I recently purchased “Seven Piggies” from someone on Ebay. I’ve added it to the Discography with scans of the covers and disc.
Author: nigel
Mike Chandler sent me some more background on a couple of pre-Pigbag bands, and I’ve finally got around to incorporating it.
I’ve put up the text of an interview with Simon of Pigbag, from the May 1982 issue of The Face (which featured Pigbag on the cover. From the same interview I’ve added a few photos to the Cuttings page.
Recently found a copy of the sheet music for Papa’s Got A Brand New Pigbag on Ebay.
Pigbag’s second single, “Sunny Day“, is featured on a new Rough Trade Shops compilation, Post Punk Vol.1. The double CD also features tracks by The Slits and The Pop Group, as well as Maximum Joy, Young Marble Giants, Fats Comet, 23 Skidoo, James White & The Contortions and The Raincoats.
A sample from “Hit The ‘O’ Deck” is used towards the end of the Chicken Lips track, “Steppin'” on the recently released album above. The vocal samples (“Step around this wall of sound” and “My Mind Goes Pit-Patter, Music Matters”) are on the original track rather than having been mixed in by Jacques.
David Jary sent me some information about Roger Freeman and Chris Hamlin, which has been added to the History and After Pigbag sections
I’ve added an Instinct section including some press photos I have of the band. I have some other Instinct stuff to add and will sort that out shortly.
At long last I’ve added scans of the articles and clippings I bought a while back.
As yet most of the scans are simply that, though I have OCRed one of them back into text.
There’s still a lot to add to the site, and if anyone else has Pigbag material that they think I might be interested in, please let me know.
I also need to redo scans and possibly samples for the singles and albums.
I’d like to thanks everyone who has contributed to the site, particularly James Johnstone and Brian Nevill
who have both provided lots of historical detail. If anyone has more information, or pictures etc, drop me ([email protected]) a line.