Fugazi: C or D?

My only Fugazi show was one of 2 or 3 sold out gigs at the Congress Theater in Chicago, it seemed like a huuuge crowd at the time.

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.

It's worth noting that one major takeaway from a book (much of which is taken from getting the guys in a room and letting them talk) is that they're all (as reported) still really good friends. Just, well, hard to get in a room together.

Per Joe they occasionally get together and prac, though just for themselves

https://pitchfork.com/news/fugazi-play-music-together-in-private-joe-lally-says/

Also the clips I've seen of the opera based on Fugazi stage banter are a fucking mind-blow.

They were a good as hell band

i've been a little surprised that they haven't done occasional one-off benefit shows over the years

Also the thank you note that Fugazi wrote to Steve is attached via magnet on the Electrical Audio fridge (or was last time I was there)

the opera based on Fugazi stage banter

wait what

https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/fugazi-returns-through-opera/

The 100-minute performance, created with the band’s approval and endorsement, samples the sounds of “random feedback, aimless drum noodling, pre-show activist speeches, audience hecklers, and the police breaking up gigs” found in the countless hours of archival Fugazi live recordings in existence.

One of the clips heard there was a little peal of guitar feedback and some drum clatter and I was "oh that's Fugazi" in about two seconds

wow, thanks

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.

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.

And SGs have all those pointy bits too.

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.

Just sayin' ...

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1950118003/fort-reno-concert-series-50th-anniversary-fundrais?ref=project_build

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.

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.

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

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?

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?

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?

Tell a lie, 1995: https://www.dischord.com/fugazi_live_series/london-england-51395

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.

I'm not entirely sure Fugazi ever opened for anyone.

you might be right!

Fugazi opening for Marillion would have been the greatest gig ever, obv.

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.

Yeah Dawson were pretty great. Saw them somewhere around the turn of the 90s, may have been tied in with the Membranes network.

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.

I also saw Marillion at the same venue on the Fugazi tour lol

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.

Time in Glasgow before that was the Mayfair with Dawson and the Stretchheads, which is some bill.

I'm not entirely sure Fugazi ever opened for anyone.

― 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

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?

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.

cool, thanks!

Fridge and Mule Club both had ceased to be by the turn of the 90s at least hadn't they?

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)

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.

Canterbury Arms. They used to put shows on at the Queen's Head sometimes as well.

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?"

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

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.

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.

Halfway to a reunion
http://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.

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.

yeah IDG why they want to waste time with that wanker but won't reunite

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.

Hope they never reunite tbh

I do wish more bands would break up and stay broken up.

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.