101 Part Time Jobs with Giles Bidder

Inspired by nightlife, clubbing and open-minded venues like Cafe OTO and Venue MOT in London, Arlo Parks' new album Ambiguous Desire is reassuringly soothing. Downstairs at the Miller, Arlo tells us about the real-life voicenotes featured on the album, being a full-time musician since 17 and the the authors who changed the way she thinks. Ambiguous Desire is out on Friday. Get in touch [email protected] Assistant produced by Grace King. Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 Set up Your Band's merch store, for free at Distrokid Direct: https://distrokid.com/direct/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From Jobstown in Dublin, Curtisy joins us on working onsite with his older brother, doughnuts with his mum, how Mac Miller is one of his biggest inpos and coming out of a dry writing period. Get A Life! is Curtisy and owin's new record, out now. Get in touch [email protected] Assistant produced by Grace King. Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 Set up Your Band's merch store, for free at Distrokid Direct: https://distrokid.com/direct/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Currently trying not to crack up in Last One Laughing, Maisie Adam discusses her punk mum, loving Lambrini Girls and Amyl and The Sniffers, the gritty open mic circuit, online comedy and women's football. Watch Maisie live on tour from September - get tickets to her gigantic tour at maisieadam.com Get in touch [email protected] Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 Set up Your Band's merch store, for free at Distrokid Direct: https://distrokid.com/direct/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jordan Benjamin is passionate about what his music can do for people. From a family of political campaigners, he's been co-signed by Billy Bragg, written with Tom Morello and is about to tour with Enter Shikari in Australia. His latest album INERTIA, which he's been touring with a full band, is out now. Get in touch [email protected] Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 Set up Your Band's merch store, for free at Distrokid Direct: https://distrokid.com/direct/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chloe and Annabel join to talk us through their ridiculous jobs, Elton John, Warpaint, being a band since they were 17 and the homemade production on their excellent new album Maybe Not Tonight - out soon on So Young Records. Get in touch [email protected] Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 Set up Your Band's merch store, for free at Distrokid Direct: https://distrokid.com/direct/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Courtney Barnett has written approximately a dozen of the best 100 songs of the last decade. Ahead of her new record Creature of Habit, she talks about her old bar job, Milk! Records, working at McDonalds and finding the perfect melody. Get in touch [email protected] Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 Set up Your Band's merch store, for free at Distrokid Direct: https://distrokid.com/direct/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pool Kids are in their tenth year of pushing boundaries sonically and physically while they tour all over the world. Their excellent third abum Easier Said Than Done came out last year and today they bring stories of substiute teaching, ejecting from bars and texting memes to an old boss. Get in touch [email protected] Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 Set up Your Band's merch store, for free at Distrokid Direct: https://distrokid.com/direct/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 Beta Band are playing shows in 2026. Order The Romance of Unknowing - https://two-piers.bandcamp.com/album/steve-mason-presents-the-romance-of-unknowing Get in touch [email protected] Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 Set up Your Band's merch store, for free at Distrokid Direct: https://distrokid.com/direct/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 prolific vocalists, songwriters and producers in R&B and soul. He opens up on the financial realities of artists, how AI is able to copy the tone of his voice (something you can't copyright), and learning it all first hand. His new EP 'Between Us' is available to pre-order now, coming out in late April. Get in touch [email protected] Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 Set up Your Band's merch store, for free at Distrokid Direct: https://distrokid.com/direct/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 successful) comedy career. Her new show Fat Tom Cruise is on sale. Get in touch [email protected] Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 Set up Your Band's merch store, for free at Distrokid Direct: https://distrokid.com/direct/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Matt Caughthran and Mariachi El / The Bronx are true lifers. A white knuckle ride through ten albums, outliving the deaths, adversities and adventure that comes with being in an all-weather touring band. Mariachi El Bronx IV comes out this Friday. Get in touch [email protected] Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 Set up Your Band's merch store, for free at Distrokid Direct: https://distrokid.com/direct/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 Records and magazine, and solving the backpack litre conundrum. Masquerade is out 13 February. Get in touch [email protected] Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 Set up Your Band's merch store, for free at Distrokid Direct: https://distrokid.com/direct/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 family band. Get in touch [email protected] Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 Set up Your Band's merch store, for free at Distrokid Direct: https://distrokid.com/direct/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 the right place - maybe even some Built To Spill in there. You should get into it ahead of their new album, Carnival - out 27 Feb. Here's Dan and Izzy on giving the thing wheels. Get in touch [email protected] Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 Set up Your Band's merch store, for free at Distrokid Direct: https://distrokid.com/direct/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 Dads Club was soon dreamed up, and after a few more years he became a touring member of Fontaines D.C., became a dad, and released an excellent psychedelic rock 'n' roll album - out now on Ficton. Get in touch [email protected] Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 Set up Your Band's merch store, for free at Distrokid Direct: https://distrokid.com/direct/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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, and the determination and resilience that it requires to keep moving. Their ace second album FEVEREATEN is out now. Get in touch [email protected] Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 Set up Your Band's merch store, for free at Distrokid Direct: https://distrokid.com/direct/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices