60 Minutes or less - A podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast

Welcome to ’ 60 Minutes or less ’ - the podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast - where for episode 40, we mark a bit of a milestone as we feature an interview with Gordon Moakes . In a former life, he was better known as the bassist in Bloc Party , but has since gone on to form and play in dynamite outfits like The None and Young Legionnaire . No stranger to the pages of Birthday Cake For Breakf...

Welcome to ’ 60 Minutes or less ’ - the podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast - where for episode 39, we welcome Aussie punks CIVIC , as we’re joined by vocalist Jim McCullogh and bassist Roland Hlavka . There’s also the occasional interjection from guitarist Lewis Hodgson before he crashed out asleep on the floor of their hotel room. On our radar for a number of years now, CIVIC have put out a...

Welcome to ’ 60 Minutes or less ’ - A podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast - where for episode 38, we welcome noise royalty, as we’re joined by David Yow of The Jesus Lizard ! In episode 37, we spoke with Andrew Falkous of Mclusky / Future of the Left , another noisy man of note and if you recall, he spoke very fondly of Mr Yow . As we’d already spoken with David a few months prior, it only ma...

Welcome to ’ 60 Minutes or less ’ - a podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast - where for episode 37, we welcome a noisy man of note and king of third division indie rock, Andrew Falkous of Mclusky and Future of the Left ! Formed in Cardiff in the late ‘90s, Mclusky released three critically-acclaimed albums before disbanding in 2005. After some time away - with Falkous taking a side-step in the...

Welcome to ’ 60 Minutes or less ’ - the podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast - where for episode 36, it's a real treat to have on total hero Barry Hyde , he of The Futureheads ! Having had fellow Future-head Ross Millard on for episode 23 , it only made sense to interview Barry , particularly as in March 2025, Hyde released a new solo album in ’ Miners’ Ballads ’ (via Sirenspire Records ). A f...

Welcome to ’ 60 Minutes or less ’ - the podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast - where for episode 35, we jump back in time to late 2024, when we had the pleasure of interviewing the incomparable Warmduscher ! A proper motley crew, Warmduscher have been ripping it for over a decade now, releasing five full lengths that dabble in sleazy funk, raucous post-punk and bleary-eyed disco.  In earl...

Welcome to ’ 60 Minutes or less ’ - the podcast from  Birthday Cake For Breakfast  - where for episode 34, our very special guest is  Matt Baty , choice shouter in the gnarly  Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs ! The finest purveyors of doom from the North East,  Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs  have just put out their fifth album of ear-wrecking power - ‘ Death Hi...

Welcome to ’ 60 Minutes or less ’ - the podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast . It’s a special episode break for us - our first bonus episode - as we welcome back Raygun Busch , vocalist in noisy Oklahoma outfit Chat Pile ! Originally appearing on the podcast for Episode 21 , Raygun returns for what is a regular feature on Birthday Cake For Breakfast - ‘ a/s/l ’ - which is basically one of thos...

Welcome to ’ 60 Minutes or less ’ - the podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast - where for episode 33 we're chuffed up to feature our very special guest, Jon King of the legendary Gang Of Four ! Your favourite band's favourite band, the incredibly influential Gang Of Four put out the incredibly influential ' Entertainment!' 45 years ago! This year sees their final ever tour and to mark the occas...

Welcome to ’ 60 Minutes or less ’ - the podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast - where for episode 32, we’re pushing the format to its very limits as our guest, the brilliant Joshua Idehen , had so much to say! Based in Sweden , British-born Nigerian Idehen is a poet and musician of some renown, having collaborated with a number of artists over the years and contributed poems to Mercury-nominate...

Welcome to ’ 60 Minutes or less ’ - the podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast - where for our 31st episode, we keep it local with our guest, multi-instrumentalist Francesca Pidgeon a.k.a. Dilettante . Known for her work with BC Camplight’s band, Pidgeon is also the brainchild and leader of art-rock collective Dilettante , putting out their debut album ‘ Tantrum ’ in late 2022 after a run of ear...

Welcome to ’ 60 Minutes or less ’ - the podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast - where for our 30th episode, it's a treat to mark the occasion with a chat with J. Willgoose, Esq , band-leader and instrumentalist-auteur in the brilliant Public Service Broadcasting ! Described on their very own website as “ masters of conceptual pop historiography ”, for 15 years Public Service Broadcasting have b...

