and it helped me through a ton of bad times, I just wish it had done the same for Scott

RIP hard

Never really listened to the bands stuff but out of distasteful, morbid curiosity I’ve span Floating In The Forth.
Sheesh.
RIP

RIP. He'll be missed.

i can't even listen to floating in the forth after this. so bummed, rip.

I think this is the hardest a musician's death has ever hit me... Depression is really fucking horrible. Rest in peace.

I lost it for a second while reading those floating the fourth lyrics. This is a tough one for sure.

Oh my fucking goddddddddd

I listened to Floating in the Forth for the first time in the summer of 2009. I was working at a camp in California, and I was massively depressed. My life felt like a shambles. I had panic attacks every day, sometimes more than once a day. I nearly lost all hope.

As soon as Scott sang "I think I'll save suicide for another day" I knew I was going to make it. I cried through the rest of the song, with this strange mix of joy and sorrow and catharsis that I've never experienced again. Thank you Scott, for your words and for your life. I'm so sorry it ended this way. Rest in total peace.

Just awful, rip

I'd like to wake up from this awful nightmare now please stop the ride it's not fun anymore

RIP

Shit...

Saw this on their Facebook and was hoping it wasn't anything serious.

The Midnight Organ Flight is one of the best albums ever made. Fuck man RIP so hard. :[

Some horrendously sad stuff, fucking tragic. Rip dude

RIP, going to be listening to Midnight Organ Fight

jesus christ this is is so tragic. just saw them in February in Toronto, too, playing the MOF album... a treat it was.

Fuck. RIP.

Jesus man, RIP.

This is terrible. RIP

Holy fuck...

fuck man. rip

fuck sakes

i never got into these guys much. will have to change that now

was lucky to see them live with the national a few years back

those lyrics are fucking terrifying to read now

Interested to know if there is a backstory to this decision for him, other than obvious depression/mental illness. Like what happened recently that led him to finally do what he had for a while contemplated? I assume it's related to those he loved, given his Twitter post and all.

RIP.

Thank you for your contribution to music and for reaching out, in all seriousness.

It sucks and I don't see much changing anytime soon. Ignorant people are still the majority when it comes to mental health. And they're always the loudest, as well. There are exceptions, but in my experience and opinion and observation, many people, especially men (higher suicide rate with men pretty much across the board) feel like they're alone.

a lot of people's first reaction to suicide is "that's selfish" "cowardly", etc.

unhelpful in my opinion.

i just wish scott gave it a week to see if he felt better. i genuinely think he could have gotten through it. but it doesn't work like that sadly

fuck this life

cor2222 hope you are allright now

I think he gave it about a decade to see if he'd feel better.

Pretty sure he was into life and stable periodically but had a bad constitution when it came to self-worth and emotional issues. Such a loss

Everything was going great that day. I graduated, had a nice lunch, chatted with an old friend I haven't seen in a while, and then I hear this. Jesus fucking Christ...

R.I.P. so hard.

Only selfish people call those who choose suicide selfish. [2]

this still passes through my head now and then and fucks me up for a moment.