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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 BidderGwenno - "Survive the 21st Century: Speak Cornish"
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…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderEmma-Jean Thackray - "The jazz police hate me"
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…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderRival Consoles - "I could spend 2000 hours on a song and not release it"
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…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderKNEECAP on self expression, socialism and Irish identity
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…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderBob Vylan on Keir Starmer's irresponsible government & choosing between health or rent
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…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderOracle Sisters - "We're chameleons and nomads"
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…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderAmbrose Kenny-Smith (King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard) - "Redder than the devil's D"
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…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderDavid Keenan - Faith in words
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…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderJehnny Beth - Echoes, poetry and listening to yourself
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…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderNatalie Bergman - "It’s our duty to give back to the community"
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…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderLos Campesinos! - "This band is the best thing we've ever done"
At Primavera Sound Barcelona '25, Gareth David from the emo inflected positive rockers Los Campesinos! joined us. Talking queer and trans inclusivity in music…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderAnthony Fantano - "You can't have trust fund babies on this podcast"
At Primavera Sound Barcelona '25 we heard from the internet's busiest music nerd himself. On nepotism, bleeding on customers' calzones, and why Smashing…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderDan Ozzi - Mark Hoppus, Noisey and writing for the underdogs
Co-writing Mark Hoppus' rollercoaster memoir Fahrenheit-182, penning previous books with Laura Jane Grace and a blazing everything-you-didn't-know about the…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderAnnie DiRusso - Big Thief, Ice Cream and 3am floor talks
Annie's debut album Super Pedestrian has the kind of vulnerability that brings me hope for the younger generations. It's heartfelt pop rock, and Annie's a…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderGetdown Services - "You can express how you feel with humour"
Before their biggest headline show yet, Josh and Ben joined us at Yard Sale pizza (delicious pies) on the trojan horse of humour in music, grifting at work…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderTy Segall - "I thought playing music for a living was an absurd idea"
Multi-dimensional ripper Ty Segall joins for today's chat, on the economy of touring, working at a hydroponic grow house in California and how making different…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderMax Pope - "I need to get out my f*cking head and dig a hole"
Max Pope has a journey story of ups and downs, so I got him round to hear about getting signed as a teenager, having his music life turned around by…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderStop & Chat: Pan Amsterdam at The Great Escape
On his new record Confines out today on Heavenly, Pan Amsterdam is unconfined melody. We spoke before his show in Brighon last weekend at the Great Escape…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderJohn Niven's Blur vs. Oasis Battle
Writer of The Battle, documenting the Britpop rivalry of 1995, and novelist John Niven joins us on writing novels like Kill Your Friends, scriptwriting and the…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderMatt Maltese's Vintage Records
Matt Maltese joins us at Rough Trade Vintage to talk through his ace new album Hers, how he ran his own vintage record shop, writing with Joy Crookes and…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderStop & Chat: Lizzie Esau
In Newcastle, Lizzie Esau is working by day and playing at night. Bugs is her ace new tune, inspired by long days working at M&S and legendary local venue The…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderSamantha Crain - "Everyone who works in the liquor store plays in a band"
Gumshoe is Samantha Crain's new album and it's a good and deep listen. She's had a life of mini jobs and has made great music throughout it. She's an…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderPatrick Wolf - "I earned enough to run away from home"
After a decade in obscurity, processing rehabilitation and personal crisis, Patrick Wolf is returning with his seventh album Crying The Neck. We hear about his…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderLåpsley - Queer sex parties, Charli xcx co-writes and winning SXSW
Låpsley stops and chats about running Her Own Recordings, putting on queer sex parties, writing for Charli xcx and looking back on a meandering music life. Her…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderCornelia Murr - Bird Lady
Calming, groovy and meditative is Cornelia Murr's new album Run to the Center. We met in Regents Park, sat on the fountain and talked bird-saving, restaurant…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderChuck Ragan is reelin' in the years
Chuck's here on the gratitude he has for Hot Water Music fans and neighbours, appreciation for his ventriloquist mother and golfer father, plus we get a…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderThe Jeffrey Lewis Effect
Jeffrey Lewis has made himself a home in writing acutely empathetic lo-fi tracks, building a legion of dedicated followers. His new album The EVEN MORE…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderSextile - "High-risk personalities"
In a very real life story of rehab, nursing homes and personal loss, Sextile are a wild eyed medley of sonic chaos. Their new album yes, please. is out…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderEnglish Teacher on pedals, mopeds and writing their second album
One year on from their Mercury prize winning debut album This Could Be Texas, English Teacher tell us about writing its follow up, moped dreams and falling off…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderBrian Bilston & Henry Normal - "Poetry comes from interacting with the world"
Two poets - one an award winning writer and producer of The Royle Family and Philomena, the other a Twitter sensation who found his audience online - are make…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderBria Salmena - Driving through the ice blizzard
After touring in Orville Peck's band and doing the hard yards in Toronto indie rockers FRIGS, Bria Salmena has released her very excellent debut album Big Dog…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderPest Control - Six weeks in the USA
Starting a 6 week tour across North America, bassist Jack Padurairu talks the years of graft each member in Pest Control have put in, uniting metal, punk and…
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Valerie June's 10-minute rule, plantlife and working 12 hour days | 101 Part Time Jobs
Hear the full episode at https://open.spotify.com/episode/1imfPmENXqPSzYtxCXJMsm?si=bdbacddef0d04cd5 Valerie June's good natured, gutsy songwriting germinates…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderValerie June - “I learned natural healing"
Valerie June's good natured, gutsy songwriting germinates from her experiences in plantcare and community. Between selling CDs out of her car to working with a…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderSuperheaven - "I'm not a job person"
Thanks to the internet, Superheaven are having a second wind. Calling time out after spending their twenties slogging it out, they're back after a decade away…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderM(h)aol - “I agreed to be in the band out of politeness"
M(h)aol are a band you should know. Meeting as all bands should (a chance encounter at a record store), the Dublin started, continentally based group are…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderMei Semones - "Never thought I'd be changing diapers"
For a shorter pre-gig chat with Mei Semones, we hear about her job at a pre-school, the high ceiling of gifted musicians and how artists shouldn't be…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderMatt Baty (Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs) - "Does it make you feel good? Yes, well f*cking do it."
