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Seated or standing? Support band or drinks? Sing along as loudly as possible or watch in respectful silence? These are the dilemmas that have plagued Ivo and Alex - stand up comedians by night, gig pigs by night off - over a decade and a half of watching live music together and it’s time to start opening them up to the floor. Join them every Thursday to find out who they’ve been to see live this week, and which guest they roped along for the ride.
'Gig Pigs' with Ivo Graham and Alex Kealy.
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Pig Tales: Foxes & Hedgehogs
How many Beatles songs is Paul McCartney obliged to play at Glastonbury? How many Beta Band songs is Steve Mason obliged to play at Green Man? And how many Gig Pigs songs will Foxes and Hedgehogs be obliged to play at the Amersham Arms? Both of them, we hope, as Alex and Ivo talk to Dan and Jack of F&H, soundtrackers to the pod, ahead of February 16th’s collision of worlds in south east London. Tuck into this hallmark pre-gig pig, also featuring Kombu Nori and Jeez Lluis, and join us on Friday night! We’ll share only a few hours but you’ll remember every minute!
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S2 EP11: Youth Lagoon with James Acaster
This is how we gig, with our face to the pig, and we were delighted to do so this week with comedy’s most dedicated music purchaser and reorderer, James Acaster, after a trip to watch newly unretired Idahoan dream-popper Youth Lagoon, with some solid time allotted to wedding DJs, prepared shibboleths and a one-man anti-Slipknot protest at Reading Festival 2000.
It’s the last episode-with-guest til Christmas but we’ll still be putting out Gigzard-Wizard over the festive break so don’t stop downloading, the day that you do is the day that you die!
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S2 EP10: Bombay Bicycle Club with Georgia Graham
Has Ivo always been like this? No one more qualified to answer than this week’s guest, his very own sister, joining us to eat, sleep, gig (nothing but pig) at apparently the most beautiful venue Bombay Bicycle Club have ever played! Nostalgia heavy even by our standards this week: it’s that ancient love that you won't outgrow! Support your local record store!
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S2 EP9: Haim with Alison Spittle
You know we’re bad at communication, it's the hardest thing for us to do, and it's said, it's the most important part that podcasters need to do! In this case, one pretty honking error from Ivo in the top, apologised for profusely in the tail, with an hour and a bit of glorious Alison Spittle (we've forever believed in their insight) in the middle, chatting Shrek suits, Mumba marquees, and a stunning night watching “our Rumours” in full in west London! Now! We're! Talking!
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S2 EP8: Boygenius with Felicity Ward
Give us everything you've got, we’ll take what we can get, we want to hear your story and be a part of it! The casual text that snagged nominated nut-buster and Office reinventer Felicity Ward to join us for true-blue indie supergroup Boygenius at Pryzm Kingston and then answer some easy questions about work and school for a souvenir. It was a good idea, and she was all about it, a joyous guest with enough passion, portmanteaus and pearls of wisdom about builders’ qualifications to more than compensate for Ivo having being in Edinburgh and not Kingston. Sometimes the concert, always the pod! Sometimes the concert, always the pod!
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S2 EP7: The National with Stuart Laws and Helena Wadia
Leave your home, watch a gig, wait a week, do a pig! A colossal ep reflecting on two dumb, slow shows at the Ally Pally by a band who don’t know how much we love them, do they? Serial Berningerer Helena Wadia and montage connoisseur Stuart Laws join to try and figure out everything at once, from novelty bombs v novelty bongs to just how much money, how much money, Ive-owes! Sign up to the Patreon because we’re desperate to entertain!
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Customer Reviews
Best music podcast
And arguably best comedy podcast. Definitely best arguably comedy podcast.
My New Favourite Podcast
Brilliant podcast that has reignited my love of live music!
Hit and miss
I like the concept of the show but the episodes do vary wildly in quality. Is it better to have a proper fan on as a guest or someone who has went to see them at the time an episode is to be released? For instance, I have no interest in Foals or Limp Bizkit but these are stand out episodes because of the way the guests share their experience of the gig and their relationship to the band.
I was so looking forward to the Arctic Monkeys episode when announced, but this is quite possibly the worst episode given the way the guests have written off large parts of the discography, and most of the episode centred around what AM did perform vs what they didn’t perform live.