101 Part Time Jobs with Giles Bidder

Part of Fender Next class of 2023, Ruti joins me about life after winning The Voice 2018. Stream her new track 'Luh Luh Love' - out now. Wanna head to 2000 Trees Festival in July? Use '101POD' at checkout for £20 off, FREE MONEY: https://www.twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk/ Songs: Ruti 'Luh Luh Love', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Liquid Mike ‘God Bless The World’, Radiator Hospital ‘Yr Head’, Big Break ‘Cancelled Again’, SUEP ‘Domesticated Dream’, Holiday Ghosts ‘Again and Again’, Cloth ‘Pigeon’ Follow & listen for full songs: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4Z2WbWh9WNDZjudSFWHFnw?si=09055238d0ef4d9a Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Civic's new album Taken By Force is quality and I'm excited to have Jim McCullough talking about being an undertaker, a deliver driver and reminding yourself to have gratitude on today's episode. Wanna head to 2000 Trees Festival in July? Use '101POD' at checkout for £20 off, FREE MONEY: https://www.twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk/ Songs: Civic 'Fly Song', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Angus Rogers of Opus Kink joins today, talking books, technicolour style, his improv group & more! Their new EP 'My Eyes, Brother!' is out 19 May on Nice Swan Records Photo: Anya Rose Wanna head to 2000 Trees Festival in July? Use '101POD' at checkout for £20 off, FREE MONEY: https://www.twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk/ Songs: Opus Kink '1 : 18', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4Z2WbWh9WNDZjudSFWHFnw?si=11a9a42954ab47a4 Superviolet ‘Locket’ Sam Akpro ‘Trace’ Billie Marten ‘God Above’ Angel Olsen ‘Forever Means’ Bonny Doon ‘Let There Be Music’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Arthur and Joe join me around their new track 'Cloudy', talking Scunthorpe, not doing final year exams after being in a band for 3 months, technician art school, being a six piece, badly paid internships, feeling like mr ben, doing remot jobs when on tour, a humiliating experience being a band for a Zara photoshoot, charing £1000 for insurance, beef packing factory & more. Photo: James Ogram Wanna head to 2000 Trees Festival in July? Use '101POD' at checkout for £20 off, FREE MONEY: https://www.twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk/ Songs: Blue Bendy 'Cloudy', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mercedes and Phoenix Arn-Horn join today, the week after releasing See You In The Dark. Here they discuss doubting times, imposter syndrome, working side jobs in music, finding their sound and vision for Softcult, balanced life, working in their parents cafe & more! Photo: Pearl Cook Wanna head to 2000 Trees Festival in July? Use '101POD' at checkout for £20 off, FREE MONEY: https://www.twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk/ Songs: Softcult 'Someone2Me', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Shirley Collins 'High and Away', Greg Mendez 'Maria', SUDS 'Notice Me', Opus Kink '1:18', Bad Optix 'Raid', Scowl 'Psychic Dance Routine' Hop on the playlist gravy train: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4Z2WbWh9WNDZjudSFWHFnw?si=c97830f9bb044c61 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Benny Sings joins today, a week in on Young Hearts. He talks wanting to study psychology, philosophy, first demo/album, BEA1991, rejections, trends, a bad tiny desk first session, staying home, making records, the office floor & more. Head to 2000 Trees Festival this July. Use '101POD' at checkout for £20 off, FREE MONEY: https://www.twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk/ Tracks: Benny Sings 'Young Hearts', Cocksparrer 'Working' Photo: Robb Klassen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bangers are reformed! Here's singer/guitarist Roo Pescod on lowballing ambitions, Cornwall, friends around the country, developing games, board games, D&D, theatre of the mind storytelling, turning down backing Dan Andriano, working at a library, still having a desire to tour while working full time, principles from growing up, Falmouth punk shows, shutting down Tesco warehouse on Christmas, breaking sheds, finding dog poo bins, Dartmoor ice cream turf wars & lots more! Head to 2000 Trees Festival this July. Use '101POD' at checkout for £20 off, FREE MONEY: https://www.twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk/ Tracks: Bangers 'Too Many Dark Knights', Cocksparrer 'Working' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Plus Ultra, their debut album, is out 14 April. It's good stuff. Here's Charlie and Jake talking about how they were going to release it themselves before EMI, recording into 5 watt amps, how British culture isn’t set up for musicians, their dip moment, Charlie's leccy job, Future Islands, the mental battle, a balloon sore spot & more. Head to 2000 Trees Festival this July. Use '101POD' at checkout for £20 off, FREE MONEY: https://www.twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Some tunes for today's Playlist: Wednesday 'TV in the Gas Pump', Halo Maud 'Catch The Wave', Dave Okumu ‘Amnesia’, CIVIC 'Fly Song'. Eades 'Reno Pt. 2', Kitty Fitz 'Malibu' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Her new crime thriller family novel Coming To Find You is available to pre-order NOW... it's my mum! For the 200th episode I wanted to do something special, so interviewing the person who's been waking up before sunrise and writing novels during my school plays has a good feeling about it. Here's Jane talking about reading a lot when she was younger, writing 12 unpublished novels before her first published novel, manuscript rejections, working at a high security prison, being 49 when her first novel was published, being 60 getting her first best seller, her self imposed apprenticeship & more!! Jane Corry's new book Coming To Find You is out in June on Penguin / Random House Head to 2000 Trees Festival this July. Use '101POD' at checkout for £20 off, FREE MONEY: https://www.twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One of the greatest punk rock bands ever, the Bouncing Souls have a new album out TODAY. It's called Ten Stories High, written about fans' lives they were told through their Patreon. Big heart energy. Here's Greg Attonito talking about their punk house, BYO’s impact on the Bouncing Souls, touring in the UK with Green Day, moving to California, getting into ruts and how that’s really experiencing life, their patreon inspired new album, will yip, kids music with mike asian man, Play Date, working at mosquito control in New Jersey & more. Head to 2000 Trees Festival this July. Use '101POD' at checkout for £20 off, FREE MONEY: https://www.twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk/ Songs: the Bouncing Souls 'Shannon's Song', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

