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.A Keep It Light Medi...
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46 min
S4 EP22: Open Air St Gallen 2008
"Out of the water! I can hear the Fratellis coming on!" Another trip in the toe-curling time-machine to a criminally ignored Swiss music festival from the late noughties, where Ale…
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1 h 35
S4 E21: The World Cup of Mercurys with Richard Osman
The Thursday Mercury Club is in retrograde mode this week, as the godfather of social media knockout formats and the suedebrother of the award’s second ever winners joins us to dis…
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53 min
S4 EP20: The Nick Cave Grave Rave
You want ANOTHER pod about the Wild God? We’ll give you one. Ivo’s picket-crossing Cavemania dogs to new moustachioed depths as he summons Alex and his fellow Wheels of Love (langu…
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47 min
S4 EP19: Mistaken for Strangers
A blast from our patreon past (Nov 2023), in partial honour of Matt Berninger’s tour announcement - we’ll be back next week with a new ep!For this week's pig tale, have a shower an…
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47 min
S4 EP18: Yardpigs For Failure
Who is the Tom Skinner of Gig Pigs? What is a homunculus? And what did Alex’s mum actually say at his 18th? All these questions and more answered in a thrillingly thinly disguised…
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1 h 28
S4 EP17: Bodega with Garrett Millerick
It's new world now, don't discriminate! Everyone is equally a gigger and a pig! Ivo missed 100% of this Bodega show but it’s Alex missing the final 10% that tees up one of the grea…
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1 h 05
S4 EP16: Correspondence
After their favourite weird hot man fails to take the Oscar, Alex and Ivo pig themselves up with some first rate correspondence. New Zealand vinyl pressing, songs about footballers…
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1 h 49
S4 EP15: A Complete Unknown with Nish Kumar
There’s a podcast about Bob Dylan released now called Gig Pigs (what a title!). Nish Kumar is starring in the guest role. Nish is a brilliant podcaster so we were sure he’d be comp…
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1 h 33
S4 EP14: Justice with Alex Haddow & Adam Flood
Watch the G-I-G Tuesday, nail the P-I.G Friday, what a pod, What. A. Pod! Alex and Ivo are joined by two comedy clubnight pioneers this week to remember the hardest of the times th…
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49 min
S4 EP13: Thirteen Senses
Come on, come on, put your hands into the fire and brimstone of Ivo’s student music journalism. Does his article about the premier Cornwallian bedwetters of the mid noughties rehas…
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45 min
S4 EP12: Desert Island Nicks
After being pipped to the pod by Lauren Laverne last week, the boys’ Cave dwelling continues into a bonus episode about his eight choices, the people who have taken his songs to th…
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1 h 53
S4 EP11: Nick Cave with John Kearns
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 doub…
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45 min
S4 EP10: Album of the Year
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…
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56 min
S4 EP9: Hootenanny
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 figure…
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56 min
S4 EP8: T-shirts and Toblerones
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…
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60 min
S4 EP7: Albums of the Year 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 soundtra…
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1 h 21
S4 EP6: Lankum with Vittorio Angelone
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 a…
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57 min
S4 EP5: Bloc Party
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 div…
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1 h 20
S4 EP4: Bat for Lashes with James Benge
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 corresponde…
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50 min
S4 EP3: Pig Tales - Onegin
Which gig pigs gig has your disbelief been most suspended at? What’s Alex’s dad doing for his 90th? And who is Ted Sneezington? This and other big questions resolved in an epic poe…