Gig Pigs with Ivo Graham and Alex Kealy

A podcast in the grip of greatness! Anecdotes that feel found, not written! Oh, that we could dream of the same reviews that Big Thief got at the Apollo two weeks ago, a series of surprisingly loud folk-rock masterpieces (one of them Masterpiece) in between a Guinness-brokered supertable and a triumphant Belushi’s afters. We were so lucky to discuss this and more with gentleman scholar, prescient musical legend-collector, and newly christened Pod Saviour of the UK Nish Kumar, who went to this gig twice and wept both times. You don’t need to know why when you cry! LITTLE THINGS!

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She moves with a (fit for) purpose, and what magnificent purpose. GPGPGP hits its eighth episode (NOT including double eps!) and this one took us to Shoreditch’s Village Underground to watch anarchist visionaries Black Midi in the company of comedian, producer, karaokist and fellow noughties indie almanac Rajiv Karia.

This episode features more chat about Bugsy Malone and the board game Ticket To Ride than you might well expect: only one of these decisions was on us. Give it a little love by subscribing, rating, swilling and recommending! Take in the sights, this is shore leave!

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Not like we’re counting the pods / but it’s been seven (if you count the Sanders double as one). This week sees us at the Apollo once more, watching Caroline Polachek’s Valentine’s graduation to the big leagues alongside comedian, writer and pre-dusk V Festival photographer Rhiannon Shaw (with friend of the pod and Girl Guide survivor Izzy Bromfield (bunny)riding shotgun). Caroline’s encore featured confetti cannons: this podcast’s encore features a truly Shakespearean breakdown. Please enjoy and as ever check out the sister playlist: Ex-tra Swill - I want to tune in to you!

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Throes of joy in the jaws of defeatism: aka, moments of ecstasy in a mosh pit that we were pretty sure we would be avoiding at all costs. (And Alex mostly did to be fair). Episode six of the pod saw the much-trailed First Venture Out Of The Comfort Zone, but we couldn’t really have asked for a more generous guide into worlds of metal, punk and the various microgenres in between than long-standing tinnitus seeker Ed Gamble. An appropriately uncompromising 78 minutes on this one and while yes you could listen to Napalm Death’s “You Suffer” 1170 times instead, you’d be missing a great UK politics quiz and a simply incredible new band name formula.

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S1 E5: Self Esteem with Lou Sanders (Part 1)

Part of being funny, is having some sincerity, and using both of them wisely! This week’s noble attempt involved Alex (long life ahead of him) and Ivo (enjoy it while it lasts) retiring with Historic immediacy to the latter’s home, discussing the magnificent Self Esteem in the marvellous and mischievous company of OG GP Lou Sanders (Taskmaster, Unforgivable, Channel 4’s Blair-era Glastonbury coverage), and hoping the best podcast afters of our life wasn’t the absolute worst of hers. So we hope you enjoy us - now and again making perfect sense, most of the time feeling stupid for trying - on a cheeky double ep of Gig Pigs After Dark: a good pod, a good long pod, a good sturdy pod. Please like, review, swill and subscribe! We did the best that we could babe!

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S1 E5: Self Esteem with Lou Sanders (Part 2)

Part of being funny, is having some sincerity, and using both of them wisely! This week’s noble attempt involved Alex (long life ahead of him) and Ivo (enjoy it while it lasts) retiring with Historic immediacy to the latter’s home, discussing the magnificent Self Esteem in the marvellous and mischievous company of OG GP Lou Sanders (Taskmaster, Unforgivable, Channel 4’s Blair-era Glastonbury coverage), and hoping the best podcast afters of our life wasn’t the absolute worst of hers. So we hope you enjoy us - now and again making perfect sense, most of the time feeling stupid for trying - on a cheeky double ep of Gig Pigs After Dark: a good pod, a good long pod, a good sturdy pod. Please like, review, swill and subscribe! We did the best that we could babe!

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So sentimental? Not sentimental, no. That’s the respective attitudes of hosts and guest towards this week’s musical offering: Ivo a decade-plus devotee, Alex familiar and curious for more, Tom Rosenthal cheerily dismissive of the band that have soundtracked some of his finest half hours. But what a jaunt! Please enjoy these wayward tales of the Cochons de Concert on their first international outing: it’s never been like this, it’s never been like this, it’s never been like this, no!

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I don’t care if Monday’s blue, Tuesday’s grey and Wednesday too, Thursday here’s a pod for you, it’s Celya AB talking about The Cure! (And Indochine, St Vincent and her brother’s illegal entry into a battle of the bands). We went to see the godfathers of goth with Celya in December and were already bursting with tenderstem broccoli before the choc ice multipack of the second encore: we hope you find our own ratios similarly pleasing and will listen/review/recommend again and again and again and again and AGAIN!

Look out for Celya and Alex at the Soho Theatre, Ivo on his national tour, and the ever increasing stream of recommendations into the “extra swill” Spotify playlist!

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Recommendations (YouTube)

Prime Documentary:

Orelsan - Don’t ever show this to anyone (montre jamais ça a personne)

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Hello new world, all the boys and girls, we got some true stories to tell. Stories of a trip to watch the most important rapper of his generation, with diversions to Malaysia, Glastonbury, Nando’s, and the myriad outer planets of the regretosphere.

We were extremely lucky to have Phil “Roger’s cousin” Wang invite us to watch Kendrick Lamar in November 2022 and then agree to chat about it a few weeks later: without further ado, and ideally without any of the Continuity Croaks of episode one, here it is.

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S1 E1: Franz Ferdinand with Rose Matafeo and Emma Sidi

Track one, side one of the podcast, and the Gig Pigs have gone big, in what is already being referred to in some circles as the Jacqueline of opening episodes. Not one guest but two, with a real-life (not to mention on-screen!) best friendship to match that of our hosts (and all the sweeter for not having been forged in the corridors of boarding school), and on top of all of that, guests with a Personal Link to the band in question? This pod is out of control! Rose, Emma, Alex and Ivo watched Franz Ferdinand at the Alexandra Palace in October 2022, and five months on, here’s the report. You couldn’t have it very much better than this.

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