BUTTHOLE SURFERS GET LIVE

Ladies and germaphobes…pay close attention, por favor, as we offer you newly-announced tour dates for what many consider the ballsiest-named band in all of rock and roll: Butthole Surfers.

If you dig black humor, vicious psychedelic punk/metal sound manipulation, chaotic avant-garde live shows (from 1986 through 1989, a stripper from New York City toured with the band as their “naked dancer”) and kick-back-feeling-groovy songs like “The Revenge of Anus Presley,” “Bar-B-Q Pope,” and “The Shah Sleeps in Lee Harvey Oswald’s Grave,” then the surf is up! Click through for more.

Four UK shows are set to take place in July. A posting on the band’s official site states: “This is the rhythm section the band had for most of the ’80s and marks the first time this line up has played together since 1989.” Here are the dates. Sex Wax not included.
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6/24/08 – Asbury Park, NJ – Asbury Lanes
6/26/08 – Washington, DC – 9:30 Club
6/27/08 – Philadelphia, PA – Electric Factory
7/04/08 – Glasgow, UK – ABC1
7/05/08 – Manchester, UK – Academy 2
7/06/08 – Wolverhampton, UK – Wulfrun Hall
7/26/08 – London, UK – Kentish Town Forum

7/29/08 – New York City – Webster Hall

 For these shows, Jeff Pinkus will be on bass and Teresa Taylor (along with King Coffey) on drums. This is the rhythm section the band had for most of the 80s and marks the first time this line up has played together since 1989.

Paul Leary has prior commitments and unfortunately can’t play the European dates (he will be on stage for the New York City show and possibly more stateside).

However, fear not, our European friends. Joining the band onstage for all shows in the US and Europe will be The Paul Green School of Rock All-Stars. This mob of teenage geniuses will blow your mind, forming a virtual Butthole Surfers Orchestra when they play with Gibby and company.

In case you forgot, here’s “Pepper” from Electriclarryland: