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101 Part Time Jobs with Giles Bidder

by Mighty Moon Media · English · Music

101 Part Time Jobs is the interviews podcast that unearths the graft and resilience in a demanding time for artists. 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

New episodes: Weekly
Typical length: 30 min
Latest: 13 Oct 2026
Language: English

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13 Oct 2026 · 42 minNew

The Avalanches - "It's been a battle to come back"

Robbie and Tony dive into their rise, fall and rise again. After the initial deserved hype of their 2000 debut Since I Left You, the Australian spent 16 years getting their second album together - turning down lucrative anniversary shows and commercial offers to preserve their integrity. Now their new album No Bad Memories, with features from Rivers Cuomo, John Glacier, Mike Patton and Portraits of Tracy, is peaking its full potential. Get in touch [email protected] Thanks to The Miller in London Bridge. Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 Set up…

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8 Oct 2026 · 23 min
Stop & Chat: Strawberry Guy
Alex's new album Give Me A Dream is an absolute gem, you should definitely be listening to it on 23 October. He tells us about doing a comedy bit with Paul McCartney, before snubbing the Beatle for a songwriting session. Also find stories of piano teaching, cleaning and what it feels like going viral. Get in touch [email protected] Thanks to The Miller in London Bridge. Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 Set up Your Band's merch store, for free at Distrokid Direct: https://distrokid.com/direct/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit…
6 Oct 2026 · 51 min
Dan Tiernan - "I've had my phone nicked on the same day three years in a row"
With a new show about the healing power of crystals, comic Dan Tiernan takes us through his short-lived time as a magician, how his dyspraxia (and ADHD) meant he wasn't the most suited for the regular workplace, and the brawl at his first night ever hosting comedy. Get tickets to see him live on tour: https://dantiernan.co.uk/ Get in touch [email protected] Thanks to The Miller in London Bridge. Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 Set up Your Band's merch store, for free at Distrokid Direct: https://distrokid.com/direct/ Learn more about your ad…
29 Sep 2026 · 30 min
Jack Shep - "SNL UK meant I left football coaching"
SNL UK's Jack Shep on how he got his break on Big Boys, but went to the wrong place on his first day on set, working on weekends, behind the bar and his football job he left earlier this year. SNL Season 2 is on now, and Break Clause is on Channel 4 this week. Get in touch [email protected] Thanks to The Miller in London Bridge. Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 Set up Your Band's merch store, for free at Distrokid Direct: https://distrokid.com/direct/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
24 Sep 2026 · 24 min
Stop & Chat: Love Spells
Taegen C'aion Harris has released a killer groovy record in Love Is The Law, but before their sparkling career they were homeless in Houston, working at a tanning salon and getting in trouble riding a skateboard. Get in touch [email protected] Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 Set up Your Band's merch store, for free at Distrokid Direct: https://distrokid.com/direct/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
22 Sep 2026 · 27 min
End of the Road Festival: Molly McGuinness and big long sun
On Friday morning at this year's End of the Road festival, we heard from comedian Molly McGuinness and excellent band big long sun (stylised as such!) about working at CeX, TopMan and a chip shop where they put on gigs upstairs. Follow Molly McGuinness to catch her live, and give a good listen to big long sun's new album 'love songs and spiritual recollections'. Get in touch [email protected] Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 Set up Your Band's merch store, for free at Distrokid Direct: https://distrokid.com/direct/ Learn more about your ad…
20 Sep 2026 · 26 min
Stop & Chat: Polhawan
Another incredible new find out on Breakfast Records (Getdown Services, Mumble Tide, The Cindys) is Polhawan. Tim tells us about working with young people in music, the summer they actually cleaned THOSE Reading Festival toilets, and how playing a song to a friend or partner is so much harder than playing to a full room. Tim also plays a couple of wonderful tunes. Give it a proper listen: https://polhawan.bandcamp.com/track/things-you-do Get in touch [email protected] Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 Set up Your Band's merch store, for free at…
15 Sep 2026 · 51 min
Johnny Marr - "I wrote songs to solve my problems"
Sign up to our newsletter to win a Johnny Marr signed The Age of Everything LP : https://www.101ptj.fyi/ The world's most influential guitarist joins today on wearing eyeliner to his dad's manual labour job, how The Smiths was the best apprenticeship he could ask for and how you don't need to be an incredible guitarist to write a bangin tune. Johnny's new album The Age of Everything is out 2 October, and he currently has a guitar auction at Christie's. Thanks The Social Get in touch [email protected] Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 Set up…
10 Sep 2026 · 24 min
Stop & Chat: Sorcha Richardson
Sorcha Richardson's Draw The Outline is an album you need on your radar. She tells about early years discovering her voice, working at record labels, a chance advert sync and her seasonal way of existing. Order Draw The Outline: https://sorcharichardson.bandcamp.com/album/draw-the-outline Sign up to our newsletter to win gig tickets & signed LPs: https://www.101ptj.fyi/ Thanks The Miller in London Bridge. Get in touch [email protected] Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 Set up Your Band's merch store, for free at Distrokid Direct:…
8 Sep 2026 · 37 min
C.O.F.F.I.N. - "Don't underestimate your ability to have an affect"
While over for their London documentary screening, the Manly-Australia band joined on starting as teenagers and booking local shows, developing an understanding on how to operate as a sustainable band, how their inclusive message allows people to feel involved and Dec from Amyl and The Sniffers producing their new album Out in Oslo - which you can order at https://www.coffinband.com/ Sign up to our newsletter to win gig tickets & signed LPs: https://www.101ptj.fyi/ Thanks The Miller in London Bridge. Get in touch [email protected] Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear:…
6 Sep 2026 · 23 min
Stop & Chat: corto.alto
Liam Shortall, who's just released his mind melting new record Some Small Fortune, joins on going to music university at 16, playing in wedding bands and his parents running his merch. Order the new album from Ninja Tune: https://ninjatune.net/release/corto-alto/some-small-fortune Sign up to our newsletter to win gig tickets & signed LPs: https://www.101ptj.fyi/ Thanks The Miller in London Bridge. Get in touch [email protected] Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 Set up Your Band's merch store, for free at Distrokid Direct:…
1 Sep 2026 · 45 min
Interpol - "There's a magic that happens between us"
Interpol's Paul Banks and Daniel Kessler on the alchemy behind the band, making the tectonically powerful new record This Mirror Weighs A Ton with established pop producer Andrew Wyatt and their friendship there, the impact of Fugazi and hip-hop behind their music, and their Spinal Tap moment at Madison Square Garden. Sign up to our newsletter to win gig tickets & signed LPs: https://www.101ptj.fyi/ Thanks The Miller in London Bridge. Get in touch [email protected] Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 Set up Your Band's merch store, for free at…
27 Aug 2026 · 27 min
Stop & Chat: Le Ren
If you're into timeless Americana folk, you gotta listen to Le Ren's new album Don't Be Funny Without Me - out tomorrow. Lauren joins us on playing to her 90-year-olds grandparents, self confidence, her interviewing and writing side jobs, plus Jeff Tweedy, Vashti Bunyan and Bonnie Raitt. Sign up to our newsletter to win gig tickets & signed LPs: https://www.101ptj.fyi/ Thanks The Miller in London Bridge. Get in touch [email protected] Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 Set up Your Band's merch store, for free at Distrokid Direct:…
25 Aug 2026 · 41 min
Brian Fallon - "I'm happy for the first time ever"
Brian Fallon is back, baby. Not Bad For New Jersey, out 10 September, is his best batch of songs in years. He wears the same cologne as Blink 182's Travis Barker. He's down with the emo new school of Hot Mulligan, the potent trail of Modern Baseball and the legend of My Chemical Romance. There's even a new Gaslight Anthem album half written! Sign up to our newsletter to win gig tickets & signed LPs: https://www.101ptj.fyi/ Thanks The Miller in London Bridge. Get in touch [email protected] Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 Set up Your Band's…
18 Aug 2026 · 46 min
The Tubs - "My songs do a hatchet job on myself"
If you don't yet know The Tubs - get quick now on the train the jangletown. Owen Williams joins on how he confronts intrusive thoughts with songwriting, the hundreds of hours he's put into writing fiction and the paradox of being from a DIY-minded background and wanting to make music part of his living. The Tubs' new album Hard Life is out 11 September, pre-order it: https://thetubs.bandcamp.com/album/hard-life Sign up to our newsletter for a chance to win 2x Tubs tickets and a signed 'Hard Life' LP: https://www.101ptj.fyi/ Thanks The Miller in London Bridge. Get in touch…