Last week, before their mammoth UK tour, we were joined by Matt Baty of Pigs x7 on the years that have gone into the band, the good feeling of making something…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderScowl - "Everything that's beautiful is painful"
Scowl's Kat Moss on challenging everything around you, her survival instinct and the necessary pain of moving through experiences. Their new album Are We All…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderMary Wallopers - "It's so unbearable to live, you might as well do what you want"
Before their weekend residency at the legendary Brixton theatre, Charles and Andrew Hendy of The Mary Wallopers talk the job centre, songwriting, selling cars…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderSnapped Ankles - "Foraging for rent money"
Austin from wood creatures Snapped Ankles joins today on how he pays rent in twigs, taking their warehouse party art project around continent, and being a…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderJim James (My Morning Jacket) - "It's been a lot of therapy"
Even as a teenager, Jim James knew music was number one. Here he is on learning to love himself through all the strange emotions that being in a perpetually…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderBob Mould - "They put me in a room with Hulk Hogan"
Battle axe songwriter Bob Mould comes on today, with stories from working in pro wrestling, how the chords might not have changed but the feelings have…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderAllan Mustafa (MC Grindah, Kurupt FM) - "The stuff I’d go through to not work, I might as well have just worked"
The wayward teen turned co-creator of one of the greatest comedy series on TV, Allan Mustafa walks us from Brentford to Hollywood (/ the BBC and other major…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderYouth Lagoon - "Are you gonna learn from the scratches or ignore them?"
On music, money, baseball and intrusive thoughts, it's a deep chat with Trevor Powers aka Youth Lagoon. Rarely Do I Dream is an impeccable record, I implore…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderHamilton Leithauser - "I interned at Inner Ear Studios while Fugazi recorded"
When Hamilton Leithauser played in London a few weeks ago, I thought: "This guy has a story about everything." Turns out he tells stories about his songs every…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderAlabaster DePlume at Total Refreshment Centre
At his east London base Total Refreshment Centre, Alabaster DePlume discusses his philosopy on what it means to be his own artist, the power of individual and…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderHotWax at the Goat Ledge
At their family-rooted cafe on Hastings seafront, the no-bullshit, blistering Pixies/Hole-inspired HotWax take us through their nonstop touring schedule…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderThe Last Dinner Party's Georgia Davies - "To save music is to value it"
Best New Artist at the BRITs, The Last Dinner Party's five members each have their own musical histories. Georgia Davies, who gave their acceptance speech on…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderDivorce - "Pint of numbers and pack'o dusted nuts"
The masterpiece of Divorce's debut album is out this Friday. Here with the stories behind Drive to Goldenhammer, all four members join us with tales from…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderAntony Szmierek - Making your own meaning
Former English teacher Antony Szmierek joins us on settling into life as a full-time artist, his top-bins volley in Angie's Wedding video, Central Cee being…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderMatilda Mann - The smash of a wine rack
Matilda Mann joins today on the costs of touring, the fortuitous fate of not going to university and the wine rack crash that she had nothing to do with. Her…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderCraig Finn & Franz Nicolay (The Hold Steady) - "I have a bad feeling I'm going to end up in that hole"
Craig Finn AND Franz Nicolay join us ahead of their London Weekender, on their resonable community, taking The War On Drugs on their first tour and making…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderStop & Chat: Mandrake Handshake
Trinity and Row step in from the world of psychology and rapper reviews for this special episode of Stop & Chat. Their excellent debut album Earth-Sized Worlds…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderAFRODEUTSCHE - Recurring Berghain DJ nightmare
Henrietta Smith-Rolla tells Giles about being a housekeeper for a Man City player, perfecting her Aussie accent at the call centre, how her autism shapes the…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderMae Martin on their debut album, Taskmaster and the Serbian trip from hell
Comedian, actor and now songwriter Mae Martin joins today, on drawing animals in strange situations, eating mystery noodles and sleeping outside as a teenager…
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Biig Piig on poker dealing, Soundcloud and late nights
Hear the full episode at https://pod.link/101parttimejobs/ Biig Piig's debut album 11:11 is out now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderRichard Dawson - Working with a cast of League of Gentlemen characters
The day before his new album End of the Middle, esteemed songwriter Richard Dawson takes us through the different paint layers of his parents' cars, affordable…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderBad Nerves - "Someone rang up Steve Lamacq 40 times"
A brief, silly chat with one of the most ripping bands around. Bad Nerves' Bobby and Jon discuss white underwear, skateboarding, Chelmsford van hire and…
101 Part Time Jobs with Giles BidderGreg Freeman - "They'll throw you in jail for anything"
Greg Freeman's debut I Looked Away is on repeat. Now re-issued by Transgressive with a new one on the way, Greg joined us in a laundrette before he played at…