Pig With The Face Of A Boy is a musical comedy band based in London, England.

They perform original comic songs, and describe themselves as "the world's best neo-post-post-music hall

Music hall

Music Hall is a type of British theatrical entertainment which was popular between 1850 and 1960. The term can refer to:# A particular form of variety entertainment involving a mixture of popular song, comedy and speciality acts...

 anti-folk

Anti-folk

Anti-folk is a music genre that takes the earnestness of politically charged 1960s folk music and subverts it. The defining characteristics of this anti-folk are difficult to identify, as they vary from one artist to the next...

 band". The duo consists of Dan Woods, on vocals and accordion, and Donald Newholm, on vocals, guitar, mandolin and charango

Charango

The charango is a small Andean stringed instrument of the lute family, 66 cm long, traditionally made with the shell of the back of an armadillo. Primarily played in traditional Andean music, and is sometimes used by other Latin American musicians. Many contemporary charangos are now made with...

. They have been performing together since 2008.

Music

Their debut album, La La Ha Ha, was released in 2009, containing 10 tracks including "The Midwife's Song", "The Unfortunate End of Miguel the Matador", "Howard Hughes

Howard Hughes

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 Blues" and "A Complete History of the Soviet Union

History of the Soviet Union

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 Through the Eyes of a Humble Worker, Arranged to the Melody of Tetris

Tetris

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" (Set to the music of the Russian folk song Korobeiniki

Korobeiniki

"Korobeiniki" , also known as the Tetris song is a nineteenth-century Russian folk song that tells of an incident between a peddler and a girl "haggling" over a price, with the details only being said in metaphor...

, which is now a video with over 2,000,000 views on youtube).

According to the band's website, they are preparing a new album called The Girl With The Arms Made From Marrows.

Live shows

Pig With The Face Of A Boy performed their first month-long show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2009. They also appeared at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2010, performing songs from their next album.