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For the last four decades, Colleen Cosmo Murphy has been chasing a long thread of good music. From her first DJ gig at 14, when she'd rather play records than speak, through to working at record shops and following through on ideas like founding her own label Bitches Brew, running Lucky Cloud Loft Parties and the community-focused Classic Album Sundays. Volume 5 of her Balearic Breakfast compilation is out next week on Heavenly Recordings. 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

Slow Pulp's Melodie is my standout album of the year. Emily Massey and Henry Stoehr join on their Wisconsin DIY beginnings, cramming five people into a Chicago apartment and dealing with lyme disease. Melodie is out now on ANTI-. Get in touch [email protected] Thanks to The Miller in London Bridge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jules, Soph and Celia join us on the realities of making a life in music, the jobs that have kept them going, and how your passion can be both exhilarating and completely maddening. The band reflect on their journey since forming in 2014, from a Mercury Prize nomination for their debut album to unforgettable shows at the Roundhouse and Glastonbury, and the luck, hard work and brilliant people that make it keep happening. 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

Ginger joins us on how life-changing winning RuPaul's Drag Race and Celebrity Masterchef was, how their entrepreneurial skills started at a young age and gravedigging in Newcastle brought one mourner an unexpected and terrifying sight. Catch Ginger Johnson Show Pony live in the UK, dates and tickets at https://www.gingerjohnson.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 choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Go and listen to Sadurn's new album The Underworld for some sad magic. Genevieve and Jon join us on early days in Philadelphia DIY circles, the perfect job and accidentally destroying a town's sewage system. Get The Underworld from Run For Cover - http://runforcoverrecordsuk.com/products/sadurn-the-underworld 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

Before Bella Poarch released her satisfyingly shapeshifting alt-pop album Picnic at the Cemetery, she had joined the navy as a way to escape her strict childhood. She tells us about her ups and downs, self-producing using affordable recording gear, and creating her own artwork from sketches and dolls. 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

There's an out of reach desperation in Friko's new record Something Worth Waiting For. Niko Kapetan talks about being a lifer songwriter, odd jobs replenishing vending machines and at a loading dock, and how touring is worth the price. 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

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 Your Band's merch store, for free at Distrokid Direct: https://distrokid.com/direct/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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

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

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 choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 Distrokid Direct: https://distrokid.com/direct/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 Your Band's merch store, for free at Distrokid Direct: https://distrokid.com/direct/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices