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.
- Update frequency
- every 2 days
- Average duration
- 38 minutes
- Episodes
- 561
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Daniel P Carter (Radio 1 Rock Show / Artist)
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 …
01:09:44 |
Wed 29 Jul 2020
Ash Kenazi (Happyness)
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 li…
00:43:29 |
Fri 24 Jul 2020
Wesley Gonzalez
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 betwe…
00:36:56 |
Wed 15 Jul 2020
Ophelia Booth (BLOXX)
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 al…
00:26:43 |
Wed 08 Jul 2020
Harrison Swann (Talk Show)
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 Fr…
00:27:32 |
Thu 02 Jul 2020
Matt Sharp (The Rentals / formerly Weezer)
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 …
01:03:00 |
Wed 24 Jun 2020
Jamie Munro (Aerial Salad)
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 G…
00:44:32 |
Wed 17 Jun 2020
AJJ (Sean Bonnette & Ben Gallaty)
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 …
00:44:43 |
Wed 10 Jun 2020
Katie Malco
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.
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00:29:33 |
Wed 03 Jun 2020
Jimmy Wizard (Higher Power)
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 o…
01:22:29 |
Wed 27 May 2020
Henry Cox (Boston Manor)
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 vid…
00:43:24 |
Wed 20 May 2020
Arthur Leadbetter (Squid)
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…
00:25:33 |
Wed 13 May 2020
Liz & Jon (The Beths)
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…
00:32:30 |
Wed 06 May 2020
Jack Kaye (The Magic Gang)
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…
00:22:53 |
Wed 29 Apr 2020
Jock Norton (Puppy)
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.
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00:26:05 |
Wed 22 Apr 2020
Will Gould (Creeper)
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.
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01:40:55 |
Wed 15 Apr 2020
Michael Cunniff (Boston Manor)
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 pho…
00:38:40 |
Fri 03 Apr 2020
Brooke Bentham
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 uni…
00:33:30 |
Sat 28 Mar 2020
Chas Palmer-Williams (Lightyear)
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 mov…
00:57:08 |
Sat 21 Mar 2020
Ben Ayres (Cornershop)
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 …
00:28:44 |
Sat 14 Mar 2020
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