Hope Of the States Guitarist Found Hanged.

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The guitarist of Wiltshire pop band Hope of the States has been found hanged at a recording studio.
Police were called to the Real World Studios - owned by singer Peter Gabriel - at Box, near Bath, at 0430 GMT on Thursday after the body of James Lawrance, 26, was discovered.

The six-piece band had been recording their debut album.

Wiltshire Police say the death is not being treated as suspicious.

Hope of the States had a top 40 single with Enemies Friends and had appeared on the BBC's Top of the Pops programme.

― Gerard Vieri, Thursday, 15 January 2004 12:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Fuck. RIP.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 15 January 2004 12:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Badthing indeed. RIP.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 15 January 2004 12:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I mean... they were really on the verge of being huge this year. This is properly out of the blue. Crikey.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 15 January 2004 12:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe he'd read this week's NME special about all great rock 'n' roll deaths happening at the age of 27 and wanted to buck the trend?

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Thursday, 15 January 2004 13:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Seriously, though, that song his band did was pretty good.

RIP, etc.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Thursday, 15 January 2004 13:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Christ. RIP, indeed.

HotS had real potential.

― cis (cis), Thursday, 15 January 2004 13:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm sure this is tragic but... who?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 15 January 2004 13:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Hope Of The States. From Chichester, hyped majorly by NME and Teletext and several others. Supposedly sound like a poppier Sigur Ros, though from what I heard Spiritualised seem as good a reference point as any. Scored one of the surprise hits of last year when their second single, Enemies/Friends, entered the top 40 at #26. Generally seen as being set for very big things... though who's to say why he did it? The music might not have had anything to do with it.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 15 January 2004 14:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, RIP. Saw them at Reading last year and they were excellent. Condolences to his family and friends.

― Chris Jones (Crackity Jones), Thursday, 15 January 2004 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)

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