13 Aug 2026 · 27 min
Stop & Chat: Man/Woman/Chainsaw
MWC have released an excellent and likely enduring debut record with Cannonball. Vera and one of the two Billys join us on being lockdown teenagers, being a six-piece band and working in pubs and painting-demolishing. Listen to Cannonball: https://manwomanchainsaw.bandcamp.com/album/cannonball Thanks The Miller in London Bridge. Get in touch [email protected] Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 Set up Your Band's merch store, for free at Distrokid Direct: https://distrokid.com/direct/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
11 Aug 2026 · 25 min
Powerplant - "The suffering is the joy"
Theo Zhykharyev joins on doubling down on Powerplant and becoming an admin email demon, how he can't go back to his home country of Ukraine, living in a guardianship and the secrets of their wild sound. Pick up a copy of Bridge of Sacrifice: https://ppowerplant.bandcamp.com/album/bridge-of-sacrifice Thanks The Miller in London Bridge. Get in touch [email protected] Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 Set up Your Band's merch store, for free at Distrokid Direct: https://distrokid.com/direct/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit…
5 Aug 2026 · 26 min
Freddie Meredith - Need A Light?
Freddie Meredith on the plight of self-taped auditions, working at the pub and his fringe show about a desperate smoking area dweller. Catch him at Baby Grand at Pleasance Courtyard throughout August: https://www.pleasance.co.uk/event/freddie-meredith-need-light Thanks The Miller in London Bridge. Get in touch [email protected] Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 Set up Your Band's merch store, for free at Distrokid Direct: https://distrokid.com/direct/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
4 Aug 2026 · 33 min
Rory Marshall - Thank You For The Opportunity
Rory's Edinburgh Fringe show starts this week. Last week he joined us on putting together its final touches, playing in a band, his laundry list of jobs and stage fright. Find info on the fringe show: https://www.pleasance.co.uk/event/rory-marshall-thank-you-opportunity Thanks The Miller in London Bridge. Get in touch [email protected] Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 Set up Your Band's merch store, for free at Distrokid Direct: https://distrokid.com/direct/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
3 Aug 2026 · 24 min
Brògeal - Deer Shed Festival
Falkirk romantic punk rockers Brògeal join us at Deer Shed to talk about working a double pizza team during Covid, putting on shows in their hometown and making dreary days into colourful tunes. Their album Tuesday Paper Club is out now. Get in touch [email protected] Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 Set up Your Band's merch store, for free at Distrokid Direct: https://distrokid.com/direct/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
30 Jul 2026 · 19 min
The North - Truck Festival
The North are good rock 'n roll powerpop - reminds me of The Exploding Hearts, Buzzcocks or early Cribs, who I saw them do a fine job of supporting a few weeks ago. Sian and Billy joined us at Truck festival to talk about open mics, working at Home Bargains and their whirlwind year. Get in touch [email protected] Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 Set up Your Band's merch store, for free at Distrokid Direct: https://distrokid.com/direct/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit…
28 Jul 2026 · 17 min
Joe and the Shitboys - Truck Festival
At Truck Festival, Ziggy and Joe from the Shitboys discuss working in sewage and building sites, what it's like to have a queer vegan message in the conservative Faroe Islands and how Joe lives with his 91-year-old grandmother. Get in touch [email protected] Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 Set up Your Band's merch store, for free at Distrokid Direct: https://distrokid.com/direct/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
23 Jul 2026 · 36 min
Nell Mescal - "I have to get better at shooting my shot"
Gettting in a room to write with Big Thief, Billie Marten and Tomberlin collaborator Philip Weinrobe, Nell Mescal's satisfying new track 'Settles' is out now. She talks about moving from Ireland to London as a teenager, the mysery of songwriting, family life and a classic quitting story. Get in touch [email protected] Thanks The Social for having us. Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 Set up Your Band's merch store, for free at Distrokid Direct: https://distrokid.com/direct/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
21 Jul 2026 · 44 min
The Mary Wallopers - "Grannies are being arrested for wearing a t-shirt"
