Butthole Surfers Concert History

Butthole Surfers is an American rock band founded by singer Gibby Haynes and guitarist Paul Leary in Corpus Christi, Texas, in 1981. Incorporating elements of hardcore punk, psychedelia, heavy metal, avant-garde and performance art, their live shows has made heavy use of strobe lights, background films (of note, footage of penis reconstruction surgery) and naked dancers. The band has a well-reported appetite for recreational drugs, particularly psychedelics, an evident influence on their sound.

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Butthole Surfers Tours & Concerts

Date Concert Venue Location
Sep 23, 2025
Butthole Surfers
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Grauman's Egyptian Theatre Los Angeles, California, United States
Aug 17, 2025
Butthole Surfers Opium Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
May 07, 2020
Butthole Surfers
Mar 17, 2019
Butthole Surfers Reno, Nevada, United States
Oct 29, 2017
The Growlers Six
"The Growlers Six" / The Growlers / Dan Auerbach / Butthole Surfers / Girl Talk / Alice Glass / Beth Ditto / B-52's / Girlpool / Bad Brains / Geto Boys / Frankie Cosmos / Hepcat / Beach Fossils / Steel Pulse / Fear / Chiquis Rivera / Ought / Culture Abuse / Jonathan Richman / Antibalas / The Regrettes / Big Sandy & His Fly Rite Boys / Billy Changer / Froogy's Groovies / DJ Johnny Basil Show all bands
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LA Waterfront At The Port Of Los Angeles San Pedro, California, United States
Oct 28, 2017 –
Oct 29, 2017
The Growlers Six 2017
Modest Mouse / Yeah Yeah Yeahs / Danny Brown / B-52's / Girl Talk / Beach Fossils / Juvenile / Dan Auerbach / Butthole Surfers / Mystikal / Geto Boys / The Growlers / Bad Brains / Steel Pulse / Guided By Voices / Cigarettes After Sex / Tinariwen / Amber Coffman / Frankie Cosmos / Beth Ditto / Girlpool / Jonathan Richman / Doja Cat / Delicate Steve / Antibalas / Fear / Sly And Robbie / Ought / ROSTAM / La Luz / The Warlocks / Hepcat / Alice Glass / The Weirdos / Big Sandy and His Fly-Rite Boys / The Regrettes / Chiquis Rivera / Culture Abuse / Billy Changer / Baby Shakes / DJ Seinfeld / Mike Watt and the Secondmen / Cat Signs / The Paranoyds / Zen Mother / Froogy's Groovies / Grateful Shred / DJ Johnny Basil / Personal and the Pizzas Show all bands
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LA Waterfront San Pedro, California, United States
Dec 18, 2016
Day For Night
"Day For Night" / Kaskade / Little Dragon / Squarepusher / Kamasi Washington / Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats / Nothing / Travis Scott / Butthole Surfers / Unknown Mortal Orchestra / RZA / Blonde Redhead / Lightning Bolt / Ariel Pink / Arca / SOPHIE / Liars / Mykki Blanco / Matmos / SURVIVE / Mary Lattimore / Wild Moccasins / Jerk / Night Drive / Anklepants / Jock Club Show all bands
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Barbara Jordan Post Office Houston, Texas, United States
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Dec 17, 2016 –
Dec 18, 2016
Day for Night
ODESZA / Travis Scott / Björk / Blood Orange / Run the Jewels / Squarepusher / Butthole Surfers / Blonde Redhead / Unknown Mortal Orchestra / RZA / Kamasi Washington / John Carpenter / Ariel Pink / Lightning Bolt / Aphex Twin / DJ Windows 98 / Tycho / Blood Orange / Oneohtrix Point Never / Lower Dens / Thundercat / Chelsea Wolfe / Herman Kolgen / The Jesus and Mary Chain Show all bands
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Barbara Jordan Post Office Houston, Texas, United States
Show Duplicates for Dec 17, 2016
Sep 01, 2014
The Kills / Butthole Surfers / Minus the Bear

