Porno for Pyros kicked off their “Horns, Thorns, En Halos Farewell Tour” on Tuesday night (February 13th) at the Observatory in Santa Ana, California.
Perry Farrell and company’s final outing is also their first proper tour in 27 years. The band reunited a couple years ago to play a few festival gigs and club shows, but haven’t embarked on a full tour since 1997. The farewell trek is set to run through a March 10th show in Montclair, New Jersey, with tickets to the upcoming shows available here.
Featuring a lineup of Farrell (vocals), Peter DiStefano (guitar), Stephen Perkins (drums), and Mike Watt (bass), along with Farrell’s wife Etty on backing vocals, Porno for Pyros played a 17-song set during the kickoff show.
The set included nine songs from the band’s 1993 self-titled debut, including favorites such as “Pets,” “Meija,” and “Cursed Female”/”Cursed Male.” Sophomore album Good God’s Urge (1996) was represented with five songs, including “Tahitian Moon” and “100 Ways.”
Porno for Pyros also played their recent singles “Little Me” and “Agua,” while the only cover of the evening was a rendition of Jimi Hendrix’s “Hey Gypsy Boy.”
As for the band’s decision to make this outing a farewell tour, Farrell recently told us, “I think the way to look at it … this is just my business – how I’ve got my life set up. So, I’ve got Porno for Pyros, I’ve got Jane’s Addiction, got Lollapalooza. So, I’ve got all these beautiful things. Like I said, it’s almost like … you can call them drips, or, like octopus got an arm, all these things are kind of like my arms. With Porno for Pyros, what I can see for in my life – put out these three songs, do this tour.”
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See fan-filmed video of the Santa Ana show and the setlist below, and pick up tickets here. Fans who can’t make it out to one of the shows can check out a paid livestream of the band’s February 18th gig in Los Angeles.
Setlist:
Meija
Wishing Well
Sadness
Agua
Tahitian Moon
Porpoise Head
Porno for Pyros
Pets
Good God’s://Urge!
Blood Rag
Little Me (live debut)
Orgasm
100 Ways
Cursed Female
Cursed Male
Encore:
Hey Gypsy Boy (Jimi Hendrix cover)
Bad Shit
