I got to see them a few times in Chicago, and once I think at Fort Reno in DC, though the fact I can't remember the DC show that well makes me think maybe I didnt and it was someone else. I wish I was 5 years older because I probably would have seen them a lot more.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 26 April 2018 20:48 (six years ago) link
I must have been at that Brixton gig. Still one of the best live shows I've ever seen. I was probably a little wasted, but I don't *think* I got pissed on.
my other main memory, beyond it being awesome, was of a reveller bounding onstage, and MacKaye grabbing him by the neck, pushing him to the side of the stage, and then walloping him with his guitar.
― Lou Grant, the Iranian cinema of late '70s TV (stevie), Thursday, 26 April 2018 22:10 (six years ago) link
And SGs have all those pointy bits too.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 26 April 2018 22:17 (six years ago) link
I'm still not sure Ian did it, or if the passage of time has made me romanticise my memory of it.
The show was fucking amazing, though. Guy was like a ballerina, the Nijinsky of punk rock. So glad I got to see them as many times as I did.
― Lou Grant, the Iranian cinema of late '70s TV (stevie), Thursday, 26 April 2018 22:37 (six years ago) link
Just sayin' ...
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1950118003/fort-reno-concert-series-50th-anniversary-fundrais?ref=project_build
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 1 June 2018 17:09 (six years ago) link
I finished the Gross book last night and it was good. He's a good writer and has a good handle on the subject, Fugazi are, in spite of their rep, a kind of catty/funny band, at least when talking about themselves. I liked how he built up a context for the record and then broke down each song.
I think it could have stood one more editorial pass, it is sort of littered with typos which was kind of annoying. And there was the odd weird line, like the Davis/Van Gelder, Dre/Jay-Z one mentioned earlier which I don't think was a mistake exactly as much as a clumsy analogy. There were a couple things like that that could have used a tweak.
― chr1sb3singer, Tuesday, 26 June 2018 12:43 (six years ago) link
Ian Mackaye and Amy Farina (from Evens, husband & wife) did 2 songs unbilled for free at Fort Reno Park in DC last night as part of the 50th anniversary season of free concerts there (bring food, and dogs but no alcohol...7 to 9:45 pm local bands Monday & Thursdays in July and part of August). They started with a Lungfish cover and then went into another song. Lungfish one was kinda dirge-like but melodic(with mostly just Amy singing), second one was more fast-tempoed (more Ian-like) with Ian's guitar louder, and Amy on lead vocals but Ian chiming in as well vocally.
The Messthetics (w/ Brendan and Joe from Fugazi) were at Fort Reno the week before.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 20 July 2018 16:18 (six years ago) link
The other night during a World Series game at Fenway Park they played part of Fugazi "Waiting Room" as the umps were waiting for a review of a challenged umpire call. The organist there picks the songs and he has played that one before
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 27 October 2018 04:26 (five years ago) link
I'm intrigued by Brixton venues in the mid 90s. I thought most of the ones i was familiar with from the 80s had closed down before i left london.Were Fugazi big enough for the Academy.
Fridge and Mule Club both had ceased to be by the turn of the 90s at least hadn't they?
― Stevolende, Saturday, 27 October 2018 21:18 (five years ago) link
I swam Fugazi at the Academy in, I think '94. Probably my favourite gig.
Saw the Beta Band at the Fridge in, bloody hell, 2001?
― Have the Rams stopped screaming yet, Lloris? (Chinaski), Saturday, 27 October 2018 21:30 (five years ago) link
Swam! Christ. Saw, obvs.
Supporting Marillion is what I'm seeing listed.Odd combination?Though I think they had a song called fugazi or something similar didn't they?
― Stevolende, Saturday, 27 October 2018 21:35 (five years ago) link
Tell a lie, 1995: https://www.dischord.com/fugazi_live_series/london-england-51395
― Have the Rams stopped screaming yet, Lloris? (Chinaski), Saturday, 27 October 2018 21:38 (five years ago) link
xp Or not as the case may be, that was Marillion touring their lp of the title.I guess London is a lot larger than places i lived later so a band like Fugazi might have just been big enough to headline by the mid 90s.JUst wasn't thinking of them being taht large since the last place I think I saw them was McGonagles. NOt sure fi i saw them again after that which was the first time I went to Dublin.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 27 October 2018 21:41 (five years ago) link
I'm not entirely sure Fugazi ever opened for anyone.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 27 October 2018 22:13 (five years ago) link
you might be right!
