Fugazi Live Series

Fugazi Live Series
Set 1, release 1
Live album by
Fugazi
ReleasedApril 2004–present
Recorded1987–2002
GenrePost-hardcore
Lengthvarious
LabelFugazi Live Series
ProducerFugazi
Fugazi chronology
The Argument
(2001) 		Fugazi Live Series
(2004) 		First Demo
(2014)
Alternative cover
Set 2, release 1

The Fugazi Live Series is a series of live recordings by American post-hardcore band Fugazi, released on CD in 2004 and 2005 and also on the official Dischord Records Fugazi Live Series website for download beginning on December 1, 2011. As of May 2025, 898 concert recordings have been released for download.[1]

Background

Between 1987 and 2003, Fugazi played about 1,048 concerts in all 50 US states and all over the world. Approximately 952 of these shows were recorded by the band's sound engineers. Beginning in 2004 and continuing into 2005, Fugazi launched a 30 CD Live Series that featured concerts from various points in their career, which were made available for sale via Dischord Records. Continuing with the live series concept and after several years of development on December 1, 2011, Fugazi launched a comprehensive Live Series website through Dischord Records that features 130 of the band's concerts available for download at the suggested price of $5 each or a "pay what you want" sliding scale option for each download between $1 – $100 with the goal of eventually making all recorded shows available for purchase. As of May 2025, all but 54 of the recorded shows are available. For $500 fans can also purchase an "All Access" privilege which will include access to any future concerts and downloads added to the site.[2]

While each concert was professionally mastered, the recordings capture everything that happened onstage and for preservation's sake the band chose not to edit anything out, singer/guitarist Guy Picciotto explained to the New York Times "“We liked this idea of, ‘Let’s just let it be everything,’ “ Mr. Picciotto said. “There doesn’t have to be the idea that this is the great, golden document. It’s all there, and it’s not cleaned up. You get what you get.” The sound quality also varies as the earliest recordings were made to cassettes, then eventually digital formats such as DAT, CD-R and ultimately hard-drives were used. Each concert page also includes fliers, photographs and ticket stubs. As a career-spanning archival project, the Fugazi Live Series has few equals, putting the band in the company of acts like the Grateful Dead, Phish, and Pearl Jam, some of the only other artists with such a large volume of concerts available for purchase.[3]

Discography

1987 Fall/Winter Regional Dates
Date City, State Country Venue FLS# Recorded? Available? Link Flyer Played With:
September 3 Washington, DC USA Wilson Center 1 Yes [4] 1 Marginal Man, Ignition, Fire Party
September 26 St. Stephen's Church Cafeteria 2 [5] 1 Sarcastic Orgasm, Darkness at Noon, Swiz
September 27 Chapel Hill, NC Cat's Cradle 3 No [6] 1 Slush Puppies, Days Of
October 7 Richmond, VA New Horizons 4 Yes [7] N/A Oi Polloi, Killjoy
October 16 Washington, DC DC Space 5 [8] 1 Kingface
November Frederick, MD Weinberg Center 6 [9] 1 Three, Soulside, Second Nature
December 2 Bethesda, MD BCC High School 7 No [10] N/A
December 3 Washington, DC Wilson Center 8 Yes [11] 1 Soulside, The Hated, Thorns
December 4 Middletown, CT Wesleyan University Eclectic House 9 No [12] 1 Soulside
December 5 Norwalk, CT Anthrax 10 Yes [13] 1 Soulside, American Standard
December 28 Washington, DC DC Space 11 [14] 1 Darkness At Noon
1988 Winter Michigan Dates
Date City, State Country Venue FLS# Recorded? Available? Link Flyer Played With:
January 19 Ypsilanti, MI USA Eastern Michigan University 1046 Yes [15] 1 Political Science
January 20 East Lansing, MI Matt Kelly's Basement 1048 No [16] 1 Lowly Cows
January 21 Flint, MI Fallout Shelter, Capitol Theatre 12 Yes [17] 1 Smashed, Political Silence
1988 Winter/Spring Regional Dates
Date City, State Country Venue FLS# Recorded? Available? Link Flyer Played With:
February 6 Annapolis, MD USA Unitarian Church 13 Yes [18] 1 Moss Icon, Images
February Carlisle, PA Dickinson College 1050 No [19] 1 Kingface, Scram, Slush Puppies
February 20 Merrifield, VA Merrifield Community Center 14 Yes [20] 1 Shudder to Think, MFD
March 3 Washington, DC Wilson Center 15 [21] 1 Kingface, False Prophets, Fidelity Jones
March 25 New York City, NY Columbia University 16 No [22] N/A Alice Donut, Fidelity Jones
March 30 Washington, DC DC Space 17 Yes Yes [23] 1 Laughing Hyenas
April 9 Rockville, MD Montgomery College Fine Arts Building 18 No [24] 1

2

The Cynics, MFD, The Now
1988 Spring USA Tour
Date City, State Country Venue FLS# Recorded? Available? Link Flyer Played With:
April 15 Middletown, CT USA Wesleyan University Eclectic House 19 No [25] N/A Watershed
April 16 Boston, MA Green Street Station 20 Yes [26] 1

2

Patience
April 17 Providence, RI The Rocket 21 [27] 1 Verbal Assault, Operation Ivy, G.O.D.
April 28 Richmond, VA New Horizons 22 No [28] N/A
May 1 Washington, DC Lafayette Park 23 No [29] 1 The Smithtones, Twisted Teenage Plot, Dan Joseph & Rohelio Maxwell
May 5 Oberlin, OH Oberlin University Student Union Tavern 24 [30] N/A Kingface
May 6 Morgantown, WV Dry House 25 [31] 1 Das Damen
May 7 Clarksville, IN Thunderdrone Sports Complex 26 Yes No [32] 1 King Horse, Lead Pennies
May 8 Chicago, IL Club Dreamerz 27 No [33] 1 Jack Scratch, No Empathy
May 12 Bozeman, MT Sundance Saloon 28 Yes [34] N/A Homes With Pelicans
May 13 Spokane, WA 123 Arts 29 [35] Buzz Amp, The Feedback, Coffee Achievers, Free Keg
May 15 Tacoma, WA Tacoma Community World Theater 30 No [36] Brotherhood, Noise for Nothing
May 16 Olympia, WA Evergreen University - Dorm Building A, Room D303 31 Yes [37] Dangermouse, Green Eggs & Ham
May 20 Berkeley, CA 924 Gilman Street 32 [38] 1

2 3

Beatnigs, Yeastie Girlz, Crimpshrine
May 21 Long Beach, CA Zed Records 34 [39] N/A
May 22 Pamona, CA Elks Lodge 33 [40] 1 Savage Republic, Lazy Cowgirls, Public Humiliation
May 24 Tucson, AZ Park Place BBQ 35 [41] 1

2

Wind of Change, The Squares
May 26 College Station, TX Eastgate Live 36 [42] N/A Bad Mutha Goose, Hostile Union
May 27 Houston, TX Powertools 37 No [43] Bad Mutha Goose
May 28 Austin, TX Liberty Lunch 38 [44] Bad Mutha Goose, Wildseeds, Glass Eye
May 29 Dallas, TX Honest Place 39 [45] 1 Last Rites
June 3 Athens, GA 40 Watt Club 40 [46] 1 Jackonuts
June 4 Atlanta, GA First Existentialist Church 41 [47] 1

2 3 4

After Words, Final Offering
June 5 Chapel Hill, NC Cat's Cradle 42 [48] N/A Wwax
1988 Summer/Fall Regional Dates
Date City, State Country Venue FLS# Recorded? Available? Link Flyer Played With:
June 15 Washington, DC USA 9:30 Club 43 Yes [49] N/A Fire Party, Bells Of
June 30 Hoboken, NJ Maxwell's 44 [50] American Standard
July 2 Leonardtown, MD St. Mary's County Fairgrounds Auditorium 45 No [51] Moss Icon, The Hated
July 16 Virginia Beach, VA Beach Theater 46 Yes Yes [52] 1 Scream, Fire Party, Porn Orchard
July 18 Washington, DC Fort Reno 47 [53] N/A Grim Prospects
July 28 Wilson Center 48 No [54] 1

2 3 4 5

Ignition, Moss Icon, Nation of Ulysses
August 1 DC Space 49 Yes [55] 1

2 3

Parasite
August 7 Philadelphia, PA YWCA 50 [56] 1 Scram!, T.C.O.
September 11 Washington, DC Dupont Circle 51 No [57] 1

2

Fire Party, Dr. Puke, Geek, The Hated, I.E.
October 6 9:30 Club 52 Yes [58] 1

2

Honor Role, Edsel
1988 Fall European Tour
Date City, State Country Venue FLS# Recorded? Available? Link Flyer Played With:
October 14 Rotterdam, South Holland NED Chill Up 53 Yes [59] 1 Extreme Noise Terror, Deviated Instinct
October 15 Hoorn, North Holland Troll 54 [60] 1

2 3

Vernon Walters, The Plot
October 16 Ghent, East Flanders BEL Democrazy 55 [61] 1 Loveslug, Yeastie Girlz, Pat Bone & Amp, Silly Surfers
Amsterdam, North Holland NED Van Hall 56 [62] 1

2

Subterranean Kids, NOFX
October 19 Eindhoven, North Brabant Bunker 57 No [63] N/A Vernon Walters
1988 Fall European Tour
Date City, State Country Venue FLS# Recorded? Available? Link Flyer Played With:
October 21 Lubeck, Schleswig-Holstein GER
October 22 Copenhagen DEN
October 25 Oslo NOR
October 27 Hamburg GER
October 28 Berlin
October 29 Hanover, Lower Saxony
October 30 Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein
October 31 Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia
November 1 Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia
November 2 Waiblingen, Baden-Württemberg
November 3 Homburg, Saarland
November 4 Nagold, Baden-Württemberg
November 5 Augsburg, Bavaria
November 8 Zurich CHE
November 9 Ottobrunn, Bavaria GER
November 10
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November 30

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