In an interview to approachingoblivion.blogspot.com, Ian MacKaye is saying that there is a possibility for Fugazi, who have been on hiatus since 2002, to play together again, although he is not sure:
‘The four of us love each other dearly. I saw Brendan last night, I was on the phone with Guy today, and Joe is on tour at the moment. We are a family we don’t stray from each other. We worked really hard for 15 years; the band was the central aspect of our lives, and at some point life demanded attention. We had kids getting born and parents that got sick and some died. A lot of new things happened in our lives that we had to pay attention to. It meant that we had to stop working.
We didn’t break up, I coined the indefinite hiatus term specifically because I thought it was absurd to break up, it wasn't a circumstantial issue, it wasn't that anyone did anything wrong. There wasn't any anger there wasn't any big ‘fuck you!" It is entirely possible that we will play again and it's also possible that we won't. We have the desire to play, but there’s a geographical issue. Joe currently lives in Rome and that makes it hard to practice. There's also a time issue. Everyone is super busy. You've got to remember that when Fugazi was actually working we usually practiced 5 days a week from 4-6 hours a day.’
He added that they have been offered an ‘insane amount of money to play reunions’, but apparently, it’s not going to be the money that will bring them back together. He said about the same thing for Minor Threat who was ‘offered enormous amounts of money too’, but MacKaye thinks that the band belongs to another time, as he was only 19 when he wrote these songs, and is now 49.
Beside this, he is working on an archive website to make every single live Fugazi’s show available online, and for this, they have to convert a database of thousands of shows from DAT and cassettes tapes to digital files, then master and edit them, indexing each individual song. As he put it, ‘it’s a fuck of a lot of work’.
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