FireAid Review: How a Female-Fronted Nirvana Reunion, Lady Gaga, Billie Eilish, Dr. Dre and Others Gave L.A. the Rebound Night It Deserved
variety.comChris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic There were moments during Thursday night’s epic FireAid concert/webcast that got off-point from the otherwise prevalent “We love L.A.” theme.
Even several states’ worth of off-point. Like, for instance, the roughly 15-minute segment where everyone was thinking about Seattle instead, because the surviving members of Nirvana got back together to do a four-song mini-set, fronted by a succession of female lead singers — “Girl-vana,” some called it.
Now, at this ecstatic point, were we all willing to think of Aberdeen, Washington as a distant greater-L.A. suburb, just for the sake of getting some “Territorial Pissing”?
Yes, we were. But for the most part, there was some adherence to the idea that this was spiritually a local event, even as an appeal was being made to the rest of the country to feel the pain of affected Southern Californians and generously give.
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