Stevie and Fire Aid Concert for LA

[bombaysaffires]

Irving Azoff is organizing a fundraising concert for the wildfires in LA. Not surprisingly, Stevie is listed as one of the performers. See two articles below:



https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/billie-eilish-lady-gaga-jelly-roll-will-play-fireaid-benefit-concert-1235238636/

UNITING VOICES
BILLIE EILISH, LADY GAGA, JELLY ROLL, STEVIE NICKS, AND MORE WILL PLAY FIREAID BENEFIT CONCERT
Katy Perry, Lil Baby, Pink, Sting, Green Day, and more stars are slated to perform at the benefit show on January 30
By TOMÁS MIER, MANKAPRR CONTEH
JANUARY 16, 2025


Sorry, Rolling Stone put up a paywall before I could copy and paste the rest....



https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2025/01/16/fireaid-concert-performers-tickets-how-to-watch/77751979007/

Lady Gaga, Billie Eilish, Joni Mitchell to perform at FireAid benefit in LA: How to watch

USA TODAY

A slate of music superstars including Lady Gaga, Billie Eilish, Green Day, Joni Mitchell and Gwen Stefani, will help raise money for victims of the Los Angeles wildfires with dual high-profile concerts.

The FireAid benefit will take place Jan. 30, with performances happening at both the Intuit Dome, a new arena in Inglewood, and the nearby Kia Forum, a longtime landmark.

Tickets for both shows go on sale at noon PT Jan. 22 through Ticketmaster. Other artists participating include Finneas, Earth, Wind & Fire, Katy Perry, Lil Baby, Pink, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Stevie Nicks, Rod Stewart, Sting and performing together for the first time, Dave Matthews and John Mayer.

More than 20 artists – more will be announced ‒ are expected to play the two venues. The fundraisers will be held simultaneously and are scheduled to be broadcast and streamed live on Apple Music, Apple TV app, Max, iHeartRadio, KTLA+, Netflix/Tudom, Paramount+, Prime Video, Amazon Music Channel on Twitch, SiriusXM (exclusively on the Life with John Mayer channel), Spotify, SoundCloud, Veeps, YouTube, and at select AMC Theatre locations in 70 US markets. iHeartRadio will serve as the national audio partner to FireAid.

Many of the artists involved have roots in Southern California, such as Eilish, who was born in Los Angeles and Stefani, who grew up in Anaheim.

The shows are being produced by Irving and Shelli Azoff in conjunction with Live Nation and AEG Presents.

Contributions made to FireAid at fireaidla.org will be distributed under the advisement of the Annenberg Foundation for short-term relief efforts and long-term initiatives to prevent future fire disasters. All proceeds from the FireAid benefit concert at Intuit Dome and Kia Forum will go directly to the event’s designated beneficiaries and the LA Clippers, which calls the Intiut Dome home, will cover the millions in expenses associated with the event, organizers said.

The LA wildfires are among the most destructive and costly in state history.

The concerts will take place three days before the 67th annual Grammy Awards, held at Crypto.com Arena in downtown LA. Numerous events associated with Feb. 2 celebratory music event have been canceled. But the show, as well as the Jan. 31 MusiCares concert honoring The Grateful Dead and the Feb. 1 Clive Davis Pre-Grammy Gala, is proceeding with a focus on fundraising and supporting first responders.

The Recording Academy and MusiCares recently established the Los Angeles Fire Relief Effort to Support Music Professionals and have raised and pledged more than $2 million in emergency aid to music people affected by the wildfires.

[WalkAThinLine.]

Great lineup. Glad she's performing.

Here's the Rolling Stone article

Some of music’s biggest superstars will join forces later this month at benefit concert FireAid to raise money for the victims of the Los Angeles fires. On Thursday, FireAid’s promoters announced that Lady Gaga, Billie Eilish, Green Day, Katy Perry, Stevie Nicks, and Jelly Roll are among the performers lending their voices for the show.

The one-night-only event will also feature performances by Gwen Stefani, Pink, Joni Mitchell, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rod Stewart, Sting, Tate McRae, and Dave Matthews playing with John Mayer for the first time. Even more artists and special guests will be announced in the coming days. Tickets will go on sale on Ticketmaster on January 22 at Noon PST.

