101 Part Time Jobs

Giles Bidder

The only podcast in the world where you can hear about your favourite bands' other jobs.

  • 28 minutes 40 seconds
    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 Smith in Dylan Thomas' boathouse and the Clapham sandwich shop he hasn't been invited back to. Photo: Furmaan Ahmed


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    13 May 2025, 2:00 am
  • 12 minutes 50 seconds
    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 In Love is out now.


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    9 May 2025, 1:38 pm
  • 39 minutes 26 seconds
    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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    8 May 2025, 2:00 am
  • 15 minutes 44 seconds
    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 caught. His fifth solo album Love & Lore is out now. Thanks to Hayley and Joe.


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    5 May 2025, 2:00 am
  • 48 minutes 24 seconds
    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 week he's on tour in the UK. Thank you Rachel Silver. Photo: Ilya Popenko


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    4 May 2025, 12:01 pm
  • 52 minutes 13 seconds
    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 spring.

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    1 May 2025, 2:00 am
  • 8 minutes 29 seconds
    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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    29 April 2025, 11:00 am
  • 43 minutes 1 second
    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. Follow them on Instagram and book your tickets: https://www.instagram.com/henrynormalpoet/ & https://www.instagram.com/brian_bilston/


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    29 April 2025, 2:00 am
  • 40 minutes 11 seconds
    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 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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    24 April 2025, 4:00 am
  • 30 minutes 55 seconds
    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 warehouse.


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    22 April 2025, 4:00 am
  • 9 minutes 18 seconds
    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 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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    18 April 2025, 11:35 am
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