101 Part Time Jobs with Giles Bidder

101 Part Time Jobs with Giles Bidder

101 Part Time Jobs is the interviews podcast that unearths the graft and resilience of artists in an uncertain time for music. Get AD FREE episodes: www.patreon.com/101parttimejobs Giles Bidder interviews guests about the gumption and work ethic that drives them to create, defying the odds of an ever-changing industry to ensure that the show can go on. Guests have included IDLES, KNEECAP, Blossoms, Denzel Curry, Self Esteem, Tim Heidecker, The Last Dinner Party, Lauren Mayberry, Crowded House, English Teacher & many more.

Episodes

October 21, 2025 59 mins
At hip east London brewery Signature Brew, Nish joined us on nepo babies, late stage capitalism, crying in toilets and how a company he worked for could have made COVID-19 a whole lot easier if it hadn't been shut down. Plus mentions of TV on the Radio, Broken Bells (The Shins' James Mercer and Danger Mouse), Big Thief, Adrianne Lenker, Geese, The Bugle, John Oliver, Andy Zaltzman, WTF with Marc Maron. This is our 498th episode! ...
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A brief and slightly chaotic moment with Upchuck, the excellent Atlanta punk band. On facing a bit of contempt from Faye Webster fans, touring with Amyl and The Sniffers, construction and bar work, and recommendations from tour including Gaws. I'm Nice Now is out now on Domino. Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and art...
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October 17, 2025 15 mins
I first saw Home Front supporting High Vis at Islington Assembly Hall, one of the rare shows that felt like a real moment suspended in time. I fell in love with their new wave / oi! inspired weirdo punk rock, and their new album Watch It Die (out 14 November) sounds like it's gonna be ace. Here's singer Graeme on being 42 in a punk band, punk houses, sleeping on the job and influential Canadian bands D.O.A. and Fucked Up. Pre order...
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The Dewaele brothers are here about the perceptions of what DJs, how they've kept their magic, how artists don't make money any more so more DIY shows are happening, plus Pulp, Pavement, Laurie Anderson and Fontaines D.C. Soulwax's new album All Systems Are Lying is out this Friday. Photo: Nadine Fraczkowski Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy...
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Poet, author and timeline cleanser David Larbi joins today. We talked about his sense of self, allowing yourself to grow despite the uncomfortability it causes, and having a good idea then following it! His new book Frequently Happy is a wonderful mix of poetry, self affirmations and journalling prompts - it's out now. Thanks to The Collab, Walthamstow. Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 D...
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The Charlatans are about to release their fourteenth album We Are Love, a gladly psychedelic swish featuring perhaps my favourite Charlatans track ‘For The Girls’ - dedicated to band members’ families. Tim remembers the moment of running into Bez and Shaun Ryder of The Happy Mondays as he was checking into the hotel to detox, his favourite moments of the longer new Charalatans live shows, and how recording We Are Love at Rockfield ...
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As teenagers wide-eyed to the world of Fat White Family and the notorious Queen's Head in Brixton, Charlie Steen and Shame did the honourable thing: dive heard first into everything. Still friends and still excited about making albums and touring, Charlie tells us about moving through south London in his twenties, living in the wahsing room and grifting at the Nepalese. Shame's excellent fourth album Cuthroat is out now. See Charli...
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Inside Sheffield's Crookes Social Club, Malevolence's Alex, Charlie and Wilkie talk us through being a band since they were teenagers, going hard at touring before they made any money - making it happen out of pure passion and belief, looking up to While She Sleeps and Bring Me The Horizon before playing together and becoming friends, and living out their teenage dreams. Where Only The Truth Is Spoken is out now on MLVLTD. Get y...
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September 25, 2025 37 mins
Akil Godsey is excellent nominative determinsim. End It's loudmouth (and why shouldn't he be?) singer walks us through growing up in an extremely religious household in Baltimore, before long nights of Hey Mister and finding his people at local hardcore shows. Plus drugs, alcohol and bowling. End It's debut album Wrong Side of Heaven is out now on Flatspot. Photo: Kenny Savercool Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear...
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Jon and Liz from The Beths join on the work of songwriting reflection, youth music workshops in Aotearoa before studying jazz at college and teaching trumpet, and their mid-album crisis mode. Straight Line Was A Lie is out now on ANTI-. Photo: Frances Carter Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENT...
