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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