― portugal. the bland (sleeve), Saturday, 27 October 2018 22:17 (five years ago) link
Fugazi opening for Marillion would have been the greatest gig ever, obv.
― Position Position, Saturday, 27 October 2018 22:20 (five years ago) link
Fugazi were big enough to play the Barrowlands in Glasgow as far back as the Repeater tour, there were four bands (including the mighty Dawson) iirc for £6 and that might have helped somewhat.
― MaresNest, Saturday, 27 October 2018 22:54 (five years ago) link
Yeah Dawson were pretty great. Saw them somewhere around the turn of the 90s, may have been tied in with the Membranes network.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 27 October 2018 22:58 (five years ago) link
I saw Fugazi at the Brixton Academy in I think 1992, £5 tickets or something like that as they always kept it affordable. Didn't like them as I recall but hey at least it didn't set me back much.
― GG Allin: The Musical (Matt #2), Saturday, 27 October 2018 23:00 (five years ago) link
I also saw Marillion at the same venue on the Fugazi tour lol
― GG Allin: The Musical (Matt #2), Saturday, 27 October 2018 23:01 (five years ago) link
That Fugazi/Dawson Barrowlands show was £5 (£3 for the unemployed) and also had Silverfish and Chumbawamba on the bill.
Dawson were great that night.
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Saturday, 27 October 2018 23:03 (five years ago) link
Time in Glasgow before that was the Mayfair with Dawson and the Stretchheads, which is some bill.
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Saturday, 27 October 2018 23:05 (five years ago) link
I'm not entirely sure Fugazi ever opened for anyone.― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, October 27, 2018 3:13 PM (one hour ago)
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, October 27, 2018 3:13 PM (one hour ago)
https://noisey.vice.com/en_au/article/kzz9mx/30-years-ago-fugazi-played-their-first-show-as-a-three-piece
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 27 October 2018 23:53 (five years ago) link
heh, debut gig makes sense for sure
Besides being one of the only times that the DC punk legends opened a show
I wonder what the other ones were?
― sleeve, Saturday, 27 October 2018 23:57 (five years ago) link
Their second show (first as a 4-piece) was opening for Kingface:https://i.imgur.com/I02xydI.jpg
Elderly chapel hill/carrboro punkers may recognize the Slush Puppies as Mac Superchunk's pre-WWAX band.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Sunday, 28 October 2018 00:00 (five years ago) link
cool, thanks!
― sleeve, Sunday, 28 October 2018 00:14 (five years ago) link
Dunno about the Mule Club but the Fridge didn't close til 2010 (although I hadn't been there since 2001), the Electric Brixton is there now but doesn't have any link to the Fridge club. Before the Fridge it was the Brixton Ace (used to have a lot of hardcore/anarcho punk gigs there, Conflict/Exploited/etc)
― Colonel Poo, Sunday, 28 October 2018 00:17 (five years ago) link
Mule Club was the one hosted by the avant rock band God in the pub behind the fire station. Can't remember its name.Was the stageless place that once had a review with one guy having to drag up a chair to stage dive off.was on every Friday night and had some great bands at.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 28 October 2018 12:07 (five years ago) link
Canterbury Arms. They used to put shows on at the Queen's Head sometimes as well.
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Sunday, 28 October 2018 13:00 (five years ago) link
First saw Fugazi at Brixton Academy on the Red Medicine tour. They were amazing, but my overwhelming memory is of watching a guy who was truly shit-faced drunk running into the toilets, slipping and ending up head-first in the urinal, steeped in piss, and thinking, "That's not very straight-edge, is it?"
― Defund Phil Collins (stevie), Sunday, 28 October 2018 17:53 (five years ago) link
Fugazi is the band I most regret never seeing live. A friend saw them once and he got drunk and spent the show making out with an equally drunk woman and felt deep shame about this afterward
― joygoat, Sunday, 28 October 2018 20:56 (five years ago) link
got to see them three times but the first time on the Repeater tour was the best, they opened with "Blueprint" and closed with "Glue Man" and god damn they were great.
