Pig’n’aif

We have released our new album

'Pig'n'aif Blue'

on the Rising Records label. The album is being sold to support our jam-band gigs.

The album is a set of reconstructed blues-rock classics taken from the jam-band's live set. You can find out more about the background and biographies of the band, check out the gig list and hear clips from the albums by Clicking here...

You can also buy the album from our official website using our secure transaction by Clicking here...

Our previous prog-rock album 'The Jester... Thinks...' is also on sale on the Rising Records label and from our website.



Click here... to buy this album using our secure transaction.
Like most independent musicians, we need all the sales we can get to keep our projects going.

Some Background

Pig’n’aif is a music project working in conjunction with the
Rising Records independent record label based in Sheffield (UK).
The band name is pronounced in a typical Yorkshire accent as Pig’an’Ayf.
(Please feel free to use it as a surreptitious curse - we do...)

Pig’n’aif has been the working name for a collection of projects and bands, put together and performed with, by Pete Bangert over the years.

The name was originally born out of frustration and reflects the fact that it has often been a pig (and an ’aif) to bring these projects to fruition, or indeed to get the musicians together to play the material, but it also reflects a lighter side to things.

The most recent live version of the band includes:


bassist Chris Price


vocalist John Wilson


and drummer Gordon Henderson

It's a first time out with Pete for Chris and John, but renews previous collaborations with Gordon from the successful reincarnation of the NWOBHM rock band Phoenix Rising back in the 90's and more recently the Progressive Rock band ChinWig.

The result of this collaboration of musicians is a gigging, four-piece band, performing tracks from the album 'Pig'n'aif Blue' This album includes their own treatments of some classic rock and blues standards. The band is performing using basic stage gear with the emphasis on having fun and jamming on stage. This is something that Pete, John, Chris and Gordon are very keen to keep going and is worth the effort (if they can keep their aging arses in gear).



'Pig'n'aif Blue' resulted from a very productive period in the studio when Pete worked with vocalist Mel Day. Pete and Mel had also worked together in the reincarnated Phoenix Rising back in the early to mid ninties. The album includes the work of local drummer Graham Shaw


The album 'The Jester... Thinks...' followed on from a very successful initial collaboration between Pete and front-man bassist Mick Shedd in the ChinWig' project.


Pete and Mick decided to get to work in the studio to produce a studio album of original prog-rock material for release. The album 'The Jester... Thinks...' is based on masters from Pete’s last solo album, re-worked and with Mick’s vocals added. It also contains new material previously unreleased. There are clips from the album on the player on this site. Alternatively you could rush off and buy it now using our link above.

Pete and Mick are continuing to pursue their musical writing and recording partnership in parallel to working on their other project areas.

You can find out much more about Pig'n'aif's
background, biographies and current projects
by visiting their website.
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