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Seattle Center Seattle, Washington, United States
Sep 11, 2011
Butthole Surfers / 400 Blows / Bodytronix
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Emo's Austin Austin, Texas, United States
Sep 08, 2011
Butthole Surfers / Thrones / Dirty Ghosts‏

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Roseland Theater Portland, Oregon, United States
Sep 07, 2011
Butthole Surfers
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The Egyptian Theatre Boise, Idaho, United States
Sep 07, 2011 –
Sep 11, 2011
MusicFest NW 2011
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis / Band of Horses / Iron & Wine / Phantogram / The Vaccines / Little Dragon / Explosions in the Sky / The Kills / The Joy Formidable / The Antlers / The Horrors / Unknown Mortal Orchestra / Blind Pilot / Sharon Van Etten / Blitzen Trapper / Tennis / YACHT / Butthole Surfers / Ty Segall / Osees / Cass McCombs / Givers / Charles Bradley / The Thermals / Mr Twin Sister / Shabazz Palaces / Horse Feathers / Avi Buffalo / Handsome Furs / Sebadoh / The Hood Internet / Alela Diane / Glass Candy / EMA / Typhoon / Beat Connection / The Soft Moon / Dirty Beaches / Neurosis / The Gaslamp Killer / Joe Pug / Kylesa / Blouse / Rhett Miller / Dâm-Funk / Sleepy Sun / Olivia Tremor Control / Anaïs Mitchell / Viva Voce / Black Prairie / Crooked Fingers / Emily Wells / You Am I / Loch Lomond / Pig Destroyer / Bobby Bare / The Moondoggies / Big Freedia / Yob / Grails / Morning Teleportation / Centro-Matic / Wild Ones / Y La Bamba / P.S. I Love You / Master Blaster / Richmond Fontaine / Dolorean / White Hills / Dennis Coffey / Holcombe Waller / The Ladybug Transistor / Talkdemonic / Boat / Portland Cello Project / Elitist / Ume / Ted Leo / Lifesavas / Quiet Life / Natasha Kmeto / Jared Mees & The Grown Children / Witch Mountain / Bare Wires / A Storm of Light / Eternal Tapestry / The Miracles Club / The Dimes / The Minders / Reporter / Soft Kill / Akimbo / The Globes / Weinland / Mad Rad / Heavy Cream / Hammerhead / Fernando / Pierced Arrows / And And And / Climber / The Archers / Transient / Thousands / Rabbits / Rebecca Gates / Caleb Klauder / Death Songs / Zuzuka Poderosa / E3 / Dirty Mittens / RTX / Jeffrey Jerusalem / Monarques / The Crypts / Super Melody / The Angry Orts / Celilo / Old Light / Diesto / Mnemonic Sounds / Violet Isle / Txe / Kelly Blair Bauman / The Operative / Nether Regions / Purple & Green / DJ Anjali / The Dangerous Boys Club / The Incredible Kid / E Rock / Marius Libman / FLINN / Archers Of Loaf Show all bands
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Unknown venue Portland, Oregon, United States
Sep 06, 2011
Butthole Surfers / 400 Blows The Wilma Missoula, Montana, United States
Sep 05, 2011
Butthole Surfers The Wilma Missoula, Montana, United States
Sep 04, 2011
Bumbershoot Festival
"Bumbershoot Festival" / Wiz Khalifa / Broken Social Scene / The Lonely Forest / Butthole Surfers / Carbon Leaf / Leon Russell / Toro Y Moi / Anti-Flag / Das Racist / Vetiver / Jessica Lea Mayfield / Dam Funk / Atari Teenage Riot / Nomeansno / Tennis / Osees / Mad Rad / The Jim Jones Revue / School of Seven Bells / Joe Pug / Dávila 666 / Ages and Ages / Wayne Horvitz / Kore Ionz / Sol / Whalebones / Allen Stone / Massy Ferguson / Tycho / Thomas Marriott / Kaylee Cole / Com Truise / Lusine / Gail Pettis / Kasey Anderson & the Honkies / Shigeto / The Sight Below / The Kills Show all bands
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Seattle Center Seattle, Washington, United States
Sep 03, 2011
Butthole Surfers

