The Pigs at Tamworth Country Music Festival 2012!

Us Pigs are super excited to be headin’ up to the  Tamworth Country Music Festival fir our 7th straight year in 2012! Yeehaa.. almost our ruby anniversary…..
We’d love you to join us fir some singin’ n hillbilly jiggin… read on fir all the deets!

Please note: shows over the last couple of years in Tamworth have been selling out, so its a good idea to get yer tickets early.

Here’s the show details:

Longyard Hotel – Ringers Road, Tamworth.

4pm Thursday 26th January 2012 – Australia Day Family show!

8.30pm Friday 27th January 2012

11pm Saturday 28th January 2012 – Its the Official Pigs Afterparty!!

Here’s how to get tickets:

In Person:
Longyard Hotel Bottle Shop. On sale from December 2011, these tickets are $20.. so are the cheapest. (Gotta love that)

Online:
Tourism Tamworth click here.., tickets are $20 plus $3 booking fee.

Phone:
Tourism Tamworth – 02 6767 5300, tickets are $20 plus $3 booking fee.

Here’s more details on the event:

“The Pigs take a hit song, turn it upside down, shake the change out of its pockets and set it down in its proper form… foot-stomping bluegrass.”

In recent year’s The Pigs’ at The Longyard has been one of the hottest tickets in town. The band return in 2012, for another three wildly energetic and entertaining performances – bigger, better and nuttier than ever!

The Pigs are best known for their banjo driven version of Beyonce’s Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It), as seen on Spicks and Specks. T-Bone Pig, claims to have written the song in 1922 while sitting on the family porch. At a Pigs’ gig, you’ll hear country versions of such unexpected songs as Rage Against The Machine’s Killing In The Name, Guns n Roses’ Sweet Child O Mine and even Technotronic’s Pump Up The Jam!

“It was a cold morning in 1933 when I walked into our old jam factory to find the pump was broke… So I awoke my family, with the cry, “Boys, the jam pump has broke! We’s gonna have to Pump up the Jam… by hand!” – T-Bone Pig on writing Pump up the Jam.

As well as the mega-hit songs that The Pigs claim to have written, the Pigs have a swag of cracking original tunes, including their lastest single, Macho Moisturiser, the tale of a big country boy with “skin like the softest part of a duck. Hey Christina, a wickedly funny breakup song is another Tamworth crowd favourite.

Joining Stretch, T-Bone, Cousin-Billy Bob and Cousin Archie on stage this year will be Cousin Montz Matsumuto on Banjo, Cousin Mark Oats on Fiddle and Michael Kantares on Mandolin – playing old favourites, as well as  a swag of brand new tunes. Get your tickets early to avoid disappointment!