Pig Dyke Molly - News

Dec 2007You can't help noticing that the website has changed... any suggestions as to what it doesn't do that you expect the Pig Dyke website to do welcomed … lets be interactive …
Jan 2008This Article about Pig Dyke Molly (PDF) appeared recently in the Northants Evening Telegraph. Downloadable by kind permission of the Evening Telegraph.
Jan 2008

Robin Griggs 1957-2008

Rob died on 29th January 2008. He was the creative and performing powerhouse of the Pig Dyke band for nearly twenty years, and created the previous version of this website, the Pig Dyke music CD and the video of Pig Dyke sold last year. He was the most imaginative and passionate friend we had - not easy, but he contributed enormously to the team and to all his friends.
Personal Tributes from Pig Dyke members and friends
Feb 2008A new page with composite of pictures and some words from Kit Vincent on Whittlesea Straw Bear 2008

Quotes

I recognised Pig Dyke Molly ... from previous festivals. I took lots of photos of Pig Dyke Molly as their costumes are amazing and their dances are superb - almost like ballet.
Magpie Val's Val Addiction blog
(about Whittlesea Straw Bear)
With their faces painted to look like Edward Scissorhands, dressed in black and white Op-Art fabrics, and accompanied by a large tuba, the Pig Dyke Molly look like Dress Down Friday at the Robert Smith Academy for Troubled Youths.

At 11am on a cold, sunny day they make a slightly alarming sight, like a giant Goth gang that missed the last bus home last night and are now so out of their minds with longing for White Lightning that they're dancing for pennies.
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I can't tell you how surprised I was when, on taking this all in, I immediately burst into tears.
Caitlin Moran, The Times On Line (full article)

"Going to Pig Dyke is so much more fun than going to the gym - no contest in the fun stakes. We have been to some great places and met some amazingly talented people."
Janet Dutton
 
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