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! 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 - gigpigspodcast@gmail.com Follow us! @ivo_graham @alexkealy A 'Keep It Light Media' Production  Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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! For extra bonus Gig Pigs episodes and exclusive content every month head over to www.patreon.com/gigpigs to support the show. Download extra swill, rate and leave review. The Extra Swill playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/45NNtgh2FbvR4emjWbAVQh Emails and recommendations in the usual places - gigpigspodcast@gmail.com Follow us! @ivo_graham @alexkealy A 'Keep It Light Media' Production  Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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! 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 - gigpigspodcast@gmail.com Follow us! @ivo_graham @alexkealy A 'Keep It Light Media' Production  Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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! 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 - gigpigspodcast@gmail.com Follow us! @ivo_graham @alexkealy A 'Keep It Light Media' Production  Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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! 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 - gigpigspodcast@gmail.com Follow us! @ivo_graham @alexkealy A 'Keep It Light Media' Production  Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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! 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 - gigpigspodcast@gmail.com Follow us! @ivo_graham @alexkealy A 'Keep It Light Media' Production  Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Gig-pigger, where you been? You look so worn, so thin. To be fair, it was halfway through the Fringe when the pod that doesn’t take the easy road, the easy road, bundled Chloe Petts, classiest glasser in town, into the Pleasance Cabaret Bar to find the silver linings in a chagrin heavy evening at the “hideous” O2 Academy. And before we even get to it - and its side helpings of Kasabian pits, Killers passwords and, obviously, G4 - there’s a windy intro that truly is the sound of Keals and his disgrace. S2 EP6: First Aid Kit with Chloe Petts  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 - gigpigspodcast@gmail.com Follow us! @ivo_graham @alexkealy A 'Keep It Light Media' Production  Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 - gigpigspodcast@gmail.com Follow us! @ivo_graham @alexkealy A 'Keep It Light Media' Production  Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/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 - gigpigspodcast@gmail.com Follow us! @ivo_graham @alexkealy A 'Keep It Light Media' Production  Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/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 - gigpigspodcast@gmail.com Follow us! @ivo_graham @alexkealy A 'Keep It Light Media' Production  Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/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 - gigpigspodcast@gmail.com Follow us! @ivo_graham @alexkealy A 'Keep It Light Media' Production  Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/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 - gigpigspodcast@gmail.com Follow us! @ivo_graham @alexkealy A 'Keep It Light Media' Production  Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/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 - gigpigspodcast@gmail.com Follow us! @ivo_graham @alexkealy A 'Keep It Light Media' Production  Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/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 - gigpigspodcast@gmail.com Follow us! @ivo_graham @alexkealy A 'Keep It Light Media' Production  Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/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 - gigpigspodcast@gmail.com Follow us! @ivo_graham @alexkealy A 'Keep It Light Media' Production  Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/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 - gigpigspodcast@gmail.com Follow us! @ivo_graham @alexkealy A 'Keep It Light Media' Production  Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/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 - gigpigspodcast@gmail.com Follow us! @ivo_graham @alexkealy A 'Keep It Light Media' Production  Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Pod on! Pod on! Pod on! Pod on! You’re cuing up a future award-winning interview about the Hives with prolific sketcher / Eurovisionner / elephant pianist Sean Burke. The Swedish rock and lol stars brought their vast catalogue of gold to the Kingston Pryzm and Ivo, Alex and Sean were about as involved as you can be without getting up onstage to play bass. 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 - gigpigspodcast@gmail.com Follow us! @ivo_graham @alexkealy A 'Keep It Light Media' Production  Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to the jungle! Ivo’s back from Somerset to hoarsely rant about his escapades, but does Alex wanna know? With some texted contributions from other pigs on the farm, we think it’s going to be a long long pod (actually quite short by our standards). Rate, review and roll on Latitude! The Extra Swill playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/45NNtgh2FbvR4emjWbAVQh Emails and recommendations in the usual places - gigpigspodcast@gmail.com Follow us! @ivo_graham @alexkealy A 'Keep It Light Media' Production  Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

