NME has reported today that Eagles of Death Metal frontman Jesse Hughes has spoken about the upcoming HBO documentary, that will follow the band’s return to Paris, following the Bataclan terrorist attack at their gig in November 2015.
Eagles of Death Metal: Nos Amis (Our Friends), will premier on HBO on February 13, and will recount the story of the attack that saw 89 people killed, and was a part of larger attack around Paris on November 13 2015. The film is directed by Colin Hanks (son of Tom, and star of the Fargo TVseries), and will feature extensive interviews with the band’s members, as well as focusing on Hughes’ close friendship with Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme.
Speaking at the documentary’s LA premier on Thursday, Hughes spoke of the immense difficult he had in returning to such a tragic night,admitting that “There is nothing easy about this. But that doesn’t matter.”
Homme also spoke on the documentary, saying that he felt the project was “important” for the grieving process of those involved, elaborating “When Colin started mentioning that he felt it should be captured — that it had an importance — it was a surprise to me. It’s hard to take a compliment about something like this.”
Whilst not attempting to try to understand the scope of the tragedy, Homme did at least see the documentary as a way of exploring the events, stating that “It would have been a shame if the punctuation of this events was just violence and body count. [The documentary] doesn’t explain anything, but it was worth a shot.” You can watch the final trailer for Nos Amis below.