Pig with the Face of a Boy
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Pig With The Face Of A Boy is a musical comedy band based in London, England. They perform original comic songs, and describe themselves as "the world's best neo-post-post-music hall anti-folk band". The duo consists of Dan Woods, on vocals, accordion & piano, and Donald Newholm, on vocals, guitar, charango, ronroco, banjo and mandolin. They have been performing together since 2008. Music Their debut album, La La Ha Ha, was released in 2009, containing 10 tracks including "The Midwife's Song", "The Unfortunate End of Miguel the Matador", "Howard Hughes Blues" and "A Complete History of the Soviet Union Through the Eyes of a Humble Worker, Arranged to the Melody of Tetris" (Set to the music of the Russian folk song Korobeiniki as arranged for the video game Tetris, and as of 18 December 2015, it is now a video with just over 5,100,000 views on YouTube). Their second album is called The Girl With The Arms Made From Marrows. Live shows Pig With The Face Of A Boy performed their first month-long show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2009. They also appeared at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2010, performing songs from their next album.
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