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Digital
Fugazi preparing online gig archive
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 3 May 2011
Fugazi have been on hiatus for twelve years now, but in that time all four members have worked on numerous projects. What may turn out to be their most ambitious is a massive archive of videos of the band performing live currently being prepared to be put online.
Frontman Ian Mackaye told Approaching Oblivion: “I wanted it to be up last fall … We had to digitise every show, they are on cassette and DAT for the most part. So we got that stuff done. Now we’re in the process of mastering all the shows so they play at the same volume. That stage is not too hard, it’s pretty mechanical, there’s a mastering program that does most of the work. Then we have to edit the shows which means we have to put in index points in between every song so they are not these two hour long files”.
He added: “It’s a fuck of a lot of work. We’re hoping it will be up in the near future. The idea at the moment is to start it with 100 shows. Then put 20 more on every month or something. We’re still building the site, it’s an interesting and complicated process”.
Mackaye also commented on the possibility of Fugazi once again playing together again, perhaps adding some more films to this archive. He said: “The four of us love each other dearly … We didn’t break up, I coined the indefinite hiatus term specifically because I thought it was absurd to break up … It is entirely possible that we will play again and it’s also possible that we won’t … We’ve been offered an insane amount of money to play reunions, but it’s not going to be money that brings us back together, we would only play music together if we wanted to play music together and the time allowed it”.
