Hog Hoggidy Hog -  Punk, Rock and Reggae Band - Cape Town

In the early 90's, George, Sean and Robin Porkchop played in a little band called Leviathan. Their music was a mixture of thrash, ska, punk and reggae. The young lads all thought that they were being incredibly original by mixing these musical styles together. So much so in fact that when they first started discovering bands like early Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Murphy's Law and Nofx, they were quite surprise that there were other bands on the planet that were making the same music as them. Ok, maybe this view was a little naive, but it was before the internet was widely available here. Whatever the case. This sound that was experimented with back in the Leviathan days would lay down the blueprint of what would eventually become Hog Hoggidy Hog.

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So the night of the first gig arrived – The band arrived as ready as they could be after only being together for such a short time, but with all the excitement of the up-coming gig, the guys realised that they had neglected to come up with a band name. So there they sat a few hours before their debut show with no name and not much time to decide on one. Since all the guys had come from bands that went by the name of things such as Leviathan and Decimated, they were all in agreement of having a band name that was a bit more light-hearted and that didn't take itself too seriously. Finally they whittled their choices down to two names - The Dingleberries, which George and Amos were in favour of and Hog Hoggidy Hog, with which for some Godforsaken reason unbeknownst to man, Sean & Peter liked. Hog Hoggidy Hog was Sean's idea for a name and he was completely adamant about it. When the vote in the band reached a stalemate George pointed out that Sean was very rarely adamant about anything so they should let him have his way. Thus the band became known as Hog Hoggidy Hog.

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The Hogs quickly developed somewhat of a cult following and after being together for just a few months they were already banned from a few clubs because some enthusiastic fan(s) decided to decorate the Western Cape by spray painting Hog graffiti all over the place. Well as they say, there's no such thing as bad publicity and the band soon caught the attention of local independent record label boss, Hennie La Grange of Way Cool Records. Way Cool offered the Hogs a record deal and it seemed like a dream come true.

Where to from here? This seems to be the burning question on everyone's lips, and after 14 years, the Hogs show no sign of slowing down whatsoever. The band have stated on numerous occasions that they aren't going anywhere until they stop enjoying what they are doing and if you've ever seen those Hogs on stage, their energy alone is testament to the fact that this is highly unlikely to happen any time soon. There's talk of more tours, more albums, more this, more that... but the reality of the matter is that we're just going to have to wait and see how the next chapter unfolds in the life and saga of Hog Hoggidy Hog.

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Hog Hoggidy Hog -  Punk, Rock and Reggae Band - Cape Town