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

’60 Minutes or less’ is a podcast that’s in and out within an hour, that cuts the crap and focuses on the chat.No overly long intros, no droning on - just interesting conversations with a host of musicians and artists, provided for your listening pleasure in 60 minutes or less.Hosted by Andy Hughes, head honcho of Manchester based music site Birthday Cake For Breakfast. Alongside all manner of reviews and features, over the past ten years Birthday Cake For Breakfast has featured interviews with all

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60 Minutes or less - Episode 48 - BC Camplight

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2025/11/04

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

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60 Minutes or less - Episode 47 - Alpha Male Tea Party

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2025/10/21

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

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60 Minutes or less - Episode 46 - Blair Tramel (Snooper)

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2025/10/07

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

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60 Minutes or less - Episode 45 - Jack Cooper (Modern...

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2025/09/23

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

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60 Minutes or less - Episode 44 - Kavus Torabi...

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2025/09/09

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

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60 Minutes or less - Episode 43 - Matt Bigland...

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2025/08/26

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

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60 Minutes or less - Episode 42 - Derya Yıldırım

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2025/08/12

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

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60 Minutes or less - Episode 41 - Keith Murray (We...

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2025/07/29

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

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60 Minutes or less - Episode 40 - Gordon Moakes (The...

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2025/07/15

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 -

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60 Minutes or less - Episode 39 - CIVIC

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2025/07/01

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

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60 Minutes or less - Episode 38 - David Yow (The...

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2025/06/17

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

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60 Minutes or less - Episode 37 - Andrew Falkous...

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2025/06/03

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

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60 Minutes or less - Episode 36 - Barry Hyde (The...

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2025/05/20

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

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60 Minutes or less - Episode 35 - Warmduscher

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2025/05/06

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

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60 Minutes or less - Episode 34 - Matt Baty (Pigs...

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2025/04/22

Welcome to ’60 Minutes or less’ - the podcast fromBirthday Cake For Breakfast- where for episode 34, our very special guest isMatt Baty, choice shouter in the gnarlyPigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs!The finest purveyors of doom from the North East,Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigshave just put out their fifth album of ear-wrecking power - ‘Death Hilarious’ - which arrived in early April via their faithful home ofRocket Recordings. Featuring a star turn fromEl-PofRun The Jewels, it's a record that

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60 Minutes or less - BONUS - A/S/L: Raygun Busch...

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2025/04/18

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

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60 Minutes or less - Episode 33 - Jon King (Gang Of...

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2025/04/08

Welcome to ’60 Minutes or less’ - the podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast - where for episode 33 we're chuffed up to feature our very special guest, Jon King of the legendary Gang Of Four!Your favourite band's favourite band, the incredibly influential Gang Of Four put out the incredibly influential 'Entertainment!' 45 years ago! This year sees their final ever tour and to mark the occasion, founding member, vocalist - and melodica player - Jon King has just released his memoir, ‘To Hell With

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60 Minutes or less - Episode 32 - Joshua Idehen

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2025/03/25

Welcome to ’60 Minutes or less’ - the podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast - where for episode 32, we’re pushing the format to its very limits as our guest, the brilliant Joshua Idehen, had so much to say!Based in Sweden, British-born Nigerian Idehen is a poet and musician of some renown, having collaborated with a number of artists over the years and contributed poems to Mercury-nominated albums from the likes of Sons of Kemet and The Comet Is Coming.More recently, Idehen has been putting out

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60 Minutes or less - Episode 31 - Dilettante

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2025/03/11

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

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60 Minutes or less - Episode 30 - J. Willgoose, Esq...

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2025/02/25

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

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