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Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipJosh Pugh • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #529Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!This week Pip is joined by comic excellence and ace human being JOSH PUGH!One of those geniunely organic episodes which seems to form from the ground up and find a rhythm and pace all of its own. A lovely look into the mind of Josh, who specialises in comedy and standup but with a very social approach, which feels like it stems from his work in the social sector over the years. That comes up later which is fascinating and really great...
2023-08-3058 min
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipShaggy • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #528Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!This week Pip is joined by dancehall champion and superstar reggae musician SHAGGY!Very broadly speaking, a lot of you will know Shaggy as Mr Boombastic, or the guy who did Oh Carolina and It Wasn't Me. But dig a little deeper and there are worlds of releases and shows and all sorts of stories from the past that are just too exciting and interesting to pass up on... And that's what makes this last minute convo with Pip and Shaggy so awesome...
2023-08-2351 min
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipOpen Mike Eagle • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #527Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!This week Pip is joined by rapper, podcaster, producer, showmaker and all round multi-hyphenate OPEN MIKE EAGLE!This one's what they call a kinda 'special request' episode, where - to break the 4th wall - I (Buddy ✌🏼) suggested to Pip about getting Mike on again. Mike's been on before but YEARRRS ago and while his episode is obviously well worth checking, this is the more up to date one being a good 8 years after! And so much has happened in those years... New album...
2023-08-1659 min
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipLou Sanders • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #526Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!This week Pip is joined by comic, podcaster and writer LOU SANDERS!A treat for sure, as always with Lou, as we catch up on a bunch of life stuff and cool happenings in her world including healers, spiritual goings on, her past life as a band member, face biting, book writing, growing up in Thanet, sweat lodges, cultural appropriation, marriage and relationships, the concept of 'enough', living a playboy lifestyle and memory. A ton to dive into and all mixed seamlessly like...
2023-08-091h 04
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipJosie Long • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #525Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!This week Pip is joined for the second time in many years by comic star and friend of the show JOSIE LONG!It's been a bunch of years since Josie last joined the Distraction Pieces Podcast, and only through reasons of busy-ness and life's carousel is it that we haven't seen a return for a bit. Well it's a welcome reunion as, with all reunion episodes, so much life has happened in the interviening years. Josie's now a 2x mother, and has had...
2023-08-021h 06
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipSasha Lane • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #524Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!This week Pip is joined by the truly fabulous acting star SASHA LANE!By now you will have surely seen at least one of Sasha's starring roles in Loki, American Honey, How To Blow Up A Pipeline or presently The Crowded Room - but if not, you'll absolutely want to go and check on what Sasha's up to after hearing this chat. While mainly focusing on the matter at hand which is the last two projects (Pipeline and Crowded, for brevity), you'll hear...
2023-07-2644 min
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipGrassroots Music Venue Special • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #523Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!This week Pip is joined by SAM DABB of Newport's finest venue LE PUB!Being that this is a Grassroots Music Venue Special, who better than to Sam to join Pip to talk about everything that is truly unique, awesome, and hugely important about indie music venues. As you'll hear, Sam has been on a huge lifelong journey with music facilitation, promotion and production, and it is people like this who build up the arts and creative culture to be what it is...
2023-07-2148 min
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipLloyd Griffith • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #522Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!This week Pip is joined by the Grimsby comic legend LLOYD GRIFFITH!You'll know Lloyd from hus various outings and aboutings, and maybe more prominently from Soccer AM - but that is far from the extent of Lloyd's talents of course. You might catch him out on the road casually tearing down arenas with Jack Whitehall, of which you'll hear all about right here - including some very pertinent thoughts on the actual realistics of playing huge venues as opposed to smaller ones...
2023-07-191h 13
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipPom Klementieff • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #521Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!This week Pip is joined by the amazing action superstar POM KLEMENTIEFF!An absolute treat of an episode as we meet Pom in full fighting form, ready for a full on packed conversation branching out onto so much of her inspiring career but leaving enough for next time too! Basically - the surface is scratched but the iceberg has much below the surface, to smash a couple of metaophors together. Pom's been involved in a lot of cinema and always delivers huge performances...
2023-07-1247 min
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipRhys James • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #520Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!This week Pip is joined by the excellent and always funny comic RHYS JAMES!You'll have encountered Rhys on a variety of TV goodies over the years, and surely have caught a live show or two along the way, but this is a perfect chance to join in on a catch up with he and Pip in good old fashioned podcast form. It's a great one which branches out onto all sorts of tangents as a good podcast is known to do, from...
