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Louise Macphail and Kristin McFadden join me today; on about working at a DIY venue, teaching music, unexpected things happening and two work stories starring Will.i.am - one of them featuring Nicole Scherzinger. Their new single Butter Knife is out now. Photo: Lily Doige Get your 4 day tickets for 2000 Trees Festival, including Wednesday's Forest Stage Line Up with Bob Vylan, Holding Absence and...

DMA's guitartist Johnny talks to me about how being impressionable as a powerful thing, primal energy at shows, how the myth of needing to have pain to make great art is bullshit and music mentoring - and there's some technical stuff here for the theory heads. How Many Dreams? is out 31 March Get your 4 day tickets for 2000 Trees Festival, including Wednesday's Forest Stage Line Up with Bob Vylan,...

‘I wouldn’t recommend to anyone they leave a job because of a hangover’. Aidan Moffat talks to me about tax bills, venues’ merch cuts, love for Glasgow Barrowlands, producing and demoing at home, Night Tracks on Radio 3, getting expelled, Arab Strap being birthed on the dole... Get your 4 day tickets for 2000 Trees Festival, including Wednesday's Forest Stage Line Up with Bob Vylan, Holding Absenc...

The pro wresting themed Hell In A Cell EP is out now - on today's episode Kate Meizner tells me about wesigning websites, UX, helpful for people seeking public benefits, having an idea and going to grad school for it, searching for stability, resources and safety net, working at city government and being able to detach from work. Hell In A Cell: https://jobber.bandcamp.com/album/hell-in-a-cell Get...

Graham tells me about Liverpool growing up, doing art at Goldsmiths, being diagnosed with ADHD and making furniture. High Vis - Blending is out now. It's excellent. Get your 4 day tickets for 2000 Trees Festival, including Wednesday's Forest Stage Line Up with Bob Vylan, Holding Absence and more. Use '101POD' at checkout for £20 off, FREE MONEY: https://www.twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk/ Songs: H...

Author, podcaster, label co-owner, sports writer, sports commentator, composer and guitarist/singer Felix White joins me to talk post-band panic, Tailenders, how writing The Maccabees’ press releases turned into cricket features and book writing - and one comical gaffe from his time as a ‘chugger’. His excellent book It's Always Summer Somewhere is out now Photo: Aemen at Jiksaw Get your 4 day tic...

Julian, Jackie and Harlan spoke with me at All Ages Records in Camden, talking psychiatric wards, fishing, postering, and holding hostages in the back of a car. Trouble the Water is out now Cheers to All Ages for the space and Matt Hughes for organising the interview. Get your 4 day tickets for 2000 Trees Festival, including Wednesday's Forest Stage Line Up with Bob Vylan, Holding Absence and more...

Isle of Wight emotional nerd posse Plastic Mermaids spray thoughts on TikTok, eating horse poo, directing their own music videos and a fail job interview at Halfords. Get your 4 day tickets for 2000 Trees Festival, including Wednesday's Forest Stage Line Up with Bob Vylan, Holding Absence and more. Use '101POD' at checkout for £20 off, FREE MONEY: https://www.twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk/ Songs:...

If You Only Feel It Once, Bleach Lab's new EP is out this Friday. Here's Frank and Jenna on being a unit, being a shoegaze band, working in local government and syncing, movie soundtracks and being 'shoegaze'. Get your 4 day tickets for 2000 Trees Festival, including access to Wednesday's Forest Stage Line Up with Bob Vylan, Holding Absence and more. Use '101POD' at checkout for £20 off! https://w...

Gabrielle Aplin tells me about finding her home volunteering at a farm, making her own clothes and her new album Phosphorescent - out 13 January. Rival Schools are playing 2000 Trees Festival, headling the second stage. Get your early (cheaper) tickets at twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk Songs: Gabrielle Aplin 'Skylight', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/ad...

Chardine, Estella and Steph of Big Joanie join me today, ahead of their second album Back Home - out 4 November. Talking Third Man Records, DIY Space For London, touring with Courtney Barnett and lots more. Photo: Ajamu X Rival Schools are playing 2000 Trees Festival 2023. Get your early (cheaper) tickets at twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk Songs: Big Joanie 'In My Arms', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’ Lear...

Singer of LA rock'n'rollers Starcrawler, Arrow de Wilde tells me about her love for gardening and making her own home. Plus the adverts her songs have soundtracked. She Said is out now! Rival Schools are playing 2000 Trees Festival 2023. Get your early (cheaper) tickets at twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk Songs: Starcrawler 'She Said', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit m...

Doug Martsch (!) joins us on today's episode, a few weeks since When The Wind Forgets Your Name has been out, to talk working at Kinko's, prioritising music but never imagining a full-time job of it, making funny music videos, and some more. Rival Schools are playing 2000 Trees Festival 2023. Get your early (cheaper) tickets at twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk Songs: Built to Spill 'Elements', Cock...

