Fugazi: C or D?

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.

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.

I think Guy lives in NYC these days, while the rest are in the DC area.

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...

This made my day. #minorthreat #saladdays #dischordrecords. pic.twitter.com/CAdF854uB2

— bernie (@bernie) November 17, 2018

Aww

Senior Threat

Messthetics record is good! they're supporting Michael Rother in london in a few weeks, should be a good night.

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.

What a band.

weird

Let us all work to get Fugazi to reunite, play at our Arena, we will compensate the band, and make a major donation to local charities in their names, it has been too long. They resonate well with all generations, we miss them. Check this out. https://t.co/c7HcqHWY4l

— Ted Leonsis (@TedLeonsis) May 13, 2019

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"Hope they play Glue Man. No slam-dancing in the pit!"

Billionaire Caps & Wizards owner Leonsis is clueless and cheap. While his predecessor the late Abe Pollin built the Capital One Arena largely with his own money, Leonsis is always hitting up DC taxpayers for $ to upgrade the arena, and to pay for the SE Mystics WNBA Arena. The Se Fort Dupont recreation arena needs big bucks to be refurbished & Leonis gave just 100,000 as part of a go fund me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_Ce5kgPWOY

LOL, Alice Donut. My friend got his shoulder dislocated at one of their shows.

https://coriky.bandcamp.com/

Ian & Joe from Fugazi plus Amy Farina ( who was in Evens with Ian). A hybrid of those 2 groups. 1 song out now, album coming. At DC area gigs they were requesting no video.

Formed in 2015, Coriky did not play their first show until 2018. They have recorded one album. They hope to tour.

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TRACK LIST
1. Clean Kill
2. Hard to Explain
3. Say Yes
4. Have a Cup of Tea
5. Too Many Husbands
6. BQM
7. Last Thing
8. Jack Says
9. Shedileebop
10. Inauguration Day
11. Woulda Coulda

coriky will play some shows...

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the drumming on that could be better imo, but I like it better than the Evens based on that track.

I like the drumming! though it is closer to Fugazi than the Evens so might start drawing comparisons to one of the great rhythm sections in rock history which isn't totally fair imo

the drumming is great

vocal harmonies on the chorus are great

Haven’t listened to the recorded stuff, but I saw Coricky a few months ago and her drumming was probably the most interesting element.

They hope to tour.

They have a few gigs coming up in DC, VA, Pa.

Ian’s guitar chords and vocals are too drawn from Fugazi for me. Glad Farina’s vocals are there

I am loving this

Amy's a great drummer, with incredible touch. I thought the first two Evens records were really fresh. Last one was a bit of a bummer and I worried that it was all over. Very psyched to check this out.

yeah I liked the Evens first record a lot

School of Rock Headliners & Junior Headliners Rocky River, Ohio perform at Whiskey Island in Cleveland, Ohio on August 4th 2018.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIZD9WFpWZo