Welcome to ’60 Minutes or less’ - a podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast - where for episode 52, we end the year on a high, keeping the festive spirit going past Christmas with an interview with Ian Anderson, multi-instrumentalist, flautist and chief vocalist in Jethro Tull!

The second MBE recipient to appear on the podcast (as far as we know), Anderson has fronted Jethro Tull for nearly 60 years! It was quite the thrill then to feature an interview with Anderson off the back of Jethro Tull releasing their latest album ‘Curious Ruminant’ in early 2025, some 50+ years on from releasing their debut album ‘This Was’ in 1968.

A fascinating look into the inner workings of touring life and what’s kept Jethro Tull afloat for so long, we caught up over Zoom at the beginning of December 2025 to talk about Christmas, famous son-in-law Andrew Lincoln, avoiding pickpockets abroad and the differences in touring between now and then.

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Welcome to ’60 Minutes or less’ - a podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast - where for episode 51, it’s an honour to feature an interview with queer icon, Roddy Bottum!

A founding member of the notorious Faith No More, Roddy Bottum went on to form Imperial Teen, Crickets and Man on Man, the latter with his boyfriend Joey. He can also now call himself an author, having just released his riveting new warts and all memoir, 'The Royal We’.

We caught up with Roddy over Zoom in November 2025, the month of release for 'The Royal We’. Touching on everything from his enduring friendship with Courtney Love to the testosterone charged Faith No More tour with Metallica and Guns N' Roses, as well as making it big in stocks and shares, drug addiction, and being one of the only artists early doors to come out as gay in the music industry.

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Welcome to ’60 Minutes or less’ - the podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast - where for episode 50 (woof!), it’s a treat to feature an interview with Deerhoof sticksman, Greg Saunier!

We got into it deep with Greg back in May 2025, catching up over Zoom just after the release of new album, ’Noble and Godlike in Ruin’, released April 2025 via Joyful Noise Recordings. A mere month later, Deerhoof made headlines when they announced their departure from Spotify, pulling their music from the platform in the face of the streaming platform CEO's very open, shady dealings. They've since followed up with canning Facebook and Amazon too for similar reasons, the band never afraid to stand up for what they believe in.

Touching on all they've been through over their three decades together, this interview goes absolutely everywhere and you won't want to miss a single minute!

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Welcome to ’60 Minutes or less’ - the podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast - where for episode 49, we’re pleased as punch to feature an interview with smooth operators Julien Ehrlich and Max Kakacek a.k.a. Whitney!

House favourites at Birthday Cake For Breakfast HQ, we find their laid back, retro-tinged vibes are best enjoyed on a sunny Sunday afternoon with a run of coffees. Across four studio albums - plus a collection of covers - Whitney have very much been tickling our fancy, so it was a boon to talk to the pair before the release of their new album ‘Small Talk’.

We caught up with Max and Julien over Zoom in early November 2025, the day before the release of latest album, ‘Small Talk’, with the conversation jumping between weed gummies and hot dogs to a punk band side project and reacting to record reviews. 

With Max and Julien being in different rooms with different wi-fi connections and microphones, they come in a little hot sometimes (with the occasional car horn in the background appearing for good measure). You’ll no doubt settle into it though.

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Welcome to ’60 Minutes or less’ - the podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast - wherefor episode 48, it’s a delight to feature our special guest, Manchester-based American songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, BC Camplight!

A Mancunian in his own right, BC Camplight a.k.a. Brian Christinzio has been up Norf for over a decade, in that time putting out a handful of choice releases under tastemaker label Bella Union. In June 2025, BC Camplight put out his latest opus, ‘A Sober Conversation’, a very personal record that deals with themes of sobriety and child abuse. Having referred to childhood trauma obliquely on past records, the latest release has the subject front and centre.

Rather than conduct the interview over Zoom, it was a pleasure to speak with Brian from his back garden in south Manchester on a lovely summer’s day. Whilst his sweet dog Frank slept soundly on my lap, we got into it pretty deep with Brian - covering the very serious topics of the record, but also his friendship with Badly Drawn Boy, the perils of social media, misogyny in the music industry and working with his partner.

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Welcome to ’60 Minutes or less’ - the podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast - where for episode 47, we welcome back old friends, with an interview featuring two thirds of the mighty Alpha Male Tea Party, Greg Chapman and Tom Peters!

We first interviewed Alpha Male Tea Party in 2013, not long after the creation of Birthday Cake For Breakfast. Fresh faced and stuffed into a hallway during another band’s soundcheck for our first interaction, we’d go on to interview the trio a number of times over the years, yucking it up whenever we caught them for a chat. 

In October 2025, Alpha Male Tea Party released their latest album ‘Reptilian Brain’ (via Big Scary Monsters), the first to feature vocals in the main from this largely instrumental outfit. To celebrate its release, we once again had the chance to interview Alpha Male Tea Party, this time over Zoom from the comfort of our homes rather than in a field after a skinful. We spoke of the new record, being featured in lads mags, gardening and their bond as a unit.

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Welcome to ’60 Minutes or less’ - the podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast - where for episode 46, we’re buzzed to welcome the master of puppets herself, Blair Tramel of Snooper!

A pandemic discovery for us, we were hooked on Snooper from the off, invigorated by their scrappy debut EP ‘MUSIC FOR SPIES’, which was loaded with their sugar-rush blend of hyper egg-punk. Once restrictions lifted, we’ve managed to catch the nuts Snooper live show a time or two and in 2023, the band put out their debut album proper on Third Man Records (with a press release write-up from Henry Rollins himself!)

In October 2025, Snooper put out their second album, ‘Worldwide’. Ahead of its release, we caught up with vocalist Blair over Zoom to talk about literacy in America, getting punk crowds into puppets, Jack White and their fanbase.

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Welcome to ’60 Minutes or less’ - the podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast - where for episode 45, we’re chuffed to welcome one of our favourites, Jack Cooper of Modern Nature!

Enlisting the talents of a host of contemporaries, Cooper has crafted the sound of Modern Nature across a number of releases, each one as spellbinding as the next. Taking the name of the band from the diaries of filmmaker Derek Jarman, there’s something of the natural world to Modern Nature, the band creating contemplative pieces that often allow some respite from the day to day. Each release up until their latest album even features wildlife on the artwork.

In August 2025, Modern Nature put out a wonderful set of new songs in the form of ‘The Heat Warps’ (out via tastemakers Bella Union). We caught up with Cooper over Zoom ahead of release to talk all about the new record, as well as the late Andrew Weatherall, friction with an audience, playing live with Andrew Savage and introducing your child to The Beatles - not literally, mind you (though there’s two remaining Beatles - never say never!)

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Welcome to ’60 Minutes or less’ - the podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast - where for episode 44, we welcome surely the busiest artist knocking about today, Kavus Torabi!

No slouch on the performance front, Torabi has many, many credits to his name, dividing his time between solo work and mind-altering outfits like Gong, Cardiacs and The Utopia Strong (featuring snooker leg-end and previous podcast guest, Steve Davis)!

Joining your favourite band must be a trip and for Torabi, it’s a trip he’s been on for over two decades, having joined Cardiacs as guitar wizard in the early 2000s (when yours truly was still in secondary school - woof!)  

In September 2025, Cardiacs release ‘LSD’, a seventeen track double-LP that’s some 18 years in the making. With all music written by the late Tim Smith, the new record was pieced together lovingly in his absence by an assorted cast of characters from the Cardiacs universe, with Torabi joined by the likes of Mike Vennart, Rose-Ellen Kemp and Tim’s brother, Jim Smith.

We caught up with Torabi over Zoom a month ahead of release to talk all things Cardiacs. Naturally, he was awaiting my arrival on screen with guitar in hand.

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Welcome to ’60 Minutes or less’ - the podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast - where for episode 43, we welcome an artist who’s been a regular fixture on Birthday Cake For Breakfast since near enough day dot, Matt Bigland of Dinosaur Pile-Up!

The new Dinosaur Pile-Up album ‘I’ve Felt Better’ has just landed in August 2025, with a UK tour not far behind. Business as usual you’d think? Not quite. Their first record in six years follows a rollercoaster ride of health issues for Bigland, who spent chunks of the intervening years in and out of hospital, suffering rapid weight loss, internal bleeding and at one point his throat almost collapsed in on itself. Fuck-ing-hell!

Whilst Bigland remains on the recovery journey today, things are certainly looking up and health-wise, he’s in a much better place. He was certainly chipper in our interview when we caught up over Zoom at the start of August. We spoke of the new record, married life, the early days of Dinosaur Pile-Up, drinking in the music industry, performance anxiety and those major health issues.

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Welcome to ’60 Minutes or less’ - the podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast - where for episode 42, you might have to bear with me on the pronunciation front, as we look to Germany and our guest, “outernational” artist Derya Yıldırım.

Based out of Berlin, Derya Yıldırım leads the band Grup Şimşek, bringing together players from South Africa, France and Germany, with Derya herself born in Germany to Turkish parents. Self-described as “outernational” rather than international, they promote a sound that’s more inclusive or “beyond borders”, mixing Anatolian folk with psychedelia and pop influences for a delectable cocktail. 

In March 2025, the band put out their third album ‘Yarın Yoksa’ (via Big Crown Records) - a record that instantly grabbed my attention from its terrific artwork alone before I’d even heard a note. Only a few days after its release, we were lucky enough to catch the band at Manchester’s Deaf Institute, completely hypnotised by their - at times - breathtaking performance.

We were delighted to speak with Derya over Zoom a few months back, to talk about the new record, performing live in the UK and the historical significance of some of these songs. 

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Welcome to ’60 Minutes or less’ - the podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast - where for episode 41, we look to NYC royalty, as we feature an interview with Keith Murray, guitarist and vocalist in the brilliant We Are Scientists.

Along with bassist Chris Cain, Keith Murray has been co-steering the good ship We Are Scientists for over 20 years now, the pair cementing themselves across nine studio albums (and various assorted releases) as indie rock royalty.

July 2025 saw the release of their latest album ‘Qualifying Miles’, but 2025 also marks a few anniversaries for We Are Scientists, with it being 15 years on from the release of third album ‘Barbara’ and amazingly, 20 years of their debut album ‘With Love and Squalor’!

With celebrations in store for the anniversaries and the new record, we thought it only right to re-connect with Keith, having had the band appear on Birthday Cake For Breakfast in one form or another over the past decade. We caught up with Keith over Zoom on the morning of the new album’s release to talk about thrash metal, the longevity of their friendship (the pair having met at a ‘Dawson’s Creek’ viewing party) and the top 8 band’s of all time.

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Welcome to ’60 Minutes or less’ - the podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast - where for episode 40, we mark a bit of a milestone as we feature an interview with Gordon Moakes. In a former life, he was better known as the bassist in Bloc Party, but has since gone on to form and play in dynamite outfits like The None and Young Legionnaire.

No stranger to the pages of Birthday Cake For Breakfast, we’ve spoke with Gordon many times about the goings on of Young Legionnaire. Latest outfit The None - featuring players from Cassels, Youth Man and Frauds - are more of a recent endeavour and over the past year have put out three releases, the latest of which is a raging, pretty much sold out everywhere 7”. We thought it only right to have Gordon come on the podcast to tell us all about it.

It’s not just the current though - In 2025, Bloc Party celebrate the 20th Anniversary of their debut album ‘Silent Alarm’ - which means it’s been twenty years since yours truly was sticking the album in his CD walkman on the regular, obsessing over it on bus journeys to college and such. Given the anniversary, we had to drop in the occasional question about it, which he was more than happy to get into.

It started though, as all good podcasts do, with an update on the health of his cat. Keep listening till the very, very end by the way for some bonus snooker waffle about Steve Davis!

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Welcome to ’60 Minutes or less’ - the podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast - where for episode 39, we welcome Aussie punks CIVIC, as we’re joined by vocalist Jim McCullogh and bassist Roland Hlavka. There’s also the occasional interjection from guitarist Lewis Hodgson before he crashed out asleep on the floor of their hotel room.

On our radar for a number of years now, CIVIC have put out a handful of choice records since the release of the ‘New Vietnam’ 12 inch in 2018, each packed with snarling punk rippers. But it was their 2023 released album ‘Taken By Force’ that really had us hooked, particularly the anthemic ‘Blood Rushes’, easily a single of the year contender. 

We caught up over Zoom a week ahead of the band releasing their latest album ‘Chrome Dipped’ (out now via ATO Records). CIVIC had just landed in the states ahead of a run of US shows, but were good sports in putting the world to rights, discussing the new record, the Aussie music landscape and musically shedding your skin.

At the time of putting this out the band are in Europe on tour and are well worth seeking out.

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Welcome to ’60 Minutes or less’ - A podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast - where for episode 38, we welcome noise royalty, as we’re joined by David Yow of The Jesus Lizard!

In episode 37, we spoke with Andrew Falkous of Mclusky / Future of the Left, another noisy man of note and if you recall, he spoke very fondly of Mr Yow. As we’d already spoken with David a few months prior, it only made sense to put these episodes out back to back.

Trailblazers from the late 80s through to the 90s, The Jesus Lizard put out a number of pivotal records before calling it a day at the end of the decade. After a few reunion specials, the band got back together proper in 2017 and in September 2024, released ‘Rack’ - their first album together in 26 years!

We caught up over Zoom to talk about the record, as well as his friendship with Andy Gill of Gang Of Four, spending some of his childhood in the UK and the desire to record new music somewhere tropical. Stick with it till the end to hear an incredible David Lynch impression too!

But it started as all good interviews do, with a blank screen for 10 minutes, your host worrying that the guest was giving it a miss or - at the very worst - had passed into another realm. Thankfully, David soon appeared to explain his absence and we got onto the pressing matter of what’s good on TV these days.

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Welcome to ’60 Minutes or less’ - a podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast - where for episode 37, we welcome a noisy man of note and king of third division indie rock, Andrew Falkous of Mclusky and Future of the Left!

Formed in Cardiff in the late ‘90s, Mclusky released three critically-acclaimed albums before disbanding in 2005. After some time away - with Falkous taking a side-step in the intervening years to form Future of the Left - Mclusky reformed proper in 2019 with an updated line-up and they've been back at it on the gigging front. 

In May 2025, Mclusky put out their first new album in 20 years (the fourth Mclusky album overall) - ‘the world is still here and so are we’ (font in lowercase, very hip), the record released via their new home of Ipecac Recordings. 

We caught up with a somewhat tired Falkous over Zoom in mid-May after he’d just returned from a run of shows in Europe. As expected, we covered the new Mclusky album, as well as The Jesus Lizard, ear issues, Sting and his tantric sexual endeavours and the pointlessness of a numerical rating.

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Welcome to ’60 Minutes or less’ - the podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast - where for episode 36, it's a real treat to have on total hero Barry Hyde, he of The Futureheads!

Having had fellow Future-head Ross Millard on for episode 23, it only made sense to interview Barry, particularly as in March 2025, Hyde released a new solo album in ’Miners’ Ballads’ (via Sirenspire Records).

A folk-rock-punk-classical album about the coal mining heritage of the North East of England, it features traditional collier lyrics and observes the dangers, difficulties and bravery that was a part of daily life for the miners.

We also spoke of his tribute EP to the late Ivor Cutler, the joy of working with his fellow Futureheads and the trials of making scotch eggs.

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Welcome to ’60 Minutes or less’ - the podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast - where for episode 35, we jump back in time to late 2024, when we had the pleasure of interviewing the incomparable Warmduscher!

A proper motley crew, Warmduscher have been ripping it for over a decade now, releasing five full lengths that dabble in sleazy funk, raucous post-punk and bleary-eyed disco. 

In early November 2024 - a week ahead of releasing their latest record ’Too Cold To Hold’ (via Strap Originals) - we caught up with the band before a headline show at The Ritz in Manchester, squeezing into a room backstage with Clams Baker Jr. and Ben Romans Hopcraft to talk about the new record, public opinion of Warmduscher and much more. The record features a number of brilliant guest spots - from Irvine Welsh to Lianne La Havas to Confidence Man’s Janet Planet - but we also touched on a few dream collabs that have eluded them, like Grace Jones! Can you imagine?

As is often the case, interviews ahead of shows come with certain challenges - mainly location and time related - and as such, you’ll hear quite a bit of the awesome power from support band Hot Wax, who were sound checking at the time. There’s a healthy amount of random people coughing and doors being opened and closed too, but hey - Ben and Clams were good sports throughout and projected well, but do excuse the extra noise…

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Welcome to ’60 Minutes or less’ - the podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast - where for episode 34, our very special guest is Matt Baty, choice shouter in the gnarly Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs!

The finest purveyors of doom from the North East, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs have just put out their fifth album of ear-wrecking power - ‘Death Hilarious’ - which arrived in early April via their faithful home of Rocket Recordings. Featuring a star turn from El-P of Run The Jewels, it's a record that was described on Birthday Cake For Breakfast as "...essentially big stinking riffs and bellowing vocals."

We caught up with Baty over Zoom ahead of release to talk about the record, living his WWE dreams and being in the orbit of Keanu Reeves.

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Welcome to ’60 Minutes or less’ - the podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast. It’s a special episode break for us - our first bonus episode - as we welcome back Raygun Busch, vocalist in noisy Oklahoma outfit Chat Pile!

Originally appearing on the podcast for Episode 21, Raygun returns for what is a regular feature on Birthday Cake For Breakfast - ‘a/s/l’ - which is basically one of those ‘How much is a pint of milk?’ endeavours you used to find in magazines. Head-scratching questions that are the same every time.

The latest Chat Pile record ‘Cool World’ was released in late 2024 via The Flenser - but we don’t talk about that. Instead it’s cats and dogs, favourite VHS tapes and why cartoon foxes are so cool. Bonus points for Raygun for doing all this while driving!

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