It wasn't all Oasis and Blur. Number 1. Longpigs

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When a lot of people look back at the 90s now they think of what has more recently been described as the big four. In fact a recent AI picture on Twitter (no one calls it X Elon, get over it!) Shows Mount Rushmore with the faces showing as Liam Gallagher, Damon Albarn, Jarvis Cocker, and Brett Anderson as the key players of this thing named Britpop, from their bands, Oasis, Blur, Pulp, and Suede respectively.  


But that period of music history has so much more to offer than just those bands, so here is the first in the series of posts about bands that a lot of people may have forgotten. 

1. LONGPIGS

The song "She Said" is still one of my favourite songs of the decade, its one of my go-to 90s songs that will be heard blaring out of my car windows during long summer days along with the Seahorses "Love is the Law", see an earlier post for details about that band! 
Longpigs were comprised of Crispin Hunt (vocals, guitar), Richard Hawley (guitar), Simon Stafford (bass guitar) and Dee Boyle (drums), who was replaced by Andy Cook for their second album. Hailing from the same city as Pulp, Sheffield, the group had success with singles such as "She Said" and "On and On", from their excellent debut album, The Sun is often out, released in 1996, which both Q and Melody Maker placed in their top 50 best albums of 1996.

Mobile Home, their second album, was released in October 1999, and from it came singles "Blue Skies" and "The Frank Sonata". Neither the singles, nor the album reached the dizzying heights of the songs from their first album, and then in 2000 their record label,  Mother Records folded. Shortly after this, the band split up..

Guitarist Richard Hawley has achieved acclaim as a solo artist, but singer Crispin Hunt is more successful behind the scenes, having written/co-written hits for Natalie Imbruglia (‘Glorious’) and several songs on Newton Faulkner’s platinum-selling album ‘Hand Built By Robots’


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