comedy review

Pig With The Face Of A Boy

Free Fringe Festival

The idea of an "anti-folk" band with an accordion raises major questions, which are thankfully soon answered by 'Pig With The Face Of A Boy'. Their off-beat silliness charms from the start with a ditty on safety hazards in the London underground, and they quickly move onto urges to eat placenta and embrace sheep. This left some of the audience a touch bemused, but most in fits of laughter at the sheer invention and wit of Dan Wood and Donald Newholm. Both are accomplished musicians, entertaining as much with their playing as their jokes. It's well worth slinging a few pennies into their enormous hat; these boys are in danger of making 'anti-folk' the new rock'n'roll.

Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 6 - 30 Aug (not 18), 1.55pm, free, fpp 88

tw rating: 4/5

published: Aug-2009

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