If I saw you at the gig, would I have you in my pig tonight? This week KG and the PW run this and other urgent questions past fantastic comedian and Forum stalwart Sean McLoughlin. What did he make of Ontarian marriage enthusiasts Alvvays? Was it a good time? Or was it highly inappropriate? Enjoy/review/subscribe! The Extra Swill playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/45NNtgh2FbvR4emjWbAVQh Emails and recommendations in the usual places - gigpigspodcast@gmail.com Follow us! @ivo_graham @alexkealy A 'Keep It Light Media' Production  Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Do you think Gig Pigs will last forever? No, of course not, but we’re well into double figures (hear that Joel?), and podding the way we want i.e. after the gig and full of discount Itsu. This week’s nightcapper was the brilliant Sarah Keyworth, who watched Long Island genre-hopper Caroline Rose with us at Heaven and then stayed up (art of) remembering it with us until the wee smalls. More of the same next week! Enjoy/review/subscribe! The Extra Swill playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/45NNtgh2FbvR4emjWbAVQh Emails and recommendations in the usual places - gigpigspodcast@gmail.com Follow us! @ivo_graham @alexkealy A 'Keep It Light Media' Production  Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

S1 E15: Foals with Nathan D’Arcy Roberts If inhaling fourteen episodes of aggressively niche music chat hadn’t given you a clear enough picture of what Alex and Ivo were into, you’d really have our number after this one: the deepest of dives, from the top of the world to the bottom of the ocean, into a band we’ve loved for our total lives forever, alongside antidote-immune second album electric bloomer Nathan D’Arcy Roberts. It’s time to talk about what went down last month in Kingston, and, crucially, what didn’t. Everything not seen will be lamented! Enjoy/review/subscribe! The Extra Swill playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/45NNtgh2FbvR4emjWbAVQh Emails and recommendations in the usual places - gigpigspodcast@gmail.com Follow us! @ivo_graham @alexkealy A 'Keep It Light Media' Production  Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

S1 E14: Rick Simpson's KID A with Matt Stronge You can try the best you can, you can try the best you can, but could you recognise a jazz reinterpretation of a song off Kid A if you didn’t have the album’s chronology pointing the way? Producer, photographer and general sidepig-in-chief Matt Stronge reckons he could, and this isn’t even a band he knows a lot about! So please laugh until your head comes off at our cultured if confusing night out, and the various dubious tangents/texts/trips covered in its retelling. This IS happening! We ARE here! Enjoy/review/subscribe! The Extra Swill playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/45NNtgh2FbvR4emjWbAVQh Emails and recommendations in the usual places - gigpigspodcast@gmail.com Follow us! @ivo_graham @alexkealy A 'Keep It Light Media' Production  Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Here we go again, my love, you’ve got so much time to spend. And we’re asking for more of it than we used to, to be fair, with our last sub-60 episode feeling a long time ago. But which (and this IS a rhetorical question) of these material gifts would you get rid of? Ania Magliano’s Bastille epic? Ivo’s Fareham tangents? Alex’s life-changing and (at time of writing) year-topping news? And that’s before we’ve even got into the main business of Georgia running up that hill, (about) working that dancefloor, and turning Omeara into pure Euphoria (release date July 28th). Ivo wasn’t even there and he still had a great time! Ania is fantastic! Alex is engaged! Stay a while and be in this moment with us! Enjoy/review/subscribe! The Extra Swill playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/45NNtgh2FbvR4emjWbAVQh Emails and recommendations in the usual places - gigpigspodcast@gmail.com Follow us! @ivo_graham @alexkealy A 'Keep It Light Media' Production  Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Does anybody really know the secret, or the combination for this pod and where they keep it? This week Ivo and Alex took old nu metalhead and chiselled singer-unmasker Joel Dommett to seek out these answers at Wembley Arena (formerly Brixton Academy). It was Limp Bizkit’s way or the highway, and sure, Alex chose the highway (the metropolitan line), but not before a solid hour and a half of doing it all for the nookie. Needless to say some of this filth will be on the Swill and if you’re enjoying the podcast please keeping ratin’ ratin’ ratin’ Enjoy/review/subscribe! The Extra Swill playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/45NNtgh2FbvR4emjWbAVQh Emails and recommendations in the usual places - gigpigspodcast@gmail.com Follow us! @ivo_graham @alexkealy A 'Keep It Light Media' Production  Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jesus Christ girl, someone’s got to help us pig! And this week, the superbly well-travelled Harriet Kemsley (Leeds Castle! MSG! Carcassonne!) joined us to watch (some of) deadpan crooner Father John Misty and pick over the fear/fun/pure comedy of it all several weeks later. Alongside the usual tangents into board games and tree based