Jelani Blackman - Lake Garda and Greenlights

I've been very much enjoying Big Love Blanket by Personal Trainer. On today's episode, band leader Willem Smit tells me his worst moments potwashing, his Amsterdam family house, avoiding breaking the law playing too many shows as a child musician, and his future in production. Get your 4 day tickets for 2000 Trees Festival, including Wednesday's Forest Stage Line Up with Bob Vylan, Holding Absence and more. Use '101POD' at checkout for £20 off, FREE MONEY: https://www.twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk/ Songs: Personal Trainer 'The Money Department', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

30 Des 202222min

Gruff Glyn tells me about acting (including a casting in The Martian), cafe working and selling breast enlargements and solar panels at a call centre. Melin Melyn's Happy Gathering EP is out now on vinyl via Bingo Records: https://bingorecords.co.uk/ Catch them on tour next May. Get your 4 day tickets for 2000 Trees Festival, including Wednesday's Forest Stage Line Up with Bob Vylan, Holding Absence and more. Use '101POD' at checkout for £20 off, FREE MONEY: https://www.twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk/ Songs: Melin Melyn 'Jacpot', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

20 Des 202235min

Serena Cherry tells me about working at PC Gamer magazine, practicing every weekend, RPGs and Elden Ring, writing for Kerrang! - and some money saving tips. ArcTanGent have announced their mammoth 2023 line up: 68, Heilung (headlining Friday), Pupil Slicer, Tokky Horror, Birds in Row, The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die and Converge (headlining Thursday). Get your 4 day tickets for 2000 Trees Festival, including Wednesday's Forest Stage Line Up with Bob Vylan, Holding Absence and more. Use '101POD' at checkout for £20 off, FREE MONEY: https://www.twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk/ Songs: Svalbard 'What Was She Wearing?', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

14 Des 202232min

Louise Macphail and Kristin McFadden join me today; on about working at a DIY venue, teaching music, unexpected things happening and two work stories starring Will.i.am - one of them featuring Nicole Scherzinger. Their new single Butter Knife is out now. Photo: Lily Doige Get your 4 day tickets for 2000 Trees Festival, including Wednesday's Forest Stage Line Up with Bob Vylan, Holding Absence and more. Use '101POD' at checkout for £20 off, FREE MONEY: https://www.twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk/ Songs: Prima Queen 'Butter Knife', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

13 Des 202230min

DMA's guitartist Johnny talks to me about how being impressionable as a powerful thing, primal energy at shows, how the myth of needing to have pain to make great art is bullshit and music mentoring - and there's some technical stuff here for the theory heads. How Many Dreams? is out 31 March Get your 4 day tickets for 2000 Trees Festival, including Wednesday's Forest Stage Line Up with Bob Vylan, Holding Absence and more. Use '101POD' at checkout for £20 off, FREE MONEY: https://www.twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk/ Songs: DMA's 'Olympia', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

10 Des 202239min

‘I wouldn’t recommend to anyone they leave a job because of a hangover’. Aidan Moffat talks to me about tax bills, venues’ merch cuts, love for Glasgow Barrowlands, producing and demoing at home, Night Tracks on Radio 3, getting expelled, Arab Strap being birthed on the dole... Get your 4 day tickets for 2000 Trees Festival, including Wednesday's Forest Stage Line Up with Bob Vylan, Holding Absence and more. Use '101POD' at checkout for £20 off, FREE MONEY: https://www.twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk/ Songs: Nyx Nótt 'Actioner', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6 Des 202239min

The pro wresting themed Hell In A Cell EP is out now - on today's episode Kate Meizner tells me about wesigning websites, UX, helpful for people seeking public benefits, having an idea and going to grad school for it, searching for stability, resources and safety net, working at city government and being able to detach from work. Hell In A Cell: https://jobber.bandcamp.com/album/hell-in-a-cell Get your 4 day tickets for 2000 Trees Festival, including Wednesday's Forest Stage Line Up with Bob Vylan, Holding Absence and more. Use '101POD' at checkout for £20 off, FREE MONEY: https://www.twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk/ Songs: Jobber 'Hell In A Cell', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

30 Nov 202244min

Graham tells me about Liverpool growing up, doing art at Goldsmiths, being diagnosed with ADHD and making furniture. High Vis - Blending is out now. It's excellent. Get your 4 day tickets for 2000 Trees Festival, including Wednesday's Forest Stage Line Up with Bob Vylan, Holding Absence and more. Use '101POD' at checkout for £20 off, FREE MONEY: https://www.twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk/ Songs: High Vis 'Fever Dream', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

22 Nov 202223min