[1][2] They are reputed to have got together after meeting at a new year's eve party organised by Fred Wedlock at the Troubadour Club in Clifton, Bristol.
[1] This album featured an early Rodney Matthews cover, and was recorded in front of an audience in Cornwall, resulting in an authentic recreation of their stage act.
[1] The album received good reviews, including this one from the Melody Maker: "The Pigsty Hill Light Orchestra must be one of the most popular acts on the folk scene.
Despite continuing popularity, the band split up in May 1979 but, in 1988, reformed for the Trowbridge Village Pump Festival,[1] after which Pat Small and singer Hannah Wedlock (Fred's daughter) joined the line-up and they began touring again.
Back, who had been the driving force behind the "Piggies" reunion, died on 10 April 1992 and, shortly after, the band decided to pack up for good.