Brenden Canty has opened up in regards to the potential of a Fugazi reunion, revealing that there’s “at all times a lingering likelihood” of the band reuniting.
The drummer of the legendary D.C. DIY hardcore band – comprised of Canty, Ian Mackaye, Man Picciotto and Joe Lally – appeared as a visitor in a brand new video interview with White Lake Productions and opened up about Fugazi and the opportunity of a reunion.
“There’s at all times a lingering likelihood that we’re going to get again collectively, and I imply it turns into much less and fewer possible, however there have been occasions all through the final 22 years that we have now gotten collectively and performed for typically every week at a time, and we at all times see one another on the town, and we’re at all times engaged on different reissue tasks,” Canty shared.
He continued: “I imply, we’re simply in one another’s lives rather a lot so, you realize, it’s less than me whether or not we get the band again collectively. If it was as much as me, we’d be on the market enjoying, but it surely’s not that simple.”
Shaped in 1986 after the disbandment of MacKaye’s band Minor Risk, Fugazi turned well-known for his or her DIY ethos inside the hardcore scene, releasing all of their music through Dischord Information – MacKaye’s unbiased label – and their prioritisation of preserving ticket costs inexpensive and their emphasis on creating neighborhood inside the scene.
The band launched six studio albums inside their profession, with the ultimate LP being 2001’s ‘The Argument’. Fugazi went on an “indefinite hiatus” following the tip of their 2002 UK tour, following three sold-out reveals at London’s O2 Discussion board in Kentish City.
In a earlier interview from 2011 with the Approaching Oblivion weblog, MacKaye revealed that the band had been “provided an insane sum of money to play reunions” however shared that “it’s not going to be cash that brings us again collectively, we might solely play music collectively if we wished to play music collectively and the time allowed it.”
In 2019, Lally and Canty have been interviewed by Louder Sound and mentioned the opportunity of a reunion with Lally saying: “You by no means wish to say by no means about something, as a result of how will you say that in regards to the future? However there does appear to be a scarcity of time to permit it to occur, as a result of the 4 of us would have to spend so much of time collectively to determine, ‘Ought to we play outdated songs?’ ‘Who’re we now?’ ‘What’s it now?’ We’re not the form of band to get collectively and simply rehearse two hours of outdated songs to exit and play it, rake within the dough and are available residence.”
Canty added: “If we obtained again collectively it must be from the spirit of creativity. It could be completely different if we obtained again collectively.