2023-07-051h 11
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipPride Film Club • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #519Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!This week Pip is flying solo to bring you some cinematic hits and favourites for PRIDE FILM CLUB!A straight from the heart celebration of queer joy and cinema for this episode, folks.I'm sure this goes without saying but if this presents an issue for you, we might suggest proceeding with an open heart to broaden to your love for humanity. But failing that - with all due respect - this isn't really the home for you. As with Pip's...
2023-06-2848 min
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipBridget Christie • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #518Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!This week Pip is joined by comic, author and actor BRIDGET CHRISTIE!A really lovely chat and catch up (and missing piece of the long-term Distraction Pieces puzzle) with Pip and Bridget, which comes at a perfect time in sync with Bridget's new series on Channel 4 'The Change'. You'll hear all about the amazing process of getting it off the ground and what else is involved in getting pitches picked and developed (it's a side of the industry which is by no means...
2023-06-2154 min
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipTrevor & Simon • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #517Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!This week Pip is joined by the all time Saturday morning TV comedy duo TREVOR & SIMON!"Never again, boys..."Of course, that description is nothing if not reductive, as they have done so much over the years that is way more than just that - but I think a good, hefty wedge of us will have become fast friends with the two from seeing them over multiple Saturday mornings on Going Live or Live & Kicking. Well, if your question is "...
2023-06-141h 13
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipDr Nishant Joshi • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #516Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!This week Pip is joined by doctor and musician NISHANT JOSHI!You might fancy including 'whistleblower' in that description too but only if you use it in the appropriate manner okay? Dr Nishant has been a busy person in ever so many ways since the pandemic began around a quarter of a decade ago (to give it that sense of close history), being a doctor on the frontline during one of the biggest health emergencies of our lifetimes. Included in that busy-ness though...
2023-06-071h 08
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipJon Ronson • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #515Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!This week Pip is joined by national treasure and rabbit hole journalist, author and podcaster JON RONSON!Rabbit-hole journalist is of course used in loving jest, as he kind of says the same himself in the course of the podcast. Jon loves a rabbit hole. And it's evident in his work which is pure story-upon-story heaven for the curious minded among us, which will of course appeal to those with a liking for Louis Theroux, Adam Curtis and Nick Broomfield for instance...
2023-05-3159 min
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipBalmer (autism, parenting, Twitch) • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #514Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!This week Pip is joined by Twitch legend BALMER to talk all things parenting and indeed, Twitch!The term 'Twitch legend' is doing all sorts of work there, and for those uninitiated, you may need some assistance. Twitch is the livestreaming platform for people to either observe or take part in art, sports, gaming, music, every conceivable activity that can be filmed essentially. Within appropriate broadcast law, obvs. Gaming happens to be Balmer's chosen discipline (with some improv and role play in there...
2023-05-241h 12
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipFlorence & Reed (Come Curious) • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #513Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!This week Pip is joined by Florence & Reed from the almighty COME CURIOUS podcast!Of course, the podcast is one aspect of both of their wide and varied skillset, but it's a hugely important and awesome element - even in terms of reframing 'sex positive' as 'sex honest'. Florence and Reed have been making power moves in the world of sex work, including being active within it, fighting for rights and equality, and ensuring that things don't get misrepresented and blurry along the...
2023-05-171h 13
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipJames Acaster • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #512Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!This week Pip is joined by show favourite, renowned comic and now grand producer JAMES ACASTER!Some might consider this a kind of trojan horse episode, in that it's not wall to wall "Let's talk about comedy and Taskmaster" - no, this time, Pip catches up with James about his new role as producer and orchestrator behind the new sprawling music project 'Temps'! The project itself is a truly adventurous step to bring together a ton of different worlds, but revolving around a...
2023-05-101h 17
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipAnna Bogutskaya • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #511Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!This week Pip is joined by the awesome writer, podcaster, curator and film critic ANNA BOGUTSKAYA!Hopefully you will know Anna and her prolific works at this point but in the event that you've been caught napping, this is a perfect introduction to the encyclopedic film lover herself... This is the perfect episode for all cinephiles, covering so many elements of the on-screen universe and much of the psychology behind it which will absolutely prove for a truly enjoyable listen. From being an...