― sleeve, Sunday, 28 October 2018 21:18 (five years ago) link
what's weird is that they are one of my favorite bands of all time, and I think I saw them three times. And yet barely remember any of the shows.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 28 October 2018 21:25 (five years ago) link
Halfway to a reunionhttp://www.brooklynvegan.com/ian-mackaye-amy-farina-joe-lally-apparently-have-a-new-band-playing-first-show-on-sunday/?fbclid=IwAR2RYfOZWTolDWxrUwB4RL0Xmzl4jNf-beViTEbyWHsHXzFAFHnmYmTAksQ
I really want to hear what a Fugazi "Division Bell" type late career record would sound like.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 22:11 (five years ago) link
Joe and Brendan already play in that other band, with that skronk jazz guitarist. Let me know when Guy gets back into it and I'll believe they are getting their chops in order.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 22:14 (five years ago) link
yeah IDG why they want to waste time with that wanker but won't reunite
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 22:15 (five years ago) link
I saw the MC50 reunion deal the other night and my friend I was with joked pre-show "I wonder if Brendan will have the bell with him in the kit" and we laughed but sure enough he did and I weirdly got chills. Seeing the bell was basically the best part of the show!
Having said that a Brendan Canty-Billy Gould-Kim Thayil band would be fucking amazing based on that gig though.
When Kramer intro'd the band, the roar in Mpls for Brendan & Fugazi was huge, twice as loud as for Soundgarden, easy.
I don't really want Fugazi to reunite, I would completely go if they did.
― chr1sb3singer, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 22:27 (five years ago) link
Hope they never reunite tbh
― I want to change my display name (dan m), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 22:54 (five years ago) link
I do wish more bands would break up and stay broken up.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 22:57 (five years ago) link
Was there not a quote in a fairly recent interview with one of Fugazi along the lines that they get together and play for fun every now and then? I’m all for that, playing music together when they get a chance but without it having to Be Something.
― michaellambert, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 23:14 (five years ago) link
Yeah, they have all said at various times that they get together to jam and what not. I might have posted earlier that I know someone who knows Guy, and he is always teasing Guy about not reuniting Fugazi, and Guy always, maybe with false modesty maybe who knows, claims that no one is really that interested, and if they did it would have to be pretty much all new material, but the amount of effort it would take to drum up all the material and be up to snuff musically might be too much. Having seen Joe and Brendan play in that lark recently, they seem pretty up to snuff.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 23:31 (five years ago) link
I think Guy lives in NYC these days, while the rest are in the DC area.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 7 November 2018 14:13 (five years ago) link
Saw the unnamed Ian, Amy, and Joe band in DC (free show though donations encourage to a church's feed the homeless program). They were just ok-- a mix of Evens like vocals, some Fugazi like vocals from Ian, and fugazi style dub reggae influenced bass and drum rhythms. I was kinda hoping they'd go off in different directions than their prior outfits, but that mostly didn't happen. Most of the comments on Facebook and twitter I saw were more positive than mine about their sound btw (although a few folks i spoke to agreed with me). I liked Fugazi back in the day, but this is just kinda there. Oh Guy came down from NY to watch. Lotsa of other Dischord and DC punk folks there too -- from Bratmobile, Fire Party, Priests, Kingface...
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 14 November 2018 06:28 (five years ago) link
This made my day. #minorthreat #saladdays #dischordrecords. pic.twitter.com/CAdF854uB2— bernie (@bernie) November 17, 2018
― j., Saturday, 17 November 2018 04:56 (five years ago) link
Aww
― The Poppy Bush AutoZone (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 17 November 2018 13:21 (five years ago) link
Senior Threat
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 17 November 2018 13:49 (five years ago) link
Messthetics record is good! they're supporting Michael Rother in london in a few weeks, should be a good night.
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 17:02 (five years ago) link
I had a hilariously mundane dream about these guys a week or so ago, that I missed a one-off reunion show and was reading really good things about it on the internet.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 16 January 2019 18:40 (five years ago) link
What a band.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 8 April 2019 20:15 (five years ago) link