Music industry mogul Irving Azoff is producing the concert with Live Nation and AEG Presents. The Eagles, Azoff’s longtime management clients, announced on Wednesday that they’d donated $2.5 million for the concert.

The event — hosted at neighboring arenas Kia Forum and Intuit Dome in Inglewood at 6 p.m. — will be broadcast internationally at select AMC Theatres, iHeartRadio, Spotify, Apple Music, Netflix, Paramount+, Prime Video, Max, SiriusXM, SoundCloud, Veeps and YouTube. American Express, Intuit, and UBS are among the sponsors of the show.

The broadcast will motivate viewers across the platforms to submit donations to aid the victims of the wildfires. iHeartRadio will broadcast the show live to more than 860 radio stations across the United States.

FireAid will air days before the Grammy Awards are set to take place at the Crypto.com Arena in Downtown L.A on February 2. The Recording Academy announced Wednesday that it would be shrinking its event lineup for the week leading up to the awards to focus on fundraising efforts. Several other organizations are also hosting smaller benefit concerts to aid wildfire victims.

The Palisades and Eaton Fires have destroyed thousands of homes, killed at least 25 people and forced more than 150,000 residents to evacuate from their homes.

Among the thousands who have lost their homes are musicians Jhené Aiko, SZA’s longtime producer ThankGod4Cody, Dawes’ Griffin Goldsmith and former bassist Wylie Gelber. Tina Knowles, mother to Beyoncé and Solange, shared that her Malibu bungalow was destroyed in the Palisades fire. “It was my favorite place, my sanctuary, my sacred happy place. Now it is gone!! God Bless all the brave men and women in our fire department who risked their lives in dangerous conditions,” she wrote on Instagram.

For more ways to serve the Los Angeles area or secure support, see Rolling Stone’s round-up of general resources and resources tailored to the music community.

[Jondalar]

These fires are really sad. It's hard to know what to make of it all. I don't understand why someone would rebuild there though. It could happen again. Why build memories in an area that is not safe? I know it's a beautiful place to live but is it worth it? I heard the insurance is astronomical if you can even get it. I always thought earthquakes were the big threat in California. Guess not.

[BLY]

I always thought earthquakes were the big threat in California. Guess not.


Me too….so sad. Go Stevie! I was happy to see she is participating. I truly believe Stevie contributes for the right reasons and does donate behind the scenes a lot of money and her time. It’s NOT all about her PR.

[bombaysaffires]

Me too….so sad. Go Stevie! I was happy to see she is participating. I truly believe Stevie contributes for the right reasons and does donate behind the scenes a lot of money and her time. It’s NOT all about her PR.

it's also loyalty to Irving.

[UnwindedDreams]

Stevie will sing a new song at the concert tomorrow: https://x.com/concertleaks/status/1884651871207645624?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet&mx=2

[BrownEyedGirl26]

Stevie will sing a new song at the concert tomorrow: https://x.com/concertleaks/status/1884651871207645624?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet&mx=2

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[secret love]

:blob2::blob2:
Woot woot!
Please film and share, guys

[UnwindedDreams]

Stevie is on a creative turn since The Lighthouse. This is really uplifting for a fan who has been left bored with her cranking out the classics casino setlist for years.

[bwboy]

Uh oh! I hope her new song wasn’t written specifically about the wildfires in California, but the timing makes me think it will be. Message songs are not her forte.

Hope I’m wrong.

[UnwindedDreams]

Uh oh! I hope her new song wasn’t written specifically about the wildfires in California, but the timing makes me think it will be. Message songs are not her forte.

Hope I’m wrong.
IMO, her 2020s songs aren’t her best, but I still love hearing new songs from her and I’m proud of her for returning to being an artist rather than an oldies act.

[David]

So this will be broadcast on Prime and Max, I guess.

I’d like to see some of the other acts, too. I miss the old days of lengthy multi-bill festivals, with acts often sharing the stage.

[bombaysaffires]

Irving Azoff did an interview about the benefit concert

https://www.theringer.com/podcasts/the-town-with-matthew-belloni/2025/01/29/irving-azoff-on-his-a-list-l-a-fireaid-concert-and-six-decades-in-the-music-business

It runs about 35 mins.

At 11:27 he mentions Stevie. He says that the first call he got to participate was from Rod Stewart (whose catalog he apparently manages) and then second, Stevie. He stated that right after doing the interview he was heading down to Stevie's soundcheck which it sounds like it was the first soundcheck. It was recorded on Jan 27 which was this past Monday.

He said that Steve Ballmer owns the two buildings the shows are being held at, and Irving does all the booking for both so... Also Ballmer says he will match every dollar donated during the concert itself. When asked if the recording of the concert will be available after the fact, Azoff said it would stay up maybe a week.

He wouldn't say who will be opening the show, but he said it will be two artists who were the first to offer to participate....and I thought I had heard Stevie was one of them

[bombaysaffires]

Welp....it's official.....per Stevie, there IS a god because...her house didn't burn when so many others around her did. This, to an arena full of people many of whom lost their only house and all their possessions..... you just can't make it up..... guess god skipped over their homes...:distress:

So far: Stand Back, Landslide, Edge

[justcrazylove]

oooft, how my eyes rolled!

She somehow managed to make the LA Fires about herself. God, she has jumped the shark. That and she sounded terrible...this era of her voice is painful. :rolleyes:

[sorcerer999]

Stevie will sing a new song at the concert tomorrow: https://x.com/concertleaks/status/1884651871207645624?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet&mx=2

Lies. All lies.

And as per usual, she talked too long in between songs and told the audience there is a God because her house was saved from the fires. It was soooooo cringe.

What's worse is that she said her "1938 built home" was all wood and if it had caught on fire, it would have spread to the houses on both sides of hers. Because her house didn't catch on fire, the others didn't and so she said "her house saved the neighborhood." :rolleyes:

Jesus F***ing Chr*st! I just can't anymore with her narcissism.

[reebokandlace]

I clicked on this to watch a snippet of the show and was bemused by the closed captioning:


https://x.com/sopitasfm/status/1885213478799163457

[Villavic]

It's usual to hear people mentioning God or "it's a miracle" when something really good happens to them, survive, are safe, etc. For example many refer to the plane accident of the Alive (Society of Snow) movie, as the "Miracle in the Andes". But though it could be a miracle for 16 people, it wasn't for 29, so out of respect for their families, I always prefer to avoid defining those events as a miracle.

[Steviegirl]

I've had very little good to say about Stevie since 2018, but tbh, she sounds a lot better and seems to have a lot more energy for this crowd than she's had for the past several years for those of us who have supported her for decades and kept her in the lap of luxury.

It's getting so tiresome to see these older people in our country who never seem to learn from their mistakes. She made horrible privileged comments after the Maui fires and now sounds tone deaf again in her comments about these fires. Smh.

[bwboy]

It's getting so tiresome to see these older people in our country who never seem to learn from their mistakes. She made horrible privileged comments after the Maui fires and now sounds tone deaf again in her comments about these fires. Smh.

I was horrified when I read the comments here Stevie made, but then I read this in the LA Times: “Gonna go a little rogue here,” Stevie Nicks says as she recounts the night that the fires raced towards her Palisades home, a 1938 wood house that miraculously survived thanks to firefighters from Santa Rosa. “I cannot believe the bravery of these men,” she says. From the stage she gives them a special dedication of Landslide, which has got to be an all-timer of a thank you. Stevie sometimes hits the autopilot in concert these days- hey, she’s been at it awhile- but this Landslide is stunning: a full-bodied immersion into the certainty that life is gonna throw you for a loop now and then.

Several acts mentioned personal vignettes about how they were affected by the fires.

[Villavic]

I liked Landslide a lot. She sang it very well. Stand Back, not that much, same as EoS. And I read some critics about her voice performance in SB. But I loved Landslide.

Stevie will sing a new song at the concert tomorrow: https://x.com/concertleaks/status/1884651871207645624?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet&mx=2

So there wasn't any now song, was there? How reliable is that concertleaks twitter account? It said Stevie Nicks will reportedly be playing an unreleased song at the FireAid Benefit Concert tomorrow night!. Is there any article, video where she actually said that?

