Driving Over Miss Davie release

During the recording of the album, Lips also announced that he would be emigrating to Scotland to follow the girl of his dreams. This was when the song, Bye Lips was written. A young 17-year-old Ross McDonald was brought in to replace Lips, but the band found that the trombone sound wasn’t cutting through the punk rock quite like the trumpet did. This was when the band decided to get a two-piece horn section and played a few shows with Andrew Chicken of Fungy gone West, then Jody Engelbrecht of Rudimentals and finally Miles McDonald (McDonald’s older brother) alongside McDonald. Meanwhile, in Scotland, Lips and his girlfriend broke up and he decided to return to Cape Town. This was just in time for the Hogs to release the album, Driving Over Miss Davie in 2001. Although the band claim that the album is “a drunken mess”, it was still really well received with two of the singles reaching the top 5 of the national rock charts and most of the band’s defining songs are said to have been on this album. Hog Hoggidy Hog also did their first nationwide SA tour and were by then well known throughout the country as one of the pioneers of the scene. The July 2001 edition of Cosmopolitan (magazine) SA featured a naked picture of the Hogs. Following which the band kept being asked to take their clothes off on stage. In late 2001 the Hogs played a small intimate show at the Bio Cafe at CityVarsity in Cape Town. The show was said to have been poorly organised and the sound for the opening bands was apparently very bad. It was at this point that the Hogs, evidently wanting to take the focus off the poor sound, decided to walk out onto stage completely naked. The band then encouraged the audience to get naked too, by the end of the set the entire venue was full of naked to semi-naked people. It is a little known fact that the Hog song, Naked was first performed on this night and because it didn’t have a title at the time, they just ended up calling it the Naked song. The Hogs’ penchant for excess and debauchery was renowned, but Mybergie’s alcohol and Crack cocaine addictions started affecting the band a little too much. The band admits to having to secretly drug Mybergie with sleeping pills while on tour in order to keep him under control. Eventually Mybergie was replaced by Mike Horne in 2003. Snout recalls, “When Davie was still in the band it was probably the closest we ever were as a band. Having to fire him was one of the hardest decisions we’ve ever had to make, but it was obvious that we couldn’t carry on the way things were going.” With Horne now on Drums, the Hogs went into the studio again to record Naked (the song) with producer, Theo Crous. This was released on the Naked EP along with all the music videos off Driving Over Miss Davie and a couple of live tracks. The band was extremely happy with how the song turned out and continued to work with Crous for their next full-length album.