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Who's Telling Pinky Perky Porkies?
April 28, 2005

I watched the latest in the interminable 100 Best Of... Series on Channel 4 on Saturday - Made, I assume, because they can't make anything decent anymore... Anyway, aside from a brief clip of the wonderful HR Pufnstuf - I thought I was the only person that remembered that - there was a suggestion of Pinky and Perky reforming. You'll have to bear with me here if you don't remember any of this stuff. I think the P&P revival might have already started - But under a different guise! AKON!
He may look like some moody Senegalese dude but really it's a front for the porky twosome... Pinky and Perky, the sensational singing piglet puppets of the 1960's, had their own TV show which ran from 1957 to the early 1970's on British television and performed cover versions of many pop songs of the day. At the height of their fame they received almost as much fan mail as the Beatles! And now they are back! Check out this Party remix of Outer Space and compare the vocal style to the backing vocals on the dreadful pile of shite that is "Lonely" by Akon [I won't link to the song as I expect you have all heard it by now - as the BBC seem insistent on playing it every bloody morning] and tell me they aren't the same...

Speaking of Pinky, Perky and the BBC - I found this link on the BBC website [from last March] which was of an exhibit in the Blindart exhibiton that was running then.

This piece [left] is called "Pinky and Perky"! Spookily, after typing up the above I had a look at the Boing Boing website, which contained a link to this Michael Garlington exhibition and used this image of his - In which Pinky and Perky lose their bacon! [right]

The exhibition is currently running in LA...

MICHAEL GARLINGTON: PORTRAITS FROM THE BELLY OF THE WHALE
March 17 - May 7, 2005
Stephen Cohen Gallery
7358 Beverly Boulevard
Los Angeles CA 90036

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