2023-05-031h 14
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipFantasy Film Casting (w/Chris & Stu) • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #510Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!This week Pip is joined by Drunkast and Hardcore Listing mates CHRIS & STU!The theme of this week is simple but has vast potential for pure world building... Pip invited Chris and Stu along to do some good old fashioned stuntcasting - where you basically re-cast films and TV shows with a cast of your own assemblage. The results? Chaotic and amazing. But ALWAYS grounds for debate and good old fashioned chat. A whole episode's worth, at that! So give yourself over to...
2023-04-261h 31
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipJohnny Harris • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #509Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!This week Pip is joined by the warm, ace and uplifting actor JOHNNY HARRIS!Johnny's been incredibly busy over the last few decades, as a quick glimpse at his storied IMDB page will display. So of course you can expect to hear a ton of good old fashioned acting chat right here. But on top of that, you'll also be treated to a ton of good old fashioned friendly and uplifting back and forth too. Johnny's interests and skills go beyond acting, so...
2023-04-191h 07
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipJohn Kearns • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #508Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!This week Pip is joined by the excellent and hilarious comic JOHN KEARNS!You might know John from his appearances on Taskmaster. You might know John from his memorable appearance on stage as a comedian (rocking the false teeth and wig). But here's a perfect chance to get to know John as the human behind it all, the master at the controls. It's a brilliant chat which covers all the ground you would hope for, but also offers some fascinating insight into what...
2023-04-121h 01
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipDrunk Women Solving Crime • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #507Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!This week Pip is joined by veteran true crime comedy podcast trio DRUNK WOMEN SOLVING CRIME!...of course the three women in question who form the trio have names - Taylor, Hannah and Catie - and all three are here to chat all things podcasts, origin stories and more! A lot more, by the way. It's a joy to hear the team catch up and talk about all the things that maybe even people who listen to DWSC aren't up to speed on...
2023-04-051h 03
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipRou Reynolds • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #506Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!This week Pip is joined by Enter Shikari's ROU REYNOLDS!...and if you remember all the way back to episode 27 where Rou made his debut on Distraction Pieces, you will know that his name is pronounced "Rou like cow, not Rou like moo". But that aside - we welcome back Rou, in this excellent episode which delves into so much more than music. Situating ourselves immediately in the surroundings of Pip's old uni town of Wolverhampton, we hear about everything including politics and...
2023-03-2959 min
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipBrandon Cronenberg • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #505Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!This week Pip is joined by director BRANDON CRONENBERG!If half of that name rings bells to those of you not versed too hard in the cinema world, you are indeed correct - Brandon's father is David, who you will surely be familiar with in some way! Brandon's been carving a unique niche in the horror scene with some truly psychedelic adventures in the genre, and you'll be happy to know that he goes into a lot of the technique in this chat...
2023-03-2237 min
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipBisha K. Ali • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #504Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!This week Pip is joined by the incredible screenwriter BISHA K. ALI!An absolute must listen episode, firstly for those interested and invested in the acting and cinema/television kingdom, but also for those who want to hear a straight up brilliant episode full of honesty, truth and heart. Of course you get the shop talk - process, creativity, the whole science of it all (and the Marvel multiverse of course)- which is amazing in itself, but you also get some wondefully...
2023-03-151h 19
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipNatalia Tena • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #503Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!This week Pip is joined by the brilliant actor and musician NATALIA TENA!The instant connection that will be of note to Distraction Pieces Network followers, is that Natalia starred next to Brett Goldstein in Superbob - which hopefully you will have seen by now! BUT - consider that something of a sidebar to this conversation as here, we get to hear everything about Natalia in a solo capacity. From boat life, to mind opening Patagonia journeys, to dream jobs and being part...
2023-03-0857 min
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipSaul Williams & Anisia Uzeyman • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #502Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!This week Pip is joined by the duo of incredible poet and filmmaker SAUL WILLIAMS and stellar actor and playwright ANISIA UZEYMAN!Saul is back on the Distraction Pieces couch for his second appearance in the show's history (first time was incredible), and as you can well imagine, you're in for treats galore. Not only that, you can double up on said treats by adding the wonderful Anisia Uzeyman into the mix, as the two drop science in an orderly fashion! A huge...
2023-03-011h 02
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipAsk Pip • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #501Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!This week Pip is flying solo to answer a flurry of questions from YOU, the listeners and viewers!In keeping with Distraction Pieces tradition, Pip likes to have a week to himself from time to time and here we are, deep in mid-February, to open up the mailbag. Even saying 'mailbag' is such a nostalgia trigger for most of us. Didn't that kind of thing die out not long after the 90's arrived? What was it replaced by? Maybe that should have been...
2023-02-2247 min
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipDPP Episode 500! (Part 2 of 2) • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #500Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!Join Pip and producer Buddy Peace in a 'quincentenary' celebration as the podcast reaches episode 500! PART 2 of 2!Pip and myself don't often sit down and recount the archives of the Distraction Pieces Podcast in an official capacity. We might refer back to episodes here and there, or talk in a bizarre shorthand only decipherable by us about certain prior events and occurances in the past. But this time we sat down and recorded a whole epic feature length episode of us doing the...
2023-02-171h 09
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipDPP Episode 500! (Part 1 of 2) • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #500Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!Join Pip and producer Buddy Peace in a 'quincentenary' celebration as the podcast reaches episode 500! PART 1 of 2!Pip and myself don't often sit down and recount the archives of the Distraction Pieces Podcast in an official capacity. We might refer back to episodes here and there, or talk in a bizarre shorthand only decipherable by us about certain prior events and occurances in the past. But this time we sat down and recorded a whole epic feature length episode of us doing the...
2023-02-151h 17
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipDizzee Rascal • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #344Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!One of the episodes you’ve either been waiting for a while to align, or one that you didn’t realise you were looking forward to until it dropped - this week Pip is joined by none other than UK rap and grime superstar DIZZEE RASCAL!Such a great chat with the two, covering all kinds of bases including how he could have been an actor, the lessons learned through pirate radio and the transferrable skills absorbed through the old skool days, being into...
2020-09-091h 16
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipBozzers • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #343Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!Joining Pip for a bonus episode today is the wonderful wrestling fanatic, journalist and Tuesday Night Jaw host BOZZERS!Absolutely one for the wrestling heads right here - of course you would want to spend hours in Bozzers’ company anyway, no question, but right here this time the focus is on the wide world of wrestling. While the chat goes on to cover other elements of her illustrious life - her anxiety and dealing with it, her journalism background and so on - yo...
2020-09-041h 01
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipHimesh Patel • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #342Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!A fantastic catch up this week with Pip and star of Yesterday, Eastenders and a HUGE amount more - it’s HIMESH PATEL!A very nice chat which encompasses everything in Himesh’s inspirational rise to well earned fame and recognition, from those early days in acting school and his relationship with his parents throughout the process, to early gigs and his almost decade long run in Eastenders… Not only that - of course Yesterday comes up, as does Avenue 5, but there’s some ace...
2020-09-0253 min
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipJoe Talbot (Idles) • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #341Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!Joining Pip at long last this week is JOE TALBOT of IDLES!A very in-depth, therapeutic and cathartic chat for you this episode (actually - lemme get this out the way up top - it’s a LITTLE sweary so don’t play in front of the young’uns perhaps), as Pip and Joe get all the way into everything. Of course the mandatory ‘present times’ talk is addressed and lifted at the front, to then reveal the creepy crawlies and seething underbelly of the wor...
2020-08-261h 08
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipLou Sanders • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #340Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!A long awaited and very welcome guest appearance by dear friend of the Distraction Pieces Network, it’s the very hilarious comedian and podcaster LOU SANDERS!Powerful goodness here (NOT recorded in a train station but certainly train-facing) from Pip and Lou, which goes into many angles of her awesome career - of which you can expect to hear about past Edinburgh Fringe experiences, her spirituality and being a secret shaman and all that entails, psychic energy and the tapping into of, her Cu...
2020-08-191h 10
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipShannon Murphy • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #339Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!A fantastic opportunity to catch up with the absolute ray of sunlight and director of Babyteeth (and Killing Eve), it’s Shannon Murphy!Proper film geekout brilliance as pip catches up with Shannon, talking all things film direction, small and big screen, promoting during lockdown, the whole world behind Babyteeth, Killing Eve goodness and just a whole world in between. Perfect bonus material for your Friday!EPISODE LINKS:SHANNON on TWITTERSHANNON on IMDBBA...
2020-08-1440 min
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipAlex & Chris of Young Offenders • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #338Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!A double feature across the internet plains via Zoom as Pip chats with the stars of Young Offenders, Alex Murphy and Chris Walley!A great chance to get better acquainted with the duo, which goes into their acting origins and early days in the trade, Ireland’s Cork as a training ground, the third series of Young Offenders, the old skool days of appointment viewing, Love/Hate, Ireland for actors, early days of auditions and early jobs - just everything basically! Past, present an...
2020-08-1258 min
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipEl-P • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #337Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!Absolute hip hop perfection this episode as Pip has a proper full length chat with rapper/producer/composer - or for brevity’s sake, half of Run The Jewels - El-P!Whether you’re familiar with El-P from his way back underground (dare I say ‘indie rap’) days of Company Flow alongside Bigg Jus and Mr Len, and of course the label Def Jux (including his sonic architecture of the Cannibal Ox album), or his solo work wearing many hats per album – OR – his present...
2020-08-051h 18
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipJack Rooke • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #336Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!A perfect meetup this week as Pip has a good old chat with poet, writer, counsellor and all round great dude JACK ROOKE!As a listener to Pip’s old radio show from back in the day, of course the two are gonna get on from jump - but that’s just the beginning, as they get into the real life stuff very soon and very deep. Everything from Jack’s work as a poet and writer, to Rob Auton and the Bang Said T...
2020-07-291h 19
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipJasmine Jobson • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #335Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!An awesome meeting this week as Pip spends time talking to one of the UK’s finest actors and a true pro, JASMINE JOBSON!Surely you will know Jasmine through her stellar work in Top Boy, but you may already be well aware of her acting skills outside of that. However you’ve become acquainted with Jasmine, you’ll hear a ton of goodness and greatness about her early life and some of what she’s experienced in those formative years, her dedication to the c...
2020-07-2250 min
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipDane Baptiste • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #334Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!A very long awaited guest appearance from one of the UK’s finest this week - everyone please be welcoming in your - well, welcome - to comedian and straight up legend DANE BAPTISTE!This one’s been on the cards for a minute, but finally the online moment has come and as the planets align, he we are with another goodie in the bag. While this was recorded about a week and a half-ish prior to the publish date, the topics addressed are...
2020-07-151h 18
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipMoments That Changed My Life (w/Chris & Stu) (part 2) • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #333Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!A very extra special edition of Distraction Pieces as Pip is joined by the eerily sober Stu Whiffen and Chris Glassen of the Hardcore Listing podcast to celebrate A MILLION DOWNLOADS!!!What a day… It’s no small thing getting up to a cool milly… Their hard work has truly paid off and it’s such a treat to hear them talking to Pip about the whole ride - but not in a self congratulatory way… They’re doing it in the medium - in...
2020-07-081h 05
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipMoments That Changed My Life (w/Chris & Stu) (part 1) • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #333Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!A very extra special edition of Distraction Pieces as Pip is joined by the eerily sober Stu Whiffen and Chris Glassen of the Hardcore Listing podcast to celebrate A MILLION DOWNLOADS!!!What a day… It’s no small thing getting up to a cool milly… Their hard work has truly paid off and it’s such a treat to hear them talking to Pip about the whole ride - but not in a self congratulatory way… They’re doing it in the medium - in...
2020-07-081h 10
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipPaapa Essiedu • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #332Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!Maybe you know Paapa Essiedu through his stellar Hamlet performance. Maybe you know him from starring in the absolutely stunning ‘I May Destroy You’, alongside the incredible Michaela Coel. Whatever degree you know Paapa, here’s a perfect chance to get all the better acquainted with him, as Pip has a chat with him about the whole lot and even more than that. From the themes of I May Destroy you, which leads on to a greater conversation about consent in general and all the subjec...
2020-07-011h 06
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipAshley 'Dotty' Charles • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #331Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!Ashley ‘Dotty’ Charles (aka Amplify Dot) joins Pip this week for a wonderful and in depth chat about the broad ranging topic of outrage. We all know what outrage is because invariably we’ve experienced it at some point in the very recent past or just in general in our internet / non-internet lives… It’s therefore fascinating to hear in more detail exactly what it is, how it is used, the mechanics of it and how we can use it more creatively and effectively. From the recent...
2020-06-241h 15
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipDefund The Police: Discussed • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #330Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!A very timely and hugely informative Friday bonus for you this week, as Pip is joined by two guests, one after the other. The first is Alex S. Vitale (professor of sociology at Brooklyn College, US), followed by Dr Adam Elliott-Cooper (University Of Greenwich, humanities and social science department).With everything we’ve seen over the last month in most recent history, one sentiment and statement that’s been gaining traction is “Defund The Police”. On face value and without any further research or intri...
2020-06-1959 min
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipSimon Bird • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #329Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!This week Pip is joined by actor and now director SIMON BIRD, whom you may already be familiar with from such roles as Will from The Inbetweeners and Adam from Friday Night Dinner!Simon and Pip chat over the good old fashioned zoom app (you get that nice warmth and crackle over zoom), to catch up on all things acting and directing, as well as fatherhood and family life and how everything feeds into each other. A nice coverage of menu items from...
