The Bear actor Matty Matheson has began a brand new hardcore band referred to as Pig Pen with Alexisonfire guitarist Wade MacNeil.
Matheson, who’s additionally chef and web persona, portrayed Neil Fak within the extremely profitable Hulu collection, which stars Jeremy Allen White (Shameless). However now, Matheson has revealed that he began a band with MacNeil a couple of years in the past.
“A couple of previous pals obtained collectively a pair years in the past and wrote and recorded 10 songs over two days. We simply needed to hang around and see what’s up. That is our band. We’re Pig Pen,” Matheson wrote within the caption of an Instagram put up with a clip of one among their music movies.
“A Matty hardcore band was lengthy overdue,” somebody commented on Matheson’s put up.
“Man’s simply doing facet quests now,” one other added.
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There is no details about official singles or an album presently, however their first present will happen Friday, April 25 at Sneaky Dee’s in Toronto, Canada. Tickets for Pig Pen’s present already bought out on-line, however followers can be a part of a waitlist to see if extra grow to be obtainable at a later time.
Who Else Is in Pig Pen?
A put up on the band’s personal social media notes that Matheson is the vocalist of Pig Pen, MacNeil performs guitar and in addition gives vocals, Daniel Romano is on the guitar, Ian Ski Romano on drums and Tommy Main on bass.
MacNeil, who’s additionally a member of the teams Gallows, Black Lungs and Dooms Youngsters along with Alexisonfire, joked about his busy musical profession in a put up on his personal Instagram.
“Simply while you thought I could not probably be a part of one other band. We go and begin Pig Pen,” he wrote within the caption.
He additionally shared a photograph of the entire band on his web page, which you’ll be able to see under.
Matheson’s Hardcore Background
Though some may suppose it is a new enterprise for Matheson, he truly performed in hardcore bands earlier than he turned referred to as a chef. One of many bands he was in was referred to as Intercourse Tears, which he mentioned briefly throughout an episode of the Legendary Kitchen’s Final Meals collection.
Matheson defined throughout a Knotfest podcast interview that he stopped attending exhibits and actually being concerned with the music scene in his mid-20s, as a result of that was when his culinary profession began to take off.
After Energy Journey’s Riley Gale died a couple of years in the past, Matheson made a social media put up in tribute to the vocalist, which additionally contained a little bit of element about his personal musical beginnings.
“Within the hardcore scene I’ve met a number of the greatest and worst folks and the duds slip away however the good ones you maintain onto. I held onto Riley! I might not be the individual I’m at the moment with out going to exhibits in Buffalo/Erie/Rochester/Syracuse/Albany within the late ’90s/00s,” he wrote.
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