Robbie Furze tells me about dodging a bullet while managing a club in LA, East London in the early mid noughties, being big in Asia and how a tour with Wolf Alice reinvigorated The Big Pink’s future. The Love That’s Ours is out this Friday: https://thebigpink.komi.io/ Photo: Ashley Rommelrath Rival Schools are playing 2000 Trees Festival 2023. Get your early (cheaper) tickets at twothousandtreesfe...

Garageband Superstar is Lauran Hibberd's debut album. Here she talks about not being concerned about what other bands are doing, career opportunities on the Isle of Wight, her first band playing Pixies, Weezer and Wheatus covers, accidentally writing Garageband Superstar, working at a cafe, hairdressers... “It’s just my life, the truth hurts." Rival Schools are playing 2000 Trees festival 2023. Ge...

This Friday! The Amazons' new album How Will I Know If Heaven Will Find Me? is out. Matt Thomson tells me about working at Oxfam Music in Reading, struggling while working at a supermarket, how his mum was an NHS nurse for 30 years - and the journey that's led to them to HWIKIHWFM? Rival Schools are playing 2000 Trees festival 2023. Get your early (cheaper) tickets at twothousandtreesfestival.co.u...

Tony Molina's incredible new album In The Fade is out now. He talks about working at San Francisco's Vogue Cinema, growing up in a supportive punk/hardcore scene and why he prefers making records over touring. Songs: Tony Molina 'Aye Aye My My (Into the Fade)', Cock Sparrer 'Working' Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more abo...

Working at a covid centre, Brudenell Social Club, Edinburgh curfews, flu camps, farmjobs.com, chicken chasing, wholesale chair sales... Jack and Joe (which one, I'm unsure) from Cheap Teeth ruminate on vocations past, present and unsubstantiated. Their new single 'What a Feeling, What a Day' is extremely ace. It's pucka. Catch them on tour in September + October! 2000 Trees: Get your 2023 tickets...

Sam and Tom from Eades on losing jobs after being away on tour, trial shifts, playing in wedding bands, Sam’s new business in van conversions, breaking even in an underpaid industry, planning after a debut album and first tour, ending that tour at Brudenell Social Club, their dream producer for album two, and recording Delusion Spree in a Yorkshire Dales cottage. Delusion Spree is out now! Photo:...

Sam Kless is a busy bee! From being a specialist bird feeder to running their own merch company, he's been at it. Here are some tales from the times Mom Jeans' new album Sweet Tooth is OUT NOW: https://momjeansca.bandcamp.com/album/sweet-tooth Thinking of going to 2000 Trees Festival 6-9 July in Cheltenham, headlined by IDLES, Jimmy Eat World, Thrice and Turnstile + so many more great bands? Use t...

Naomi tells me about working at a living museum, zero hour contracts, managing an animal sanctuary, rescuing wild birds, Pop Recs (check out Culture Fear podcast), being found out while working as a supply teacher at her old school, importance of being in a union & speaking to your colleagues... and some! Photo: Victoria Wai Please Don't Take Me Back b/w My Heart Is A Drummer is out TOMORROW on Sp...

Barry Johnson talks career opportunities in Torrance CA, Recess Records, playing the Long Beach Arena, teaching himself to DJ and a kind of internship he won't forget. 40 oz. to Fresno is out now - https://joycemanor.bandcamp.com/album/40-oz-to-fresno Thinking of going to 2000 Trees Festival 6-9 July in Cheltenham, headlined by IDLES, Jimmy Eat World, Thrice and Turnstile + so many more great band...

Singer Tom Rees joins me on today's episode - Backhand Deals is out now and it's a very fine listen. Photo: Lily Brown Thinking of going to 2000 Trees Festival 6-9 July in Cheltenham, headlined by IDLES, Jimmy Eat World, Thrice and Turnstile + so many more great bands? Use the voucher code '101POD' to get 10% off your tickets: https://www.twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk/tickets/ Songs: Buzzard Buzz...

Max joins me to talk about being a freelance designer and becoming part of agency, the compatibility - or not - of designing and playing music, his family, playing with BTMI! at 16, ska punk, The Sidekicks, eustress, when is the right time for a band to get a Wiki, recording with J. Robbins and MORE! Photo: Jake Cunningham Check out DENT today: https://signalsmidwest.bandcamp.com/album/dent Use th...

Out this Friday, The City Needs A Hero is Murkage Dave's second album. He tells me about dedicating his time to making music after DJing and running clubs - and how his debut album Murkage Dave Changed My Life, changed his life. Thinking of going to 2000 Trees Festival 6-9 July in Cheltenham, headlined by IDLES, Jimmy Eat World, Thrice and Turnstile + so many more great bands? Use the voucher code...