Episodes

  • S4 EP11: Nick Cave with John Kearns

    S4 EP11: Nick Cave with John Kearns
    Jan 30 2025
    We don’t believe in an interventionist pod, but we know, darling, that you do. From font size to Five Guys, ogling bulges to leathering pipes, we invite Edinburgh Comedy Award double winner the Kearnel to pick over a long dark night in Nick’s red right hands, moving through the flames of anarchy and the winds of tyranny and also the difference between Reiss and M&S suit sizes. Do yourself a father! He’s there! 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 Producer: Michael Marden Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    1 hr and 54 mins
  • S4 EP10: Album of the Year

    S4 EP10: Album of the Year
    Jan 23 2025
    Here's the thing: in the modern world you don't reveal your favourite album of 2024 until three weeks into 2025. A chaotic Christmas on Excel resolves itself with the final present of the year being unwrapped: a top-heavy but fundamentally colossal album which dominated the vote despite Alex and Ivo nobly/disingenuously swerving it with their own selections. Thanks to all who submitted, congratulations to our lottery winners, and sorry to those whose choices narrowly missed out! It may feel bad! 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 Producer: Michael Marden Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    45 mins
  • S4 EP9: Hootenanny

    S4 EP9: Hootenanny
    Jan 16 2025
    A new year means an old us (releasing NYE content on Jan 16th, with the Gig Pigs Album of the Year to follow next week). Sophie Ellis Bextor, Jools Holland, and more ageless figures in the spotlight as the pigs ruminate once more on music based TV, music based board games and the music based passage of time. Bring on 2025! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    56 mins
  • S4 EP8: T-shirts and Toblerones

    S4 EP8: T-shirts and Toblerones
    Dec 19 2024
    Triangles are our favourite shape, but does anyone want an entire month of them? Recorded at the start of a nougat heavy advent, we’re crossing the (custom) tees on the year in our last episode before Christmas. Don’t forget to vote in the Gig Pigs Album of the Year, and see you in 2025! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    56 mins
  • S4 EP7: Albums of the Year 2024

    S4 EP7: Albums of the Year 2024
    Dec 12 2024
    Alex and Ivo pick apart their raw data feels courtesy of Spotify Wrapped, before teeing up a new award that we’d simply love you to contribute to. Calling all instrumental soundtrack pixies and pink pilates pop princesses! Let us know your thoughts and your choices. Thanks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    1 hr
  • S4 EP6: Lankum with Vittorio Angelone

    S4 EP6: Lankum with Vittorio Angelone
    Dec 5 2024
    Oh Lordy Lod, oh lordy me, what a gig Ivo missed this week, wild raving in the north while Alex and Vittorio "Victor" Angelone were wild roving in the west. Grab your Lankum tote and listen in horror (folk) at the various snafus he makes in pursuit of the emerald bandwagon, via viral pizzas, marital pledges and Master Kealy's Busted tap-in of dreams. All the words we have spoken, they were only in jest! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    1 hr and 21 mins
  • S4 EP5: Bloc Party

    S4 EP5: Bloc Party
    Nov 28 2024
    We are trying to be heroic in an age of modernity, and, in other news, we are releasing an ep from the old Patreon vaults (shout out to the £3.80 legends of yesteryear): a deep dive between gigs into the sinister hum of Ivo's music journalism circa 2007 (or was it 2005?), going in to bat for the second Bloc Party album, musing on what it's like to be in a band (not that we'd know), and commissioning a fantastically speculative bit of data-harvesting for a starting price of £200. We will charm, we will slice, we will dazzle you with our wit! 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
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    57 mins
  • S4 EP4: Bat for Lashes with James Benge

    S4 EP4: Bat for Lashes with James Benge
    Nov 21 2024
    Letters to our daughters and our editors alike in this episode, as Ivo comes face to face with the train that crashed his heart, Oxstu music czar 2010 (and CBS Football correspondent 2024) James Benge. You might not need to know in real time when Stephen Fry is scratching his arse, but there’s some solid glasnostalgia about Tinie Tempah, Alphabeat, Pure Reason Revolution and other people we (James and Alex) interviewed when they were just kids in the dark, alongside their more recent trip (Ivo absent once more) to watch Natasha Khan dreaming of Delphi at the Barbican, alongside some pool-pooers who make Alex tear his luscious hair out. 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
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    1 hr and 20 mins