A quart(sthoff)-century of eps into the pod and it’s been sorely lacking in two things: classical music and the First World War. What a delight to have rectified both omissions in Edinburgh in August, watching a history-infused Amatis Trio at the Queen’s Hall with the crown prince of the Fringe (other sweeping statements available on request) Kieran Hodgson. Grab yourself a Swedish bun and relax as the man of a thousand voices vets our pronunciations, lampoons our noisy neighbours, launches into thrilling bursts of Sprechgesang, and asks: how many encores is too many encores?

Download extra swill, rate and leave review, just add it to the list of things that you are gonna do.

The Extra Swill playlist:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/45NNtgh2FbvR4emjWbAVQh

Emails and recommendations in the usual places - [email protected]

Follow us!

@ivo_graham

@alexkealy

A 'Keep It Light Media' Production 

Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: [email protected]

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bonjour et bienvenue au café du jazz! Whatever trip these cats are on it’s the right trip, and this week it’s a trip they (/he) took to watch the relentlessly romantic two-jobbed soul veteran Lee Fields, alongside tux-wearing, task-slamming earthquake (relief concert) survivor Sarah Kendall. And what about the episode’s hefty top, the hefty tail and the hefty middle bit about boarding school trauma? Well, cochons, c’est la vie...

Download extra swill, rate and leave review, just add it to the list of things that you are gonna do.

The Extra Swill playlist:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/45NNtgh2FbvR4emjWbAVQh

Emails and recommendations in the usual places - [email protected]

Follow us!

@ivo_graham

@alexkealy

A 'Keep It Light Media' Production 

Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: [email protected]

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Holding him back, Gig Pigs are holding him back, he wants to go home to release his girlfriend, why don't we leave it at that? Here we are, then: Rhys surviving domestic distraction and relentless tangents about newspaper cartoonists / panel show email logins, to compare notes on "our" trip to worship (yet another) Harry at Wembley. 

Download extra swill, rate and leave review, just add it to the list of things that you are gonna do.

The Extra Swill playlist:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/45NNtgh2FbvR4emjWbAVQh

Emails and recommendations in the usual places - [email protected]

Follow us!

@ivo_graham

@alexkealy

A 'Keep It Light Media' Production 

Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: [email protected]

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oh, is this the way they say the podcast’s meant to feel? Or just three Pulp fans chatting in a field? Live from the Listening Post, as the rain poured on Paul Heaton outside, Alex and Ivo ask Shappi if she remembers the first time she saw live music, etc, before talk turns to Rachel Johnson and the chat slides out view.

Download extra swill, rate and leave review, just add it to the list of things that you are gonna do.

The Extra Swill playlist:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/45NNtgh2FbvR4emjWbAVQh

Emails and recommendations in the usual places - [email protected]

Follow us!

@ivo_graham

@alexkealy

A 'Keep It Light Media' Production 

Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: [email protected]

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

S2 EP1: Blur with Josh Widdicombe

Whoo-hoo! There’s no other way we’d like series 2 to kick off than here, talking about Blur with the literal mastermind of the band, seat-seeking Sunday sceptic Josh Widdicombe. Well, here’s our lucky day: after watching/livestreaming/latestreaming the the new album at the (yes please) Hammersmith Apollo, we tuck into the Ballad of Darren, the jealousy of Tim and the price of Phil. We have pigged the Blur gig that we thought we’d never pig, and this is barbaric!

Download extra swill, rate and leave review, just add it to the list of things that you are gonna do.

The Extra Swill playlist:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/45NNtgh2FbvR4emjWbAVQh

Emails and recommendations in the usual places - [email protected]

Follow us!

@ivo_graham

@alexkealy

A 'Keep It Light Media' Production 

Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: [email protected]

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The pigs are back in the trough and familiar roles have been assumed ahead of next week’s official return: Alex has devised, formatted and tiered the new Patreon, and Ivo has put written some song titles on small scraps of paper and put them into bucket hats for a quiz.

Click the link below to find out the hours of extra pig tails and other swill we’ll be trotting out each month for £3.80/£5/£10,000.

Lay me down business class, headphones and a sleeping mask!

www.patreon.com/GigPigs

The Extra Swill playlist:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/45NNtgh2FbvR4emjWbAVQh

Emails and recommendations in the usual places - [email protected]

Follow us!

@ivo_graham

@alexkealy

A 'Keep It Light Media' Production 

Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: [email protected]

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Proposals, printed lyrics, and promised lands: the pigs recount their respective trips to the circus (literal: Maximus, metaphorical: BST Hyde Park’s tiered standing) to watch the Boss this summer, in an episode that arguably hits a bit harder than last week’s game of “guess the Really Hot Chili Peppers setlist”. Dedicated to our friends around the river bend, and all those remembering them.

The Extra Swill playlist:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/45NNtgh2FbvR4emjWbAVQh

Emails and recommendations in the usual places - [email protected]

Follow us!

@ivo_graham

@alexkealy

A 'Keep It Light Media' Production 

Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: [email protected]

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Look at that title and tell me these boys aren’t serious. The purge steps up this week as Alex and Ivo discuss Live Aspects but also Non Live Aspects of their hoariest mid noughties chestnuts: one more chance to rank the Chamber Bullets’ non album singles, whether the Great Scots could have had it so much better with a bit more emotional weight, a largely revelation free black hole of chat on the Cydonian Knights, and why the Really Hot Chili Peppers can’t turn on their telly.

The Extra Swill playlist:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/45NNtgh2FbvR4emjWbAVQh

Emails and recommendations in the usual places - [email protected]

Follow us!

@ivo_graham

@alexkealy

A 'Keep It Light Media' Production 

Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: [email protected]

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The podcast may be in flux between seasons, but this shouldn’t stop us getting our talons into one of the jewels (exact jewel ranking TBC) in the “UK festivals that you can camp at” crown. Arguably not the most total review of the sumptuous Suffolk smorgasbord, compromised by admin and rain and cold Saturday night pragmatism, but with enough regrets and soup-based hypotheticals to tide us over until Alex goes to Green Man and Ivo berates him about what he did and didn’t see there.

The Extra Swill playlist:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/45NNtgh2FbvR4emjWbAVQh

Emails and recommendations in the usual places - [email protected]

Follow us!

@ivo_graham

@alexkealy

A 'Keep It Light Media' Production 

Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: [email protected]

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s the final Gig Pigs Proper of the series and we’re going (sn)out with a bang(er)!

Two guests with four Arctic Monkeys gigs this year (and many more before) between them, tackling the mardiest rock debate of our times: whether the new songs make perfect sense or if they should just snap out of it??!! This pod there’ll be some love (serial Alex fancier Mhairi Beveridge!), this pod there’ll be a ruckus yeah regardless of what’s gone before (dip dwelling solitaire enthusiast Maisie Adam!). But rest assured, while the Monkeys’ future remains uncertain, the Pigs’s couldn’t be more clearly mapped out: hibernate from time to time (a few guestless eps in the coming weeks), sink back into the swamp (an actual break in August), and then make its way back through the sludge (series 2) in the autumn. Up, up and away!

Download extra swill, rate and leave review, just add it to the list of things that you are gonna do.

The Extra Swill playlist:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/45NNtgh2FbvR4emjWbAVQh

Emails and recommendations in the usual places - [email protected]

Follow us!

@ivo_graham

@alexkealy

A 'Keep It Light Media' Production 

Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: [email protected]

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices