Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip

Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 325 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! We are still in lockdown (lockdown has been lifted), and while we’re all going in to work (no going into work) and staying alert (SO much more alert than usual), Pip decided to round up a willing crew for some further drunk antics by way of the second ISOLATION DRUNKCAST! This one right here is the Back...

Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 325 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! We are still in lockdown (lockdown has been lifted), and while we’re all going in to work (no going into work) and staying alert (SO much more alert than usual), Pip decided to round up a willing crew for some further drunk antics by way of the second ISOLATION DRUNKCAST! This one right here is the Back...

Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 325 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! We are still in lockdown (lockdown has been lifted), and while we’re all going in to work (no going into work) and staying alert (SO much more alert than usual), Pip decided to round up a willing crew for some further drunk antics by way of the second ISOLATION DRUNKCAST! This one right here is the Back...

Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 324 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! A true extra special treat for you this episode, as Pip is flying solo BUT with the company of a ton of heavyweight musical material... It’s the ‘Behind The Album’ Distraction Pieces edition! There has to be a GOOD amount of you out there who regard Distraction Pieces as one of Pip’s greatest works... If...

Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 323 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by the hosts of the brand new Distraction Pieces Network podcast, Mum & Mummer - it’s Amy and Harry! This is the PERFECT opportunity to get yourself better or newly acquainted with Amy and Harry, if you haven’t had the chance yet. Mum & Mummer is a fantastic podcast which...

Welcome, welcome, welcome to EPISODE 322 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week folks, you have Pip ALL TO YOURSELF you greedy things you. All the Pip you can handle. Drink it in, people - it’s another ASK PIP SESSION! THIS IS PART 2! The same as part one but different questions and answers. So you could say really that it is not at all like the previous episode. But let's...

Welcome, welcome, welcome to EPISODE 322 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week folks, you have Pip ALL TO YOURSELF you greedy things you. All the Pip you can handle. Drink it in, people - it’s another ASK PIP SESSION! A two parter at that! Come on now. On this one, the format is tried and tested and never fails, although in this occasion Pip is indoors getting his isolati...

Welcome, welcome, welcome to EPISODE 321 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Pure delights this week with a pre-lockdown recording from when Pip sat down with poet, writer and comic TIM KEY! Just to re-iterate, this was recorded pre-lockdown, all up in the same room next to each other in person and everything. There will be NO flouting of the rules in the Distraction Pieces dojo....

Welcome, welcome, welcome to EPISODE 320 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! You know what time it is... Right? Ohhh wait you're kidding... No-one informed you? No-one gave you a polite or friendly warning about what was going down on episode 320 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip? Well that just feels super weird... Dear listener, let's get you acquainted with...

Welcome, welcome, welcome to EPISODE 320 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! You know what time it is... Right? Ohhh wait you're kidding... No-one informed you? No-one gave you a polite or friendly warning about what was going down on episode 320 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip? Well that just feels super weird... Dear listener, let's get you acquainted with...

Welcome, welcome, welcome to EPISODE 319 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! A beautiful chat this week with the truly wonderful singer songwriter LIANNE LA HAVAS! This one was recorded pre-apocalypse so it was a real life face to face interaction (seriously, do you remember those…?), and as such I think you’ll really enjoy this even more than usual as Pip and Lianne get along gr...

Welcome, welcome, welcome to EPISODE 318 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! From the Speech Development Compounds, this is Scroobius Pip’s Isolation Recommendations! Okay - just to first note, those exclamation points are not there to in any way make light of the current situation. But I tried it without them and it just seemed really solemn so I hope you don’t mind my editorial...

Welcome, welcome, welcome to EPISODE 317 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Following on from last week’s multi-disciplined guest, Pip is joined this week by emcee turned actor ASHLEY WALTERS! Okay - in case you don’t recognise that name right there immediately, let’s bring you up to speed. ASHER D FROM SO SOLID. Ring a bell? DUSHANE FROM TOP BOY! Getting through yet? RICKY FROM...

Welcome, welcome, welcome to EPISODE 316 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Some acting and musical glory for you this week as Pip is joined by the brilliant COSMO JARVIS! Following on perfectly from last week’s episode with Niamh Algar, in that she and Cosmo star in ‘Calm With Horses’, which is coming to cinemas very soon - the perfect follow on episode right here! You may know...

Welcome, welcome, welcome to EPISODE 315 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by the pure marvellous actor and delight NIAMH ALGAR! You can tell even like 5 minutes in that Pip was proper excited about this one… And naturally he was right to be, as Niamh is fantastic if you didn’t already know! You may have seen her in the beautiful and powerful ‘The Virtue...

Welcome, welcome, welcome to EPISODE 314 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by the fantastic in every way comedian, writer and actor MAE MARTIN! A tremendous meetup of Pip and Mae, and dare I say a long overdue one at that… You’ll get to hear all about Mae in the greater scale and sense, from back in the day to… now… in the day…? Yeah that sounds fine to...

Welcome, welcome, welcome to EPISODE 313 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by podcaster and very funny comic (and old pal) RICH WILSON! You will have surely by now heard the fabulous ‘Insane In The Men Brain’ podcast… No? Well dear listener you must check yourself before an inevitable wrecking of one’s self and go listen immediately! Okay let’s all slow...

Welcome, welcome, welcome to EPISODE 312 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by comedic musician and actor and man of many pseudonyms, GRAHAM FELLOWS! Of course, one of the many said pseudonyms which you will surely know is John Shuttleworth, but you might be familiar with Jilted John, Brian Appleton and David Tordoff. At any rate, this is a fascinating co...

Welcome, welcome, welcome to EPISODE 311 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by activist, author and actor (all the A’s), Michael Cashman! Sorry - let me correct that - Baron Cashman CBE! An amazing meeting this week with Pip and Michael, a man whose experience and knowledge will come shining through immediately upon listening. As a founder of Stonewall (w...

Welcome, welcome, welcome to EPISODE 310 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Your guest this week, ladies and gentlemen? Well, it is my great pleasure to warmly welcome and introduce to you… The man… Your pal… The gawd… The GREATEST OF ALL TIME (okay okay let’s all remain calm here shall we?) - it is SCROOBIUS MF PIP! That’s right. Scroobius Pip. All up in your internet space. Ex...

Welcome, welcome, welcome to EPISODE 309 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Cinematic excellence this week as Pip is joined by director of VVITCH and THE LIGHTHOUSE, it’s ROBERT EGGERS! A real nice locked on an locked in chat with Robert, which goes in deep as you would want about all things Lighthouse, his latest directorial gem featuring Willem Defoe and Robert Pattinson. It’s...

Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 308 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! A very long awaited episode this week, as Pip has a proper chat with the wonderful Rob Auton, taking us inside the intriguing and thoroughly engaging mind of this spoken word and comedy great! Kicking off with a full episode of Rob’s own podcast (which is easy as it’s only a couple of minutes long) to ge...

Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 307 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! A true cinematic treat for you this week as Pip is joined by directing siblings THE SAFDIE BROTHERS! You may know them from the fantastic ‘Good Time’ (featuring a tightly wound Robert Pattinson), or maybe ‘Heaven Knows What’, but for sure you will be seeing much more of them with their new Netflix / cine...

Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 306 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! WELCOME TO 2020 OFFICIALLY! You were cordially welcomed of course on New Year’s Day, but this feels like the first kind of ‘official’ episode of the decade. We all at Distraction Pieces Heights wish you nothing but the very best for the year ahead. Now let’s get it off to a proper start with the first gu...

Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 305 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! WELCOME OFFICIALLY TO 2020 FOLKS! Yeah you were with the gang for the DrunkCasts but this is the first proper jam for the new year and as custom dictates, here is Pip with the rundown of his year's favourite films (of 2019 of course). No it's not a list of THE definitive best films of 2019, nor is it thi...