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101 Part Time Jobs with Giles Bidder
101 Part Time Jobs is the interviews podcast that unearths the graft and resilience in a demanding time for artists. Giles Bidder interviews guests about the gumption and work ethic that drives them to create, defying the odds of an ever-changing industry to ensure that the show can go on. Guests have included IDLES, KNEECAP, Blossoms, Denzel Curry, Self Esteem, Tim Heidecker, The Last Dinner Party, Lauren Mayberry, Crowded House, English Teacher & many more.
Episodes
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderThe Big Moon - "The way we became a band doesn't exist in the same way anymore"
Jules, Soph and Celia join us on the realities of making a life in music, the jobs that have kept them going, and how your passion can be both exhilarating and…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderGinger Johnson - "I live to play my character"
Ginger joins us on how life-changing winning RuPaul's Drag Race and Celebrity Masterchef was, how their entrepreneurial skills started at a young age and…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderStop & Chat: Sadurn
Go and listen to Sadurn's new album The Underworld for some sad magic. Genevieve and Jon join us on early days in Philadelphia DIY circles, the perfect job and…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderBella Poarch - "It was joining the military or running away from home"
Before Bella Poarch released her satisfyingly shapeshifting alt-pop album Picnic at the Cemetery, she had joined the navy as a way to escape her strict…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderStop & Chat: Friko
There's an out of reach desperation in Friko's new record Something Worth Waiting For. Niko Kapetan talks about being a lifer songwriter, odd jobs replenishing…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderThe Avalanches - "It's been a battle to come back"
Robbie and Tony dive into their rise, fall and rise again. After the initial deserved hype of their 2000 debut Since I Left You, the Australian spent 16 years…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderStop & Chat: Strawberry Guy
Alex's new album Give Me A Dream is an absolute gem, you should definitely be listening to it on 23 October. He tells us about doing a comedy bit with Paul…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderDan Tiernan - "I've had my phone nicked on the same day three years in a row"
With a new show about the healing power of crystals, comic Dan Tiernan takes us through his short-lived time as a magician, how his dyspraxia (and ADHD) meant…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderJack Shep - "SNL UK meant I left football coaching"
SNL UK's Jack Shep on how he got his break on Big Boys, but went to the wrong place on his first day on set, working on weekends, behind the bar and his…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderStop & Chat: Love Spells
Taegen C'aion Harris has released a killer groovy record in Love Is The Law, but before their sparkling career they were homeless in Houston, working at a…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderEnd of the Road Festival: Molly McGuinness and big long sun
On Friday morning at this year's End of the Road festival, we heard from comedian Molly McGuinness and excellent band big long sun (stylised as such!) about…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderStop & Chat: Polhawan
Another incredible new find out on Breakfast Records (Getdown Services, Mumble Tide, The Cindys) is Polhawan. Tim tells us about working with young people in…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderJohnny Marr - "I wrote songs to solve my problems"
Sign up to our newsletter to win a Johnny Marr signed The Age of Everything LP : https://www.101ptj.fyi/ The world's most influential guitarist joins today on…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderStop & Chat: Sorcha Richardson
Sorcha Richardson's Draw The Outline is an album you need on your radar. She tells about early years discovering her voice, working at record labels, a chance…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderC.O.F.F.I.N. - "Don't underestimate your ability to have an affect"
While over for their London documentary screening, the Manly-Australia band joined on starting as teenagers and booking local shows, developing an…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderStop & Chat: corto.alto
Liam Shortall, who's just released his mind melting new record Some Small Fortune, joins on going to music university at 16, playing in wedding bands and his…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderInterpol - "There's a magic that happens between us"
Interpol's Paul Banks and Daniel Kessler on the alchemy behind the band, making the tectonically powerful new record This Mirror Weighs A Ton with established…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderStop & Chat: Le Ren
If you're into timeless Americana folk, you gotta listen to Le Ren's new album Don't Be Funny Without Me - out tomorrow. Lauren joins us on playing to her…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderBrian Fallon - "I'm happy for the first time ever"
Brian Fallon is back, baby. Not Bad For New Jersey, out 10 September, is his best batch of songs in years. He wears the same cologne as Blink 182's Travis…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderThe Tubs - "My songs do a hatchet job on myself"
If you don't yet know The Tubs - get quick now on the train the jangletown. Owen Williams joins on how he confronts intrusive thoughts with songwriting, the…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderStop & Chat: Man/Woman/Chainsaw
MWC have released an excellent and likely enduring debut record with Cannonball. Vera and one of the two Billys join us on being lockdown teenagers, being a…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderPowerplant - "The suffering is the joy"
Theo Zhykharyev joins on doubling down on Powerplant and becoming an admin email demon, how he can't go back to his home country of Ukraine, living in a…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderFreddie Meredith - Need A Light?
