Tuesday 28 May 2024

The I's Have It

Biig Piig aka Jessica Smyth was born in Cork in the Republic of Ireland, lived with her family to Malaga in Spain from age 4 to 12, currently resides in London, with time writing music in Los Angeles. 

Biig Piig has been releasing music since 2016 - mixtapes, EPs and singles, with a debut album forthcoming - but I've only experienced one song and video, Watch Me. Released last November, it comes across like Black Cherry-era Goldfrapp meeting Christina Aguilera circa-Dirrty. 

Not bad, but inevitably I'm drawn to thinking of her namesake, give or take a couple of i's, Australian seven-piece Big Pig. With their penchant for percussion (4 of the 7), wearing uniform leather blacksmith aprons and, in Sherine Abeyratne, a powerhouse vocalist, the band were short-lived (1985-1991) but memorable.

Justifier was released as a double A-side single with Taste in autumn 1990 to promote second and final album You Lucky People. Neither were hits in their home country (or released to a wider global audience) and by spring 1991 Big Pig had gone their separate ways. A shame as they had some really good tunes, as this gospel-tinged dancefloor banger demonstrates.
 

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