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Has anyone else had enough of pigbag after goals are scored. It’s just got a bit naff and stifles any celebrations as everyone defaults to clapping along with it like the audience to the theme tune of a 2nd rate BBC family show.
Papa’s Got A Brand New Pigbag was first released in the summer of 1981 on Y records (Pop Group, The Slits, Maximum Joy) an off-shoot of Rough Trade and then quietly disappeared. It was released again in the Spring of 82 and went to number 3 in the charts. My assumption is though it didn’t sell much on the first release it must have been big on the dancefloor and clubs. Anyway Spring 82 coincides with the Rs FA Cup run to Wembley so I wonder if the fans adopted it. Actually I seem to remember someone’s answered this before and it revolves around a very specific away day.
Back in 1993 a group of us used to go to a club in Westbourne Park called Woodys. It was basically a house that happened to have three floors of dancing going on.
One floor was disco, one floor was indie and one floor was something else I didn’t like. We’d stay there drinking in a corner not moving until the last song they played on the top floor. Which was Pigbag. They’d play the 12” version which goes on for a long bloody time.
The next week we’d do the same thing. This went on for months and we’d start doing it on trains to away games. Neil Banks (Harold Bishop) picked up on it and as he started a lot of the songs we sang it went from there.
A weekend in Blackpool over the Everton 2-2 game in September 1994 sealed it with tge whole away end singing it.
One thing though. When we first did it, we did the whole da da da der, der der der der, da ddadadadada bit and then restarted. We’re hardcore Pigbag.
Back in 1993 a group of us used to go to a club in Westbourne Park called Woodys. It was basically a house that happened to have three floors of dancing going on.
One floor was disco, one floor was indie and one floor was something else I didn’t like. We’d stay there drinking in a corner not moving until the last song they played on the top floor. Which was Pigbag. They’d play the 12” version which goes on for a long bloody time.
The next week we’d do the same thing. This went on for months and we’d start doing it on trains to away games. Neil Banks (Harold Bishop) picked up on it and as he started a lot of the songs we sang it went from there.
A weekend in Blackpool over the Everton 2-2 game in September 1994 sealed it with tge whole away end singing it.
One thing though. When we first did it, we did the whole da da da der, der der der der, da ddadadadada bit and then restarted. We’re hardcore Pigbag.
Back in 1993 a group of us used to go to a club in Westbourne Park called Woodys. It was basically a house that happened to have three floors of dancing going on.
One floor was disco, one floor was indie and one floor was something else I didn’t like. We’d stay there drinking in a corner not moving until the last song they played on the top floor. Which was Pigbag. They’d play the 12” version which goes on for a long bloody time.
The next week we’d do the same thing. This went on for months and we’d start doing it on trains to away games. Neil Banks (Harold Bishop) picked up on it and as he started a lot of the songs we sang it went from there.
A weekend in Blackpool over the Everton 2-2 game in September 1994 sealed it with tge whole away end singing it.
One thing though. When we first did it, we did the whole da da da der, der der der der, da ddadadadada bit and then restarted. We’re hardcore Pigbag.
[Post edited 3 Apr 2020 7:56]
Never knew that!
Harold was absolutely brilliant for starting songs.
"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."
Back in 1993 a group of us used to go to a club in Westbourne Park called Woodys. It was basically a house that happened to have three floors of dancing going on.
One floor was disco, one floor was indie and one floor was something else I didn’t like. We’d stay there drinking in a corner not moving until the last song they played on the top floor. Which was Pigbag. They’d play the 12” version which goes on for a long bloody time.
The next week we’d do the same thing. This went on for months and we’d start doing it on trains to away games. Neil Banks (Harold Bishop) picked up on it and as he started a lot of the songs we sang it went from there.
A weekend in Blackpool over the Everton 2-2 game in September 1994 sealed it with tge whole away end singing it.
One thing though. When we first did it, we did the whole da da da der, der der der der, da ddadadadada bit and then restarted. We’re hardcore Pigbag.
[Post edited 3 Apr 2020 7:56]
Amazing. Woodys was a great place, always the go to for afters if you were in the area
Don't mind the song after a goal but I think we need something else too (not necessarily after the goal). When we were at Cardiff for the playoff final I felt a bit of a berk singing doo doo doo doo while they were belting out their club anthem with proper words.
Pig bag is great for goal celebrations, especially getting HOOPs into it.
A club anthem would be a brilliant idea though for before games. We've got songwriters that are fans, like Mick Jones and Pete Doherty. Surely one of them could come up with something. It would have to be very catchy though, to get our lot singing it!
Pig bag is great for goal celebrations, especially getting HOOPs into it.
A club anthem would be a brilliant idea though for before games. We've got songwriters that are fans, like Mick Jones and Pete Doherty. Surely one of them could come up with something. It would have to be very catchy though, to get our lot singing it!
I'll take your club anthem and raise you a Botosani:
I’d keep it, especially with the “Hoops” shout, makes it properly ours, unlike Middlesbrough’s effort. I’m convinced they nabbed it off us after we beat them 5:0 or so in the late 90s.
Also I remember late in a home match a couple of seasons ago, where the football was rather uninspiring (unlike recently!), that there was a chorus of “let’s pretend that we have scored” followed by pigbag, jumping around and a bit of a laugh. Wouldn’t have been the same without it! It was a night match, can’t remember who it was against tho.
Woody's was a fantastic club. I used to work for the DJ who played Saturdays. (Michael Rhodes) Hip Hop, Indie and Metal all in one room before the internet and people started getting snobby.
I sometimes used to go up to the dance floor in my metal gear and no one batted an eyelid.
Carlton Bridge pub followed by a 10yard walk to the club.
I don't mind pigbag it did sound a bit weird in Cardiff though when they played 'Men of Harlech' rousingly sung and then on came our ditty. Martin Samuels wrote a very funny piece on that.
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