American rock band Eagles Of Death Metal are set to join Irish rock band U2 at their gig in Paris which was rescheduled to this Sunday (via billboard). On November 13th, the band’s performance at Paris’ Bataclan was interrupted by a horrible armed assault by terrorists where 89 people were killed – including the band’s merch manager Nick Alexander – and many more were injured in the devastating attacks. In their first interview after the attacks, the band said they said they wanted to finish their tour, with frontman Jesse Hughes adding, “I want to be the first person to play in the Bataclan when it opens up.”
According to a Billboard source, the band will join U2 on stage on December 6th at Paris’ AccorHotels Arena and they will recommence their European tour in February 2016. Josh Homme, member of Eagles Of Death Metal was not present at the Bataclan attack but will reportedly be at the U2 gig.
U2 frontman Bono stated recently that he bought the band members new phones and offered them use of his private jet in the aftermath of the incident. In an interview with The New York Times, he stated: “We had a plane, which we put at the Eagles’ use if they wanted it, but they found another way. The best thing we could do for our fellow musicians was to buy them phones. I spoke to Julian [Dorio] and to Jesse [Hughes]. But that was the best thing, Jesse said, just getting the phones to be texting and all the stuff that you do — social media — to find out what’s going on. Their phones were in the venue.”
This week on Jesse Hughes latest episode of his Alligator Hour radio show on Beats 1 he was joined by fellow band member Josh Homme where the pair played the Deen Ween Group’s cover of their popular track “I Love You All The Time”, after Homme called out to musicians to cover their song as “a sign of solidarity” following the unfortunate events at the Bataclan terror attacks last month. They proceeded to end the show by holding a moment of silence before playing Jeff Buckley’s angelic “Hallelujah”.