Rare Fugazi Footage to Screen in Washington, D.C. for 20th Anniversary of Last Show

This 12 months marks the twentieth anniversary of Fugazi’s final public present. To have fun that, Washington, D.C. space movie show AFI Silver is screening a 90-minute-long assortment of “crowd-sourced, fan-recorded dwell reveals and uncommon archival footage” known as We Are Fugazi From Washington, DC. The one-night-only screening takes place on February 11 and, as is to be anticipated, tickets value $5. See the poster under. 

We Are Fugazi From Washington, DC was curated by Joe Gross, Joseph Pattisall, and Jeff Krulik. This system consists of footage shot by filmmaker Lance Bangs, who shared a number of videos teasing it on social media. The AFI Silver occasion web page specifies that the screening is “not a documentary,” however somewhat a method to “have fun the followers and their cameras, as a lot because the band itself — a collision/collusion of the ephemeral second on stage, and the moments captured on digicam.”

Fugazi launched their final album, The Argument, in 2001. After concluding their U.Okay. tour in assist of the LP on November 4, 2002, the post-hardcore band stated they have been occurring an “indefinite hiatus.” Fugazi have by no means carried out dwell in public since then, though the members have performed music collectively in personal a number of instances. In 2014, Fugazi launched First Demo, which was recorded in 1988 at Internal Ear Studio after the band had solely performed 10 reveals.

Ian MacKaye, Joe Lally, and Brendan Canty have gone on to type numerous side-projects through the years, together with the Evens, the Messthetics, and Coriky. As for Man Picciotto, he’s produced albums for Blonde Redhead, the Blood Brothers, Gossip, and others.

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