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Rickshaw Theatre Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Sep 03, 2011 –
Sep 05, 2011
Bumbershoot 2011
Kendrick Lamar / Wiz Khalifa / Macklemore & Ryan Lewis / Daryl Hall & John Oates / Phantogram / Fitz and the Tantrums / Ray LaMontange / Little Dragon / Toro Y Moi / Purity Ring / Broken Social Scene / The Kills / STRFKR / Tycho / Warpaint / Big Boi / Sharon Van Etten / The Presidents of The United States of America / Tennis / Minus the Bear / Butthole Surfers / Mavis Staples / YACHT / Anti-Flag / Osees / Com Truise / Allen Stone / Urge Overkill / Craft Spells / School of Seven Bells / Vetiver / Charles Bradley / Ray LaMontagne & the Pariah Dogs / Reverend Horton Heat / Dâm-Funk / Jessica Lea Mayfield / Shigeto / Eisley / Greensky Bluegrass / Quadron / Lusine / Dom / Motopony / Grant Lee Buffalo / Leon Russell / Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue / Das Racist / Over the Rhine / Atari Teenage Riot / Carbon Leaf / You Am I / Ages and Ages / Eyehategod / Free the Robots / Pickwick / The Lonely Forest / HTRK / Nomeansno / LAKE / Bostich & Fussible / Sol Roots / Sallie Ford / The Jim Jones Revue / Vusi Mahlasela / Valient Thorr / My Goodness / The Sight Below / Vendetta Red / Lemolo / Kris Orlowski / Pezzner / Meklit / Nice Nice / Fly Moon Royalty / Head Like A Kite / Grand Hallway / Lawnchair Generals / Mad Rad / Ravenna Woods / Yuni In Taxco / Curtains for You / Splatinum / Kore Ionz / Kasey Anderson & the Honkies / Massy Ferguson / Mash Hall / The Horde and the Harem / Whalebones / WD4D / The Legendary Oaks / Nordic Soul / Kaylee Cole / DJ Introcut / Joe Pug and the Hundred Mile Band / Thomas Marriott's Human Spirit / Brite Futures Show all bands
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Seattle Center Seattle, Washington, United States
Show Duplicate for Sep 03, 2011
Sep 02, 2011
Butthole Surfers / 400 Blows
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McDonald Theatre Eugene, Oregon, United States
Aug 31, 2011
Butthole Surfers / 400 Blows Knitting Factory Concert House Reno, Nevada, United States
Aug 30, 2011
Butthole Surfers / 400 Blows
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The Regency Ballroom San Francisco, California, United States
Aug 28, 2011
400 Blows / Butthole Surfers
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Pearl Concert Theater at Palms Casino Resort Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

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Nirvana / Butthole Surfers / Chokebore
Dec 29, 1993
 San Diego, California, United States
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Nirvana / Butthole Surfers / Tad
Dec 30, 1993
 Inglewood, California, United States
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Nirvana / Butthole Surfers / Chokebore / Bobcat Goldthwait
Jan 4, 1994
 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Jan 6, 1994
 Spokane, Washington, United States
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Aug 11, 1991
 Stanhope, New Jersey, United States
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Jul 26, 1986
 Driftwood, Texas, United States
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Concerts Per Year:

2025 2 concerts
2020 1 concert
2019 1 concert
2017 2 concerts
2016 2 concerts
2014 1 concert
2011 15 concerts
2010 4 concerts
2009 35 concerts
2008 30 concerts
2005 1 concert
2002 7 concerts
2001 24 concerts
1998 1 concert
1996 73 concerts
1995 1 concert
1994 8 concerts
1993 76 concerts
1992 4 concerts
1991 59 concerts
1990 12 concerts
1989 34 concerts
1988 44 concerts
1987 54 concerts
1986 52 concerts
1985 39 concerts
1984 28 concerts
1983 11 concerts
1982 6 concerts
1981 5 concerts
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