101 Part Time Jobs with Giles Bidder

EOTR's story feels a movie: one man's determination to create the best music festival, unhindered by low ticket sales and financial loss, before becoming the dream weekend of music it is today. Simon Taffe tells us about his tunnel vision, seeing Oasis this summer and how he would have everyone lock up their phones if he was able to. Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.r...

Live at Green Man 2025, Gruff Glyn offers his tales of working many jobs while playing in an excellent band. Taking time off his role at the solar panel / breast enlargement call centre to play a role in The Martian (Ridley Scott) where he played table tennis with Donald Glover aka Childish Gambino; to the importance of the Welsh language and independent music venues; and the concept behind Melin...

Justice Tripp on his best friends and collaborators Turnstile, the hardcore community and United & Strong Fest in London, moving into an abandoned warehouse as a teenager, creating to stay alive and Angel Du$t's new phase with Run For Cover Records. The Beat is out now. Filmed by Eva Nagengast at All Ages Records in Camden, London Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3...

Journalist, Bandsplain host and alternative 90s know-it-all Yasi Salek on vocal fry, wearing MF Doom's mask and not judging the lyrics of eighteen-year-olds. She reveals the future of music journalism, remembers her pyjama party with Courtney Love, an early meeting with Charli xcx and how a book on Nirvana changed her life. Produced by Joe Little. Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear:...

I Love People is Cory Hanson's latest soundtrack to elastic afternoons. Born from years in punk houses and assistant work in LA, and the disappointment of making something that doesn't sound like he thought it would. AI, The Velvet Sundown, Nick Cave and teaching ballet also make appearances. Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 DistroKid makes music distributi...

For Those I Love (aka David Balfe) is about to release his excellent new album Carving The Stone. He sits on how his uncle's DVD collection gave him his hard edges, the way The Streets' Original Pirate Material changed his life, Dublin's inaffordability, making his own videos and all the different jobs he's done to keep making music. Photo: Hugh Quberzky Get yourself some top class Shure microphon...

If you're not sure what to make of gothic Midsommar clad The New Eves, keep listening. There's the poetic thud of The Velvet Underground and autodidactic brilliance of The Slights, but it's the wide-eyed willingness that makes their first release and debut album The New Eves is rising that makes this Brighton band something very very special. Sat on the seafront, we heard about how imaginative liv...

Swerving a teenage job at his uncle's timber yard, Laurie Vincent only ever wanted to be in a band. Soft Play shouldn't work on paper (guitar, stand-up drums, Adidas tracksuits), but it definitely does work blasted loud in massive venues. Laurie has loved, lost and reconnected as he's grown up in public. Heavy Jelly is Soft Play's return to enjoyable disruption and destruction. Now with bumper edi...

Paving his own path and making his own noise, David Yow has been the shamanic leader of the unapologetically meaty sound of the Jesus Lizard. He's also an actor, designer and expat. The band just wrapped up shows for this year following their new album - first in 26 years - Rack. Photo: Joshua Black Wilkins Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 DistroKid makes m...

Jasmine's heartwarming debut You Are The Morning is up there with the best of this year's records. We hear about the well paying job she just quit, the power of trans community and Yulia and the Filton 18. Find out more about Yulia: https://www.freeyulia.com/ Photo: Matt Grubb Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy...

The indie-pop band that everyone needs in their life is back. Bright Nights is Allo Darlin's new album, and UK people can catch them on tour this October. Tickets here: https://www.allodarlin.com/tour Want AD FREE episodes? Become a member for £4 per month: https://www.patreon.com/101parttimejobs Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 DistroKid makes music distri...

Kurupt FM's laidback man of leisure joins with tales from Brentford, co-writing Emeli Sandé's 'Next To Me', remixing Wiley, risking it in front of your mates and getting fired from an accounts job after he told them he could do numbers "like Rain Man". Want AD FREE episodes? Become a member for £4 per month: https://www.patreon.com/101parttimejobs Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear:...

Kokoroko's brilliant new album Tuff Times Never Last is out now, and their Brixton Academy show on 25 September will be one to remember. Percussionist Onome Edgeworth tells us about their best year yet, gardening and working as a team. Want AD FREE episodes? Become a member for £4 per month: https://www.patreon.com/101parttimejobs Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3...

On her new trilingual album Utopia, Gwenno documents the last 25 years in Welsh, Cornish and English. Growing up with a Cornish poet dad, before getting a job dancing in Australia and Las Vegas, joining an indie pop group and landing behind the bar of a boozy pub. She has since won the Welsh Music Prize for her debut solo album, nominated for a Mercury Prize, and now released four brilliant albums...

It's a testament to Emma-Jean Thackray's endurance that Weirdo made it out. Mourning the sudden passing of her partner, writing lyrics that she couldn't imagine being released into the public and fighting for her album artwork vision, EJT is a hero. Weirdo is out now on Brownswood. Want AD FREE episodes? Become a member for £4 per month: https://www.patreon.com/101parttimejobs Get yourself some to...

Before the early days of Erased Tapes, Ryan Lee West has been perpetually transfixed with making things. His new album Landscape from Memory is out this Friday. Shot at AAJA, Deptford. Photo: Eva Vermandel. 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 their revenu...

For the first time on Spotify video (also YouTube), a memorable afternoon with KNEECAP just before their debut album Fine Art. Their new single The Recap (ft. Mozey) is out now. 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 their revenue. Get 30% off the first year...

Bob Vylan's set is the most talked about Glastonbury performance this year, so we're revisiting our episode from when their album Humble As The Sun came out for the first time in video form. 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 their revenue. Get 30% off t...

Lewis, Christopher and Julia phone in from France about their big risk turned travelling circus. From modelling and moving to Paris to take a job that lasted all of a week, to hypnotic records and selling out Koko. Divinations is out there to jam. Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and art...

Ambrose is the least trusted member of King Gizzard. He's a skateboarder. He once lost a Rickenbacker which will follow him to the grave. He's thought about making a commercial rock album but would sabotage it. He doesn't have much time on his hands. But he's here for 101 Part Time Jobs. Phantom Island is out now. Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 DistroKid...

Celebrated Scottish author David Keenan brought new light into my life with his book This Is Memorial Device, and he's written a raft of excellent stories. He's put together an avant-garde compilation Volcanic Tongue, named after the Glasgow record store he co-ran, which is out now on Disciples. His next book is coming soon. Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2...

Jehnny Beth joined us at our local coffee shop to talk moving to London as a teenager, working with Damon Albarn and Bobby Gillespie, and her new album You Heartbreaker, You - out 29 August. Photo: Johnny Hostile 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 their...

Natalie's debut album Mercy cut through the to the core. Centred on the sudden passing of her father, it's a complete experience. My Home Is Not In This World, her new album, is born from the love of her son Arthur and carries undeniable melody. It's out 18 July through Jack White's Third Man Records, pre order it at https://thirdmanrecords.com/collections/new-arrivals/products/my-home-is-not-in-t...

At Primavera Sound Barcelona '25, Gareth David from the emo inflected positive rockers Los Campesinos! joined us. Talking queer and trans inclusivity in music spaces, the joy of being an independent band and achieving their dream of playing at the Catalonian festival. Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unli...

At Primavera Sound Barcelona '25 we heard from the internet's busiest music nerd himself. On nepotism, bleeding on customers' calzones, and why Smashing Pumpkins and Kayne should stop releasing albums. Filming credit: Liz For advice on depression and mental health struggle, visit CALM. Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 DistroKid makes music distribution fun...