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

It's festival season! For the latest episode of ’ 60 Minutes or less ’ - a podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast - we’re diving into our vaults, looking back at 10 years of ArcTanGent Festival, with a number of interviews we’ve recorded at the festival over the past decade. An award winning independent festival that takes place on the picturesque Fernhill Farm just outside of Bristol, since its...

’60 Minutes or less’ - A new-ish podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast - returns for episode 15 and we welcome our guest Niall Kennedy , guitarist in brilliant instrumental outfit And So I Watch You From Afar ! A band we’ve been mildly obsessed with for a good while now, they’re now approaching twenty years of the band, with Niall personally clocking in over a decade! This August, And So I Watc...

Episode 14 of ’ 60 Minutes or less ’ - a new podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast - goes BIG as we turn back the clock and welcome our guest Tim Hancock , guitarist in gnarly instrumental outfit Brontide ! Together with drummer William Bowerman and bassist Nathan Fairweather , as Brontide the trio put out two all killer, no filler full lengths, as well as a number of standalone singles. In lat...

We're back with another episode of ’ 60 Minutes or less ’, the new-ish podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast . For episode 13 we get active, putting in a shift with original Running Punk , Jimmy Watkins !    The second professional athlete to appear on the podcast (thank you, Steve Davis ), Jimmy Watkins is a former record breaking GB athlete, who left it all behind for rock and roll...

Welcome to another episode of ’ 60 Minutes or less ’, the new-ish podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast . For episode 12, we turn to music hot-spot Lancaster for our egg-cellent guest, Holly Ross of The Lovely Eggs ! Forgive me the pun, as you’ll soon hear, Holly is not fond of them! Along with husband David Blackwell , Ross makes up the other half of The Lovely Eggs - a two-headed rock and rol...

’60 Minutes or less’ - the new podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast - returns with one for the noise-heads, our eleventh episode featuring an enjoyable chat with Matt Korvette, choice shouter in head-wreckers Pissed Jeans! Notorious noise punks with almost twenty years in the game, Pissed Jeans first melted this particular brain over a decade ago with a kooky video for the insanely catchy ‘Fal...

Here we are then, ’ 60 Minutes or less ’ - the new podcast from  Birthday Cake For Breakfast  - cracks the tenth episode. It's a doozy too, y'know. For episode ten we’ve gone lengthy with the one and only  Jamie Lenman . We spoke with  Jamie  mid-week over zoom to discuss his new book, ’ Skeletons & Skylines ’ - ‘ Twenty Five Years of Art, Design and Rock n’ Roll ’ . A...

Bonjour! For the ninth episode of ’60 Minutes or less’ - a new podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast - it’s an honour to welcome our first European guest! If we were still in the EU, we would have ticked this off the list two episodes in, but since we fucked that when the UK voted to leave the EU, we look to France and our European friends with an interview with HALO MAUD. I discovered HAL...

They said it couldn't be done - ’ 60 Minutes or less ’, the new podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast , returns for its eighth episode! Off the back of our last episode with Steven Hodson of USA Nails , we continue on with noise-rock frontmen with a chat featuring Alex Edkins , guitarist and choice shouter in gnarly power trio METZ! Formed in Ontario, Canada, METZ have been wrecking heads for f...

Here we are then - the seventh episode of ’60 Minutes or less’, the new podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast. What a peach too - a bumper chat with Steven Hodson, guitarist and vocalist in gnarly quartet USA Nails. Having formed around 2013, we’ve been following USA Nails for pretty much the life of Birthday Cake for Breakfast. I still fondly recall their appearance at ArcTanGent Festival almo...

Finally - a world class sports star on '60 Minutes or less', the new podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast! For our sixth episode, we welcome royalty - the only guest thus far with an OBE, former world number one in snooker, Steve Davis. Amassing 71 major titles over his playing career, Davis remains one of the world’s best-known snooker players. Not content with such a glittering career though...

Off the back of the first four ' 60 Minutes or less ' episodes - featuring guests Joe Casey (Protomartyr), Paul Hanley (The Fall), Philip Frobos (Omni) and Jonathan Higgs (Everything Everything) - it's a trip to present our fifth episode, featuring  Peter Brewis ! A North East musician of note, alongside brother  David ,  Peter &nbsp...

Episode four of ’60 Minutes or less’ - A new podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast - is a peach it must be said. We're particularly stoked to say that our guest this time around is Jonathan Higgs, vocalist, guitarist and more in Everything Everything. Art-rockers with a knack for hitting you in the feels one minute and getting you up on your feet dancing the next, alongside Dutch Uncles, Everyt...

It's the third episode of ’60 Minutes or less’ - A new podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast - and we're on a roll! For episode three, it’s a delight to say that our guest this time around is Philip Frobos, bassist and vocalist in Atlanta, Georgia, trio Omni! We've been hooked on Omni having first caught them in Manchester in early 2017 with much missed local lot DUDS. Mainly a writing partners...

Hot on the heels of our first episode (featuring Joe Casey, vocalist in Detroit post-punk outfit Protomartyr), the second episode of '60 Minutes or less' - a new podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast - features an interesting chat with Paul Hanley, former drummer in northern institution, The Fall. Alongside brother Steve, Paul was the other famous Hanley in The Fall, one of the many drummer’s i...

What better way to open up new Birthday Cake For Breakfast podcast '60 Minutes or less' than with our first guest - Joe Casey, vocalist in Detroit post-punk outfit Protomartyr! I caught up with Joe in October 2023, ahead of a sold out headline show in Manchester at hipster-hotspot YES. Over a pint of Amstel in a noisy beer garden, the occasional train rumbled overhead and an anxious dog yapped acr...

Introducing ’60 Minutes or less’ - a new podcast from Manchester based music site Birthday Cake For Breakfast. Hosted by Andy Hughes, with priors for interviewing all manner of artists over the past decade, the podcast will feature new interviews with musicians and artists that we love and want to know more about. Available soon, wherever you get your podcasts.   Hosted on Acast. See aca...