[sleepless child]

It was Lady Gaga who had the new song. Someone goofed. I live on the East Coast and stayed up to see Stevie. She came on after one. I don't know why I expected anything different. Same band, same clothes, same hair. But the bangs were good and she wore the boots. Stand Back was a bit rough and the backing vocals at first were off. You could only hear the bassist singing, but it got corrected. I cringed when she said she was going Rouge. I think when you talk about your mansion getting saved while so many lost their homes is not the best approach but I think she saved herself when she got back to the script. Those firefighters are so brave. Landslide was perfect and I hate a shortened EOS but she crushed the ending. I knew she would bring out the Tambo. I actually got chills and I've heard this song thousands of times. It was so funny when the staged moved and she said I'm moving and I don't know why. She is such a Grandma. And I know, cause I'm a Grandma

[Villavic]

I didn't see the whole event, but besides Landslide, it was nice to see Rod. And specially Fogerty singing Have You Ever Seen the Rain?. I love that song.

[Macfan4life]

Lies. All lies.

And as per usual, she talked too long in between songs and told the audience there is a God because her house was saved from the fires. It was soooooo cringe.

What's worse is that she said her "1938 built home" was all wood and if it had caught on fire, it would have spread to the houses on both sides of hers. Because her house didn't catch on fire, the others didn't and so she said "her house saved the neighborhood." :rolleyes:

Jesus F***ing Chr*st! I just can't anymore with her narcissism.
OMG are you serious? Its almost like a parody someone wrote and we had to guess is it a parody or is it really Stevie. Her Hawaii fire post was so self centered and arrogant. I suppose at her age and for living in a bubble for so long we should expect it.
If she said this babbling from the stage high on coke in 1983 it would be funny. But with the length of time she's been in this bubble its all about her.
We can all praise God because Stevie's wooden house saved California!!!!!!!

[bombaysaffires]

She did sorta salvage it by the end by remembering to add in a comment about the brave firefighters, but it was almost like an afterthought. She referred to her house as "she" and how "she" saved the neighborhood. Just focus on the firefighters FFS.

[bombaysaffires]

here's her speech:
https://x.com/BSidesTV/status/1885214523860410494

"God saved that house for me because without that house I don't know what I would have done" uuuhhhh....gone to your other house? Stayed in the penthouse at a posh hotel??

[sleepless child]

She has a home in Hawaii. A mobile home and her Penthouse. I thought she lived in the condo penthouse anyway.

[UnwindedDreams]

I liked Landslide a lot. She sang it very well. Stand Back, not that much, same as EoS. And I read some critics about her voice performance in SB. But I loved Landslide.



So there wasn't any now song, was there? How reliable is that concertleaks twitter account? It said Stevie Nicks will reportedly be playing an unreleased song at the FireAid Benefit Concert tomorrow night!. Is there any article, video where she actually said that?
https://digital.abcaudio.com/news/fireaid-concerts-who-said-yes-first-who-got-turned-down-and-why-surprise-moments-are-planned

[UnwindedDreams]

I was horrified when I read the comments here Stevie made, but then I read this in the LA Times: “Gonna go a little rogue here,” Stevie Nicks says as she recounts the night that the fires raced towards her Palisades home, a 1938 wood house that miraculously survived thanks to firefighters from Santa Rosa. “I cannot believe the bravery of these men,” she says. From the stage she gives them a special dedication of Landslide, which has got to be an all-timer of a thank you. Stevie sometimes hits the autopilot in concert these days- hey, she’s been at it awhile- but this Landslide is stunning: a full-bodied immersion into the certainty that life is gonna throw you for a loop now and then.

Several acts mentioned personal vignettes about how they were affected by the fires.
Watch her remarks in the video online, bwboy. They sound different than the article excerpt you shared. Not everything she said that night before Landslide is in that excerpt. She should have just read the teleprompter but she, being the original DJT of classic rock entertainment, went off script and displayed her usual poor syntax in spontaneous public speaking. Her house saved the neighborhood.

[reebokandlace]

She has a home in Hawaii. A mobile home and her Penthouse. I thought she lived in the condo penthouse anyway.

I think the condo is where she spends most of her time.

[bombaysaffires]

I think the condo is where she spends most of her time.

But that hangs out over the PCH which large sections of were destroyed by fire, especially north of her in Malibu...so...maybe her team got her further away than that. I'd kinda hope so.