101 Part Time Jobs with Giles Bidder

Thurston Moore joins me to talk about his years of Sonic Youth, how he dealt with touring, living in London and his new album By The Fire - out tomorrow! Order By The Fire through Rough Trade Get your beers delivered! 101 Part Time Jobs is supported by Signature Brew: listeners can get 10% off all their beers by visiting signaturebrew.co.uk and using the code '101PODCAST' Photo: Vera Marmelo Songs...

Jamie talks to me about becoming a solo artist after his band Reuben ended, being a cartoonist, going to medieval reenactments before lockdown, and his new album King of Clubs - out on Friday! Order King of Clubs from Big Scary Monsters Get your beers delivered! 101 Part Time Jobs is supported by Signature Brew: listeners can get 10% off all their beers by visiting signaturebrew.co.uk and using th...

My old tourmate Ty joins me to talk about the unusual way the band started, their journey in the music industry and his mental health struggles before taking a seven year break between albums. Plus, his work in restaurant and mail service. Get Broadway Calls' new album Sad in the City through Red Scare Get your beers delivered! 101 Part Time Jobs is supported by Signature Brew: listeners can get 1...

Em Foster of Nervus talks to me about self-producing their records, Watford, systemic issues in the British school, police & prison systems, and her jobs in deconstruction and HMV. Plus a hint of an upcoming record... Listen to Nervus' latest EPs/singles at nervus.bandcamp.com Get your beers delivered! 101 Part Time Jobs is supported by Signature Brew: listeners can get 10% off all their beers by...

The Lawrence Arms' new record Skeleton Coast is out now, and I think it's their best yet. Brendan tells me all about that album after I quizzed him on The Greatest Story Ever Told / Oh! Calcutta! , plus how he became domesticated midway through their career before working at an ad agency/The Onion/Nihilist Arby's. Order Skeleton Coast through your local record store Get your beers delivered! 101 P...

IDLES guitarist Mark Bowen joins me to talk about being a registered dentist - formerly a prison dentist no less! - and how the band have organised themselves over the years. Plus, how they wrote upcoming album Ultra Mono (25 September) in two weeks, with Joe Talbot writing most of the lyrics in the studio. Order Ultra Mono through Partisan Records Get your beers delivered! 101 Part Time Jobs is s...

I'm joined by full band Honey Joy for hungover group therapy. The members discuss their jobs in a way we'd be too embarrassed to ask about in any other situation, scooping into Meg's job as an nurse, Matt and Joe's in TV/film post-production and Jay as a touring drummer. Honey Joy II is out today! Get it here Get your beers delivered! 101 Part Time Jobs is supported by Signature Brew: listeners ca...

The Gaslight Anthem and Mercy Union drummer Benny Horowitz joins me to talk about first bands, putting on shows at a young age, working at a newspaper (including an excellent story from a satire edition), and his life at the start of The Gaslight Anthem. Get your beers delivered! 101 Part Time Jobs is supported by Signature Brew: listeners can get 10% off all their beers by visiting signaturebrew....

Having recently relocated to Los Angeles, Jeff Rosenstock tells me about his new job writing the score for Cartoon Network's Craig of the Creek, his early touring days in ASOB, signing to Sideone Dummy and Polyvinyl, and a few of the worst jobs he's had. NO DREAM is out now on Polyvinyl and Specialist Subject Records Get your beers delivered! 101 Part Time Jobs is supported by Signature Brew: list...

Alicia Bognanno talks about being burning the work candle, producing records and how she navigates her identity as Bully. SUGAREGG is out 21 August (this Friday) on Sub Pop Get your beers delivered! 101 Part Time Jobs is supported by Signature Brew: listeners can get 10% off all their beers by visiting signaturebrew.co.uk and using the code '101PODCAST' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit mega...

Jason Lubrano of Iron Chic weighs in on the start of Iron Chic, the pressures of touring vs. work at home, and how aspects of those have changed. Plus his illustration work at Righteous Indignation You Can't Stay Here is out now on Sideone Dummy Records Get your beers delivered! 101 Part Time Jobs is supported by Signature Brew: listeners can get 10% off all their beers by visiting signaturebrew.c...