2020-06-1755 min
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipIsolation DrunkCast v.3 w/Jayde, Rich, Chris & Stu (pt 3 of 3) • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #328Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 328 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!Distraction Pieces listeners and friends, please feel at home and very welcome in the warm, cosy confines of the third Isolation DrunkCast of 2020! This time round you are treated to a guest appearance from Jayde Adams and Rich Wilson, as well as Hardcore Listing crew Chris & Stu!The beauty of the DrunkCast episodes is that they can truly be their own beasts. They can contain any amount of tangents and subjects, and they can take a detour whenever they like while...
2020-06-111h 36
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipIsolation DrunkCast v.3 w/Jayde, Rich, Chris & Stu (pt 2 of 3) • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #328Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 328 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!Distraction Pieces listeners and friends, please feel at home and very welcome in the warm, cosy confines of the third Isolation DrunkCast of 2020! This time round you are treated to a guest appearance from Jayde Adams and Rich Wilson, as well as Hardcore Listing crew Chris & Stu!The beauty of the DrunkCast episodes is that they can truly be their own beasts. They can contain any amount of tangents and subjects, and they can take a detour whenever they like while...
2020-06-101h 15
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipIsolation DrunkCast v.3 w/Jayde, Rich, Chris & Stu (pt 1 of 3) • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #328Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 328 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!Distraction Pieces listeners and friends, please feel at home and very welcome in the warm, cosy confines of the third Isolation DrunkCast of 2020! This time round you are treated to a guest appearance from Jayde Adams and Rich Wilson, as well as Hardcore Listing crew Chris & Stu!The beauty of the DrunkCast episodes is that they can truly be their own beasts. They can contain any amount of tangents and subjects, and they can take a detour whenever they like while...
2020-06-101h 07
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipAkala (Revisited) • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipWelcome, welcome, welcome to a very special re-release episode of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip.This episode is a re-release of episode 65 of DPP, where Pip spoke to Akala. This is such a perfect companion to the re-release of the Killer Mike episode, as it reflects upon certain similar issues but from a UK voice. Akala is someone who’s been fighting the good fight for years, whether it be dropping heavyweight albums or taking the public to school live on air with ease and confidence (dropping pure knowledge on topics that have been so...
2020-06-031h 46
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipKiller Mike (Revisited) • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipWelcome, welcome, welcome to a very special re-release episode of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip.This episode is a re-release of episode 12 of DPP, where Pip spoke to Killer Mike. Since the episode aired, it remains one of the most referenced episodes from Pip, and with good reason. Mike drops so much science that is not a casual listen. This is one to take time with, to reflect on and to pay attention to. What we’re seeing in the USA right now is an ongoing trauma which seems to know no bounds, so he...
2020-06-031h 07
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipBehind The Album: No Commercial Breaks (2006) • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #327Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 326 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!This week Pip is going in on one of his older releases - his debut in fact - that’s right, Pip is going behind NO COMMERCIAL BREAKS!A true milestone in the path of all that is Pip, and with a look at the whole thing with the benefit of distance (social or otherwise) and hindsight, he is able to go through it with an objectivity but not without emotion. It’s interesting to hear the tracks that hit home and...
2020-05-271h 06
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipRutger Bregman (v.2) • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #326Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 326 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!A perfect return guest right here as Pip is joined once more by the inspirational philosopher, author and historian RUTGER BREGMAN!If you missed the first appearance then DEFINITELY go back and listen as it’s still immensely relevant and very interesting indeed, with a ton of goodness for some clear minded thinking. If you already caught that one, you’re in for some return greatness as Rutger and Pip join each other via the magic invisible meeting room in the sky...
2020-05-201h 12
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipIsolation DrunkCast v.2 (pt 3 of 3) • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #325Welcome, 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 To The Future / Godfather / Karate Kid of podcasts. A three parter of crazy huge proportions, featuring not only Pip and the usual Hardcore Li...
2020-05-141h 23
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipIsolation DrunkCast v.2 (pt 2 of 3) • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #325Welcome, 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 To The Future / Godfather / Karate Kid of podcasts. A three parter of crazy huge proportions, featuring not only Pip and the usual Hardcore Li...
2020-05-131h 09
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipIsolation DrunkCast v.2 (pt 1 of 3) • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #325Welcome, 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 To The Future / Godfather / Karate Kid of podcasts. A three parter of crazy huge proportions, featuring not only Pip and the usual Hardcore Li...
