101 Part Time Jobs with Giles Bidder

Chloe and Annabel join to talk us through their ridiculous jobs, Elton John, Warpaint, being a band since they were 17 and the homemade production on their excellent new album Maybe Not Tonight - out soon on So Young Records. Get in touch giles@mightymoonmedia.com Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 Set up Your Band's merch store, for free at Distrokid Direct:...

Courtney Barnett has written approximately a dozen of the best 100 songs of the last decade. Ahead of her new record Creature of Habit, she talks about her old bar job, Milk! Records, working at McDonalds and finding the perfect melody. Get in touch giles@mightymoonmedia.com Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 Set up Your Band's merch store, for free at Distro...

Pool Kids are in their tenth year of pushing boundaries sonically and physically while they tour all over the world. Their excellent third abum Easier Said Than Done came out last year and today they bring stories of substiute teaching, ejecting from bars and texting memes to an old boss. Get in touch giles@mightymoonmedia.com Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7...

Steve Mason's new compilation The Romance of Unknowing has just come out on Two-Piers. He's also just announced his book, Failure is Always an Option, and The Beta Band are playing shows in 2026. Order The Romance of Unknowing - https://two-piers.bandcamp.com/album/steve-mason-presents-the-romance-of-unknowing Get in touch giles@mightymoonmedia.com Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear...

Jordan Rakei moved from Australia to London with a blind faith to make music. Over years of hard work and learning the hard way, he's now one of the most prolific vocalists, songwriters and producers in R&B and soul. He opens up on the financial realities of artists, how AI is able to copy the tone of his voice (something you can't copyright), and learning it all first hand. His new EP 'Between Us...

Russian-British comedian Olga Koch on her tech jobs, doing standup over Zoom to a silent, faceless crowd, and why she's doing a PhD as a backup to her (very successful) comedy career. Her new show Fat Tom Cruise is on sale. Get in touch giles@mightymoonmedia.com Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 Set up Your Band's merch store, for free at Distrokid Direct: h...

Matt Caughthran and Mariachi El / The Bronx are true lifers. A white knuckle ride through ten albums, outliving the deaths, adversities and adventure that comes with being in an all-weather touring band. Mariachi El Bronx IV comes out this Friday. Get in touch giles@mightymoonmedia.com Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 Set up Your Band's merch store, for fre...

Ahead of their hearty debut album Masquerade, Euan and Aaron joined us at the Social to talk grifting through jobs in Cork, our shared love for So Young Records and magazine, and solving the backpack litre conundrum. Masquerade is out 13 February. Get in touch giles@mightymoonmedia.com Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 Set up Your Band's merch store, for fre...

Just announced as Death Cab For Cutie tour support across the USA, Nation of Language's Ian and Aidan join to talk coffee, childminding and being a hockey family band. Get in touch giles@mightymoonmedia.com Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 Set up Your Band's merch store, for free at Distrokid Direct: https://distrokid.com/direct/ Learn more about your ad ch...

Introducing you to my favourite latest discovery... Vona Vella. It's got the Jeff Buckley layered washy groove, it's sonically great with hiss and scratches in the right place - maybe even some Built To Spill in there. You should get into it ahead of their new album, Carnival - out 27 Feb. Here's Dan and Izzy on giving the thing wheels. Get in touch giles@mightymoonmedia.com Get yourself some top...

When Chilli Jesson's first band Palma Violets ground to a halt, he found himself behind a bar trying to sign his name in Guinness foam for adoring fans. Dead Dads Club was soon dreamed up, and after a few more years he became a touring member of Fontaines D.C., became a dad, and released an excellent psychedelic rock 'n' roll album - out now on Ficton. Get in touch giles@mightymoonmedia.com Get yo...

A damning indictment on what it's like for medium to large scale touring experiences, Amy Walpole and Alex Thompson tell us about their challenging last year, and the determination and resilience that it requires to keep moving. Their ace second album FEVEREATEN is out now. Get in touch giles@mightymoonmedia.com Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 Set up Your...

At The Windmill in Brixton, Noah and Jules are putting themselves down of course - but that's part of the charm with the dynamic but stripped-back lexicon of Radio Free Alice. They tell us how the Australian government has helped them tour overseas, the expectant but elusive debut album, and working at the National Gallery of Victoria. Their newest single 'Rule 31' is out now. Think The Cure, The...

Discussing her former double life as a kids' music teacher and what self-empowerment means today, Peaches is here ahead of her first album in 10 years, No Lube So Rude. Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 Set up Your Band's merch store, for free at Distrokid Direct: https://distrokid.com/direct/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Behind a number one album, number one single and two sold out arena shows at 3Arena in Dublin are three mates who finished college and made a go of playing all the shows they could. Thanks to a company car and it's fuel card, a cold countryside house and a few people they met along the way, Kingfishr are a band who bring people together and, in their words, floor pints and grab a hold of the perso...

Ronan Kealy tells us about growing up the junior brother of a pominent Gaelic footballer, finding his voice in Dublin and how moving back to his parents' home and learning about tree rings and fairy forts informed the storytelling behind his album The End - out now on Strap Originals. Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 DistroKid makes music distribution fun a...

The incredibly moving songwriter tells us about archaeological digs, finding the definition of what being a sustainable artist is, and writing a new song early this day. Naima's new Live in Toulon is out now Thank you The Shop in Deptford for hosting - find them at https://www.instagram.com/theshop.se8/ Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 DistroKid makes music...

Kojey Radical joins us on how PRS has provided him a stable career after he was fired from every other job he had (including at Boxpark and fitting corsets), skateboarding around london and what makes a good producer. Photo: Garry Jones Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My AOTY is Mumble Tide's 'Might As Well Play Another One', out on Breakfast Records - home to Getdown Services, Lankamer, The Cindys and many other awesome bands (follow that label if you know what's good for you!). Gina and Ryan joined me at a laundrette for this end of year Stop & Chat. Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 DistroKid makes music distribution f...

Jeremy Corbyn has brought us together like no other politician in our lifetime. At community arts and music space New River Studios, he tells us about the importance of music in society, family, rebellion and why music lessons shouldn't only be available at private schools. Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy wit...

Living in and working at pubs, the old rooms of Peter Doherty and where Gerry Adams and Shane Macgowan hung out, is part of Bill Jefferson's story. Mên An Tol are an excellent new band, playing at The Lexington in London this coming Tuesday. Photo: Cuan Roche Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited upl...

No-one expected The Cribs to become lawyers. Not because they're working class brothers from Wakefield, or they smashed themselves through a glass vase at the NME Awards in 2006 (24–7 Rock Star Shit) . But because they write absolute belters and shouldn't need to think about fighting for the right to be a-party to the rights of their own catalogue. They did anyway, though. Selling A Vibe is out 9...

In case you missed it before Geese became the most talked about band in the world, we heard from frontperson and songwriter Cameron Winter this time last year. It was just around the time of his excellent debut album Heavy Metal, which a few weeks later he played songs from in a church in East London to a couple of hundred very quiet and respectful revellers. I doubt that kind of intimate setting...

Stephen Malkmus, London Fields, rugby shirts and blow dried hair. Sports Team started writing good songs and putting on shows that cost a few quid to get into. Now the songs keep getting better, they've had to turn down the pyro, and released a Deluxe album. This is their story - in their words. Boys These Days - dee-lux - is out now. Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu....

On her new album Precipice, Indigo reflects the different feelings we wake up to. Here she talks about her first band with MJ Lenderman, waiting - and forgetting - tables, and how artists can be pushed to their limits. Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of...