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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

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

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: 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

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

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

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

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

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 [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