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
Samantha Crain - "Everyone who works in the liquor store plays in a band"
Gumshoe is Samantha Crain's new album and it's a good and deep listen. She's had a life of mini jobs and has made great music throughout it. She's an inspiration. Photo: Sequoia Ziff
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00:35:31 |
Thu 15 May 2025
Patrick Wolf - "I earned enough to run away from home"
After a decade in obscurity, processing rehabilitation and personal crisis, Patrick Wolf is returning with his seventh album Crying The Neck. We hear about his new lease of life, playing with Patti S…
00:28:40 |
Tue 13 May 2025
Låpsley - Queer sex parties, Charli xcx co-writes and winning SXSW
Låpsley stops and chats about running Her Own Recordings, putting on queer sex parties, writing for Charli xcx and looking back on a meandering music life. Her new album I'm A Hurricane I'm A Woman I…
00:11:20 |
Fri 09 May 2025
Cornelia Murr - Bird Lady
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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00:39:26 |
Thu 08 May 2025
Chuck Ragan is reelin' in the years
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 c…
00:15:44 |
Mon 05 May 2025
The Jeffrey Lewis Effect
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…
00:48:24 |
Sun 04 May 2025
Sextile - "High-risk personalities"
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 sprin…
00:52:13 |
Thu 01 May 2025
English Teacher on pedals, mopeds and writing their second album
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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00:08:29 |
Tue 29 Apr 2025
Brian Bilston & Henry Normal - "Poetry comes from interacting with the world"
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. …
00:43:01 |
Tue 29 Apr 2025
Bria Salmena - Driving through the ice blizzard
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 …
00:40:11 |
Thu 24 Apr 2025
Pest Control - Six weeks in the USA
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 w…
00:30:55 |
Tue 22 Apr 2025
Valerie June's 10-minute rule, plantlife and working 12 hour days | 101 Part Time Jobs
Hear the full episode at https://open.spotify.com/episode/1imfPmENXqPSzYtxCXJMsm?si=bdbacddef0d04cd5
Valerie June's good natured, gutsy songwriting germinates from her experiences in plantcare and c…
00:09:18 |
Fri 18 Apr 2025
Valerie June - “I learned natural healing"
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…
00:40:58 |
Thu 17 Apr 2025
Superheaven - "I'm not a job person"
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, …
00:34:42 |
Tue 15 Apr 2025
M(h)aol - “I agreed to be in the band out of politeness"
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-chas…
00:35:07 |
Thu 10 Apr 2025
Mei Semones - "Never thought I'd be changing diapers"
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 r…
00:16:43 |
Tue 08 Apr 2025
Matt Baty (Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs) - "Does it make you feel good? Yes, well f*cking do it."
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…
00:58:21 |
Thu 03 Apr 2025
Scowl - "Everything that's beautiful is painful"
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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00:34:06 |
Tue 01 Apr 2025
Mary Wallopers - "It's so unbearable to live, you might as well do what you want"
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. Tha…
00:19:03 |
Sun 30 Mar 2025
Snapped Ankles - "Foraging for rent money"
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 albu…
00:42:08 |
Thu 27 Mar 2025
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