Y Records founder Dick O’Dell has been recording a monthly radio show for internet station Soho Radio discussing his career from doing lighting for bands in the 60’s through to his more recent management roles with Bat for Lashes and Mute Management. This month he covers the years when he was running Y Records, home to Pigbag, Maximum Joy, The Pop Group, Shriekback and The Slits and many others.
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Several members of Pigbag were interviewed for the BBC Four TV programme “Top of the Pops: The Story of 1982”.
The programme will be broadcast on Friday 17th June 2016 at 22:00.
1982 was the year Pigbag reached number 3 in the UK Singles Charts with “Papa’s Got A Brand New Pigbag”, so it’ll be interesting to see what the band members have to say, particularly about their Top of the Pops appearances. They were allegedly banned from appearing after some high-spirited “misbehaviour”.
Info about the programme on the BBC website: The Story of 1982
Chris Lee’s Pigbag will be venturing forth once again at the start of June.
They’ll be playing The Jam House in Birmingham on 2nd June 2016, gig starts at 9pm.
Tickets start at £5 – get them here.
There’s an article on The Guardian website today made up of interviews with members of cult bands who had huge hits.
Alongside Gerald Casale (Devo), Stephen Jones (Babybird), David Cunningham (Flying Lizards) and others is Pigbag’s James Johnstone.
James talks about forming the band, appearing on Top of the Pops, Instinct, and the recent Pigbag resurrection.
Chris Lee’s Pigbag will be playing at The Plough Arts, Great Torrington in Devon on Saturday 19th December 2015.
The current band line up is given as:
- Chris Lee (trumpet, percussion)
- Alan Short (saxes, flute)
- Olly Nelkin (trombone)
- Max O’Donnell (guitar)
- Sam Alexander (percussion)
- Sven Atterton (bass)
- John Sam (drums)
You can follow the band on Twitter @Pigbag_LiveBand
Tickets are £10 in advance from The Plough website or Songkick.
Support will be from local ska band, Raggamuffins.
There’s a 30 second clip from a Chris Hawkin’s BBC 6Music show on the BBC iPlayer, about how far ahead of their time Pigbag were with “Papa’s Got A Brand New Pigbag”.
BBC 6 Music on Papa’s Got A Brand New Pigbag
Thanks to ex-Pigbagger, Roger Freeman, for letting me know about that.
Saturday 22nd August sees Chris Lee’s Pigbag playing a gig in Peckham as part of “The South London Soul Train” line up.
Tickets via Resident Advisor
Chris Lee’s Pigbag will be headlining the Friday night at CalvertStock in Kentisbury, Devon on 19th June. The event is to raise money for the Calvert Trust charity.
http://calvert-trust.org.uk/calvertstock for more info
Pigbag make another appearance at the Jazz Cafe in Camden, London on Friday 28th November.
Support is from 8-piece British jazz outfit Bad Ass Brass (pictured above)
Tickets are £16.50 in advance from the Jazz Cafe website
Bearded Theory have announced the line-up for their 2015 event.
Pigbag will be playing the Woodland Stage on Friday 22nd May 2015. The festival is held at Catton Hall in Derbyshire.
Earlybird tickets go on sale on Tuesday 9th September 2014 for £87 (adults).
Other acts appearing at the festival include:
- The Mission
- Neville Staple
- Paprika Corps
- Babajack
- The Talks
- Captain Hotknives
- Treehouse Fire
- JB Conspiracy
- Jack Rats
- P.A.I.N.
- Louise Distras
More information at www.beardedtheory.co.uk