The group’s US-based publicist, Jennifer Ballantyne of Universal Music Enterprises, told Reuters by email that Homme was not in Paris with the band on Friday. There is no clarification regarding whether or not the crew is fine. According to a USA official, all members of the band are safe and accounted for.
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The message said: “We are still now trying to determine the safety and whereabouts of all our band and crew”.
The Eagles of Death Metal, who played at Dublin’s Olympia theatre earlier this week (see pic below), stated on Facebook: “Our thoughts are with all of the people involved in this tragic situation“.
Thomas Tran Dinh, who works for IBM in Paris, was attending the Eagles of Death Metal concert at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris on Friday when terrorists sieged the theater. The American band was on its European tour, after recently releasing an album- “Zipper Down”. They were playing at the venue when gunmen started firing indiscriminately at the crowd. “This attack could’ve been any gig, any football match, any city”.
Josh Homme, one of the founders of the band and the leader of another popular group, Queens of the Stone Age, was not performing in Paris with Eagles of Death Metal, according to a publicist for the Eagles’ record label.
Despite the name, it is not a death metal band but rather has worked with music A-listers including the actor Jack Black and Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters and Nirvana fame.
But the city’s prosecutor said it was possible there was still other terrorists on the run.
“And we hope and pray that all of our fans in Paris are safe”. Adding more information to this NME, revealed that Murray and his wife left the venue ten minutes before the tragedy.
Newcastle photographer Katy Blackwood said today: “I was at Eagles of Death Metal’s Newcastle show just this Monday, and at a show again when news of the events in Paris broke”.
They dashed to a nearby police station, where Julian Dorio borrowed someone’s cellphone to call his family in Atlanta, Michael Dorio said.
France is declared in a state of emergency. The country is now under a state of emergency.
Situated in eastern Paris it is near the spot where a policeman was killed during the deadly jihadist attacks centred on the satirical Charlie Hebdo magazine in January.
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French president Francois Hollande pledged to wage a “merciless” fight against terrorism following the string of attacks across Paris.
