101 Part Time Jobs with Giles Bidder
101 Part Time Jobs hears about the resilience of musicians in an uncertain time for independent music. Giles Bidder interviews bands and a variety of artists about the many jobs they’ve taken to ensure that the show can go on. Whether they’re casual jobs taken between tours or a full-time career that runs in tandem with their music, 101 Part Time Jobs demonstrates just how much effort, commitment and inventiveness it can take a musician to be able to make a living. Previous guests include IDLES, Self Esteem, Blossoms, Yard Act, The Hives, Teenage Fanclub, Belle & Sebastian, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Jamz Supernova, Ezra Furman, Built to Spill, Big Joanie, Martha, Gabrielle Aplin, Kevin Morby, Thurston Moore, Tim Burgess, The Mountain Goats, The National & many more.
Episodes
May 7, 2025 • 39 mins
Calming, groovy and meditative is Cornelia Murr's new album Run to the Center. We met in Regents Park, sat on the fountain and talked bird-saving, restaurant work and stage fright.
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May 4, 2025 • 15 mins
Chuck's here on the gratitude he has for Hot Water Music fans and neighbours, appreciation for his ventriloquist mother and golfer father, plus we get a sketched out idea of the types of fish he's caught. His fifth solo album Love & Lore is out now. Thanks to Hayley and Joe.
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May 4, 2025 • 48 mins
Jeffrey Lewis has made himself a home in writing acutely empathetic lo-fi tracks, building a legion of dedicated followers. His new album The EVEN MORE Freewheelin' Jeffrey Lewis is out now, and this week he's on tour in the UK. Thank you Rachel Silver. Photo: Ilya Popenko
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April 30, 2025 • 52 mins
In a very real life story of rehab, nursing homes and personal loss, Sextile are a wild eyed medley of sonic chaos. Their new album yes, please. is out tomorrow and you can catch them live this spring.
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April 29, 2025 • 8 mins
One year on from their Mercury prize winning debut album This Could Be Texas, English Teacher tell us about writing its follow up, moped dreams and falling off stage.
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April 28, 2025 • 43 mins
Two poets - one an award winning writer and producer of The Royle Family and Philomena, the other a Twitter sensation who found his audience online - are make a regional trip across the UK this May. Follow them on Instagram and book your tickets: https://www.instagram.com/henrynormalpoet/ & https://www.instagram.com/brian_bilston/
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April 24, 2025 • 40 mins
After touring in Orville Peck's band and doing the hard yards in Toronto indie rockers FRIGS, Bria Salmena has released her very excellent debut album Big Dog. She talks us through the stadium shows and free sunglasses, enjoying going back to the DIY admin and a hairy journey driving through an ice blizzard. Photo: Matthew Tammaro
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April 22, 2025 • 30 mins
Starting a 6 week tour across North America, bassist Jack Padurairu talks the years of graft each member in Pest Control have put in, uniting metal, punk and hardcore and working at a friendly food warehouse.
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April 18, 2025 • 9 mins
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Valerie June's good natured, gutsy songwriting germinates from her experiences in plantcare and community. Between selling CDs out of her car to working with a few of the biggest names in indie music, Valerie has kept her humility and faith in tact.
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April 17, 2025 • 40 mins
Valerie June's good natured, gutsy songwriting germinates from her experiences in plantcare and community. Between selling CDs out of her car to working with a few of the biggest names in indie music, Valerie has kept her humility and faith in tact.
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April 14, 2025 • 33 mins
Thanks to the internet, Superheaven are having a second wind. Calling time out after spending their twenties slogging it out, they're back after a decade away. Taylor and Jake discuss the algorithm, how Turnstile changed our experience of guitar music and being grumpy on-stage. Their excellent self-titled album is out Friday. Photo: Vincent Guglielmo
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April 9, 2025 • 35 mins
M(h)aol are a band you should know. Meeting as all bands should (a chance encounter at a record store), the Dublin started, continentally based group are putting out their second album of shadow-chasing tunes next month. Get to know their story here, then catch them on tour. Photo: Cait Fahey
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April 8, 2025 • 16 mins
For a shorter pre-gig chat with Mei Semones, we hear about her job at a pre-school, the high ceiling of gifted musicians and how artists shouldn't be discouraged by having to work side jobs. Albums recommended: Michael Brecker 'Tales From the Hudson', Ari Hoenig 'Lines of Oppression', John Roseboro 'Fools'. Video & photo: Liam Rooney
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Last week, before their mammoth UK tour, we were joined by Matt Baty of Pigs x7 on the years that have gone into the band, the good feeling of making something for no financial gain and his struggles writing the lyrics for their new album Death Hilarious - out tomorrow.
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March 31, 2025 • 33 mins
Scowl's Kat Moss on challenging everything around you, her survival instinct and the necessary pain of moving through experiences. Their new album Are We All Angels arrives 4 April.
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March 30, 2025 • 18 mins
Before their weekend residency at the legendary Brixton theatre, Charles and Andrew Hendy of The Mary Wallopers talk the job centre, songwriting, selling cars and the healthy kind of civic pride. Thank you to Meg, Cyril, Cian and Brixton Academy.
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March 26, 2025 • 42 mins
Austin from wood creatures Snapped Ankles joins today on how he pays rent in twigs, taking their warehouse party art project around continent, and being a furniture maker... obviously. Their new album Hard Times Furious Dancing is out tomorrow!
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March 24, 2025 • 39 mins
Even as a teenager, Jim James knew music was number one. Here he is on learning to love himself through all the strange emotions that being in a perpetually 'on' band gives you, and My Morning Jacket's alchemical new album is (out now). Photo: Danny Clinch
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March 19, 2025 • 44 mins
Battle axe songwriter Bob Mould comes on today, with stories from working in pro wrestling, how the chords might not have changed but the feelings have, running a big bear club night and the energy of his new record Here We Go Crazy. Photo: Ryan Bakerink
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The wayward teen turned co-creator of one of the greatest comedy series on TV, Allan Mustafa walks us from Brentford to Hollywood (/ the BBC and other major streaming platforms). Shows that he's written and starred in, including The Curse, Peacock and People Just Do Nothing, are all streaming now. Big thanks to The Social for having us.
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