Pelican Concert History

Formed by previous members of the band Tusk, the instrumental post-metal outfit Pelican formed in Chicago in 2001, by guitarists Trevor de Brauw and Laurent Lebec with sibling rhythm section Larry Herweg and Bryan Herweg (drums and bass, respectively).

Pelican Tours & Concerts (Updated for 2023)

Date Concert Venue Location
Aug 12, 2023
Upcoming
Pelican / Upper Wilds / Uniform Metro / Smart Bar Chicago, Illinois, United States
Aug 11, 2023
Upcoming
Pelican / Upper Wilds Small's Hamtramck, Michigan, United States
Aug 10, 2023
Upcoming
Pelican / Upper Wilds The Whirling Tiger Louisville, Kentucky, United States
Aug 09, 2023
Upcoming
Pelican / Upper Wilds Hi-Fi Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Oct 29, 2022
Pelican / Windhand / Red Fang House of Vans Chicago, Illinois, United States
Sep 11, 2022
Pelican / Glassing / Coastlands
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X-Ray Arcade Cudahy, Wisconsin, United States
Sep 09, 2022 –
Sep 10, 2022
Post Festival
Boris / Pelican / Nothing / Pianos Become The Teeth / Junius / Arms and Sleepers / Coastlands / I Hear Sirens / FACS / Glassing / Pillars / Frayle / Colin Phils / Glacier / Brave Arrows / Black Flak And The Nightmare Fighters / Onus
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The Vogue Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
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Jun 17, 2022 –
Jun 20, 2022
Hellfest 2022 - Weekend 1
Deftones / Dropkick Murphys / The Offsping / Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes / The Inspector Cluzo / Burning Heads / Ferocious Dog / Frog Leap / Volbeat / Five Finger Death Punch / Mastodon / Opeth / Shinedown / Leprous / Ego Kill Talent / Laura Cox Band / Heart Attack / Suicidal Tendencies / Cro-Mags / No Turning Back / Dog Eat Dog / Mordred / Rudeboy / Slapshot / Higher Power / In Other Climes / Electric Wizard / Baroness / High On Fire / Black Mountain / Witchcraft / Elder / ASG / Greenleaf / Abrahma / Death to All / At The Gates / Lords of Flesh / Necrophobic / Gatecreeper / Cadaver / Enforced / Necrowretch / Shade and Dust / Mayhem / Abbath / Primordial / Rotting Christ / The Great Old Ones / Seth / Mephorash / Numen / Mortis Mutilati / Ghost / Megadeth / Rival Sons / Heaven Shall Burn / Skillet / Knocked Loose / InVisions / Fire From the Gods / Deep Purple / Airbourne / Steel Panther / Alestorm / The Darkness / Soen / Soldier Side / Last Temptation / Titan / Social Distortion / Anti-Flag / The Toy Dolls / Agnostic Front / Washington Dead Cats / Frustration / Guerilla Poubelle / Lion’s Law / Grade 2 / Envy / Mono and the Jo Quail Quartet / Messa / Pelican / The Vintage Caravan / The Picturebooks / Me And That Man / Duel / Point Mort / Sepultura / Agressor / Flotsam and Jetsam / Exciter / Loudblast / Xentrix / Rectal Smegma / Brutal Sphincter / Karras / Vreid / Skáld / Ensiferum / Taake / Kampfar / Einherjer / Helheim / Aktarum / Artus / Gojira / Korn / Maximum the Hormone / Jinjer / Car Bomb / Lacuna Coil / Kontrust / Deadly Apples / Judas Priest / Running Wild / Down / Michael Schenker / Doro / Battle Beast / Sortilege / Tempt / Stengah / Sick of It All / Walls of Jericho / While She Sleeps / Deez Nuts / Counterparts / Jesus Piece / Moscow Death Brigade / Landmvrks / Glassbone / Killing Joke / Perturbator / Life Of Agony / Red Fang / Twin Temple / Inter Arma / Lysistrata / Vile Creature / Ecstatic Vision / Devin Townsend / Coroner / Dying Fetus / Misery Index / Monuments / Hour of Penance / Ingested / Dyscarnate / Exocrine / Watain / Alcest / 1349 / Borknagar / Gaahls Wyrd / Regarde Les Hommes Tomber / Cân Bardd / Penitence Onrique / Deliverance Show all bands
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Val de Moine Sport Complex Clisson, Pays de la Loire, France
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May 26, 2022 –
May 28, 2022
Dunk!Festival 2022
