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With Tim Dowling

Mary Anne is joined by journalist and part-time banjo player Tim Dowling, who talks about balancing his day job as a columnist with his role in the folk group Police Dog Hogan.

Mary Anne is joined by Guardian journalist and banjo player, Tim Dowling, who talks about how he balances his day job as a columnist with his role in a folk, country and bluegrass group.

Tim joined Police Dog Hogan in 2009, after successfully convincing the rest of the band that nobody could play banjo better than him. Six years on, and they now have three albums under their belts, and have played numerous festivals, including Bestival and Larmer Tree.

If you thought you were too old to join a band while working a day job, you should think again. Tim tells Mary Anne that as long as you can live with the looks of betrayal that you will get from your colleagues/pets when you return to them in the morning, and you can avoid writing about your worst gigs in the newspaper, it CAN be done ...

3 hours

Last on

Sat 20 Jun 2015 07:00

Music Played

  • PJ Harvey

    50Ft. Queenie

    • Island.
  • Gaz Coombes

    The Girl Who Fell To Earth

    • Matador.
    • Hot Fruit Recordings.
  • Nine Inch Nails

    Head Like A Hole

    • CD SINGLE.
    • TVT Records.
    • 1.
  • LA Priest

    Learning To Love

    • DOMINO RECORDING CO LTD.
  • The Knife

    Heartbeats

    • Rabid / V2.
  • SUNRISER

    • Emily Hall

      Mantra

      • Bedroom Community.
  • Neil Young

    Like A Hurricane

    • REPRISE.
  • Leftfield

    Bilocation

    • Infectious Music.
  • Dan Deacon

    When I Was Done Dying - 6 Music Session: 16th June 2015

  • Landshapes

    Stay

    • Bella Union.
  • tUnE-yArDs

    Water Fountain

    • Nikki Nakk.
    • 4AD.
    • 001.
  • White Magic

    I'm Hiding My Nightingale

    • Leaving Records.
  • Jeff Buckley

    Everybody Here Wants You

    • Columbia.
  • Muse

    Mercy

    • Drones.
    • WB MUSIC CORP.
    • 4.
  • Lana Del Rey & Bobby Womack

    Dayglo Reflection

    • XL Recordings.
  • Ash

    Burn Baby Burn

  • Mac DeMarco

    The Way You'd Love Her

    • Captured Tracks.
  • Kendrick Lamar & Flying Lotus

    Never Catch Me

    • You're Dead.
    • Warp.
    • 001.
  • Marvin Gaye

    I Heard It Through The Grapevine

    • Tamla Motown.
  • Holly Herndon

    Interference

    • Platform.
    • 4AD.
  • Villagers

    Everything I Am Is Yours

    • DOMINO RECORDING CO LTD.
  • George Clinton

    Atomic Dog

    • Music Club.
  • All We Are

    Honey

    • Double Six Recordings.
  • This Is the Kit

    Easy Pickings - 6 Music session 28/02/2012

  • Small Faces

    Tin Soldier

    • ESSENTIAL.
  • Gossamer

    Print

    • Automaton.
    • Innovative Leisure.
  • Joanna Gruesome

    I Don't Wanna Relax

    • Fortuna Pop!.
  • Blondie

    Hanging On The Telephone

    • Chrysalis.
  • Ezra Furman

    Lousy Connection

    • Bella Union.
  • Police Dog Hogan

    Crackington

    • Union Music Store.
  • 3 Minute Epiphany

    Tim Dowling: How To Balance A Day Job and Being In A Band.

  • Sam & Dave

    Soul Man

    • Dino.
  • Sharon Van Etten

    Pay My Debts

    • Jagjaguwar.
  • TV on the Radio

    Golden Age

    • CD SINGLE.
    • 4 A.D..
    • 1.
  • Courtney Barnett

    Dead Fox

    • Marathon Artists.
  • Gloria Jones

    Tainted Love

    • Rude Boy Arrival.
    • TELSTAR.
  • Toro y Moi

    Buffalo

    • Carpark Records.
  • The Replacements

    Alex Chilton

    • Pleased To Meet Me.
    • Sire.
    • 1.
  • Daft Punk

    Burnin'

    • Virgin Records.
  • Thom Yorke

    The Clock

  • Beth Orton

    Dawn Chorus - 6 Music Session 11/04/2013

  • Deradoorian

    A Beautiful Woman

    • The Expanding Flower Planet.
    • Anticon Records.

Broadcast

  • Sat 20 Jun 2015 07:00