Episodes

  • S4 EP22: Open Air St Gallen 2008

    S4 EP22: Open Air St Gallen 2008
    Apr 16 2025
    "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 Alex dexterously unlocks Ivo's phone and his past to torture him with a spec review that could have been published in the NME if it was good enough, which we know of course it may not be. Next week: Alex's review of the European Youth Parliament! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    42 mins
  • S4 E21: The World Cup of Mercurys with Richard Osman

    S4 E21: The World Cup of Mercurys with Richard Osman
    Apr 10 2025
    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 discuss chocolate, confetti cannons, and what really is the best British album of the perfectly divisible 1992-2023 era.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 31 mins
  • S4 EP20: The Nick Cave Grave Rave

    S4 EP20: The Nick Cave Grave Rave
    Apr 3 2025
    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 (language) to one of the most bell-ringing, plate-spinning fan events of all time. Psychedelic conversations of Maths Pigs’ leap year calculations, we give to you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    49 mins
  • S4 EP19: Mistaken for Strangers

    S4 EP19: Mistaken for Strangers
    Mar 27 2025
    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 and put on a blue blazer / beloved white shirt, then dive into Alex and Ivo discussing 2013's insightful The National tour documentary / hilarious spinal tap-esque mockumentary / heart-warming examination of fraternal dynamics / chronicle of creative doubt "Mistaken For Strangers". Clive Owen advertised BMWs, dontcha know? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    43 mins
  • S4 EP18: Yardpigs For Failure

    S4 EP18: Yardpigs For Failure
    Mar 20 2025
    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 promo for Ivo’s book (May 22), in an episode that we thought would be out in January, and now features some very out of date Radiohead speculation. Pre order Yardsticks For Failure now! A-bosh! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    43 mins
  • S4 EP17: Bodega with Garrett Millerick

    S4 EP17: Bodega with Garrett Millerick
    Mar 13 2025
    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 great Gig Etiquette Podcasts of our times, as culture connoisseur and post office nemesis Garrett Millerick lays down some brutal laws about coats, crowds and mistimed liquids. A (Jack in) titanic episode even before we get to the Stewart Lee impression and Marilyn Manson anecdote. Dedicated to the dedicated! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 24 mins
  • S4 EP16: Correspondence

    S4 EP16: Correspondence
    Mar 6 2025
    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 and the inevitable long chat about Bloc Party, all scattered amongst a festive epic from our chief US reporter. You gotta really want it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 1 min
  • S4 EP15: A Complete Unknown with Nish Kumar

    S4 EP15: A Complete Unknown with Nish Kumar
    Feb 27 2025
    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 completely believable about Bob. Or a younger Bob. Or some other Bob. The podcast was recorded after the Pigs and Nish watched A Complete Unknown – a nailed on Oscar winner that came out in 2025. It’s a fantastic retelling of events from the early ‘60s that led up to the fiasco at Newport. After you’ve listened to the podcast give it a review! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 43 mins