And Italian tourist, who is now 45, was watching the Eagles of Death Metal play on Friday night when 89 concertgoers were massacred.
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The band – formed by Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme and his childhood friend Hughes – have cut short their tour and are believed to have returned to the US.
While he did not have the names of all the others who were playing with McJunkins, Tong said he was told that no member of the band was hurt.
The American band Deftones, which also had been scheduled to play at the Bataclan in the coming days, was reported by several news outlets to have chose to return to the United States.
Mobile phone footage showed terrified gig fans dangling by their fingertips from window ledges as they made their escape.
The Deftones wrote on Facebook that all band and crew members were accounted for and offered “prayers for those affected in these tragic events”. Michael told CNN: “He had been performing and heard the gunshots”, Dorio said.
“For the record, no, we aren’t associated with the band or their record company, we’re just fans of them that feel happy to be alive as a few of our fellow EODM fans are tragically not now”.
“I pretended to be dead for over an hour, lying among people who could see loved ones motionless. I saw the singer take off his guitar, I turned around and saw a man with an automatic weapon fire in the air”.
French group Red Lemons, who were the band’s support act, also posted on Facebook that the members of Eagles of Death Metal were safe. “I was on the right side of the concert hall in the Bataclan, a song of the Eagles of Death Metal was about to wrap up, when I heard the sounds of explosions, like firecrackers”. We are safe. Mikel Ross, Eric McFadden we were with your mates Jesse, Tuesday, the other musicians outside, they’re safe too, they took a cab’.
Hughes’ partner, former adult star Tuesday Cross, posted a Periscope video of Friday’s concert that appeared to be filmed moments before the attack.
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In a statement sent to the British press, Alexander’s family said that “it is with huge sorrow that we can confirm that our beloved Nick lost his life at the Bataclan last night”.
