Courtney Love’s Bandmate Flew to Help on Ukraine’s Front Line

SLAVYANSK, Ukraine—It was the heavy metal scene that first drew former rockstar Lisa Roberts to Ukraine.

She’d rubbed shoulders with the West Coast grunge icons of the ’90s as a founding member of the band Hole with Courtney Love, and she’s stayed plugged into the music world ever since.

“I had a lot of friends here in the metal community before the war. In Ukraine, they’re big on it, on heavy metal. I had friends all over, and it started with raising money to pay for an Uber to get a friend’s wife and kid out to Moldova. It was $425, I remember exactly. Then a friend of mine, from the Kyiv band Sabotage Rising, was in the part of Kyiv that was basically invaded, and we kept in touch as much as we could. He spent a month in the goddamn subway,” Roberts told The Daily Beast.

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