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September 18, 2025 30 mins
Jeanie, Gracie and Heide of Folk Bitch Trio joined us before their show at The Lexington in London. They told us about all their old jobs - Nando's, the speakeasy above a brothel, cinema, metal record store; celebrity spots - Keanu Reeves, Ralph Fiennes, Bradley Cooper, Arthur Darvill; and how Jeanie quit her job earlier that day. Now Would Be A Good Time is their debut album. Get swept up in its floating melodies and catch them...
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Matt Berninger's excellent second solo album Get Sunk follows a slow exit from a serious depression where he couldn't get out of bed. Written on baseballs, deconstructed bedposts and anything else he could write lyrics on, the National singer writes songs like he's painting a picture. Once a graphic designer during the dot-com bubble in New York, he was going to formative gigs by The Strokes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, TV on the Radio and Th...
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Working Men's Club's Sydney Minsky Sargeant puts out his debut album Lunga this Friday. The album was written around the track 'Lisboa', which while written years ago carries so much weight for Syd that he needed to eventually get it out his system. The whole album is ace, and is from a more mellow direction than the harshness of WMC. Here we hear about the importance of accessible music in Britain, small town gentrification and t...
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Famed for starting a Doors covers band to supplement income performing their own music, Field Music's David Brewis says it shouldn't come as a surprise. Despite sharing rehearsal spaces with 2000's mainstream indie bands The Futureheads and Maximo Park, the Brewis brothers had no interest in pleasing anyone else; only making music for themselves. Coming up to 20 years since their debut album, the Sunderland trio have nearly always ...
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September 5, 2025 15 mins
This guy writes SONGS. If you're reading this and you haven't heard Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band's latest album New Threats From The Soul, stop what you're doing and take it for a long walk. If you end up coming back to listen to this, you'll hear about his time working at the influential Drag City Records, a laundry list of odd jobs, not insuring Galaxie 500's broken gear and the 17 years of running his own label, Sophomore Lou...
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September 2, 2025 43 mins
Daniel Avery's new album Tremor is heavy in a different way. On it is collaborations with Alison Mosshart (The Kills), Walter Schreifels(Quicksand / Rival Schools), bdrmm, Julie Dawson (NewDad), yeule, Ellie, Art School Girlfriend, yunè pinku, and Cecile Believe. Here he is on the trappings and triumphs of DJ culture, and how he's unlearned from his own success to build something new. Tremor is out 31 October on Domino. Photo: Kal...
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August 28, 2025 32 mins
Tyler Ballgame is a modern savant. On his four released tracks, there's a sweeping melancholy underpinned by the haunting beauty of Roy Orbison or wry-smiled dreamy Harry Nilsson. In this chat, Tyler talks of Shakespeare inspiration, studying songwriting Berkeley but never successfully shaking the idea that he was an outsider, and blagging a job interview that transplanted him on the other side of the country - where he started hi...
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Rachel and Nate of Water From Your Eyes (and This Is Lorelei) on watching our mums dance to the classics, hanging out with Michael Hannon, getting served beers by Pavement members, using other people's shower products, working for a cult, rawdogging flights and sourcing actors on Instagram. Their new album It's A Beautiful Place is out now. Filmed at Werewolf Beer in Camden. Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: ht...
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EOTR's story feels a movie: one man's determination to create the best music festival, unhindered by low ticket sales and financial loss, before becoming the dream weekend of music it is today. Simon Taffe tells us about his tunnel vision, seeing Oasis this summer and how he would have everyone lock up their phones if he was able to. Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 DistroKid makes music...
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Live at Green Man 2025, Gruff Glyn offers his tales of working many jobs while playing in an excellent band. Taking time off his role at the solar panel / breast enlargement call centre to play a role in The Martian (Ridley Scott) where he played table tennis with Donald Glover aka Childish Gambino; to the importance of the Welsh language and independent music venues; and the concept behind Melin Melyn's first album Hill on the Mil...
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