Meat Pig's latest is here and I'm rather proud of it. Our tunes always end up a little more shambolic than they are in my head, but that's part of the magic of trying to lay down the whole thing in one sitting. In this case, it took 2 sittings as we've now been relegated to a few hours on a Monday night here and there.

There is a time for all things. This song had long been brewing in my mind-brewery, but at last it was time to taste its bitter powers. Ever since I took a trip…

This song came to me in a flash after listening to possibly too much Howlin' Wolf for my own good.. We jammed it out and performed it at a gig at the Sando. That was all a long time ago and we've been struggling to get it recorded since. Well now it is all done and dusted. We have a pretty simple lineup here:

El Cucurucho Grande: Drums, Guitar, Production
Dan Ox: Vocals, Accordion, Bass.

We've been plagued by technical trouble, scheduling trouble and, well, just troubles. But it feels good to have some fresh pig online. So here 'tis:…

Presenting The Ultimate Pants

Its been a while since we got together. El Cucurucho has exchanged house-mates and now his place is an stark chamber of audio electronics, the perfect environment to plot out a new sonic map of the mental environment.

This was our first real songwriting experience with Bud Petal who has now become a member of the Meat Pig project. His guitar work adds a whole new dimension to the sound that I'm really happy with.

We sat about and played with a B minor feeling for an hour or so, and this song emerged from it…

Finally, a new Meat Pig song.

So I've wanted to craft a song about Juliette Lewis for quite a while now. I had the lyrics and the basic structure and El Cucurucho placed notes within it. We worked together to create what I think is a very nice rhythm section, a drum pattern not too common. In the end it came out as a blues in E, like everything else that comes out of us.

In typical Meat Pig fashion we have a somewhat tight lower section, while the upper sections fluctuate and fall over themselves. If we were a…

Hey Meat Pig fans. Its been a long time since we've put anything out there. We've been focusing hard on getting our live show together and getting to know our new guitar player, Bud. So today we were having our weekly jam when we I announced my desire to do a kind of intro song, inspired by the likes of James Brown, The Monks and The John Spencer Blues Explosion. The rhythm was in my head and I worked with El Cucurucho to get it down and when it was down, everything else just seemed to happen.

We…

Meat Pig have been busy preparing for our live show at Sydney Kino Cabaret next month. We have a new guitaristo named Bud who has been lending a very chaotic and unexpected sound to our music. Hopefully we'll be able to get some jam recordings to put up. At the moment I'm looking hard for a bargain on mic stands and accordion pickups. All the stuff we don't need when we're recording.

With women to be wooed and babies to be showered, Meat Pig have gone quiet for a little while. In the mean time, I'm scribbling down lyrics. Scribbling away. I have no idea what el cucrucho grande is doing. Perhaps snorting filth out of a pig's arse-crack.

That seems likely.

Its a double feature this week with two special dedications from Meat Pig.

Number one is Fetus Monkey, and its dedicated especially to that little human worm baby inside my woman's belly. Its scheduled to come out in 6 weeks from now so I wanted to say a few things in expectation of meeting it. El Cucurucho supplied a sprightly country rhythm to which I plucked my accordion strings. Lineup is:

El Cucurucho Grande: Drums, Guitar, Theremin
Dan Ox: Vocals, Accordion, Midi Programming, Effects Wrangling

Number two is a special shout-out to Wade Mueller, called Steal Your…

Presenting Meat Pig's latest track: Walk to your Doom

Here is another soundtracky song. El Cucurucho Grande did most of this song. I was impressed, he pretty much had it all in his head. I contributed with an off-time accordion solo and some shouting. Line up is:

El Cucurucho Grande: keyboards, guitar, drums, finger snaps
Dan Ox: accordion, vocals, finger snaps

Long may it walk.

More from Meat Pig … finally!

We jammed out this track on Sunday while waiting to work on a short film that I wrote for sydney kino. The song appears in the film.

It was recorded live in the spare room. We used the stereo mics which I think creates a really good sound if you're listening with headphones.

That's me singing and playing guitar, and el cucurucho grande on harmonica. I'm quite proud of my minimalist guitar skills. I know like 3 chords, man.

So yeah, the song really comes from the movie, but the movie is inspired by…