Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip

Welcome, welcome, welcome to EPISODE 304 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! WE ARE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS NOW PEOPLE - IT’S TWENTY TWENTY ! Do you remember when Busta Rhymes told us there was only five years left? And how he kept lowering the number the closer we got to the millennium? Well boy oh boy must his face be red right now… Ladies and gentlemen - this is the final ep...

Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 304 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Just when you thought it was safe to make a dash for the exit of 2019 and calmly enter 2020… In stumble three drunk geniuses to sit down and block the exit. Oh you’re in this for the long haul now, ladies and gentlemen. It’s the End Of Year Drunkcast! PART 4! Pip, Stu and Chris settle in once more for ho...

Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 304 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Just when you thought it was safe to make a dash for the exit of 2019 and calmly enter 2020… In stumble three drunk geniuses to sit down and block the exit. Oh you’re in this for the long haul now, ladies and gentlemen. It’s the End Of Year Drunkcast! PART 3! Pip, Stu and Chris settle in once more for ho...

Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 304 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Just when you thought it was safe to make a dash for the exit of 2019 and calmly enter 2020… In stumble three drunk geniuses to sit down and block the exit. Oh you’re in this for the long haul now, ladies and gentlemen. It’s the End Of Year Drunkcast! PART 2! Scroobius Pip. Stu Whiffen. Chris Glassen. A...

Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 304 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Just when you thought it was safe to make a dash for the exit of 2019 and calmly enter 2020… In stumble three drunk geniuses to sit down and block the exit. Oh you’re in this for the long haul now, ladies and gentlemen. It’s the End Of Year Drunkcast! PART 1! Pip is joined by Chris and Stu of Hardcore Li...

Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 303 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! In a world where genres are so slippery and tricksy and hard to pin down, Anticon was a label in the hip hop realm which routinely defied definition. This week Pip sits down with one of the original crew members to chop it up about the good old days, as well as the present and the future - ladies and gen...

Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 302 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Two podcast forces meet and interlock their powers this week as Pip is joined by seasoned podcaster himself - not to mention film director / writer / actor and SO much more… It’s Kevin Smith! “I play the game like I’m trying to save the universe…” SNOOCHIE BOOCHIES! What a joy this is… While it is a slig...

Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 301 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! The one that more than a few of you have been waiting for right here… Not to mention Pip… Yes indeed - this week’s guest is the phenomenally prolific and downright awesome author NEIL GAIMAN! “...Comics are a medium that is mistaken for a genre...” To even use the word ‘author’ risks belittling the wealt...

Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode THREE HUNDRED of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! The Gerard Butler edition! We made it! Well, zero chances of Gerard sightings here, as Pip is joined this week by a mildly abbreviated by nonetheless great chat with the truly excellent director PAUL FEIG! With his new film ‘Last Christmas’ on the horizon, now is the perfect time to catch Paul,...

Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 299 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! A cheeky bonus joint for your Friday right here as Pip chats to acclaimed director JAMES MANGOLD! “I don’t work for two years on a movie just to create a diversion…” A small but ever so perfectly formed conversation which takes in highlights from James’s illustrious career as well as thoughts on the pres...

Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 298 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Guess who’s coming… IT’S… Guess who’s coming… IT’S j-j-j-just your favourite DJ saviour / using and confusing beats that you never heard / since / 1990… Ladies and gentlemen, he’ll put a smile on your face like Ultra Brite - it’s DJ SHADOW! “…Not every musical moment affects people the same way…” A great...

Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 297 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! A celebration of the movie KILL BEN LYK, which features the guests Eugene and Erwan as actor and director respectively, as well as Scroobius Pip as cast member! Get to hear the proper inside scoop on the film from three people intimately involved in it - almost a directors commentary right here, and cert...

Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 296 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Fire up in the podcast booth today as Pip is joined by rap royalty and microphone melter mister WRETCH32! “For me, if you wanna get 30 goals in a season you gotta be able to score headers and volleys…” A real nice and insightful chat with Pip and Wretch, with a huge amount of angles getting their shine i...

Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 295 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Pure broadcasting brilliance for you this week, as Pip is joined by TV and radio presenter and all round delight FEARNE COTTON! This is the mirror side of a two podcast deal the two of them struck up, where Pip appeared on her ‘Happy Place’ podcast, so as you’ll witness, the driver is often interchangeab...

Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 292 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! A real treat this week by way of writer and actor heavyweight DAISY HAGGARD! A proper nice chat right here is your gift, as Pip is joined by the writer of and actor in Back To Life and a whole bunch more (including a voice stint in a Harry Potter film - the key to knowing if someone has just skimmed her...

Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 293 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! As you may know, Pip is a patron of the Stamma organisation, and this week’s bonus Monday episode is a Stamma special! He is joined by three guests, each having their own individual chat sections with Pip. The guests are George, Owen and Natalie, each stammerers in their own right, and Pip gets into thei...

Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 292 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! A long awaited chat is your gift this week as Pip is joined by music, comedy and acting treasure BILL BAILEY! With Bill’s new appreciation of the early morning start, and enjoying those gems that are the early hours of the day, he joins Pip for some ace earlier-than-afternoon chattalogical goodness which...

Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 291 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Nothing but pure musical glory this week as Pip is joined for a proper chat with lead singer of Kaiser Chiefs RICKY WILSON! “We’ve never written songs that tell people what to do… We don’t write commands…” …which is interesting as right here we have Thou Shalt Always Kill sitting opposite I Predict A Rio...

Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 290 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Part 2 of an extensive 2 parter here for you with the wrestling phenomenon JACK SEXSMITH! To quote Curtis Mayfield, “Can I get a bit deeper…?” - and part 2 of this full on chat with Jack is the perfect example of where a chat gets that little bit deeper, so be prepared for some honesty, truth and observa...

Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 290 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Part 1 of an extensive 2 parter here for you with the wrestling phenomenon JACK SEXSMITH! “I’ll be the sex guy, then…” So much to talk about that Pip and Jack went in for almost two hours on this one! As you’ll hear, two hours barely even scratches the surface as there is just so much ground to cover… Th...

Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 289 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! A long awaited full length conversation this week with all time favourite documentarian and author LOUIS THEROUX! The conversation starts right up top with pseudonyms and nom-de-plumes the moment Louis joins Pip, and things don’t let up from there - Pip and Louis cover much ground in an hour which slips...

Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 288 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! A powerful get together this week as Pip sits down with rapper actor kingpin KANO! A really fun and engaging sit-down with the two, as Pip catches Kano in the midst of a promo run which leads us nicely into the whole thing - from the cycle beginning and ending (and then beginning again), his time served...

Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 287 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! What a treat this week, as Pip is joined for the triumphant return of the UK’s folk punk legend FRANK TURNER! …and about time too, as it’s been over 250 episodes since they last had a proper chat! As you can hear, the gap immediately disappears as they pick up effortlessly and gain quick ground about wha...

Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 286 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! A grand chat this week with standup comic, show host and mate of Guz Khan, it’s TEZ ILYAS! “let them come on the journey...” Hitting on many angles this week of all things comedy, shows, politics, geography and race, Pip and Tez go full on at all this and more from the comfort of a hotel room. I wonder h...

Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 285 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Proper rock royalty right here this week for you, as Pip is joined by Kasabian guitarist SERGE PIZZORNO! A lovely musical geekout this week, as if the occasion was ever not needed, as Pip sits down with the axeman to go through a whole slew of goodness, from career beginnings right up to the present. So...