John Newton (JOHN)

Dylan Slocum, frontperson of Spanish Love Songs, tells me about playing first division baseball after getting a scholarship to university, life as an assistant to a Hollywood screenwriter/director, and how the band organise themselves. Spanish Love Songs' Brave Faces Everyone is out now on Pure Noise Get your beers delivered! 101 Part Time Jobs is supported by Signature Brew: listeners can get 10% off all their beers by visiting signaturebrew.co.uk and using the code '101PODCAST' Photo Credit: John Oakes. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7 Aug 202058min

101 Part Time Jobs 'A Punk Rock Summer': Chris Cresswell from Toronto vanquishers The Flatliners joins me to talk about his whole damn life. Playing together as the same line-up for 18 years, he tells me how he met his future bandmates in kindergarten, getting signed to Fat Wreck, and their years and years of touring. Plus, his work at Cut Loose Merch Supply and Last Wishes Supply. Get your beers delivered! 101 Part Time Jobs is supported by Signature Brew: listeners can get 10% off all their beers by visiting signaturebrew.co.uk and using the code '101PODCAST' Produced by Mighty Moon Media Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5 Aug 20201h 3min

Daniel P. Carter, known for his work in 'A', Hexes & the BBC Radio 1 Rock Show, joins me to dig around how he arrived to now. Growing up in Reading, his love of music and art took him to the world's biggest rock stages, and speaking to/painting his favourite artists for his own podcast Someone Who Isn't Me (SWIM). From working in an East London video shop to being called up for the Radio 1 job, find out what happened along his way. Plus the realisation 'A' were the most un-googlable band in the world. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

29 Jul 20201h 9min

Happyness drummer and co-frontperson Ash Kenazi tells me about discovering drag at End of the Road Festival, the nature of creativity and coming to peace with his identity in the band in their new line-up. Plus EXCLUSIVE insight into the deluxe version of Floatr, arriving later this year. Photo: Holly Whitaker Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

24 Jul 202043min

London purveyor of strange and exciting pop, Wesley Gonzalez tells me about his life of creating detached music. He started his old band Let's Wrestle at 15, and since had an assortment of jobs between doing music - from taking the hardest entrance test at Record and Tape Exchange (debunking record shop weirdness in the process), throwing an interview for his perfect job, and learning that music is the only true thing he can do. Pick up 'Appalling Human' here Photo: Holly Whitaker Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

15 Jul 202036min

Fee Booth, of Uxbridge trio BLOXX, joins me to talk about her time behind the bar at Wetherspoons, being band-smart and what it was like sacking in the job to do the band full-time! BLOXX's debut album Lie Out Loud is out 28 August on Chess Club Records Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

8 Jul 202026min

Harrison Swann, frontperson of Talk Show, joins me to talk about the debut album they're writing, internet cancel culture, being grateful for online fan interaction and how he was once the face of Fred Perry! Get their new EP These People from Council Records Photo: Matt Wilder Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2 Jul 202027min

Matt Sharp from The Rentals (and formerly Weezer) joins me to talk about growing up listening to The Kinks and Pixies, the haphazard way he joined Weezer, taking criticism in a positive way, and his lifer-attitude to being a writer. The Rentals' new album Q36 is out 7 July! Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

24 Jun 20201h 3min