Nirvana reunited for the second time in two weeks for Saturday Night time Reside‘s SNL 50: The Homecoming live performance, this time with Put up Malone on vocals. Try the footage under.
The enduring band’s surviving members Krist Novoselic, Dave Grohl and Pat Smear made their first shock look on the FireAid profit live performance in January, the place they teamed up with St. Vincent, Kim Gordon, Joan Jett and Grohl’s daughter Violet to carry out a string of best hits.
Now, they’ve returned as soon as extra in honour of the fiftieth anniversary celebrations for SNL, which befell final evening (February 14). It got here after Grohl was introduced as a performer earlier this month, although it wasn’t clear if he can be showing with Nirvana, Foo Fighters or solo.
This time, their lead vocalist was Put up Malone, who beforehand carried out a 15-song set of Nirvana covers throughout 2020’s lockdown, alongside Blink-182’s Travis Barker. On the time, Grohl praised Malone‘s efficiency, calling it “tremendous cool”.
The lineup was launched by Adam Sandler, earlier than they went on to play ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’. Test it out under.
Nirvana reunite once more! This time with Put up Malone on vocals on the SNL50 live performance pic.twitter.com/zbFGQFCaxP
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Celebrations will proceed on Sunday (February 16) with the SNL 50 Anniversary Particular, for which Paul McCartney, Sabrina Carpenter, Paul Simon have already been introduced.
SNL has been celebrating its fiftieth anniversary, launching its fiftieth season in late September. Among the many content material deliberate and already rolled out for its fiftieth anniversary are the function movie Saturday Night time, a Questlove-helmed documentary specializing in the programming’s music and extra.
In a three-star evaluate of Saturday Night time, Jordan Bassett wrote for NME: “The movie lacks narrative drive and real comedy, then. Because it barrels in direction of its inevitable conclusion, although, a humorous factor occurs. Out of the chaos emerges a slightly inspiring ode to creating it up as you go alongside, dwelling within the second, saying ‘sure’ and hoping for the perfect.
“You might wind up with a “half-assed rat-fuck donkey present”, as Dafoe fabulously seethes at one level, or you could create historical past. It’s this that – nearly – makes Saturday Night time price watching. As any improv comic may inform you: keep it up and also you’ll encounter gold.”
