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".[1] The duo consists of Dan Woods, on vocals and accordion, and Donald Newholm, on vocals, guitar, mandolin and charango. They have been performing together since 2008.
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Their debut album, La La Ha Ha, was released in 2009,[2] 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, which is now a video with over 2,000,000 views on youtube).[3][4]
According to the band's website, they are preparing a new album called The Girl With The Arms Made From Marrows.[5]
Pig With The Face Of A Boy performed their first month-long show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2009.[6][7] They also appeared at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2010, performing songs from their next album.[8]