where mermaids drown / Cecilia::Eyes / Hubris. / Ranges / Jesu / Yob / Divided / BRUIT ≤ / Stories from the Lost / ASTODAN / Tom Morris & Jo Quail / Dustbug / Lili Refrain / Petrolio / Malämmar / Mary Lattimore / Fennesz / Jon Doe One / Pothamus / It Was A Good Dream / Psychonaut / pg.lost / Ufomammut / The Ocean / Black Narcissus / Turpentine Valley / Yoo Doo Right / Wander / Big Brave / Ohio Mark / Fågelle / Rook / Lethvm / Jo Quail / Bersarin Quartett / Cranial / Coldbones / I Hear Sirens / Long Distance Calling / Year of No Light / Pelican / Outlander / Sagor Som Leder Mot Slutet / Of The Vine / Threestepstotheocean / Immanu El / S A R R A M / Northwest / Skemer / Eleanora / Lubomyr Melnyk / Rafael Anton Irisarri Show all bands
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Vooruit Ghent, Flanders, Belgium
May 25, 2022
Pelican / Cloakroom
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Sleeping Village Chicago, Illinois, United States
Jun 18, 2021 –
Jun 20, 2021
Cancelled
Hellfest Open Air 2021
System of a Down / Korn / Deftones / Deep Purple / Dropkick Murphys / Judas Priest / Faith No More / Volbeat / The Darkness / Social Distortion / Opeth / Ghostemane / Sepultura / Suicidal Tendencies / Puscifer / Anti-Flag / Steel Panther / Rival Sons / Airbourne / Killing Joke / Down / While She Sleeps / Black Mountain / Mono / Alestorm / L7 / Electric Wizard / Northlane / The Distillers / Reverend Horton Heat / Mayhem / High On Fire / Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes / Danko Jones / Obituary / Alcest / Pelican / Wardruna / Ensiferum / Dying Fetus / At The Gates / Agnostic Front / Perturbator / The Hu / Jinjer / Heaven Shall Burn / Devin Townsend / Delain / Envy / Leprous / OM / Rotting Christ / Witchcraft / Elder / Soen / Maximum the Hormone / The Dead Daisies / Watain / Toy Dolls / Life Of Agony / Deez Nuts / Cro-Mags / Doro / Battle Beast / Wolfpack / Fire From the Gods / Walls of Jericho / Primordial / Sacred Reich / The Wildhearts / Taake / Flotsam and Jetsam / Greenleaf / Borknagar / Michael Schenker / Running Wild / 3TEETH / Dog Eat Dog / Ingested / Youth Of Today / Landmvrks / Misery Index / grave / ASG / Abbath / Rotting Out / Twin Temple / Inter Arma / John Garcia / Galactic Empire / Slapshot / Me And That Man / Jesus Piece / The Picturebooks / Kampfar / Kontrust / Exciter / Einherjer / Frustration / Laura Cox / Entombed A.D. / Guerilla Poubelle / Ego Kill Talent / The Inspector Cluzo / Deliverance / Dyscarnate / Numenorean / Higher Power / Moscow Death Brigade / The Great Old Ones / Xentrix / Lysistrata / Belzebubs / Powerflo / Lion's Law / Gaahls Wyrd / Helheim / Hangman's Chair / マキシマム ザ ホルモン / Ecstatic Vision / Regarde Les Hommes Tomber / seth / Grade 2 / Jo Quail / Deadly Apples / Cadaver / Necrowretch / Mephorash / Loudblast / Tempt / In Other Climes / sortilege / Numen / Crystal Lake - Official / Rectal Smegma / Frog Leap / Exocrine / Abrahma / Aktarum / Karras / Brutal Sphincter / John Garcia & the Band of Gold / Artus / Point Mort / Pénitence Onirique / Duel (FR) Show all bands
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Hellfest Clisson, Pays de la Loire, France
Oct 19, 2019
Desertfest (Antwerp)
"Desertfest" (Antwerp) / Bongripper / Church of Misery / Elephant Tree / Fireball Ministry / Rrrags / Lo-Pan / Pelican / Steak / Ty Segall
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Muziekcentrum Trix Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium
Oct 18, 2019 –
Oct 20, 2019
Desertfest Antwerp 2019
Sleep / Pelican / Truckfighters / Eyehategod / Zeal and Ardor / Big Business / Bongripper / Nebula / ASG / Toundra / Church of Misery / Inter Arma / Fireball Ministry / Black Pyramid / The Obsessed / Monkey3 / Dopelord / Lo-Pan / Elephant Tree / Un / Lord Dying / Monomyth / Steak / Sunnata / Fire Down Below / Sixes / High Reeper / Ty Segall & the Freedom Band / Crayon Sun / Lucy in Blue / Temple Fang / Swan Valley Heights / Progerians / Vonnis / Yatra (MD) / Grotto (BE) / Thirty Seconds to Mars / Crypt Trip / Black Moon Circle / Bismut / Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell / Sâver / Wolvennest Show all bands
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Trix Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium
Oct 17, 2019
Pelican / SLOW CRUSH

