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Paris live sector recovering, as Eagles Of Death Metal announce new European dates
By Chris Cooke | Published on Thursday 17 December 2015
French live music trade group Prodiss says that the country’s concert business – which saw a slump in attendance after the attacks on Paris last month – has rebounded in the last couple of weeks, though not yet to pre-attack levels.
In the immediate wake of the attack on the Eagles Of Death Metal show at the Bataclan venue in Paris, in which 89 people were killed, there was an 80% drop in concert attendance in the French capital. Since then, attendance figures have rapidly risen again, though they are still 20-25% down on the same weeks a year ago. However, promoters are confident that the French live market will return to its usual figures in the next month.
Speaking to Billboard, Prodiss rep Aline Renet said: “After an significant drop in the two to three days after the 13th of November – which was understandable – figures are now going back to near normal, and promoters are expecting sales back to normal in the next few weeks. Parisians showed clearly their will to ‘culturally resist’ in continuing to attend shows”.
The latest update on Paris’s live music sector came as Eagles Of Death Metal rescheduled the European tour they were forced to cancel after the attacks, which includes their first full shows in France since Bataclan, having performed a couple of songs at a recent U2 show in Paris. The band will play the French capital again on 16 Feb, and then in Lille on 24 Feb and Nimes on 2 Mar. Although there are no new UK dates in the latest tour announcement, the band have been confirmed for next year’s Reading and Leeds festivals.
Confirming the new dates, frontman Jesse Hughes told reporters: “The people of Paris have always been incredible to us, and our feeling of love towards this beautiful city and its people has been reinforced a million times over this past month. Hearing the stories of the survivors, the injured and those who have lost loved ones has been overwhelming. Not returning to finish our set was never an option. We look forward to coming back in February and continuing our mission to bring rock n roll to the world”.
