Celebrating the launch of West Yorkshire Music Network, we heard from four Leeds homebodies - Simon Rix of Kaiser Chiefs, BBC 6 Music's Emily Pilbeam, GK of Venus Grrrls and Hang Lington on a life of music full-send. Subscribe to West Yorkshire Music Network Get yourself some Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
One of this year's most comforting records is Paradise Pop. 10. Its author joins us on running, writing with Phoebe Bridgers, and the omnipresent expectation of the work gaffe. Photo: Michael Delaney Get yourself some Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 Get 5% off your next order over £100 at Dawsons Musical Instruments using '101PARTTIMEJOBS' at checkout at https://www.dawsons.co.uk/ DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Emma Richardson's the new(ish) bassist in Pixies, but she's lived two lifetimes - first in Band of Skulls and then as an artist. Pixies' new album The Night the Zombies Came, and you can catch them on tour soon. Get yourself some Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 Get 5% off your next order over £100 at Dawsons Musical Instruments using '101PARTTIMEJOBS' at checkout at https://www.dawsons.co.uk/ DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Set building for Ralph Lauren, parenting multiple kids and living a lazy susan of musical projects, does Clam Baker Jr have the same 24 hours as the rest of us? Warmduscher's fifth album Too Cold To Hold is out this Friday. Get yourself some Shure microphone gear: https://shu.re/3YhV7p2 Get 5% off your next order over £100 at Dawsons Musical Instruments using '101PARTTIMEJOBS' at checkout at https://www.dawsons.co.uk/ DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
3 GRAMMYs and Tiny Desk Winner are footnotes in Fantastic Negrito's story. From hosting warehouse parties frequented by will.i.am and Thundercat, to weed farming and touring with Chris Cornell, we rattle through the years. Son Of A Broken Man is out now. Get 5% off your next order over £100 at Dawsons Musical Instruments using '101PARTTIMEJOBS' at checkout at https://www.dawsons.co.uk/ DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Before they opened for The Libertines and the Roundhouse, HotWax joined us at the Hawley Arms to chat growing up Hastings, independent venues and bar etiquette. Their debut album Hot Shock is out next March. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From an early Sears Christmas advert, comedian, songwriter, actor Cat Cohen set off on a path of all the jobs. She talks how her music taste is The OC Soundtrack, self delusion and we find out here mum is old college friends with MJ Lenderman's mum. Her new special Come For Me is streaming on Veeps, and her debut album Overdressed is out 15 November. Photo: Devin Bowman Get 5% off your next order over £100 at Dawsons Musical Instruments using '101PARTTIMEJOBS' at checkout at https://www.dawsons.co.uk/ DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A new parent with a firefighter dad, vetenarian wife and thousands of hours on the road with Boston Manor, Henry Cox has led an interesting life. Boston Manor's excellent new album Sundiver is out now, and they're about to be on tour in Europe. Photo: Megan Doherty Get 5% off your next order over £100 at Dawsons Musical Instruments using '101PARTTIMEJOBS' at checkout at https://www.dawsons.co.uk/ DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
One of the most inventive, funniest bands you'll hear today are Getdown Services. Duo Ben and Josh join me on selling ice cream together, being The First Wedding Band and taking aim at themselves. Their new EP 'Your Medal's In The Post' is out 14 November. Photo: Sion Waters Get 5% off your next order over £100 at Dawsons Musical Instruments using '101PARTTIMEJOBS' at checkout at https://www.dawsons.co.uk/ DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Iceage frontman's debut solo album is out tomorrow, and it's an aching listen. Elias talks about supermarket and bar work, but following the feeling that music is all there is. Heavy Glory is out tomorrow. Photo: Ilaria Ieie Get 5% off your next order over £100 at Dawsons Musical Instruments using '101PARTTIMEJOBS' at checkout at https://www.dawsons.co.uk/ DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From his living sofa ahead of his Royal Albert Hall show on 28 October (which also features Jarvis Cocker), Chilly puts the misconceptions about his music - and lyrical mask - straight. His latest album Gonzo is out now. Get 5% off your next order over £100 at Dawsons Musical Instruments using '101PARTTIMEJOBS' at checkout at https://www.dawsons.co.uk/ DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Bringing together jazz, funk, dub, reggae and club culture, Galliano have put out their first album in 27 years. Rob tells us about the affliction of 'career vs. music', shapeshifting London and their upcoming shows in Manchester, Bristol and London's Shepherds Bush Empire. Halfway, Somewhere is out now on Gilles Peterson's Brownswood Recordings. Get 5% off your next order over £100 at Dawsons Musical Instruments using '101PARTTIMEJOBS' at checkout at https://www.dawsons.co.uk/ DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
King Crimson's latter day singer and guitarist, plus mixer, actor and writer Jakko Jakszyk on early years in Watford, saying yes to every opportunity that came his way and digging into the stories from his memoir Who's The Boy With The Lovely Hair - out on Thursday. Get 5% off your next order over £100 at Dawsons Musical Instruments using '101PARTTIMEJOBS' at checkout at https://www.dawsons.co.uk/ DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
For episode 400, here's songwriter, comedian and actor Tim Heidecker on where the music part comes from, the second verse, never knowing what's the going to resonate with the general public and not having any expectations. His new solo album Slipping Away is out next Friday, 18 October. Photo: Chantal Anderson Get 5% off your next order over £100 at Dawsons Musical Instruments using '101PARTTIMEJOBS' at checkout at https://www.dawsons.co.uk/ DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dexter Holland from The Offspring on his 101 part time jobs. From being a professor in molecular biology, blasting through in a stadium rock band that's been running since the 90s, building a hot sauce brand and keeping it all together. The Offspring's new album SUPERCHARGED is out this Friday. Photo: Daveed Benito DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Balance and Composure tomorrow release their first album in eight years. Jon remembers first tours, working at the call centre with his mum and playing hacky sack at the horseradish factory. DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
An immediately recognisable voice in punk and hardcore, singer and grapic novelist Patrick Kindlon joins on truck driving, becoming a step dad and building a life around music. Photo: Manuel Barajas DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Hard Quartet is the new band from Matt Sweeney, Stephen Malkmus, Emmett Kelly and Jim White and it's great rock n roll. Matt remembers playing in Johnny Cash's band with Tom Petty's members, Guitar Moves and winging it. Photo: Malcolm Donaldson DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Alastair Shuttleworth of LICE on the Bristol pub where they made a home, freelance journalism and radio, staying late at work to write lyrics and how they built their own Intonarumori. Third Time At The Beach is out now on AD 93. DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sitting in the corner of their namesake pub in Stockport, Blossoms' Tom Ogden and Joe Donovan tell us the story of the band, from working at a local hotel and tailors to receiving the news of their first record deal, up to headlining the 30,000 capacity Wythenshawe Park. Their fifth album Gary is out now! DistroKid makes music distribution fun and easy with unlimited uploads and artists keeping the ENTIRETY of their revenue. Get 30% off the first year of their service by signing up at https://distrokid.com/vip/101pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ed Bannard
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