The band members were unhurt but there have been unconfirmed reports that a crew member was among those killed.
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“Our hearts go out to all the victims and their families across the city tonight”, they said in a statement.
Alexander, 36, was selling merchandise for the band during Friday’s concert at Bataclan concert hall.
Hailing from Palm Desert in southern California, Eagles Of Death Metal have two consistent members – lifelong friends Jesse Hughes, 43, and Josh Homme, 42.
A man identified as Michael Dorio, the brother of the band’s drummer Julian Dorio, told WSB-TV in Atlanta that his brother had escaped the theater.
The band’s announcement has been mimicked my many others in the industry, as U2 also announced that it had canceled a concert planned for Saturday night in Paris, which would have aired live on HBO. Lead singer Bono was rehearsing nearby at the Accor Hotels Arena – where the group was set to perform Saturday and Sunday. They said the only pause came when the assailants reloaded their guns. “He called to say that he loved me and he was safe”.
“It was a frightful thing, but I’m just pleased my daughter’s alive, my sympathies go out to those people whose daughters and sons and brothers aren’t alive”.
The only official statement from the band’s representatives was posted Friday on both its Twitter and Facebook pages, suggesting that a few band and crew members may have been unaccounted for.
Bono places flowers down on the pavement at a memorial near the Bataclan Theatre on Saturday night (November 14) in Paris, France.
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One person working with the band was killed, according to “people with knowledge of the situation” as reported by the Los Angeles Times, while another person working with the band was shot. “He will never pick up a guitar or get on a stage without the vision of every one of those people who died at the concert”. The band was rehearsing just three miles away from the Bataclan concert venue on Friday when terrorists fired upon the audience at the Eagles of Death Metal show.