Pelican

The Classic Grand Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Oct 16, 2019
Pelican
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Gorilla Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Oct 15, 2019
Pelican / Slow Crush
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Islington Assembly Hall London, England, United Kingdom
Oct 12, 2019 –
Oct 13, 2019
Amplifest 2019
Amenra / Author & Punisher / Birds In Row / Bliss Signal / Candura / Daughters / Emma Ruth Rundle / JK Flesh / Some Became Hollow Tubes / Deafheaven / Inter Arma / Nadja / Pelican / Portrayal of Guilt / Touché Amoré
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Hard Club Porto, Porto, Portugal
Oct 11, 2019
Pelican
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Fuzz Club Athens, Attica, Greece
Oct 10, 2019 –
Oct 13, 2019
AMFest 2019
The Album Leaf / Deafheaven / Touché Amoré / Pelican / Alcest / Daughters / Tides of Man / Zeal and Ardor / Bo Ningen / Tides From Nebula / Brutus / Za! / Daniel Blumberg / Cocaine Piss / Lisabö / Portrayal of Guilt / 12twelve / Ainara LeGardon / Foscor / Puput / Nerobambola / JJOS / Falç de Metzinera / Myoboku / Puntalaberinto / Los Sara Fontán / LUME! bcn / Sara Fontán Show all bands
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Fabra i Coats Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Oct 06, 2019
Soulcrusher Festival 2019
Mizmor / Pelican / Lingua Ignota / The Secret / Telepathy / Triptykon / Daughters
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Doornroosje Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands
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Pelican / Torche
Sep 23, 2008
 Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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Pelican / Glassing / Coastlands on Sep 11, 2022 [315-small]

Pelican / Glassing / Coastlands
Sep 11, 2022
 Cudahy, Wisconsin, United States
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Post Festival on Sep 9, 2022 [175-small]

Post Festival
Sep 09, 2022 - Sep 10, 2022
 Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
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Amplifest 2019 on Oct 12, 2019 [001-small]

Amplifest 2019
Oct 12, 2019 - Oct 13, 2019
 Porto, Porto, Portugal
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Thrice / Circa Survive / Pelican on May 10, 2008 [700-small]

Thrice / Circa Survive / Pelican
May 10, 2008
 Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
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Pelican / Cloakroom / Planning For Burial on Jun 24, 2019 [853-small]

Pelican / Cloakroom / Planning For Burial
Jun 24, 2019
 New York, New York, United States
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Pelican / Cloakroom / Planning For Burial on Jun 24, 2019 [852-small]

Pelican / Cloakroom / Planning For Burial
Jun 24, 2019
 New York, New York, United States
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Pelican / Cloakroom / Planning For Burial on Jun 24, 2019 [851-small]

Pelican / Cloakroom / Planning For Burial
Jun 24, 2019
 New York, New York, United States
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Pelican / Tombs / Summit on Jun 16, 2014 [522-small]

Pelican / Tombs / Summit
Jun 16, 2014
 Sacramento, California, United States
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Taste Of Chaos Tour on Mar 21, 2006 [669-small]

Taste Of Chaos Tour
Mar 21, 2006
 Fargo, North Dakota, United States
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ArcTanGent 2018 on Aug 16, 2018 [324-small]

ArcTanGent 2018
Aug 16, 2018 - Aug 18, 2018
 Compton Martin, England, United Kingdom
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Genres:

United States
Instrumental
Post-Rock
Doom Metal
Sludge
Sludge Metal
Post-Metal
Heavy
Focus Beats
Atmospheric
Melancholic
Illinois
Atmospheric Sludge Metal
Lo-Fi Brasileiro
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Latest Setlist (09/09/2022):

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  1. Lathe Biosas
  2. Dead Between the Walls
  3. March to the Sea
  4. Ephemeral
  5. Drought
  6. The Creeper
  7. Sirius
  8. Strung Up From the Sky
  9. Australasia
  10. Mammoth

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Concerts Per Year:

2023 4 concerts
2022 6 concerts
2019 19 concerts
2018 9 concerts
2017 20 concerts
2016 7 concerts
2015 6 concerts
2014 17 concerts
2013 19 concerts
2012 30 concerts
2011 9 concerts
2010 5 concerts
2009 72 concerts
2008 104 concerts
2007 68 concerts
2006 80 concerts
2005 35 concerts
2004 5 concerts
2003 1 concert

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

How many concerts has Pelican had?

Pelican has had 516 concerts.

What genre is Pelican?

Pelican is most often considered to be United States, Instrumental, Post-Rock, Doom Metal, Sludge, Sludge Metal, Post-Metal, Heavy, Focus Beats, Atmospheric, Melancholic, Illinois, Atmospheric Sludge Metal, and Lo-Fi Brasileiro.

When is the next Pelican concert?

The next Pelican concert is on August 09, 2023 at Hi-Fi in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. The bands performing are: Pelican / Upper Wilds.

When was the last Pelican concert?

The last Pelican concert was on October 29, 2022 at House of Vans in Chicago, Illinois, United States. The bands that performed were: Pelican / Windhand / Red Fang.

What songs does Pelican play live?

The songs that Pelican performs live vary, but here's the latest setlist that we have from the September 09, 2022 concert at The Vogue in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States:

  1. Lathe Biosas
  2. Dead Between the Walls
  3. March to the Sea
  4. Ephemeral
  5. Drought
  6. The Creeper
  7. Sirius
  8. Strung Up From the Sky
  9. Australasia
  10. Mammoth