Freddie Meredith on the plight of self-taped auditions, working at the pub and his fringe show about a desperate smoking area dweller. Catch him at Baby Grand…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderRory Marshall - Thank You For The Opportunity
Rory's Edinburgh Fringe show starts this week. Last week he joined us on putting together its final touches, playing in a band, his laundry list of jobs and…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderBrògeal - Deer Shed Festival
Falkirk romantic punk rockers Brògeal join us at Deer Shed to talk about working a double pizza team during Covid, putting on shows in their hometown and…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderThe North - Truck Festival
The North are good rock 'n roll powerpop - reminds me of The Exploding Hearts, Buzzcocks or early Cribs, who I saw them do a fine job of supporting a few weeks…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderJoe and the Shitboys - Truck Festival
At Truck Festival, Ziggy and Joe from the Shitboys discuss working in sewage and building sites, what it's like to have a queer vegan message in the…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderNell Mescal - "I have to get better at shooting my shot"
Gettting in a room to write with Big Thief, Billie Marten and Tomberlin collaborator Philip Weinrobe, Nell Mescal's satisfying new track 'Settles' is out now…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderThe Mary Wallopers - "Grannies are being arrested for wearing a t-shirt"
Andrew and Charles Hendy of The Mary Wallopers sit with us on bucking society's norms, speaking up for equality, justice and fairness, trad songs that have…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderStop & Chat: Ebbb
Ebbb's debut album Shallow Hits is a must listen. It's an addictive, satisying listen that keeps getting better as your work your way through it, giving a…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderGetdown Services - "We were desperately trying to escape a routine"
Josh and Ben - along with their DIY label Breakfast Records and manager Alice - are sailing on in unchartered, French house inspired waters. Having recently…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderMini Skirt - Bricklaying, Painting, Tour When You Wanna
10 years of being a band, Mini Skirt have been pulling the thread and getting as much out of playing music as they can. Happy bricklaying or painting at home…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderMary in the Junkyard - Trial Shift Shucking Oysters On Release Day
Mary in the Junkyard have released one of 2026's best albums with Role Model Hermit. Claris, Saya and David tell us how it feels in the whirlwind of the moment…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderAvalon Emerson - "Oscillating between ridiculous hubris and cratering self-doubt"
Sweeping songwriter, DJ, producer and web developer Avalon Emerson joins on today's episode - on the safety net of a full-time job, the risks of prioritising…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderFlo & Joan - "We wrote a musical about Andrew Lloyd Webber"
Masters of the chaotic clever song, Flo & Joan (Nicola and Rosie) take us back to double binbagging keyboards to gigs, how they weren't very good friends as…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderShow Me The Body - "Anything worth doing is hard"
Julian Pratt has morphed from chaos-chasing NY street rat into a father who's finding ways to make a positive impact. Alone Together (out 10 July) is a…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderPISS - "We have a trigger warning before the set"
PISS are a very important band. Tay Zantingh's lyrics on abuse and gender-based violence create an inclusive place of conversation, while the band's shake the…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderSublime - "Learn the book and burn the book"
30 years to the day after Bradley Nowell passed, Sublime's Jakob Nowell - with Freshy and guitarist Zane - joined us in East London to tell the story behind…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderRatboys - "I want to connect with people... what else are we supposed to do?"
One of the best albums of 2026 so far is Ratboys' Singin to an Empty Chair. A comforting swell of unrushed, attentive indie rock 'n' roll, it sounds like a…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderKingfishr - "Music is more important now than ever"
Selling out two nights at Belfast's SSE Arena and new single The Sun Will Never Settle going straight to Number 1 - following their chart-topping album - you'd…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderKevin Drew (Broken Social Scene) - "Honesty is the biggest success"
Broken Social Scene is music for the people. Band leader Kevin Drew tells us how over 25 years, a rotating cast of characters and millions of fans' lifelong…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderStop & Chat: Lewis OfMan
There needs to be crazy music in this world - and Lewis OfMan is here for the job. 50KWTTS is his insane new album, go and blast it to see yourself. He tells…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderTruman Sinclair - "It's about community, friendships and expressing yourself"
Truman's song 'Joel Roberts' blew me away the moment I first heard it. Behind the chords and lyrics is something much deeper, and it makes sense hearing the…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderWestside Cowboy, Girl Group, James Emmanuel and Walt Disco at Great Escape
We spoke with lovely folk Westside Cowboy, Girl Group, James Emmanuel and Walt Disco at Great Escape, about struggling through uni, being a grammar specialist…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderJasmine Myra - "I started cleaning the wrong house!"
Jasmine Myra's incredibly beautiful album Where Light Settles is out tomorrow. Here she tells us about factory and cleaning jobs, how she separates her music…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderEmma Doran - "I started stand-up during my maternity"
Emma Doran's a hilarious Dublin comic, a very good follow on Instagram, and she's here to talk about building a career from the ground up. Starting standup…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderStop & Chat: Knats
On their second album A Great Day in Newcastle, Knats are fully realised jazz-rock madness you can't look away from. Stan, King and Ferg join us on growing up…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderDomenic "Nicky" Palermo (NOTHING) - "I got my high school diploma in prison"
Nothing was Nicky's "f*ck off project" while he was enjoying his new freedom working in Philadelphia bars - until it wasn't. He tells us about how he's nearly…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderStop & Chat: Hand Habits' Meg Duffy
Cass McCombs and Hand Habits have announced a split 7", so Meg Duffy joins today with stories about their latest album Blue Reminder, fibbing to get in Kevin…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderStewart Lee - "I left comedy for five years and started again"
Stewart Lee joins on the non-affordability of bands today, alternative comedy and the different classes of comedians, losing money on tour, his old band and…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderUlrika Spacek - Measuring the property of the electron
EXPO by Ulrika Spacek is one of the best albums released this year. Rhys and Jenks tell us about prioritising music their whole adult lives, Rhys' experience…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderKevin Morby - "I've documented every part of my life"
Kevin has a phenomenal ability to conjure up a beautiful moment from almost nowhere. Coming from DIY scenes in New York, he tells us about how he didn't really…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderThe Scratch - "Everyone has something to contribute"
On St Patricks Day at Signature Brew, The Scratch join us on how being in a band has changed them as people, busking in Dublin, the impact the recession had on…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderArlo Parks - "Trying to catch the zeitgeist is futile"
Inspired by nightlife, clubbing and open-minded venues like Cafe OTO and Venue MOT in London, Arlo Parks' new album Ambiguous Desire is reassuringly soothing…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderCurtisy - Norm Macdonald, Mac Miller and Tracy Beaker
From Jobstown in Dublin, Curtisy joins us on working onsite with his older brother, doughnuts with his mum, how Mac Miller is one of his biggest inpos and…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderMaisie Adam - "Football and comedy need to evolve"
Currently trying not to crack up in Last One Laughing, Maisie Adam discusses her punk mum, loving Lambrini Girls and Amyl and The Sniffers, the gritty open mic…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles Biddergrandson - "You remind people the world can change"
Jordan Benjamin is passionate about what his music can do for people. From a family of political campaigners, he's been co-signed by Billy Bragg, written with…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderLime Garden - "I was egg mayo girl"
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…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderCourtney Barnett - "Writing songs is still a mystery to me"
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…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderPool Kids - Substitute teaching, bar ejections and The Cat in The Hat
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…