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Eagles of Death Metal want to be the first band back on stage at the Bataclan

“I cannot wait to come back to Paris. I cannot wait to play,” singer Jesse Hughes said.

eag1 Members of the Eagles of Death Metal speak to VICE. VICE VICE

CALIFORNIA BAND EAGLES of Death Metal want to be the first group to play the Bataclan theatre when the Paris venue reopens after the November attacks targeted their gig.

“I don’t want to spend my life trying to appease assholes I want to spend my life smiling with my friends and entertaining them,” Jesse Hughes, the band’s vocalist, told Vice in an interview.

“I cannot wait to come back to Paris. I cannot wait to play. I want to come back. I want to be the first band to play in the Bataclan when it opens back up,” he said.

“I was there when it went silent for a minute. Our friends went there and died. I’m gonna go back there and live.”

Gunmen attacked nearly simultaneously targets across Paris on November 13, killing 130 people, 89 of them at the Bataclan.

The band sat down for a full interview with Vice.com in Los Angeles after returning to America following the carnage.

You can watch the full video here:

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They each detailed the instant decisions they took to save their lives, and the horrors they saw as the gunmen emptied round after round indiscriminately into the crowd.

The band had been due to perform across Europe until December 10, but has put on hold all further concerts. A number of French fans have appealed on them online to return to play.

“We don’t really have a chance. We have to finish the tour,” said Josh Homme, the band’s co-founder, who was not in Paris.

“We have a song called ‘I Love You All The Time’. If you’re a country artist, if you’re death metal, if you’re a DJ, it doesn’t matter, cover that song and we’ll donate the publishing (royalties),” he told Vice.

© AFP 2015

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    Aug 26th 2011, 5:40 PM

    I know stranger things have happened but this is very odd. Poor kids.

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    Aug 26th 2011, 6:23 PM

    Very odd or else a freak coincidence. Poor kids

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    Aug 26th 2011, 7:27 PM

    It’s been suggested in the daily mail (I know I know) that the wife died in hospital from her injuries sustained in the fall and that the husband jumped from a balcony the day after http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html. We ll never know

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    Aug 26th 2011, 5:56 PM

    very suspicious indeed

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    Aug 26th 2011, 7:53 PM

    Hm very suspicious… She falls from a balcony and dies, he takes a fall down a flight if stairs. He either did it deliberately or fell while not looking where he was going. Double tragedy and devastating for the kids. First their mother, then their father in quick succession…

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    Aug 27th 2011, 12:21 AM

    Are any of the kids named damien? (666)

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