Shawna brings one of the best side-hustles ever heard on 101 Part Time Jobs; dancing for Spinal Tap ACOUSTIC . She tells me what it was like getting notoriety in her high school band, moving to Baltimore to join a new band, and how War On Women navigate themselves. Plus some great stuff on her book Making Spaces Safer. Get your beers delivered! 101 Part Time Jobs is supported by Signature Brew: li...

Dylan Slocum, frontperson of Spanish Love Songs, tells me about playing first division baseball after getting a scholarship to university, life as an assistant to a Hollywood screenwriter/director, and how the band organise themselves. Spanish Love Songs' Brave Faces Everyone is out now on Pure Noise Get your beers delivered! 101 Part Time Jobs is supported by Signature Brew: listeners can get 10%...

101 Part Time Jobs 'A Punk Rock Summer': Chris Cresswell from Toronto vanquishers The Flatliners joins me to talk about his whole damn life. Playing together as the same line-up for 18 years, he tells me how he met his future bandmates in kindergarten, getting signed to Fat Wreck, and their years and years of touring. Plus, his work at Cut Loose Merch Supply and Last Wishes Supply. Get your beers...

Daniel P. Carter, known for his work in 'A', Hexes & the BBC Radio 1 Rock Show, joins me to dig around how he arrived to now. Growing up in Reading, his love of music and art took him to the world's biggest rock stages, and speaking to/painting his favourite artists for his own podcast Someone Who Isn't Me (SWIM). From working in an East London video shop to being called up for the Radio 1 job, fi...

Happyness drummer and co-frontperson Ash Kenazi tells me about discovering drag at End of the Road Festival, the nature of creativity and coming to peace with his identity in the band in their new line-up. Plus EXCLUSIVE insight into the deluxe version of Floatr, arriving later this year. Photo: Holly Whitaker Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more...

London purveyor of strange and exciting pop, Wesley Gonzalez tells me about his life of creating detached music. He started his old band Let's Wrestle at 15, and since had an assortment of jobs between doing music - from taking the hardest entrance test at Record and Tape Exchange (debunking record shop weirdness in the process), throwing an interview for his perfect job, and learning that music i...

Fee Booth, of Uxbridge trio BLOXX, joins me to talk about her time behind the bar at Wetherspoons, being band-smart and what it was like sacking in the job to do the band full-time! BLOXX's debut album Lie Out Loud is out 28 August on Chess Club Records Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megap...

Harrison Swann, frontperson of Talk Show, joins me to talk about the debut album they're writing, internet cancel culture, being grateful for online fan interaction and how he was once the face of Fred Perry! Get their new EP These People from Council Records Photo: Matt Wilder Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about you...

Matt Sharp from The Rentals (and formerly Weezer) joins me to talk about growing up listening to The Kinks and Pixies, the haphazard way he joined Weezer, taking criticism in a positive way, and his lifer-attitude to being a writer. The Rentals' new album Q36 is out 7 July! Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad...

Jamie joins me to talk about their experiences as a sales shark, going to (and dropping out from) the wrong university and incel in punk rock lyrics. Plus a fantastic story of getting sacked. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

AJJ founders Sean Bonnette and Ben Gallaty join me for a triple-voiced episode! These two are just lovely human beings. They tell me about their early days of touring, working together at coffee and ice cream shops, and cleaning toilets whilst listening to mixes of their 2014 record Christmas Island. Their new record Good Luck Everybody is out now! Photo: Joe Stakun Songs: AJJ - 'Loudmouth', Cock...

Katie Malco joins me to talk about coming to terms with her identity as an artist, vulnerability in making records and the conflicts that find you in your artistic journey. Want to sponsor this podcast? Email giles@mightymoonmedia.com Songs: Katie Malco 'Fractures', Cock Sparrer 'Working' Photo: Sam Manville Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more in...

Jimmy and I go deeper than I bargained for. He tells me the whole story of Higher Power (including how he never meant to be singer), getting excited by different kinds of music and hard work paying off. Higher Power's new album 27 Miles Underwater is out now. Want to sponsor this podcast? Get in touch: giles@mightymoonmedia.com Photo: Nat Wood Songs: Higher Power 'Low Season', Cock Sparrer 'Workin...

Boston Manor frontperson Henry Cox takes me through the jobs he had growing up in Blackpool, reveals his child acting secret and talks about directing the band's latest videos - including how the video for 'On A High Ledge' is based on an event he witnessed. He then tells me what the band are up to in quarantine and their plans for future live streams. Want to sponsor this podcast? Get in touch: g...