After announcing the dates for their postponed, reunion-turned-farewell tour yesterday, Porno For Pyros have now also released their first new song in 26 years, “Agua.” The song was originally written for the band’s second album, 1996’s Good God’s Urge, but went unrecorded at the time. Now “Agua” and some other newly-recorded, previously-unreleased songs will make up a new EP that’s set to be released in 2024, before the tour.
“Now we’re here, and that same heart, that same desire to make music together, has returned,” Perry Farrell says. “Getting together with these guys has been some of the most fun, the happiest times in my life”
“The people who live here on the West Coast have a beautiful love and passion for the Pacific Ocean,” he adds. “The ocean doesn’t look right, doesn’t feel right, doesn’t surf right. You go and swim in it, and you get the creeps. The sunsets are different. We are really, really screwing it up. We have to do something about it. I wanted to bring attention to it through the best megaphone that I know, which is music.”
It does indeed sound like classic Porno For Pyros, just with slightly more modern production. Check it out below.
The tour hits the NYC-area on March 7 at Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, March 8 at Hammerstein Ballroom in NYC proper, and March 10 at Wellmont Theater in Montclair. The Hammerstein show goes on BrooklynVegan presale today (11/16) at 10 AM, using the code BROOKLYNVEGAN.
The general public on-sale for the whole tour begins Friday (11/17) at 10 AM local time. All dates are listed below.
PORNO FOR PYROS: 2024 TOUR DATES
Tue Feb 13 – Santa Ana, CA – Observatory Orange County
Thu Feb 15 – San Diego, CA – Observatory San Diego
Sat Feb 17 – Ventura, CA – Ventura Theater
Sun Feb 18 – Los Angeles, CA – The Belasco
Wed Feb 21 – Aspen, CO * – Belly Up Aspen
Thu Feb 22 – Denver, CO – Fillmore Auditorium
Sat Feb 24 –- Omaha, NE – Astro Theatre
Mon Feb 26 – Chicago, IL – Salt Shed*
Tue Feb 27 – Detroit, MI – The Fillmore Detroit
Thu Feb 29 – Toronto, ON – HISTORY
Sat Mar 02 – Philadelphia, PA – Parx Casino
Sun Mar 03 – Silver Spring, MD – The Fillmore Silver Spring
Tue Mar 05 – Boston, MA – MGM Music Hall at Fenway
Thu Mar 07 – Port Chester, NY – The Capitol Theatre
Fri Mar 08 – New York, NY – Manhattan Center Hammerstein Ballroom
Sun Mar 10 – Montclair, NJ – The Wellmont Theater
