10-22-02 Birmingham UK The Sanctuary - the Fugazi live series

Fugazi are one of my favourite bands and I would advise anyone who even pretends to like rock music to try and hear one of their songs. Their influence is immense. Their CDs are cheap.

I'm writing about this particular CD because it is an official live recording of a concert that I was at in Birmingham in 2002. It was a very good show in an old converted church. Fugazi are a band from Washington DC and at the time of this show some very crazy people were driving around Washington and shooting random people. The band were worried and angry about the situation in their home town (they talk about it on this CD) and they played an extremely energetic show. This CD is good but being there was better.

Fugazi run their own record label (www.dischord.com) and have sold hundreds of thousands of CDs over the past 16 years. They tape all of their shows and their drummer, Joe Lally, started selling cheap official live CDs from a website a couple of years ago. The cds cost around 8 quid for a concert (usually 2 cds/24 songs). The CDs are as-is with no post-production. They are really for hardcore geeks (like me) and can be found at http://www.fugaziliveseries.com/

I've seen them 3 times and they have been very good each time. If you haven't heard the band and want to check them try 13 songs or in on the killtaker. It's intelligent angry music that has been copied a million times. Not to everyones taste but worth a try.

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