Eagles of Death Metal singer reveals 'kid hiding under my leather jacket' was sole survivor in Bataclan dressing room massacre
'A great reason why so many were killed is because they wouldn't leave their friends'
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Your support makes all the difference.The band playing a concert at the Batalcan theatre during the Paris attacks have spoken for the first time about the massacre in which 89 people were slaughtered at the music venue by Isis militants.
The lead singer of Eagles of Death Metal, Jesse Hughes, revealed that gunmen burst into the band's dressing room where some people had hidden.
Everyone was killed, he said, except for a small child who had hidden under his leather jacket.
The US band were playing at the Bataclan the night that gunmen attacked several locations in Paris, including the concert venue.
Mr Hughes has spoken of the terrible events at the Bataclan in an interview with Vice magazine, due to be released next week.
In an extract from that interview, sitting alongside bandmate Josh Homme, a clearly emotional Mr Hughes says: "Several people hid in our dressing room and the killers were able to get in and killed every one of them, except for a kid who was hiding under my leather jacket.
"People were playing dead and they were so scared.
"A great reason why so many were killed is because so many people wouldn't leave their friends. So many people put themselves in front of people."
Following the attack, upon returning to California, the band released a statement on their Facebook Page saying that "love overshadows evil", but admitting they were still "trying to come to terms" with the events of that night.
While the band is now home safe, we are horrified and still trying to come to terms with what happened in France. Our...
Posted by Eagles Of Death Metal on Wednesday, 18 November 2015
Eighty-nine people were killed at the Bataclan, among them Nick Alexander, a British man who was the band's merchandise manager. Record executives Thomas Ayad, Marie Mosser and Manu Perez were also killed.
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