101 Part Time Jobs with Giles Bidder

Benke from Viagra Boys talks to me about working as tattoo shop, working as a carpenter now, having a big moment at All Points East festival, how they've made their third album in lockdown, keeping humour in their music, sobriety & lots more Photo: Marcus Wilen 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' Songs: Viagra Boys (ft. Amy Taylor) 'In Spite Of Ourselves', Cock Sparrer 'Working' 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

22 Dec 202034min

Chilly Gonzales joins me ahead of A Very Chilly Christmas Special (screening this Wednesday 23 December). Here he is telling us stories including (but not limited to): an early job playing piano at a lingerie shop, getting signed to Warner Brothers Canada early on, Canada's education system and McGill Universty of Montreal, the book he wrote about Enya, his self-funded Gonzervatory music school, his artist independence, the differences between creatives cultures in Berlin and Paris, harmony; tension and resolution in culture, a story about visiting Brian Eno in London, his musical family with Jarvis Cocker and Leslie Feist, Boys Noize, Igor Levit and A Very Chilly Christmas Special. Order your tickets for A Very Chilly Christmas Special here 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' Songs: Chilly Gonzales 'Silent Night', Cock Sparrer 'Working' 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

20 Dec 202045min

Duncan Lloyd of Maxïmo Park joins me as the momentum for their new album Nature Always Wins (26 Feb) builds. He tells me about: painting, always needing to make things, discovering new music, recording parts of Nature Always Wins from home, early Maxïmo Park days, putting out their first 7" and taking it into Rough Trade, it becoming Single of the Week in Rough Trade and getting interest from major labels, record diving together, looking back at early days of the band, doing their own thing, charity street fundraising, working with kids with autism, creating outside of Maxïmo Park, the line-up change, diving into the unknown with the new album and Nano Kino Pre-order Nature Always Wins here 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' Songs: Maxïmo Park 'I Don't Know What I'm Doing', Cock Sparrer 'Working' 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

17 Dec 20201h 10min

Tim Burgess of The Charlatans, books and Tim's Twitter Listening Party joins to me discuss: his recent EP Ascent Of The Ascended, Gorilla TV, early days of The Charlatans, their work ethic, his moving to LA, starting O Genesis Recordings and how it revigorated him him, managing himself, meeting Heavenly Recordings and working with The Chemical Brothers, being in New York when lockdown hit, plans of boxsets for The Charlatans' 30th Anniversary, flying a Micro Light in The Ascent Of The Ascended's video (directed by Tim Pope), his Soho Radio vinyl session Order Ascent Of The Ascended EP (Bella Union) here Find Tim's Twitter Listening Party here Watch Gorilla TV here 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' Songs: Tim Burgess 'The Ascent Of The Ascended', Cock Sparrer 'Working' 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

16 Dec 202046min

Amos Pitsch of Tenement, Dusk and his own solo music talks to me from Crutch of Memory about: teaching himself how to engineer, getting into recording, writing Predatory Headlights, a story about going to The Fest to watch Ted Leo, drumming on his first long tour , starting Tenement, living in an isolated town in Wisconsin, finding the house where they set up Crutch of Memory, how to make living out of art, drumming for The Nerves in 2012, Motown and Stax Find out more on Crutch of Memory here 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' Songs: R Boyd 'Shoot The Moon', Cock Sparrer 'Working' 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 Dec 202054min

Dani from Bury Tomorrow joins me to talk about working in the NHS and it being part of his family trade, having dual career of that and the band, their similarities, living to be with other people in the same mindset, helping others his main focus, creating individuality, his background, the primary importance of their fans, politics in music and how they work with people, label, media and managers. Bury Tomorrow's 2020 album Cannibal is out now - order it here 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' Songs: Bury Tomorrow 'Choke', Cock Sparrer 'Working' 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

11 Dec 202048min

Loz Taylor from While She Sleeps on 101 Pod: he talks all about Sleeps Society, taking their business into their own hands, forging a new channel of communication between them and their fans, early bands, the story of how they all quit their jobs to focus on Sleeps, their van and The Chamber of Secrets, literally building their warehouse HQ, growing up just wanting to skate and sing in bands, not being shy of working hard, working with children with autism, having brand new outlook going alone and the nuts and bolts of their every days Pre-order Sleeps Society here Episode edited by Keiran Manetta-Jones 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' Songs: While She Sleeps 'SLEEPS SOCIETY', Cock Sparrer 'Working' 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 Dec 202044min

Oz joins me to talk about getting signed at the age of 17, that going pear-shaped and going back to work at Urban Outfitters, almost giving up music before getting a call to fly to LA for a meeting, and how that put her on the writing path she's on now - as well as making her own music as Oz. Listen to her Jupiter EP here Episode edited by Sophie Porter 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' Songs: Oz 'Money', Cock Sparrer 'Working' 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

3 Dec 202054min