2020-05-131h 36
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipBehind The Album: Distraction Pieces (2011) • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #324Welcome, 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 you’ve been fortunate enough to catch him live around the time you will have seen and heard venues get slapped silly with ‘Introdiction’, ‘The Struggle’ an...
2020-05-061h 19
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipMum & Mummer w/ Amy & Harry • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #323Welcome, 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 deals with the honesty and rawness of being a mum in the modern world, and all of the weird and wonderful baggage that brings. They are perf...
2020-04-291h 10
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipAsk Pip v.9 (part 2/2) • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #322Welcome, 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 not let ourselves get lost in the weeds here eh. Please enjoy your second serving of pure acapella Pip. GO GET EM PIP!!!...
2020-04-2244 min
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipAsk Pip v.9 (part 1/2) • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #322Welcome, 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 isolation on, and pacing around his living room while answering those burning questions from you the dear listeners. Some truly good stuff here this ti...
2020-04-2259 min
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipTim Key • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #321Welcome, 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. Anyway - all of this aside, prepare for some lovely times as Pip and Tim share gifts, anecdotes and wisdom from the world of spoken word and poetry, as...
2020-04-151h 32
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipIsolation DrunkCast v.1 (pt 2 of 2) • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #320Welcome, 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 today's goodness ahead then shall we? I mean it'd be in your best interests first of all to know that this is the next on the ongoing series of...
2020-04-081h 25
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipIsolation DrunkCast v.1 (pt 1 of 2) • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #320Welcome, 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 today's goodness ahead then shall we? I mean it'd be in your best interests first of all to know that this is the next on the ongoing series of...
2020-04-081h 31
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipLianne La Havas • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #319Welcome, 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 great, and that’s been a true strength of the Distraction Pieces Podcast - the face to face element of it all. Well, while that may temporarily alter here and th...
2020-04-011h 12
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipIsolation Recommendations • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #318Welcome, 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 decision. Anyway - details aside - all of us at the Distraction Pieces labs (which is conveniently entirely remote) wish you the very best, and all the positivity and...
2020-03-251h 02
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipAshley Walters • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #317Welcome, 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 BULLETPROOF? Don’t make me get all Biff from Back To The Future and knock on your head to make sure you’re on the same page… Anyway - it’...
2020-03-1855 min
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipCosmo Jarvis • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #316Welcome, 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 Cosmo from his starring turns in Lady Macbeth, or maybe Peaky Blinders - his presence leaves a long lasting impression in whatever you will see him in, an...
2020-03-111h 00
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipNiamh Algar • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #315Welcome, 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 Virtues’ alongside Distraction Pieces spiritual godfather Stephen Graham, and if you did you will adore this chat as Niamh goes IN on the whole process. As always...
2020-03-0455 min
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipMae Martin • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #314Welcome, 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 me… But yeah, everything from then to now, including what she is doing THIS VERY MOMENT, and by that of course I mea...
2020-02-261h 05
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipRich Wilson • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #313Welcome, 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 down… Start here and THEN go find it, as you will most definitely become a fast friend of Rich’s by the end of the chat. Rich is a loveable...
2020-02-211h 25
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipGraham Fellows aka John Shuttleworth • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #312Welcome, 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 conversation involving the creative process, workflow and inspiration which will appeal to anyone remotely interested in making awesome things. I’m sure this means YOU reading this! Having met Pip a...
2020-02-191h 04
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipMichael Cashman • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #311Welcome, 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 (with Ian McKellen), ex-member of European Parliament, activist and former actor (those of us who grew up on Eastenders will remember him as Colin), his life has been a genuine do...
2020-02-121h 19
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipAsk Pip v.8 • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #310Welcome, 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. Expect the answers to a gang of questions submitted on Facebook not so long ago, none of which shall be spoiled here - the discoveries are all your...
2020-02-051h 25
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipRobert Eggers • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #309Welcome, 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 a proper film-nerd paradise, as Robert opens up about his VVitch backgrounds, acting under environmental duress, the importance of casting, attitudes to rehearsal and how that informed performances, cinematography (than...
2020-01-2953 min
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipRob Auton • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #308Welcome, 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 get you in the mix nicely, Pip and Rob get full on deep into a wide ranging conversation which will serve as a perfect introduction to h...
