I think the only thing that stopped it was some of the bravest men that I’ve ever seen in my life charging head-first into the face of death with their firearms." "And if anyone can answer yes, I’d like to hear it, because I don’t think so. ![]() "Did your French gun control stop a single f-king person from dying at the Bataclan?" he asked, during an interview on the French radio station iTélé. The band often show a sense of humour in their work on their 2004 debut album, Peace, Love, Death Metal, Hughes and Homme were billed under several fake names, including “Carlo von Sexron”, “Baby Duck” and “Mr Boogie Man”.įrontman Hughes recently hit the headlines, after revealing his thoughts on gun control ahead of tonight's gig. Homme has compared Eagles of Death Metal to his fellow Californians, Canned Heat. The American band’s music combines elements of glam-rock and bluegrass with the “desert rock” sound of Homme’s main group, Queens of the Stone Age. The group, who do not play death metal, chose their name as an in-joke, after a conversation in which Homme described the Polish band Vader’s style as like death metal, if it were played by Seventies rockers The Eagles. However, Homme was not present at the concert although Homme and Hughes are the only permanent members of the band, their live shows feature a frequently changing line-up of musicians. ![]() Homme has also collaborated with Arctic Monkeys, providing backing vocals for their latest album, AM, and co-producing 2013’s Humbug. ![]() Best known as the frontman of Queens of the Stone Age, Homme also plays in rock supergroup Them Crooked Vultures with Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl and Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones. The cult blues-rock group, who are due to perform in Paris's Olympia Theatre tonight, were formed by singer Jesse Hughes and drummer/guitarist Josh Homme in 1998. Although the band were unharmed, at least 87 people were killed at the Bataclan, including one of the group’s merchandise-sellers, 36-year-old Nick Alexander from Colchester. Last November, the Californian band Eagles of Death Metal made headlines across the world after their concert at Paris’s Bataclan venue was targeted in terrorist attacks.
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