What Viola Beach achieved in the year following their tragic deaths

Viola Beach were (l-r) guitarist River Reeves, drummer Jack Dakin, singer Kris Leonard and bassist Tomas Lowe

It's a year since the four members of Viola Beach and their manager died in a car crash in Sweden.

They were on their way back to the UK when their car crashed into a raised section of a bridge and fell into a canal.

In the last 12 months there's been a huge amount of support for a band who many had tipped for major success.

Here's what River Reeves, Jack Dakin, Kris Leonard, Tomas Lowe and Craig Tarry have achieved in that time.

'Success was a certainty'

Viola Beach formed in Warrington in May 2015 and had were supported by BBC Introducing from the very start.

They played on the BBC Introducing stage at Reading and Leeds Festival in the August of the same year.

Backstage at the festival singer Kris Leonard said: "I uploaded Swings & Waterslides and it was played within a day.

"The within a week it was on Radio 1, how quick everything's happened is just ridiculous."

Viola Beach played at Reading Festival 2015

Following the accident, tributes flowed in from the likes of Huw Stephens, Annie Mac and Rob Da Bank.

There were also due to play at the Introducing showcase at SXSW in Texas in March 2016.

Instead, a video montage containing clips of interviews and one of their BBC sessions was shown at the festival, with BBC 6 Music's Steve Lamacq paying tribute.

A tribute was played at SXSW in place of the band's set

He said: "All the tipsters around the country and the major magazines, the DJs who played them like me and Radio 1's Huw Stephens - everyone genuinely believed that this was a band for whom success was a certainty."

They scored a top 20 single

WATCH: Viola Beach - Swings & Waterslides (Maida Vale session)

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In the week after the deaths, fans started a campaign to get Swings & Waterslides to number one.

The band's single reached the top of the Apple iTunes chart but just missed out on the official top 10 - finishing at number 11.

The Kooks, The Coral and Blossoms played their songs

The memorial gig was billed as a "celebration of five remarkable young men"

In April 2016, a Viola Beach memorial concert was held in the band's hometown Warrington.

The gig was made up of sets from the band's friends and musical influences, including sets by The Kooks, The Coral and Blossoms, who Viola Beach were on tour with when they died.

They were due to play the final date of their tour together in Liverpool's O2 Academy in March, but Blossoms paid their respects by having a DJ play Viola Beach's music from an empty stage to the sell-out crowd.

Viola Beach were supporting Blossoms on tour when they died - a recording of their last set was played out at subsequent gigs

"I don't think any of us could prepare for something like that," Blossoms told Newsbeat at the memorial concert.

"It's unheard of in history - it's so devastating and shocking.

"You know they would have been having the time of their lives. It could have been us."

Phil Taggart's tweet: The Viola Beach tribute nights here in Warrington is unbelievably emotional and affirming. What a night! A lot of tears and a lot of guitars

The evening was hosted by Radio 1's Phil Taggart.

He said: "In my lifetime I can't think of anything happening in the music industry as crippling and as sad as what happened to the boys in Viola Beach.

"You saw this really raw potential, it was at that point where they knew they were going to do something."

They 'headlined' Glastonbury

During their set on the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury 2016 in June, Coldplay covered Viola Beach's Boys That Sing.

Frontman Chris Martin said: "We're going to create Viola Beach's alternative future for them and let them headline Glastonbury for a song.

"This is maybe what would have been you in 20 years.

"Let's give it our best shot fellas."

They got a number one album

WATCH: Viola Beach - Get to Dancing (Maida Vale session)

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A self-titled nine-track album, made up of recordings the band made before the incident, was released on 29 July 2016.

It was put together by the band's families and included Swings & Waterslides, Boys That Sing and a version of Get To Dancing which was recorded during a BBC session.

WATCH: Viola Beach - Like a Fool (Maida Vale session)

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It outsold the number two album that week, ELO's All Over The World, The Very Best Of, by about 6,000 copies, according to the Official Chart Company.

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