Australia’s favourite bluegrass funsters The Pigs, known internationally for their combination of super-catchy original tunes and foot-stomping ‘Piggified’ cover versions. Their latest album ‘The Great Bluegrass Swindle’ marries superb musicianship with a distinctly Australian sense of humour and just all round great time. If you are yet to witness this greatness, you can the catch the brothers performing songs from the album at Hallam Hotel – Friday 8th March and The Famous Spiegeltent on Saturday 9th March.
As we were super excited about the announcement of their shows we caught up with T-Bone Pig speaks to chat food on riders, cooking disasters and what lolly or candy bar they would like to invent…
Be warned that (all misspelling intentional)
What were your food influences when you were growing up and what kind of food did you eat at home or with your family?
Us Pigs ate grits… as that’s what Par liked. Also, our Ma used to make us an special treat called ice cream porridge. It was just flour n’ water. It didn’t taste like ice cream or porridge.
What dish or cuisine do you most like to eat on tour and why?
Most of the band eat meat… very well done… sorta like toast. Me, as I’m a vegetarian, I eats potato… very well cooked… to a crisp.
Stretch is obsessed with finding free food on the road – from free biscuits in motel rooms to bowls of beer nuts in bars, to sugar sachets. There’s always bounty to be found backstage in other people’s trailers.
Cousin Archie Piccolo Latte Pig travels with an café quality coffee machine. Even when we’se travelling by aeroplane, he disassembles it n’ stashes it in the overhead baggage.
What type of food do you hate, and what is the most disgusting thing you’ve ever eaten?
We hate eatin’ horse, or horse products. They’s great to ride but crap to eat.
What type of food do you make sure to avoid before a gig or going on stage?
Carbs are bad to eat before a gig… as they make you burp… n’ sometimes fart.
Imagine for a second you can request anything on your rider at your upcoming Hallam Hotel and Spiegeltent shows. What food do you put on it?
Is Beer food? If so Beer. If not, an nice cheese platter.. with lotsa soft cheeses.. so we don’t break any teeth.
What has been your biggest cooking disaster to date?
When Stretch tried to toast some steaks. They got stuck in the toaster… n’ then all the fat caught alight… n’ made an fire… catchin’ alight poor Stretch’s bewediful blond long locks. He ran through the house screamin’ ME HAIRS ON FIRE! ME HAIRS ON FIRE! We’se ended up havin’ to extinguish his head in the bath tub… which sizzled n’ crackled just like cracklin’.
What is your favorite bacon recipe?
We don’t like Bacon… fir obvious reasons.
If you could invent a candy bar or lolly what would it be?
Beer suckers. An delectable sweet made from old beer n’ ciggy butts… carefully sweetened with molasses n’ dried out in the sun.
If you were throwing a dinner party and could invite any musicians, living or dead, who would they be and why?
We’d invite Bill Munroe, Doc Watson, Woody Guthrie, Bela Fleck, Weird Al Yankovich, Keith Moon, Michelle Jackson n’ the boys from Mustard Courage, as they know how to make sausage.
This is your last day on earth, what is your final meal?
Weell… havin’ consulted the entire family… n’ all they’re ewe-nique tastes… it would have to be BEER HASH BROWNS.
To make these ewe gotta make hash browns with a lot of Potato and eggs n’ salt… n’ then moisten with beer… actually soak ‘em in the stuff. Then an little flour n’ fry ‘em off! An luxury.
