60 Minutes or less - A podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast

• 60 Minutes or less - Episode 31 - Dilettante

  Welcome to ’60 Minutes or less’ - the podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast - where for our 31st episode, we keep it local with our guest, multi-instrumentalist Francesca Pidgeon a.k.a. Dilettante.Known for her work with BC Camplight’s band, Pidgeon is also the brainchild and leader of art-rock collective Dilettante, putting out their debut album ‘Tantrum’ in late 2022 after a run of early singles. This year saw the release of the hotly tipped follow up from Dilettante, new album ‘Life Of The Party’ arriving in late January, the first totally self-produced Dilettante record, said by Pidgeon to be her most personal one yet.We caught up with Pidgeon over Zoom ahead of the release of the record, catching Francesca moments after she arrived home having cycled back from roller derby practice. Talk naturally turned almost immediately to roller derby, as well as the ‘Cha Cha Slide’, ‘Twin Peaks’ and the film ‘Poor Things’. We did still find time to talk about the new record and the creative process, as well as picking up odd jobs whilst working as a full time musician. Heads up - there’s a few audio issues on this one, but we powered on through.As ever, If you like the episode, let us know - follow us on your favourite streaming platform and follow Birthday Cake For Breakfast on all the socials. Find us on the socials and everything else here! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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• 60 Minutes or less - Episode 30 - J. Willgoose, Esq (Public Service Broadcasting)

  Welcome to ’60 Minutes or less’ - the podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast - where for our 30th episode, it's a treat to mark the occasion with a chat with J. Willgoose, Esq, band-leader and instrumentalist-auteur in the brilliant Public Service Broadcasting!Described on their very own website as “masters of conceptual pop historiography”, for 15 years Public Service Broadcasting have been crafting conceptual pieces on subjects such as the highest peaks of Everest, societal struggles via Britain’s coal industry and the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union, utilising archived material from NASA, the BFI and more.Concept records never seem to go out of fashion and over the past decade, the band have had four records in the Official Albums Chart Top 20, three of which landed in the Top 5!Their latest album ‘The Last Flight’ - released October 2024 via SO Recordings - concerns Amelia Earhart and the final voyage of America’s pioneering female “aviatrix”. Featuring turns from This Is The Kit and Andreya Casablanca, the record came about with the band wanting to do a woman-focused story, given most of the archive material they have access to is overwhelmingly male. Ahead of their forthcoming March 2025 tour, we caught up with J. Willgoose, Esq over Zoom to discuss the record and the history of the band, as well as playing and working with the likes of James Dean Bradfield and what goes into the making of a Public Service Broadcasting over the years.As ever, If you like the episode, let us know - follow us on your favourite streaming platform and follow Birthday Cake For Breakfast on all the socials. Find us on the socials and everything else here! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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• 60 Minutes or less - Episode 29 - WAND

  Welcome to ’60 Minutes or less’ - the podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast - where for our 29th episode, we welcome visiting California quartet, WAND - current line-up featuring Cory Hanson, Robert Cody, Evan Backer and Evan Burrows.An ear-splitting outfit of note, WAND have been rocking our world ever since we first saw their gnarly KEXP session in 2016 (and subsequently got to experience it all live months later at the Brudenell in Leeds). In July 2024, eight years on from the release of that formative KEXP session, WAND released their latest long player ‘Vertigo’ via the ever dependable Drag City, a really bloody good record.With WAND in Manchester town to support the new record, we once again found ourselves in the beer garden of YES, one of the cities finest gig venues, to interview the headline act at the venue ahead of time. Because of this, this episode is a trifle loud - the band competing with car horns, piss-heads over the way and trains from above. But don’t sweat it, just try to imagine you’re in a noisy bar with WAND (because that’s pretty much the reality of the recording!) You never know what you’re going to get when you head into an interview and little did I know that we’d mostly be talking about Matthew Perry’s autobiography, Afroman and Liam Gallagher making tea. Such is the gamble of a live interview. On a sombre note, we recorded this interview a few days after the passing of Cory’s faithful canine companion. RIP to a real one.As ever, If you like the episode, let us know - follow us on your favourite streaming platform and follow us on the socials. Find us on the socials and everything else here! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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• 60 Minutes or less - Episode 28 - Brian Case (FACS)

  Welcome to ’60 Minutes or less’ - the podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast - where for our second episode of 2025 we look to Chicago, joined by our very special guest, Brian Case of FACS!Cooler than cool, FACS have been on the radar for a number of years now, with each new release better than the next. No strangers to Birthday Cake For Breakfast, we’ve had a back and forth with the trio over the years, so thought it only right to have Brian get involved with the podcast! In February 2025, FACS will release their sixth album ‘Wish Defense’ via their longtime home of Trouble In Mind Records. Rather uniquely, the album is the last record engineered by Steve Albini, he who produced records for - oh, you know - the likes of Pixies, Nirvana, The Jesus Lizard and all your other favourite artists.We spoke of Albini and Electrical Audio when we caught up over Zoom in January, where we also touched on what it’s like having a son’s band signed to Matador, the joy of discovering something new before we had the internet, the scene in Chicago and listening to music whilst walking the dog. As ever, If you like the episode, let us know - follow us on your favourite streaming platform and follow us on the socials. Find us on the socials and everything else here! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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• 60 Minutes or less - Episode 27 - Jonah Falco (Jade Hairpins / Fucked Up)

  Welcome to the first episode of 2025 for ’60 Minutes or less’ - the podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast! We’re kicking off our first episode of the year with a real treat, the nicest guy in music production, Jonah Falco!A very busy young man, on top of playing in Toronto punk leg-ends Fucked Up for over 20 years, Falco also fronts the brilliant Jade Hairpins and when he finds any spare time, produces records too. In 2024 alone, Fucked Up released a series of records, including three LPs, Jade Hairpins released their second album, ‘Get Me The Good Stuff’ (via Merge Records) and Falco worked on records from the likes of High Vis, The Chisel and Chubby and the Gang to name a select few. A grafter we’ve been hoping to talk to for a good while now, we managed to grab Jonah for a swift chat in mid-November whilst Jade Hairpins were on tour in Germany. Speaking on the phone as he hurtled down the autobahn, we covered all sorts, from playing music with your own mum to living on a narrowboat. With it being 2024 at the time, naturally the call dropped out at one point, though we passed through it like a couple of pro’s - as you’ll hear. None of that in 2025, pure network coverage from this point forward.You should totally kick off the new year as you mean to go on - follow us on your favourite streaming platform, follow us on the socials and give us a rating wherever you can. Find us on the socials and everything else here! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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