THE PLAYLIST Follow on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4Z2WbWh9WNDZjudSFWHFnw?si=152ed313c2784769 The Playlist - mini episodes about new releases I'm listening to, a mini reviews SLASH weekly music highlights. Featured: Island of Love 'Fed Rock', Dazy 'Always In Between', Trust Fund & Ex-Vöid ‘animals in war’, Feist 'Borrow Trouble', BC Camplight 'She's Gone Cold', Bully 'Days Move Slow', Lankum 'Newcastle' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kingsley of BENEFITS joins me before their new album NAILS comes out 21 April - touching on the lack of infrastructure of the North East, Sleaford Mods, famous fans on Twitter, being actually quite shy and nervous, sweating from one armpit, being the number one in call centres for Barclaycard for giving back late payment fees, making plastic charms, being a bin man, art security. seeing areas of crippling poverty & some more. Use '101POD' at checkout for £20 off, FREE MONEY: https://www.twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk/ Songs: BENEFITS 'Warhorse', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Tubs are one of many excellent bands Owen's in - here right now he talks about writing, balancing chaos and The Tubs' new album Dead Meat. Photo: Maria Cecilia Tedemalm  Use '101POD' at checkout for £20 off, FREE MONEY: https://www.twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk/ Songs: The Tubs 'Two Person Love', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Roves' 'Needle Factory' is a perfectly crafted record - hear they are talking about feeling outside of 'cool' London bands, being introverted, working on the reception desk of a sexual health clinic, being an albums band, aesthetics & more Head to 2000 Trees Festival this July. Use '101POD' at checkout for £20 off, FREE MONEY: https://www.twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk/ Songs: The Roves 'I Am The Flood', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Milk For Flowers is H. Hawkline's excellent new album - on this episode (recorded in 2021) he talks designing while touring, fixing lawn mowers, painting and decorating, living in the states playing on Cate Le Bon tracks, doing Teenage Fanclub’s ‘Endless Arcade’ artwork, crying at other people's artwork, puking in a tractor wheen at the Royal Welsh show & lots more. Head to 2000 Trees Festival this July. Use '101POD' at checkout for £20 off, FREE MONEY: https://www.twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk/ Songs: H. Hawkline 'Milk For Flowers', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join Benjamin Woods, the driving force behind the Golden Dregs, on today's episode - on having a difficult time making 'On Grace & Diginity', signing to 4AD on his 30th birthday, hard songs to sing, audio editing for The Crown, playing catch up in album cycles, touring in Anna Burch’s band, working on a building site, wearing trillbys, & more! Head to 2000 Trees Festival this July. Use '101POD' at checkout for £20 off, FREE MONEY: https://www.twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk/ Songs: the Golden Dregs 'Vista', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Their new album UK GRIM is out this Friday - here's Jason talking about getting a thicker skin, the competitive nature of bands, his childhood, listening to 80s music, when Stewart Lee came to a gig, curious sartorial decisions + lots more. Photo: Ewen Spencer Head to 2000 Trees Festival this July. Use '101POD' at checkout for £20 off, FREE MONEY: https://www.twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk/ Songs: Sleaford Mods 'So Trendy', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Maori native Jen Cloher joins us today- talking self managing, Milk! Records, transparency, Bjork and PJ Harvey, the collective music organisation, The Wurundjeri people, stolen land, lost language, Māori the indigenous people of New Zealand, the desire to learn, going to NIDA acting school, putting out firest album at 32, performing in london with Ngāti Rānana + more! Get your 4 day tickets for 2000 Trees Festival, including Wednesday's Forest Stage Line Up with Bob Vylan, Holding Absence and more. Use '101POD' at checkout for £20 off, FREE MONEY: https://www.twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk/ Songs: Jen Cloher 'Being Human', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Steve Mason's fifth solo album Brothers & Sisters is out this Fridat - here is on accepting to be an artist you’re going to be skint, loving the art, having a family, being a car mechanic, meeting artists, clubbing in london & the value of mistakes. Get your 4 day tickets for 2000 Trees Festival, including Wednesday's Forest Stage Line Up with Bob Vylan, Holding Absence and more. Use '101POD' at checkout for £20 off, FREE MONEY: https://www.twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk/ Songs: Steve Mason 'The People Say', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tomorrow HR release their best album (and first in 16 years) Glorious Sunset - here catch Colin Doran talking about dedicating the time for band, driving all night for Rival Schools, skateboarding, teaching music industry, working at an accounts deptment, the deeply dug lyrics on Glorious Sunset and more. Get your 4 day tickets for 2000 Trees Festival, including Wednesday's Forest Stage Line Up with Bob Vylan, Holding Absence and more. Use '101POD' at checkout for £20 off, FREE MONEY: https://www.twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk/ Songs: Hundred Reasons 'The Old School Way', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Haley Shea aka Sløtface tells me about growing up in Norway, wanting to go to medical school, working for gender balance music organisation AKKS, reshuffling as a solo / collective band, loving The Wombats and more. Get your 4 day tickets for 2000 Trees Festival, including Wednesday's Forest Stage Line Up with Bob Vylan, Holding Absence and more. Use '101POD' at checkout for £20 off, FREE MONEY: https://www.twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk/ Songs: Sløtface 'Nose', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Julien and Max from the wonderful Chicago group join today - talking about their studio house, Chicago’s music scene battle against corporations, service jobs, cooking, living an adult life, sleeping on Brudenell Social Club's floor, losing toenails + lots more. Get your 4 day tickets for 2000 Trees Festival, including Wednesday's Forest Stage Line Up with Bob Vylan, Holding Absence and more. Use '101POD' at checkout for £20 off, FREE MONEY: https://www.twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk/ Songs: Whitney 'For A While', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A serially sacked cafe worker, Naima Bock tells me about living at Sanford Housing Co-Op, writing in her car, reading Roberto Bolaño, being invited into folk collective Broadside Hacks, being sacked for talking smack on her boss, pleasure in gardening old folks' homes, being an extra in Fantastic Beasts & more. Get your 4 day tickets for 2000 Trees Festival, including Wednesday's Forest Stage Line Up with Bob Vylan, Holding Absence and more. Use '101POD' at checkout for £20 off, FREE MONEY: https://www.twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk/ Songs: Naima Bock 'Lines', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Making Circles of Our Own is New Pagans' new album out this Friday - here's singer Lyndsey talking about studying a PHD in embroidery, having two children, dyslexia, Derek Jarman’s Garden + more. Get 20% OFF @manscaped + Free Shipping with promo code EARWAX at MANSCAPED.com! #ad #manscapedpod Get your 4 day tickets for 2000 Trees Festival, including Wednesday's Forest Stage Line Up with Bob Vylan, Holding Absence and more. Use '101POD' at checkout for £20 off, FREE MONEY: https://www.twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk/ Songs: New Pagans 'There We Are John', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Their tenth album Breaking The Balls of History is out this Friday - and on today's episode, Sam and Janet talk 30 years of hustling, Portland and the cost of living, artistic credibility against working with corporations, protecting music and value of music and more. Get 20% OFF @manscaped + Free Shipping with promo code EARWAX at MANSCAPED.com! #ad #manscapedpod Get your 4 day tickets for 2000 Trees Festival, including Wednesday's Forest Stage Line Up with Bob Vylan, Holding Absence and more. Use '101POD' at checkout for £20 off, FREE MONEY: https://www.twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk/ Songs: Quasi 'Queen of Ears', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

DiS has returned! The legendary online publication's podcast and label is back, so here's Sean to tell us about the road since '98. Listen here for stories including but not limited to: teaching his school librarians how to use the internet, meeting Matt Bellamy on AOL, wanting to create a gang with DiS, press trips, finding out Bjork read his site, managing The Anchoress, music consultancy (and what that means) + Twitter handbags with Danny Baker. Get 20% OFF @manscaped + Free Shipping with promo code EARWAX at MANSCAPED.com! #ad #manscapedpod Get your 4 day tickets for 2000 Trees Festival, including Wednesday's Forest Stage Line Up with Bob Vylan, Holding Absence and more. Use '101POD' at checkout for £20 off, FREE MONEY: https://www.twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk/ Songs: The Anchoress 'Show Your Face', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The recently London relocated songwriting duo tell me about gardening, carework, parents running a theater company and independent music surviving against the odds in UK. What a great band. Divorce's EP Get Mean is out now: https://divorcehq.bandcamp.com/album/get-mean Get 20% OFF @manscaped + Free Shipping with promo code EARWAX at MANSCAPED.com! #ad #manscapedpod Get your 4 day tickets for 2000 Trees Festival, including Wednesday's Forest Stage Line Up with Bob Vylan, Holding Absence and more. Use '101POD' at checkout for £20 off, FREE MONEY: https://www.twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk/ Songs: Divorce 'Services', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John Newton of the two JOHNs tells us about setting up their own label Pets Care Records, his art background, Brechtian theory, being an accidental chef, working with the contemporary artist Ryan Gander, being The Wurzels' assistant for the day and lots more! Photo: Paul Grace JOHN's new single 'Hopper On The Dial' is out now - from their upcoming 7" out next month. Get 20% OFF @manscaped + Free Shipping with promo code EARWAX at MANSCAPED.com! #ad #manscapedpod Get your 4 day tickets for 2000 Trees Festival, including Wednesday's Forest Stage Line Up with Bob Vylan, Holding Absence and more. Use '101POD' at checkout for £20 off, FREE MONEY: https://www.twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk/ Songs: JOHN 'Hopper On The Dial', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Starting a UK tour this week, Kierst's new Thud EP is gorgeous bedroom indie folk. Here she talks to me about under 21 shows, one half of her university experience being during pandemic, having a London semester, going to shows alone, working at Brooklyn's Baby's All Right and more... Kierst 's Thud EP is out now - sadclubrecords.com Get 20% OFF @manscaped + Free Shipping with promo code EARWAX at MANSCAPED.com! #ad #manscapedpod Get your 4 day tickets for 2000 Trees Festival, including Wednesday's Forest Stage Line Up with Bob Vylan, Holding Absence and more. Use '101POD' at checkout for £20 off, FREE MONEY: https://www.twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk/ Songs: Kierst 'Thud', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On first time I've come into contact with Damian Abraham since 2008, he tells me about DIY punk accessibility, having ADHD, working at a video store, problematic films, making YouTube documentaries, having the means to pay for gear and what that means what’s being documented, class in punk, DIY shows gentrifying areas, his dedication to being a punk archivist, Fucked Up's infamous MTV performances and more!! Fucked Up's new album One Day is out 27 January on Merge Records. Get 20% OFF @manscaped + Free Shipping with promo code EARWAX at MANSCAPED.com! #ad #manscapedpod Get your 4 day tickets for 2000 Trees Festival, including Wednesday's Forest Stage Line Up with Bob Vylan, Holding Absence and more. Use '101POD' at checkout for £20 off, FREE MONEY: https://www.twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk/ Songs: Fucked Up 'One Day', Cock Sparrer ‘Working’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices