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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 BidderSteve Mason (The Beta Band) - "I never let the truth get in the way of a good story"
Steve Mason's new compilation The Romance of Unknowing has just come out on Two-Piers. He's also just announced his book, Failure is Always an Option, and The…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderJordan Rakei - "I moved from Brisbane to London to meet SoundCloud friends"
Jordan Rakei moved from Australia to London with a blind faith to make music. Over years of hard work and learning the hard way, he's now one of the most…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderOlga Koch - "I'm doing a PhD as a backup plan to comedy"
Russian-British comedian Olga Koch on her tech jobs, doing standup over Zoom to a silent, faceless crowd, and why she's doing a PhD as a backup to her (very…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderMatt Caughthran (Mariachi El Bronx / The Bronx) and the barrel of mould
Matt Caughthran and Mariachi El / The Bronx are true lifers. A white knuckle ride through ten albums, outliving the deaths, adversities and adventure that…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderCardinals - "I'm a wanted man in Cork City"
Ahead of their hearty debut album Masquerade, Euan and Aaron joined us at the Social to talk grifting through jobs in Cork, our shared love for So Young…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderNation of Language on New York coffee, hockey and the family tour
Just announced as Death Cab For Cutie tour support across the USA, Nation of Language's Ian and Aidan join to talk coffee, childminding and being a hockey…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderVona Vella - "Covering Jason Mraz as a wedding band... that was a low point"
Introducing you to my favourite latest discovery... Vona Vella. It's got the Jeff Buckley layered washy groove, it's sonically great with hiss and scratches in…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderDead Dads Club - "Ronnie Wood... thank you for the shoes"
When Chilli Jesson's first band Palma Violets ground to a halt, he found himself behind a bar trying to sign his name in Guinness foam for adoring fans. Dead…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderWitch Fever - "We did two months in arenas... now we're broke!"
A damning indictment on what it's like for medium to large scale touring experiences, Amy Walpole and Alex Thompson tell us about their challenging last year…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderRadio Free Alice - "Teach guitar? I barely know how to play it"
At The Windmill in Brixton, Noah and Jules are putting themselves down of course - but that's part of the charm with the dynamic but stripped-back lexicon of…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderPeaches - "Kids should send their parents to gay camps"
Discussing her former double life as a kids' music teacher and what self-empowerment means today, Peaches is here ahead of her first album in 10 years, No Lube…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderKingfishr - "What's happened to us doesn't happen to anyone"
Behind a number one album, number one single and two sold out arena shows at 3Arena in Dublin are three mates who finished college and made a go of playing all…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderJunior Brother - Tree Rings and Fairy Forts
Ronan Kealy tells us about growing up the junior brother of a pominent Gaelic footballer, finding his voice in Dublin and how moving back to his parents' home…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderNaima Bock - Archaeology Below a Massive Dark Land
The incredibly moving songwriter tells us about archaeological digs, finding the definition of what being a sustainable artist is, and writing a new song early…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderKojey Radical - "'Why can't you come to the rave bro?' - There's a man in a corset that needs my help"
Kojey Radical joins us on how PRS has provided him a stable career after he was fired from every other job he had (including at Boxpark and fitting corsets)…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderStop & Chat: Mumble Tide
My AOTY is Mumble Tide's 'Might As Well Play Another One', out on Breakfast Records - home to Getdown Services, Lankamer, The Cindys and many other awesome…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderJeremy Corbyn - "Music gives people opportunity"
Jeremy Corbyn has brought us together like no other politician in our lifetime. At community arts and music space New River Studios, he tells us about the…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderBill Jefferson (Mên An Tol) - "I sold Peter Doherty a harmonica and a hat"
Living in and working at pubs, the old rooms of Peter Doherty and where Gerry Adams and Shane Macgowan hung out, is part of Bill Jefferson's story. Mên An Tol…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderThe Cribs - "We became lawyers and won our rights back"
No-one expected The Cribs to become lawyers. Not because they're working class brothers from Wakefield, or they smashed themselves through a glass vase at the…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderCameron Winter (Geese) - Dog Walking in New York
In case you missed it before Geese became the most talked about band in the world, we heard from frontperson and songwriter Cameron Winter this time last year…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderSports Team - "Adoration for drinking 10 pints and playing sloppy rock music? Amazing!”
Stephen Malkmus, London Fields, rugby shirts and blow dried hair. Sports Team started writing good songs and putting on shows that cost a few quid to get into…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderIndigo De Souza - "Artists can be treated in inhumane ways"
On her new album Precipice, Indigo reflects the different feelings we wake up to. Here she talks about her first band with MJ Lenderman, waiting - and…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderLily Lyons - "I followed my strange instinct and was correct"
Lily's debut album Re-Open the World feels like a best friend the morning after a big night. Close, knowing and comforting, it's an incredible record from…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderSaul Williams - "How many people did you kill to make tea part of your culture?"
Artist, actor, poet and social activist Saul Williams has 101 full time jobs. On this episode Saul remembers his first lightning bolt moment that led to…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderJust Mustard "We need to invest in each other"
Their new album We Were Just Here is a record to get lost in. Katie and David tell us how jungle influences their sound, Dundalk colloquialisms, Steve Albini…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderSaul Adamczewski's Insecure Men - "Every time things get good, I become a saboteur"
A bruised man with beautiful songs, Saul Adamczewski is seven months sober with a new Insecure Men album. He was offered the chance to make A Man For All…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderGareth David (Los Campesinos!) - "We turned down $45,000 for our principles"
Recorded at Swn Festival in Cardiff (lovely fest if you can make it next year), Gareth David tells us about Los Campesinos!'s early years playing the student…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderBiffy Clyro - "We were the least likely band to ever make a career out of this"
On our 500th episode, we're joined by Biffy Clyro. Simon Neil & James and Ben Johnston take us through early gigs with Hundred Reasons, Hell is for Heroes and…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderJoshua Idehen - "I wanna tell you it was determination. No, it was MONEY"
When Joshua Idehen was working at burlesque bar, he couldn't imagine a life making music and poetry full-time. But since moving to Sweden, a country that…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderNish Kumar - "I have cried in a lot of toilets"
At hip east London brewery Signature Brew, Nish joined us on nepo babies, late stage capitalism, crying in toilets and how a company he worked for could have…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderStop & Chat: Upchuck
A brief and slightly chaotic moment with Upchuck, the excellent Atlanta punk band. On facing a bit of contempt from Faye Webster fans, touring with Amyl and…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderStop & Chat: Home Front's Graeme MacKinnon
I first saw Home Front supporting High Vis at Islington Assembly Hall, one of the rare shows that felt like a real moment suspended in time. I fell in love…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderSoulwax - "We’re addicted to when something could be a mistake"
The Dewaele brothers are here about the perceptions of what DJs, how they've kept their magic, how artists don't make money any more so more DIY shows are…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderDavid Larbi - "Me and Me gotta start getting along. We’re in this for life!"
Poet, author and timeline cleanser David Larbi joins today. We talked about his sense of self, allowing yourself to grow despite the uncomfortability it…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderTim Burgess (The Charlatans) - "I'm all or nothing. It’s my quest to find balance"
The Charlatans are about to release their fourteenth album We Are Love, a gladly psychedelic swish featuring perhaps my favourite Charlatans track ‘For The…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderCharlie Steen (Shame) - "I accidentally charged £1000 then rubbed chilli in my eyes"
As teenagers wide-eyed to the world of Fat White Family and the notorious Queen's Head in Brixton, Charlie Steen and Shame did the honourable thing: dive heard…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderMalevolence - "My teens were on difficult mode"
Inside Sheffield's Crookes Social Club, Malevolence's Alex, Charlie and Wilkie talk us through being a band since they were teenagers, going hard at touring…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderEnd It - "I used to pick up bodies”
Akil Godsey is excellent nominative determinsim. End It's loudmouth (and why shouldn't he be?) singer walks us through growing up in an extremely religious…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderThe Beths - "Everything is always a bit maybe"
Jon and Liz from The Beths join on the work of songwriting reflection, youth music workshops in Aotearoa before studying jazz at college and teaching trumpet…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderFolk Bitch Trio - "I quit my job today"
Jeanie, Gracie and Heide of Folk Bitch Trio joined us before their show at The Lexington in London. They told us about all their old jobs - Nando's, the…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderMatt Berninger (The National) - "Being with the audience brought me out of a serious depression"
Matt Berninger's excellent second solo album Get Sunk follows a slow exit from a serious depression where he couldn't get out of bed. Written on baseballs…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderSydney Minsky Sargeant - "We need to be careful in not making music exclusive"
Working Men's Club's Sydney Minsky Sargeant puts out his debut album Lunga this Friday. The album was written around the track 'Lisboa', which while written…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderField Music - "Take control of your destiny... form a Doors tribute band"
Famed for starting a Doors covers band to supplement income performing their own music, Field Music's David Brewis says it shouldn't come as a surprise…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderStop & Chat: Ryan Davis (Roadhouse Band)
This guy writes SONGS. If you're reading this and you haven't heard Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band's latest album New Threats From The Soul, stop what you're…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderDaniel Avery - "Success knocked me"
Daniel Avery's new album Tremor is heavy in a different way. On it is collaborations with Alison Mosshart (The Kills), Walter Schreifels(Quicksand / Rival…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderTyler Ballgame - "Be Outsider-You"
Tyler Ballgame is a modern savant. On his four released tracks, there's a sweeping melancholy underpinned by the haunting beauty of Roy Orbison or wry-smiled…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderWater From Your Eyes - "I think I worked in a cult"
Rachel and Nate of Water From Your Eyes (and This Is Lorelei) on watching our mums dance to the classics, hanging out with Michael Hannon, getting served beers…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderEnd of the Road's Simon Taffe - "I would have people lock up their phones "
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…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderGruff Glyn (Melin Melyn) - "Learn Welsh, start a band"
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 /…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderAngel Du$t - "I have the coolest friends in the world"
Justice Tripp on his best friends and collaborators Turnstile, the hardcore community and United & Strong Fest in London, moving into an abandoned warehouse as…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderYasi Salek - "How weird would it be if I changed how I spoke for a podcast"
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…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderCory Hanson - “New bands are competing with robots for Christ's sake”
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…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderFor Those I Love - " I made Alien Truther videos"
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…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderThe New Eves - Haunted by Tutankhamun
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…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderLaurie Vincent (Soft Play) - "We might change our name again"
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…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderDavid Yow (the Jesus Lizard) - Man of Detail
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…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles Bidderjasmine.4.t - "Being loved by other trans people is very healing"
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…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderAllo Darlin' - Helen Mirren's stockings, Yoko Ono at Abbey Road and X-rated valentine's day cards
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…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderKurupt FM's Hugo Chegwin - "I won two Ivor Novellos... I didn't know what they were"
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…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderOnome Edgeworth (Kokoroko) - Gardening after Glastonbury
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…