READING AND LEEDS 2016: Eagles of Death Metal to play 2016 festival.

rattlemag
Dec 16, 2015
1 min read

Eagles of Death Metal, who have just announced their re-scheduled 2016 Tour after the Paris attacks will be playing the iconic Reading and Leeds festival in 2016.

The American rock band have just announced they WILL play Reading and Leeds Festival in 2016 and will be the bands only UK festival dates.

They have said they will complete ALL re-scheduled gigs as part of the The Nos Amis Tour which was temparily cancelled due to the Paris terrorist attacks at their Paris gig.

Jesse Hughes, EODM frontman has said of the announcement: "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."

The band are offering fans who were at the Bataclan show on Friday 13th November a free ticket for the now re-scheduled show which will take place on February 16th at the Olympia Theatre.

The band will be joining a HUGE line up so far for Reading and Leeds with Red Hot Chilli Peppers being the only headliner announced so far with other bands like The Courteeners, The 1975, Twenty One Pilots, Slaves and many more.