NEW VIDEO - A Complete History of the Soviet Union, arranged to the melody of Tetris

We've made a video of our song, "A Complete History of the Soviet Union as told by a humble worker, arranged to the melody of Tetris", directed and animated by Chris Lincé. Huge thanks to Chris, and to Tim, Nicola, Lucy, Malcolm, Robin, James and Remy for making it possible.

Pig with the Face of a Boy's TETRIS VIDEO LAUNCH COMEDY NIGHT

Thursday 8 July 2010
Doors 19:30, start 20:00
at The Miller, 96 Snowsfields, London SE1 3SS

A delicious evening of free-admission comedy.

We've made a video of our song 'A Complete History of the Soviet Union As Told By A Humble Worker, Arranged To The Melody Of Tetris', fantastically directed and animated by Chris Lincé. To celebrate the launch, we're hosting a free admission night of comedy, to include:

Sketch comedy from the fresh and brilliant TOBY

Neo-post-post-music hall comedy from the very funny BOB & JIM

And, of course, comedy songs from PIG WITH THE FACE OF A BOY

and the Grand Unveiling of the video of A COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE SOVIET UNION AS TOLD BY A HUMBLE WORKER, ARRANGED TO THE MELODY OF TETRIS!

The Miller is close to London Bridge tube/rail. See you there!

The Girl With The Arms Made From Marrows

We're delighted to announce details of our Edinburgh show.

Once again we'll be at the Edinburgh Free Festival this summer, where we'll be premiering songs from our next album, The Girl With The Arms Made From Marrows.

We had a brilliant time and had a fantastic audience at last year's Edinburgh Fringe. This year we're in a bigger space, Maggie's Chamber at The Three Sisters on Cowgate. We'll be on every day at 5pm from 5-17 August.

And Dan will be performing his solo show, Dan Woods's Oral History, in the same venue from 19-29 August. He will be singing yet more daft songs, with an improbable ambition that future generations will tell his stories around campfires.

Last year the critics thought Pig With The Face Of A Boy were "the new rock'n'roll" and reckoned "a better hour of shiny comic songs may be hard to find". So come and see us, and point your friends our way!

Listen to our songs

You can listen to our songs:

1 By buying our CD. There are lots of songs on our CD.

2 By clicking on the player on the right.

3 By visiting our MySpace page at http://www.myspace.com/pigwiththefaceofaboy

4 By seeing us live. The calendar on the right shows when you can see us.

Petiton to make bendy buses make accordion noises as they go round corners

Please join this group.

Joining a Facebook group is of course the world’s least effective form of political action. However, this is a cause Pig With The Face Of A Boy are particularly passionate about, and we believe Transport for London should implement the measure without delay.

Gig With The Face Of A Boy

Keep an eye on the 'google calendar' box on the right for details of our gigs. We're performing at UCL on Saturday, and next Wednesday we're returning to the Cavendish Arms as part of a brilliant night called the Cheeky Beggars Banquet.

More will appear soon.

The 'google calendar' box feels a tad cramped and messy. Does anyone know an easy and effective way to make it less ugly?

The World's Smallest Festival

Pig With The Face Of A Boy will be appearing at The World's Smallest Festival this Sunday 27th September. It will take place in a secret location in South London. For tickets, text the word "BLAG" to 60777 (£1.50 per text). 50 texters will be given two tickets each entirely at random.

We're excited. There are some great acts lined up. It's going to be huge.

Our first album (La La Ha Ha)

A number of people have been asking how they can buy our CD. To make this both possible and easy, we added a button to the right of the page, which allows you to send us money via the electronic payments provider PayPal. You don't need a PayPal account to use the service.

To check the system worked, I tested it out, which rather irritatingly meant I had to fork out £7 for one of my own CDs. Much to my surprise, it arrived immediately.

Coming to a town

Pig With The Face Of A Boy will be performing at a town near you, if you happen to live near to Gravesend, which is a town in Kent.

We'll be playing at 7:30(ish) on Sunday 13th September as part of the Red Roar Festival.

We're also due to be playing as part of the World's Smallest Festival on Sunday 27th September. This is obviously top secret. If word gets out it will no longer be the World's Smallest Festival, so the endeavour will be pointless.

If you like us and think we should play at your venue or festival, email pig@pigfaceboy.co.uk, and we'll see if we can make it happen.

(The photo is from a nativity play I was once in. It's not from the show. There are no puppet sheep in our show. There is no need to be afraid.)

Another four star review

From ThreeWeeks.

"These boys are in danger of making 'anti-folk' the new rock'n'roll."

We are toying with the idea of pasting "THE NEW ROCK'N'ROLL!" on our posters, just to see what sort of people turn up.

Read the full review here: http://edinburgh.threeweeks.co.uk/review/7483