The other day four guys were operating leafblowers at full blast outside my apartment, and I thought “Oh, man — this sounds like the opening of a Pigface concert. I sure could use some Pigface right now.” I always get in the mood to listen to my industrial albums when it gets cold outside anyway (you just can’t get into Skinny Puppy in the summer), so I had myself a merry Pigface morning.
Later in the day I got a message from a friend: Pigface is coming to D.C.! Oh yes oh yes oh yes. I missed them the last time they were in town and am in dire need of the chaos of the live Pigface experience. They are playing tonight at Nation, and you should join me.
I consider Pigface to be one of the greatest rock experiments. When their first album came out 12 years ago (ouch), my friends and I jumped on it because it was an “industrial supergroup,” comprised of people from Ministry, Skinny Puppy, Revolting Cocks, KMFDM … even Trent Reznor was on that album. Whenever Pigface tours or makes a new album, it’s always a different lineup of crazies from Shonen Knife to Jello Biafra to Ogre from Skinny Puppy or even Flea. Drummer/founder Martin Atkins, who has been in PiL and Killing Joke and toured with everybody, often turned the live shows into free-for-alls — sometimes audience members would be invited onstage, handed a random instrument and told to just play while Atkins kept a beat going. (I don’t know if he does that anymore, and most of the show is the actual band playing.)
I haven’t been to a Pigface show since 1993, but I can promise it will change your concept of rock. They have an interesting lineup this tour, and you can be sure you won’t walk away bored.
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