Live Updates from FireAid: Billie Eilish, Lady Gaga, no doubt and more

Less than three weeks after a series of historic fires killed 29 people and destroyed more than 16,000 structures in the Los Angeles area, more than two dozen the music’s biggest names have gathered for FireAid Benefit Concert: “A evening of music and solidarity,” as the organizers describes it, intended to raise money to give relief to affected Angelenos and “prevent future fire disasters throughout southern California.”

In fact, Firaid includes two concerts – one held at Inglewood’s Intuit Dome and the other about a kilometer north on Prairie Avenue on the Kia Forum. Actions on the bill include Billie Eilish, Lady Gaga, Green Day, Joni Mitchell, Olivia Rodrigo, Stevie Wonder, Katy Perry, Peso Pluma, Stevie Nicks, no doubt and Red Hot Chili Peppers, among many others. Produced by a team of music industry veterans led by Irving Azoff and his family, FireAid is scheduled to begin Wednesday at. 18.00 Pacific Time and will be live streamed on a variety of platforms including Netflix, Hulu, Max, Apple TV+, Prime Video and Twitch. Connie and Steve Ballmer, who owns Clippers as well as the Intuit Dome and the Forum, have promised to match all donations given during the show.

The Times’ Mikael Wood and August Brown are on site and give live updates when they happen.

17:45 Hello from the floor of the forum for the early shift of Fireaid, which may not be quite the music’s biggest night (it’s Grammys on Sunday), but it definitely feels like that later. Dave Matthews fell from the bill for a family’s emergency, but still in store here is Alanis Morissette, Anderson .paak, John Mayer, Dawes, Graham Nash, Green Day, John Fogerty, Joni Mitchell, no doubt, P! NK, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Stephen Stills, Stevie Nicks and Black Crowes. Interested in seeing how Dawes works, given two members lost home or studios in Altadena. (August Brown)

18:11 And greetings from a very empty intuit dome, where the music will get started at. 7:30 – A message that seems to have reached the people of La Loud and Clear. Fireaid organizers have said that the forum bill pours rock while the set up at Intuit is more pop. Wonder what Rod Stewart (the bill here) thinks about it. (Mikael Wood)