EAGLES OF DEATH METAL Frontman JESSE HUGHES Recounts Paris Terrorist Attack - "I'm Not Going To Let The Bad Guys Win, I Promise You"
February 14, 2016, 8 years ago
Eagles Of Death Metal frontman Jesse Hughes recounted the horrific massacre in an interview Saturday (February 13th) on Sweden's TV4, saying he realized what was happening the moment that gunshots rang out in the cheering concert hall.
The attack started after "a very last note of the song, like almost a diabolical synchronicity," Hughes said. "I knew exactly what was going on."
A portion of the NBC transcript:
Tears welled up in his eyes as he described watching fans he knew succumbing to the barrage of bullets, and then his own horrifying search for his girlfriend.
"I didn't see my girl, Tuesday. She's, you know, the love of my life and ... I went back up into the backstage area to look for her and she wasn't there, and then I opened up a hallway and when I went inside the hallway there was a dude at the end of it holding a gun," Hughes said.
The musician said the gunman fired: "I thought I was dead, I just waited for the shots to hit me." But Hughes escaped and eventually found Tuesday.
When she called out his name, "there's never been the sweeter-sounding voice that you can imagine," he said.
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Nick Alexander, the Eagles Of Death Metal merchandise manager who was killed in the Paris terror attacks last year, has won a posthumous award, reports Clacton Gazette.
Alexander was awarded the title of Merchandiser Of The Year in the Tourlink Top Dog Awards in America. The awards ceremony, held in Palm Springs, California, recognized the touring industry’s top 50 individuals and companies of the year, as voted by their peers.
Alexander, who came from Weeley and attended Colchester Royal Grammar School, was voted for his work with Eagles oOf Death Metal.
Alexander, who was 35, died from gunshot wounds to his stomach and chest, after ISIS terrorists opened fire at the Bataclan nightclub in Paris, killing more than 90 people.
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