Butthole Surfers

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A portrait of Marc Riley
“Somebody threw a toilet roll at Peter Gabriel. He threw it back and it landed just below me. I had that bog roll on my windowsill for years!” Marc Riley’s prog world

By Rob Hughes Published

Turned on by Genesis, Beefheart, Zappa and Can, the former member of The Fall and The Creepers continues to smuggle prog into his radio shows

Interviews
The Butthole Surfers onstage at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, California.
Watch footage from first live performance in eight years from Texan noise-rock legends Butthole Surfers

By Fraser Lewry Published

Last year the Butthole Surfers said they'd turned down "six-figure offers" to reunite

Bands & Artists
Lollapalooza oral history book
How Lollapalooza helped lay the foundations for a cultural revolution, via alternative rock, heroin, pierced penises, stomach bile cocktails and a shotgun

By Paul Brannigan Published

Eye-popping and wildly entertaining oral history of Perry Farrell's groundbreaking travelling circus (and freak show)

Music Festivals
Gibby Haynes, with shotgun, 1991
Why Butthole Surfers felt they needed a shotgun onstage at Lollapalooza '91

By Paul Brannigan Published

There's never a dull moment when Butthole Surfers frontman Gibby Haynes is around

Music Festivals
Butthole Surfers, John Paul Jones
When Butthole Surfers met one quarter of Led Zeppelin

By Paul Brannigan Published

“I was expecting someone with mutton-chop sideburns and bellbottoms.” Butthole Surfers' Paul Leary on Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones

Biographies
Butthole Surfers, 1991
"We made a living off being stupid. I don't know if there's a legacy to be taken from that": there will never, ever be another band like the Butthole Surfers. And maybe that's for the best

By Everett True Published

The myths, madness, magic and mayhem of Butthole Surfers, the world's most dangerous, lucky-to-be-alive art-rock weirdos

Interviews
The Butthole Surfers
"I don’t want to be sending a bandmate home in a body bag": why unhinged Texan noise-rock legends Butthole Surfers won't be reuniting, despite "six-figure offers" for live shows

By Paul Brannigan Published

Relax everyone, Texan art-noise terrorists Butthole Surfers are going to stay on hiatus

Bands & Artists
Excerpts of the cover art from Psychic, Powerless, Another Man's Sac, Rembrandt Pussyhorse and Live PCPPEP
The early work of the Butthole Surfers: grotesque, distended, acid-fried, phlegm-powered, hallucinatory and brilliant

By Fraser Lewry Published

The first three albums from Texan weirdos the Butthole Surfers have been remastered so that a whole new generation of fans be both disgusted and delighted

Albums
The Butthole Surfers
"You may feel as though you've fallen down a rabbit hole the size of Texas": The Butthole Surfers' fabulously freaky early albums are being reissued

By Paul Brannigan Published

If you've ever craved a fix of truly alternative rock, Gibby Haynes' noise-rock experimentalists had you covered from day one

Albums
Gibby Haynes and Nick Cave
"Stark naked like the day he was born, beaten, bruised, bloody and tripping, this icon of modern music ran like Jesse Owens through the complex": The night Butthole Surfers' Gibby Haynes gatecrashed a Nick Cave show on acid

By Paul Brannigan Published

When Butthole Surfers played their first show in Holland, their frontman got a little over-excited

Interviews
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