THE PLAYLIST Follow on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4Z2WbWh9WNDZjudSFWHFnw?si=152ed313c2784769 The Playlist - mini episodes about new releases I'm listening to, a mini reviews SLASH weekly music highlights. Featured: Island of Love 'Fed Rock', Dazy 'Always In Between', Trust Fund & Ex-Vöid ‘animals in war’, Feist 'Borrow Trouble', BC Camplight 'She's Gone Cold', Bully 'Days Move Slow', Lankum 'Newcastle' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kingsley of BENEFITS joins me before their new album NAILS comes out 21 April - touching on the lack of infrastructure of the North East, Sleaford Mods, famous fans on Twitter, being actually quite shy and nervous, sweating from one armpit, being the number one in call centres for Barclaycard for giving back late payment fees, making plastic charms, being a bin man, art security. seeing areas of crippling poverty & some more. Use '101POD' at checkout for £20 off, FREE MONEY: https://www.twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk/ Songs: BENEFITS 'Warhorse', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Tubs are one of many excellent bands Owen's in - here right now he talks about writing, balancing chaos and The Tubs' new album Dead Meat. Photo: Maria Cecilia Tedemalm Use '101POD' at checkout for £20 off, FREE MONEY: https://www.twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk/ Songs: The Tubs 'Two Person Love', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Roves' 'Needle Factory' is a perfectly crafted record - hear they are talking about feeling outside of 'cool' London bands, being introverted, working on the reception desk of a sexual health clinic, being an albums band, aesthetics & more Head to 2000 Trees Festival this July. Use '101POD' at checkout for £20 off, FREE MONEY: https://www.twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk/ Songs: The Roves 'I Am The Flood', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Milk For Flowers is H. Hawkline's excellent new album - on this episode (recorded in 2021) he talks designing while touring, fixing lawn mowers, painting and decorating, living in the states playing on Cate Le Bon tracks, doing Teenage Fanclub’s ‘Endless Arcade’ artwork, crying at other people's artwork, puking in a tractor wheen at the Royal Welsh show & lots more. Head to 2000 Trees Festival this July. Use '101POD' at checkout for £20 off, FREE MONEY: https://www.twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk/ Songs: H. Hawkline 'Milk For Flowers', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join Benjamin Woods, the driving force behind the Golden Dregs, on today's episode - on having a difficult time making 'On Grace & Diginity', signing to 4AD on his 30th birthday, hard songs to sing, audio editing for The Crown, playing catch up in album cycles, touring in Anna Burch’s band, working on a building site, wearing trillbys, & more! Head to 2000 Trees Festival this July. Use '101POD' at checkout for £20 off, FREE MONEY: https://www.twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk/ Songs: the Golden Dregs 'Vista', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Their new album UK GRIM is out this Friday - here's Jason talking about getting a thicker skin, the competitive nature of bands, his childhood, listening to 80s music, when Stewart Lee came to a gig, curious sartorial decisions + lots more. Photo: Ewen Spencer Download AMPOLLO - the FREE app that lets you practice at home with any song, using its AI stem-removing super smart tech: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1659856412?pt=125376217&ct=Giles&mt=8 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Maori native Jen Cloher joins us today- talking self managing, Milk! Records, transparency, Bjork and PJ Harvey, the collective music organisation, The Wurundjeri people, stolen land, lost language, Māori the indigenous people of New Zealand, the desire to learn, going to NIDA acting school, putting out firest album at 32, performing in london with Ngāti Rānana + more! 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: Jen Cloher 'Being Human', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Steve Mason's fifth solo album Brothers & Sisters is out this Fridat - here is on accepting to be an artist you’re going to be skint, loving the art, having a family, being a car mechanic, meeting artists, clubbing in london & the value of mistakes. 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: Steve Mason 'The People Say', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tomorrow HR release their best album (and first in 16 years) Glorious Sunset - here catch Colin Doran talking about dedicating the time for band, driving all night for Rival Schools, skateboarding, teaching music industry, working at an accounts deptment, the deeply dug lyrics on Glorious Sunset and more. 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: Hundred Reasons 'The Old School Way', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Haley Shea aka Sløtface tells me about growing up in Norway, wanting to go to medical school, working for gender balance music organisation AKKS, reshuffling as a solo / collective band, loving The Wombats and more. 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: Sløtface 'Nose', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Julien and Max from the wonderful Chicago group join today - talking about their studio house, Chicago’s music scene battle against corporations, service jobs, cooking, living an adult life, sleeping on Brudenell Social Club's floor, losing toenails + lots more. 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: Whitney 'For A While', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A serially sacked cafe worker, Naima Bock tells me about living at Sanford Housing Co-Op, writing in her car, reading Roberto Bolaño, being invited into folk collective Broadside Hacks, being sacked for talking smack on her boss, pleasure in gardening old folks' homes, being an extra in Fantastic Beasts & more. 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: Naima Bock 'Lines', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Making Circles of Our Own is New Pagans' new album out this Friday - here's singer Lyndsey talking about studying a PHD in embroidery, having two children, dyslexia, Derek Jarman’s Garden + more. Get 20% OFF @manscaped + Free Shipping with promo code EARWAX at MANSCAPED.com! #ad #manscapedpod 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: New Pagans 'There We Are John', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Their tenth album Breaking The Balls of History is out this Friday - and on today's episode, Sam and Janet talk 30 years of hustling, Portland and the cost of living, artistic credibility against working with corporations, protecting music and value of music and more. Get 20% OFF @manscaped + Free Shipping with promo code EARWAX at MANSCAPED.com! #ad #manscapedpod 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: Quasi 'Queen of Ears', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

DiS has returned! The legendary online publication's podcast and label is back, so here's Sean to tell us about the road since '98. Listen here for stories including but not limited to: teaching his school librarians how to use the internet, meeting Matt Bellamy on AOL, wanting to create a gang with DiS, press trips, finding out Bjork read his site, managing The Anchoress, music consultancy (and what that means) + Twitter handbags with Danny Baker. Get 20% OFF @manscaped + Free Shipping with promo code EARWAX at MANSCAPED.com! #ad #manscapedpod 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: The Anchoress 'Show Your Face', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The recently London relocated songwriting duo tell me about gardening, carework, parents running a theater company and independent music surviving against the odds in UK. What a great band. Divorce's EP Get Mean is out now: https://divorcehq.bandcamp.com/album/get-mean Get 20% OFF @manscaped + Free Shipping with promo code EARWAX at MANSCAPED.com! #ad #manscapedpod 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: Divorce 'Services', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John Newton of the two JOHNs tells us about setting up their own label Pets Care Records, his art background, Brechtian theory, being an accidental chef, working with the contemporary artist Ryan Gander, being The Wurzels' assistant for the day and lots more! Photo: Paul Grace JOHN's new single 'Hopper On The Dial' is out now - from their upcoming 7" out next month. Get 20% OFF @manscaped + Free Shipping with promo code EARWAX at MANSCAPED.com! #ad #manscapedpod 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: JOHN 'Hopper On The Dial', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Starting a UK tour this week, Kierst's new Thud EP is gorgeous bedroom indie folk. Here she talks to me about under 21 shows, one half of her university experience being during pandemic, having a London semester, going to shows alone, working at Brooklyn's Baby's All Right and more... Kierst 's Thud EP is out now - sadclubrecords.com Get 20% OFF @manscaped + Free Shipping with promo code EARWAX at MANSCAPED.com! #ad #manscapedpod 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: Kierst 'Thud', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On first time I've come into contact with Damian Abraham since 2008, he tells me about DIY punk accessibility, having ADHD, working at a video store, problematic films, making YouTube documentaries, having the means to pay for gear and what that means what’s being documented, class in punk, DIY shows gentrifying areas, his dedication to being a punk archivist, Fucked Up's infamous MTV performances and more!! Fucked Up's new album One Day is out 27 January on Merge Records. Get 20% OFF @manscaped + Free Shipping with promo code EARWAX at MANSCAPED.com! #ad #manscapedpod 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: Fucked Up 'One Day', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ahead of Dave Okumu & The 7 Generations' new album 'I Came From Love', he tells me about studying in Edinburgh and France, community in London, being a working musician since 16, growing in meaningful way and mining for space to progress. Get 20% OFF @manscaped + Free Shipping with promo code EARWAX at MANSCAPED.com! #ad #manscapedpod 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: Dave Okumu & The 7 Generations 'Blood Ah Go Run', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With an excellently gliding EP Stay Open, Clara Mann discusses her routine, starting to write songs 3 years ago, accessibility in music, being sensible, having a good team, Pitchfork London and getting stranded in Turin. Listen to Stay Open: https://claramann.bandcamp.com/album/stay-open Songs: Clara Mann 'Go Steady', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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

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

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

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

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

‘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

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

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

Author, podcaster, label co-owner, sports writer, sports commentator, composer and guitarist/singer Felix White joins me to talk post-band panic, Tailenders, how writing The Maccabees’ press releases turned into cricket features and book writing - and one comical gaffe from his time as a ‘chugger’. His excellent book It's Always Summer Somewhere is out now Photo: Aemen at Jiksaw 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: Felix White: The Edge (Original Score) 'The Absence of Irrelevant Thought', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Julian, Jackie and Harlan spoke with me at All Ages Records in Camden, talking psychiatric wards, fishing, postering, and holding hostages in the back of a car. Trouble the Water is out now Cheers to All Ages for the space and Matt Hughes for organising the interview. 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: Show Me The Body 'We Came To Play', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Isle of Wight emotional nerd posse Plastic Mermaids spray thoughts on TikTok, eating horse poo, directing their own music videos and a fail job interview at Halfords. 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: Plastic Mermaids 'Disposable Love', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If You Only Feel It Once, Bleach Lab's new EP is out this Friday. Here's Frank and Jenna on being a unit, being a shoegaze band, working in local government and syncing, movie soundtracks and being 'shoegaze'. Get your 4 day tickets for 2000 Trees Festival, including access to Wednesday's Forest Stage Line Up with Bob Vylan, Holding Absence and more. Use '101POD' at checkout for £20 off! https://www.twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk/ Songs: Bleach Lab 'Take It Slow', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gabrielle Aplin tells me about finding her home volunteering at a farm, making her own clothes and her new album Phosphorescent - out 13 January. Rival Schools are playing 2000 Trees Festival, headling the second stage. Get your early (cheaper) tickets at twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk Songs: Gabrielle Aplin 'Skylight', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chardine, Estella and Steph of Big Joanie join me today, ahead of their second album Back Home - out 4 November. Talking Third Man Records, DIY Space For London, touring with Courtney Barnett and lots more. Photo: Ajamu X Rival Schools are playing 2000 Trees Festival 2023. Get your early (cheaper) tickets at twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk Songs: Big Joanie 'In My Arms', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices