101 Part Time Jobs with Giles Bidder

Alicia Bognanno talks about being burning the work candle, producing records and how she navigates her identity as Bully. SUGAREGG is out 21 August (this Friday) on Sub Pop 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' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jason Lubrano of Iron Chic weighs in on the start of Iron Chic, the pressures of touring vs. work at home, and how aspects of those have changed. Plus his illustration work at Righteous Indignation You Can't Stay Here is out now on Sideone Dummy Records 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: Aidan Thatcher 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

Shawna brings one of the best side-hustles ever heard on 101 Part Time Jobs; dancing for Spinal Tap ACOUSTIC . She tells me what it was like getting notoriety in her high school band, moving to Baltimore to join a new band, and how War On Women navigate themselves. Plus some great stuff on her book Making Spaces Safer. 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: Chris Sikich War On Women 'Capture The Flag' is out now on Bridge 9 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jamie joins me to talk about their experiences as a sales shark, going to (and dropping out from) the wrong university and incel in punk rock lyrics. Plus a fantastic story of getting sacked. 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

AJJ founders Sean Bonnette and Ben Gallaty join me for a triple-voiced episode! These two are just lovely human beings. They tell me about their early days of touring, working together at coffee and ice cream shops, and cleaning toilets whilst listening to mixes of their 2014 record Christmas Island. Their new record Good Luck Everybody is out now! Photo: Joe Stakun Songs: AJJ - 'Loudmouth', 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

Katie Malco joins me to talk about coming to terms with her identity as an artist, vulnerability in making records and the conflicts that find you in your artistic journey. Want to sponsor this podcast? Email [email protected] Songs: Katie Malco 'Fractures', Cock Sparrer 'Working' Photo: Sam Manville 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

Jimmy and I go deeper than I bargained for. He tells me the whole story of Higher Power (including how he never meant to be singer), getting excited by different kinds of music and hard work paying off. Higher Power's new album 27 Miles Underwater is out now. Want to sponsor this podcast? Get in touch: [email protected] Photo: Nat Wood Songs: Higher Power 'Low Season', 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

Boston Manor frontperson Henry Cox takes me through the jobs he had growing up in Blackpool, reveals his child acting secret and talks about directing the band's latest videos - including how the video for 'On A High Ledge' is based on an event he witnessed. He then tells me what the band are up to in quarantine and their plans for future live streams. Want to sponsor this podcast? Get in touch: [email protected] Photo: Edd Taylor Songs featured: Boston Manor 'Ratking' & 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

Squid cello/keys player Arthur Leadbetter is a harpsichord tuner and former cello teacher. He tells me about the last couple of years and committing to the attention the band is getting, plus his one job at the Tate as a performative artist. Want to sponsor this podcast? Get in touch: [email protected] Photo: Machine Operated 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

Jon & Liz from New Zealand powerpop rockers The Beths join me from across three continents! They talk teaching instruments in school, navigating band life in an isolated country and bumping into Thom Yorke at London's U.S. Embassy. Want to sponsor this podcast? Get in touch: [email protected] Photo: Mason Fairey 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

Singer and guitarist in The Magic Gang, Jack recalls the years he worked in a call centre concurrently to the band. He tells me the conversation he had at that job which inspired 'Tuning In', and how a recent role at a florist has given him grounding in routine. Want to sponsor this podcast? Get in touch: [email protected] Tracks: The Magic Gang - Believe In Yourself (The Arthur Theme Song) Cock Sparrer - Working Photo: Dan Kendall 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

Jock Norton, singer and guitarist in Bill & Ted-inspired metal band Puppy, talks to me about bar work, keeping humour in the heaviness and his most unbearable part time jobs. Want to sponsor this podcast? Get in touch: [email protected] Photo: Sean Black 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

Will reveals all: working in a grocery store (and getting held up in a robbery), Domino's Pizza & HMV. Plus an exclusive insight into the band's new album Sex, Death & The Infinite Void. Want to sponsor this podcast? Get in touch: [email protected] Photo: Zain Zia 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

Before life in the road-hardy Boston Manor, Michael was a biomedical scientist. We delve into how life in a van took that over, his love for Taco Bell, being in a band with his brother (this ep's photo eye) and way more awesome shit I didn't know about. BM are on the front cover of KERRANG! this week! Get in, Michael. Boston Manor's new album Glue is out 1 May and it rips. Photo: Daniel Cunniff 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

Brooke's new album Everyday Nothing is out now and it's a wonderfully chilled out indie rock experience. We talk about her early years doing musical theatre before moving to London to do music at university. We touch on social media woes and her current jobs at a shoe shop and in customer service. Pick up Everyday Nothing at Rough Trade or your local independent record store, and stream it everywhere online. Photo by Lauren Maccabee 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

The most performative UK ska-punk band ever, Lightyear are a band from Derby who started in the late 1990s. Chas takes us through all the big moments, starting from being a bullied kid who'd just moved to a new town; booking tours without having any music; to facing growing up during tough periods of more dense touring. P.S. I was trying to keep it PC for the young ones, so tried putting in curse bubbles. Sorry if that gets annoying. Thanks for listening! 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

Ben Ayres is half of legendary Anglo-Indian band Cornershop and works as a press officer for Rough Trade Records. In this episode he tells me about the band's beginnings, working in a vinyl pressing factory and how he sees the future of music PR. Cornershop's new album 'England Is A Garden' is out now; it's fantastic and I implore you to check it out. Photo: Joe Dilworth 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

Releasing his new album Back To The Party on 27 March, Sam Russo is one of the smartest, most talented people I’ve ever met. An enigma of poetry, punk and unabashed storytelling, he talks to me about his jobs as a window smasher & school teacher, growing up in the tiny town of Haverhill, and releasing records on Red Scare Industries. Plus a lot more. Thanks for listening! Cheers. Photo: Julian Harding 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

On the eve of their new record Altogether, I spoke to the Virginia Beach band about the jobs they would juggle between tours. We talked Starbucks (and now being on their playlist), California farming and future university plans. 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

Graphic designer Lucinda Livingstone - frontperson in Cultdreams - tells me about their beginnings on the tennis court before the Apple store as a genius. After being accepted for a job at Sony, they worked on campaigns for Beyonce and Robbie Williams. All before making a jump to go freelance - for which she offers some solid advice. Find her work at instagram.com/bloodflowerdesign / bloodflower.bigcartel.com Photo by Ginger Dope 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

Ecologist Phoebe Cross - aka drummer in Happy Accidents and Cheerbleederz - offers an insight into her full-time job, including the rehoming of great crested newts. She talks about her nightmare first day working at a garden centre and what she would do if she could do any job she wanted. 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

Ogikubo Station are a folky pop-punk band from California. Starting bands in high school, working at Urban Outfitters and being a hairdresser. Megan and Maura tell all. Zip up and get in. Photo: Dean Unsworth 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

David Leutert is an illustrator in Brooklyn, New York. From Nuremberg, Germany, he began designing friends’ bands t-shirts before studying art and eventually becoming a full-time digital illustrator. He talks about his first job filling tankards at one of Nuremberg’s hundreds of beer distributors, and being an angsty teenager working at the Playmobil theme park. Plus the mobile-digitalisation of graphic design and not being able to look at your previous work. Signature Brew is the official beer of 101 Part Time Jobs 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

I spoke to Keith from The Office about his IRL DJ career, how filming the first series didn't feel like anything special, and telesales jobs alongside starting out as an actor. Signature Brew is the official beer of 101 Part Time Jobs 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

I spoke to Joey about their home-schooled and child-acting upbringing, up until going to university in London and forming itoldyouiwouldeatyou. Signature Brew is the official beer of 101 Part Time Jobs 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

I spoke to Sally Brown while she was in London on tour with German band GURR. She talks us through learning an instrument at an early age, and the projects and jobs that were to come. Photo: Anna-Lena Weusmann Signature Brew is the official beer of 101 Part Time Jobs 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

I speak to Nicola from the band Doe about her jobs former-to and in-tandem-with leading a sick, loud as fuck postpunk trio. Photo - Chiara Gambuto Signature Brew is the official beer of 101 Part Time Jobs 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

I speak to Dimash Kudaibergen about his life within and outside of music. He was in London for a performance at the 'DQ' show, where he played at The O2 Arena. 'The unique “DQ” show is part of the Kazakh Culture Days in the UK. The organiser is the Ministry of Culture and Sports of the Republic of Kazakhstan supported by the Embassy of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.' 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

Tom May walks us through his early career opportunities as a Domino's delivery driver in Scranton, Pennsylvania, to slowly making the transition to playing music full-time with The Menzingers in Philadelphia. Signature Brew is the official beer of 101 Part Time Jobs. 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

I speak to Frances Quinlan before Hop Along's show at the Hammersmith Apollo (supporting The Decemberists). She talks us through dog walking, cleaning university dorms during summer and Johnny Brenda's in Philadelphia - where she still picks up shifts. Signature Brew is the official beer of 101 Part Time Jobs. If you own this photo, please let me know - [email protected]. I haven't printed or distributed it anywhere but here. Thanks. 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

Maximo Park's Paul Smith joins me to discuss his former life on the dole and as an art supply teacher. What a legend. Their latest album 'Risk To Exist' is out now - go listen to it. Signature Brew is the official beer of 101 Part Time Jobs. 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

Part deux of my chat with Alex Wonk Unit - featuring debacles of under the counter record sales and generally fucking shit up in Soho and Central London. Enjoy! Photo: Man Alive! 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

Comedian Lauren Pattison meets me at The Miller in London Bridge (her first ever London venue) to talk everything before she went full-time. Waitressing, Boots and working at a nightclub - before getting sacked - are all involved. Signature Brew is the official beer of 101 Part Time Jobs 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

I go to Alex Wonk's house in Croydon to discuss what happened after the demise of his former band, The Flying Medallions. Building, plastering, divine intervention... it's all here! Signature Brew is the official beer of 101 Part Time Jobs 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

Ben, Harris and Frank from Blaenavon step into my office to talk about the jobs they have - or haven't - worked before their band became their job. Signature Brew is the official beer of 101 Part Time Jobs 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

Jen Long comes to sit down with us to discuss what she got up to before joining Radio 1 and BBC Three as a presenter.Signature Brew is the official beer of 101 Part Time Jobs. 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

Dane Baptiste, of his very own Netflix special, 8 Out of 10 Cats, Mock The Week, Live at The Apollo and even more gets the 101 Part Time Jobs treatment. Nice one Dane! Signature Brew is the official beer of 101 Part Time Jobs. 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

Josh Waters Rudge (The Skints) by Giles Bidder 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