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

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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