side projects, the real story of this ep were the real licks baby for Ivo “dog’s favourite customer” Graham. Oh baby don’t be alarmed, this is just our vibe! Enjoy/review/subscribe! The Extra Swill playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/45NNtgh2FbvR4emjWbAVQh Emails and recommendations in the usual places - gigpigspodcast@gmail.com Follow us! @ivo_graham @alexkealy A 'Keep It Light Media' Production  Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In Alex’s living room, (three days) after the concert: we take you, take you to the Lafayette, where we watched Canadian indie darlings Stars in the company of Irish indie darling Andrew Nolan back in February. No jetpacks, stunt or otherwise, but colossal choruses from (crucially) ACROSS the canon, a glorious jumble of guests, and the pure triumph of being live and alive: what we’re trying to say, without having to say, what we want to say - we loved this gig! Come out with us tonight, come out with us tonight, give us a review under fluorescent light! Enjoy/review/subscribe! The Extra Swill playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/45NNtgh2FbvR4emjWbAVQh Emails and recommendations in the usual places - gigpigspodcast@gmail.com Follow us! @ivo_graham @alexkealy A 'Keep It Light Media' Production  Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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! The Extra Swill playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/45NNtgh2FbvR4emjWbAVQh Enjoy/review/subscribe! Emails and recommendations in the usual places - gigpigspodcast@gmail.com Follow us! @ivo_graham @alexkealy A 'Keep It Light Media' Production  Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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! The Extra Swill playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/45NNtgh2FbvR4emjWbAVQh Enjoy/review/subscribe! Emails and recommendations in the usual places - gigpigspodcast@gmail.com Follow us! @ivo_graham @alexkealy A 'Keep It Light Media' Production  Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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! The Extra Swill playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/45NNtgh2FbvR4emjWbAVQh Enjoy/review/subscribe! Emails and recommendations in the usual places - gigpigspodcast@gmail.com Follow us! @ivo_graham @alexkealy A 'Keep It Light Media' Production  Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. Enjoy/review/subscribe! To us or the bear cult! Emails and recommendations in the usual places - gigpigspodcast@gmail.com The Extra Swill playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/45NNtgh2FbvR4emjWbAVQh Follow us! @ivo_graham @alexkealy A 'Keep It Light Media' Production  Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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! Emails and recommendations in the usual places - gigpigspodcast@gmail.com The Extra Swill playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/45NNtgh2FbvR4emjWbAVQh Follow us! @ivo_graham @alexkealy A 'Keep It Light Media' Production  Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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! Emails and recommendations in the usual places - gigpigspodcast@gmail.com The Extra Swill playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/45NNtgh2FbvR4emjWbAVQh Follow us! @ivo_graham @alexkealy A 'Keep It Light Media' Production  Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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! Emails and recommendations in the usual places - gigpigspodcast@gmail.com The Extra Swill playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/45NNtgh2FbvR4emjWbAVQh Follow us! @ivo_graham @alexkealy A 'Keep It Light Media' Production  Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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! https://open.spotify.com/playlist/45NNtgh2FbvR4emjWbAVQh Recommendations (YouTube) Jacques Brel Crowd singing Humble at Kendrick Lamar Jeff Rosenstock session #2 “5 incredible songs …” Björk - It’s Oh So Quiet (live at Taratata) Most Disastrous Tour In History The Absurd Logistics Of Concert Tours Prime Documentary: Orelsan - Don’t ever show this to anyone (montre jamais ça a personne) Correspondence to: gigpigspodcast@gmail.com Follow us! @ivo_graham @alexkealy A 'Keep It Light Media' Production  Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. Listen, share, review, subscribe! Follow us on socials! (@gigpigspodcast, @wangpix). Correspondence to: gigpigspodcast@gmail.com Follow us! @ivo_graham @alexkealy Listen to our Spotify sister playlist "Extra Swill"! Tell us who you loyal to! https://open.spotify.com/playlist/45NNtgh2FbvR4emjWbAVQh A 'Keep It Light Media' Production  Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. Correspond with us! gigpigspodcast@gmail.com Listen to the music discussed and on our sister playlist “Extra Swill”! https://open.spotify.com/playlist/45NNtgh2FbvR4emjWbAVQh Follow us! @ivo_graham @alexkealy @gigpigspodcast @rosematafeo @emmafrancescasidi A 'Keep It Light Media' Production  Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Gig Pigs with Ivo Graham and Alex Kealy - COMING SOON!!  Comedians (and friends) Ivo Graham and Alex Kealy take a fellow comedian to a musical gig. They then discuss said gig, and more.... A Keep It Light Media Production Hello@keepitlightmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices