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Gig Pigs with Ivo Graham and Alex Kealy
Hosted by Keep It Light Media · EN
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 Media Production
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S4 EP22: Open Air St Gallen 2008
Apr 16, 202500:41:58Tap to summarize"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
Transcribe →S4 E21: The World Cup of Mercurys with Richard Osman
Apr 10, 202501:31:16Tap to summarizeThe 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
Transcribe →S4 EP20: The Nick Cave Grave Rave
Apr 3, 202500:49:08Tap to summarizeYou 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
Transcribe →S4 EP19: Mistaken for Strangers
Mar 27, 202500:42:47Tap to summarizeA 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
Transcribe →S4 EP18: Yardpigs For Failure
Mar 20, 202500:42:46Tap to summarizeWho 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
Transcribe →S4 EP17: Bodega with Garrett Millerick
Mar 13, 202501:24:25Tap to summarizeIt'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
Transcribe →S4 EP16: Correspondence
Mar 6, 202501:01:04Tap to summarizeAfter 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
Transcribe →S4 EP15: A Complete Unknown with Nish Kumar
Feb 27, 202501:43:00Tap to summarizeThere’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
Transcribe →S4 EP14: Justice with Alex Haddow & Adam Flood
Feb 20, 202501:29:26Tap to summarizeWatch 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 they don’t forget, in an episode about Grammy guzzling Gallic gods of gain and groove that went from Genesis to (Daylight) Rendez-Vous, A-Cross the space of barely a week. Seek Justice wherever you can, pronounce it however you see fit, wear your home made jackets with pride, and go watch Haddow and Flood because they! are! Our friends! We’ll! Never be alone again! Until the multiple privilege adjacent Simian Mobile Disco anecdotes in the episode’s tail that is. No need to ask our school, to figure out how cool we are!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/45NNtgh2FbvR4emjWbAVQhEmails and recommendations in the usual places - gigpigspodcast@gmail.comFollow us!@ivo_graham@alexkealyA 'Keep It Light Media' Production Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Transcribe →S4 EP13: Thirteen Senses
Feb 13, 202500:44:34Tap to summarizeCome 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 rehash too many of the themes of his Bloc Party piece? Well, (a) it doesn’t, and (b) we think you’ll enjoy Alex hauling him over the coals for his straw men, his definition of “spooky” and his prioritisation of Scroobius Pip over the original Ten Commandments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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