Setlist
Slow Learner
The Bog Body
Waterboy
Punk Rock Loser
Uno II
Shrimp Shack
Troglodyte
Down in the Basement
Just Like You
Lick the Bag — dedicated to late guitarist Benjamin Vallé
Sports
Research Chemical
Encore
Amphetanarchy
Worms
Viagra Boys – Toronto 2026
Viagra Boys returned to Toronto for another night of beautiful musical chaos, this time taking over History, with Bad Waitress opening. After their adrenaline-fueled Toronto appearance less than a year earlier, this show was positioned more as a victory lap for the diehards, with a set packed with deeper cuts and enough weirdness to make a perfectly normal Sunday night feel like a terrible idea.
The opening “Man Made of Meat” immediately established the mood. Frontman Sebastian Murphy was in his familiar shirtless, track-pants-and-sunglasses uniform, bouncing around the stage like a combination of Euro Iggy Pop, a deranged gym teacher, and a guy who probably shouldn't be allowed within 500 feet of a sporting event. The band followed with “Slow Learner,” “The Bog Body,” “Waterboy,” and “Punk Rock Loser,” keeping the momentum completely unrestrained.
One of the best things about Viagra Boys live is that the band never seems particularly interested in behaving like a conventional rock band. Murphy spent much of the night prowling the stage and interacting with the crowd, while bassist Henrik Höckert provided an enormous low-end foundation. Oskar Carls and Elias Jungqvist added saxophone, flute, synth, keytar, and various wonderfully bizarre noises to the mix. It makes the band feel less like a singer backed by musicians and more like five people collectively trying to see how much chaos they can create.
The Toronto crowd was absolutely ready for it. The pit was reportedly packed with shirtless, sweaty maniacs, while the crowd itself seemed to have adopted an unofficial Viagra Boys dress code involving tracksuits, camouflage, and a surprising number of Hooters shirts. During “Sports,” Murphy and Jungqvist even went crowdsurfing, while Murphy used the song as an opportunity to talk about the band's supposed athletic origins and encourage some onstage push-ups.
The setlist was especially good for longtime fans. “Shrimp Shack” and “Just Like You” hadn't been played since 2024, while “Lick the Bag” was dedicated to late guitarist Benjamin Vallé. “The Bog Body,” “Troglodyte,” and “Down in the Basement” gave the middle of the show a particularly strange and heavy groove, while “Sports” and “Research Chemicals” pushed the audience into full-on party mode.
The encore was perfectly appropriate. “Amphetanarchy” turned the chaos up another notch before “Worms” brought things down into a strangely mellow and almost touching finale. It's a pretty funny way to end a Viagra Boys concert: after spending the night surrounded by sweaty bodies, ridiculous dancing, strange characters, and general debauchery, everyone gets reminded that eventually we're all going to be food for worms anyway.
There were a few notable omissions. “Pyramid of Health” would have been a welcome addition, and the absence of “Ain't No Thief” was noticeable. But considering the band had played Toronto less than a year earlier, changing things up and giving longtime fans some deeper cuts was probably the right move.
Viagra Boys are one of those bands where seeing them live makes perfect sense. Their music already has a strange, sweaty, absurd quality, but the live show adds the missing physicality. The audience becomes part of the performance, Murphy turns into a human pinball, and the band throws enough bass, saxophone, noise, and punk energy at the room to make sitting still basically impossible.
Toronto got exactly what a Viagra Boys show should be: loud, filthy, ridiculous, funny, unpredictable, and completely committed to being weird. It was less a polished rock concert than a two-hour group decision to temporarily abandon good judgment—and that's exactly why it worked.