Welcome to ’ 60 Minutes or less ’ - the podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast - where for our 29th episode, we welcome visiting California quartet, WAND - current line-up featuring Cory Hanson, Robert Cody, Evan Backer and Evan Burrows . An ear-splitting outfit of note, WAND have been rocking our world ever since we first saw their gnarly KEXP session in 2016 (and subsequently got to experience...

Welcome to ’ 60 Minutes or less ’ - the podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast - where for our second episode of 2025 we look to Chicago, joined by our very special guest, Brian Case of FACS ! Cooler than cool, FACS have been on the radar for a number of years now, with each new release better than the next. No strangers to Birthday Cake For Breakfast , we’ve had a back and forth with the trio o...

Welcome to the first episode of 2025 for ’ 60 Minutes or less ’ - the podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast! We’re kicking off our first episode of the year with a real treat, the nicest guy in music production, Jonah Falco ! A very busy young man, on top of playing in Toronto punk leg-ends Fucked Up for over 20 years, Falco also fronts the brilliant Jade Hairpins and when he finds any spare ti...

Welcome to ’ 60 Minutes or less ’ - A podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast . Holy hell, it’s the last episode of 2024! ’ 60 Minutes or less ’ started in 2024 and in the first year we’ve had all manner of guests - from our first episode with Joe Casey of Protomartyr , to our latest episode with Field Music , with the likes of Pissed Jeans , The Futureheads , Everything Everything and more in-be...

’ 60 Minutes or less ’ - the podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast - marks episode twenty five and it’s a delight for us to welcome Field Music as our guests! The duo of David Brewis and Peter Brewis , Field Music are a band we’ve had the pleasure of interviewing a number of times over the years. The eagle-eyed amongst you might’ve noticed we’ve already had Peter Brewis on the podcast for episo...

’ 60 Minutes or less ’ - the podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast - returns for episode twenty four and we welcome our guests Sweeping Promises , gnarly husband and wife duo with the best names in the business, Lira Mondal and Caufield Schnug ! Debut album ‘ Hunger for a Way Out ’ arrived via Feel It Records in deepest, darkest Covid times and was a total breath of fresh air, a post-punk gem t...

Welcome to ’ 60 Minutes or less ’ - a podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast - where for episode twenty three, it’s a dream for young teenage me to welcome our guest Ross Millard , guitarist and vocalist in Sunderland’s finest, The Futureheads ! With six albums under their collective belts and over 20 years of playing music together, The Futureheads have been part of my life for - well, 20 years...

’60 Minutes or less’ - the podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast - returns for episode twenty two and we’re THANKful to welcome our guests, the rock band Thank from Leeds! A noise band of note that have been on our radar since almost day dot, off the back of releasing their debut full length ‘ Thoughtless Cruelty ’ in 2022, this month sees Thank release their latest record ’ I Have A Physical B...

’ 60 Minutes or less ’ - the podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast - returns for episode twenty one we’re delighted to welcome the brilliantly named Raygun Busch , vocalist in noisy Oklahoma outfit Chat Pile ! With nightmarish music videos to compliment their harsh brand of noise rock, Chat Pile have picked up quite a lot of steam in their home country and throughout Europe off the back of rele...

Big one - 20 episodes of ’ 60 Minutes or less ’ in the tank! For the latest episode of the podcast (from Birthday Cake For Breakfast ), we’re rolling back the years, joined by a band that we first interviewed a decade ago - DZ Deathrays ! Back in September 2014 - what seems like a lifetime ago - we sat down with drummer Simon Ridley and guitarist and vocalist Shane Parsons backstage at Night and D...

’ 60 Minutes or less ’ - the podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast - returns for episode nineteen and we're joined by the hilarious and super charming Anna Erhard ! Raised in Switzerland but now based in Berlin, Erhard had been on our radar for a few years off the back of releasing her first two albums - ‘ Short Cut ’ in 2021 and ‘ Campsite ’ in 2022. But it was her 2023 single ‘ 170 ’ that rea...

’ 60 Minutes or less ’ - the podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast - ups the cool factor for episode eighteen, featuring a big chat with all three members of ripper trio Demob Happy - Matthew Marcantonio , Thomas Armstrong and Adam Godfrey ! Formed in Newcastle upon Tyne around 15 years ago, Demob Happy have put out three full length records in that time, on top of a handful of singles and othe...

Another week, another new episode of ’ 60 Minutes or less ’ - A podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast ! For episode seventeen we’re joined by NYC royalty, Ben Hozie of New York art-punks BODEGA ! An outfit we’ve been following since nearly day dot - or at least that’s what we thought. This year saw the release of their latest album ‘ Our Brand Could Be Yr Life ’, a reworking of an album of the...