Andrew and Charles Hendy of The Mary Wallopers sit with us on bucking society's norms, speaking up for equality, justice and fairness, trad songs that have lasted hundreds of years and - now, 10 years into being a band - making their first album of original songs. Paddywhackery is out 18 September, produced by James Skelly of The Coral. Get in touch [email protected] Thanks The Social for having us. Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 Set up Your Band's merch store, for free at Distrokid Direct: https://distrokid.com/direct/ Learn more about your…
16 Jul 2026 · 25 min
Stop & Chat: Ebbb
Ebbb's debut album Shallow Hits is a must listen. It's an addictive, satisying listen that keeps getting better as your work your way through it, giving a solid amount of left hooks. Scott and Will tell us about their double lives as a trad drummer and teacher - and how they started the band out of frustration. Shallow Hits is out now on Ninja Tune. Get in touch [email protected] Thanks The Miller for having us. Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 Set up Your Band's merch store, for free at Distrokid Direct: https://distrokid.com/direct/ Learn…
14 Jul 2026 · 1 hr 1 min
Getdown Services - "We were desperately trying to escape a routine"
Josh and Ben - along with their DIY label Breakfast Records and manager Alice - are sailing on in unchartered, French house inspired waters. Having recently become the biggest band in Britain* after being the Best Band in Britain for some two years, their new album Massive Champion (out 14 August - pre order it now) is set for semi-global domination. Get your copy of Massive Champion: https://getdownservices.bandcamp.com/album/massive-champion Get in touch [email protected] Thanks Strange Brew in Bristol for having us. Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear:…
13 Jul 2026 · 30 min
Mini Skirt - Bricklaying, Painting, Tour When You Wanna
10 years of being a band, Mini Skirt have been pulling the thread and getting as much out of playing music as they can. Happy bricklaying or painting at home and happy enough on tour, it's a good life. Their latest album All That We Know is out now. Get in touch [email protected] Thanks The Shacklewell Arms for having us. Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 Set up Your Band's merch store, for free at Distrokid Direct: https://distrokid.com/direct/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
8 Jul 2026 · 25 min
Mary in the Junkyard - Trial Shift Shucking Oysters On Release Day
Mary in the Junkyard have released one of 2026's best albums with Role Model Hermit. Claris, Saya and David tell us how it feels in the whirlwind of the moment and squaring off their double lives of playing in an increasingly successful band while working at the George Tavern / teaching music / trial shifts at an oyster shucking bar. Role Model Hermit is out now and you can catch them live this year. Get in touch [email protected] Thanks The Miller for having us. Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 Set up Your Band's merch store, for free at…
7 Jul 2026 · 32 min
Avalon Emerson - "Oscillating between ridiculous hubris and cratering self-doubt"
Sweeping songwriter, DJ, producer and web developer Avalon Emerson joins on today's episode - on the safety net of a full-time job, the risks of prioritising music and coming to terms with the paradox of confidence and doubt. Her excellent new album Written into Changes is out now. Get in touch [email protected] Thanks The Miller for having us. Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 Set up Your Band's merch store, for free at Distrokid Direct: https://distrokid.com/direct/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
30 Jun 2026 · 40 min
Flo & Joan - "We wrote a musical about Andrew Lloyd Webber"
Masters of the chaotic clever song, Flo & Joan (Nicola and Rosie) take us back to double binbagging keyboards to gigs, how they weren't very good friends as kids but now they spend every waking minute together, and their two new projects; One Man Musical and With Feeling. Both of which are frankly mad and brilliant ideas. Get in touch [email protected] Thanks The Miller for having us. Get yourself some top class Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 Set up Your Band's merch store, for free at Distrokid Direct: https://distrokid.com/direct/ Learn more about your ad choices.…

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101 Part Time Jobs with Giles Bidder is a English music podcast from Mighty Moon Media. Melo plays each episode straight from the publisher's own feed — no ads added, no account needed — and remembers where you stopped, in this browser only.

Publisher: Mighty Moon Media
Language: English
Category: Music
New episodes: Weekly
Typical length: 30 min
Latest episode: 13 Oct 2026
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