2020-01-221h 20
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipThe Safdie Brothers • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #307Welcome, 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 / cinema joint and Adam Sandler-starring ‘Uncut Gems’! Pip is a confirmed fan of course, and caught up with them on a very swift whirlwind run in London to talk all things film...
2020-01-1544 min
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipKarl Pilkington • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #306Welcome, 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 guest of the year - it’s the uniquely great KARL PILKINGTON!While some see Karl as the grumpy one of the original podcast trio consisting of him, Ri...
2020-01-081h 15
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipFilms Of The Year 2019 • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #305Welcome, 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 this objective list of best films which wipes out your own list of films for 2019 - this is Pip's list, so don't take it personal - just have a peep...
2020-01-061h 16
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipEnd Of Year Drunkcast (Part 5) • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #304Welcome, 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 episode of the DrunkCast! Part five… Thanks for holding on, folks… WOO HAH indeed!HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU AND YOURS!Chris...
2020-01-011h 15
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipEnd Of Year Drunkcast (Part 4) • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #304Welcome, 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 hour FOUR of their drunken jibber jabber extravaganza... Kicking things off with a lovely shout out to... well... me! - cheers lads - and my...
2019-12-2557 min
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipEnd Of Year Drunkcast (Part 3) • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #304Welcome, 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 hour three of their inebriated and chaotic chatramble, at which you are about to be guest of honour so FIX UP AND LOOK SHARP...
2019-12-231h 01
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipEnd Of Year Drunkcast (Part 2) • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #304Welcome, 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 gang of booze. And the stage is set. Prepare for some prime meanderings, golden tangents and excellent banter including TV (Top Boy, When They See Us etc...
2019-12-201h 06
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipEnd Of Year Drunkcast (Part 1) • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #304Welcome, 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 Listing in true tried and tested seasonal fashion to kick things off with a bang, and several bottle pops! It’s an action packed b...
2019-12-181h 05
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipYoni Wolf • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #303Welcome, 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 gentlemen, this week’s guest is YONI WOLF (aka WHY? - band and solo)!Pip and Yoni share many mutual friends, influences and in...
2019-12-111h 23
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipKevin Smith • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #302Welcome, 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 slightly shorter episode, Pip could hardly turn Kevin down now could he…? Exactly. Unthinkable. So sit back and enjoy as Kevin essentially takes the reins with t...
2019-12-041h 02
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipNeil Gaiman • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #301Welcome, 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 wealth of work that Neil’s been involved in, but let’s just say the list of work goes back a good long way. His career is coming u...
2019-11-271h 36
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipPaul Feig • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #300Welcome, 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, and Pip does just that, managing to pick him up on all things directorial and cinematic philosophy. Beginning with the importance of eye contact in an interview, they get crac...
2019-11-2048 min
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipJames Mangold • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #299Welcome, 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 present, covering his mission to get people out to the cinema, giving over control, creating memorable film making experiences, not being hugely pumped about racing but gradua...
2019-11-1540 min
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipDJ Shadow • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #298Welcome, 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 rare treat for Shadow heads and crate digging nerds, and those who appreciate a good old fashioned music chat right here, but not only that - of course Pip and Sha...
2019-11-131h 17
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipEugene Simon & Erwan Marinopoulos • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #297Welcome, 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 certainly a conversation you won’t hear anywhere else so you have official ringside seats with this one. Hear about it all, including how they took the film around the wo...
2019-11-081h 21
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipWretch32 • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #296Welcome, 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 in a balanced, inspiring and wisdom-fuelled way. Whether you’ve been down with Wretch for a minute or just stepped in the game, this is...
2019-11-061h 14
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipFearne Cotton • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #295Welcome, 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 interchangeable, but it’s all perfect as they get on just grand. Maybe it’s because they were born a month apart and have the same cultural touchstones - WHO KNOW...
2019-10-301h 11
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipDaisy Haggard • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #294Welcome, 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 IMDB page!), and they have a grand old time getting down to the business of acting, film, cinema, movie, the whole...
2019-10-231h 06
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipStamma special • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #293Welcome, 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 their stories beginning with what they do, and getting slowly into the deeper stories… It’s fascinating to hear everyone relating their relationships with stammers and stutters, which involv...
2019-10-211h 38
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipBill Bailey • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #292Welcome, 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 includes so much, from back in the day to… now in the day? You know what I’m getting at. So you can absolutely expect to hear all manner of awesom...
2019-10-161h 12
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipRicky Wilson (Kaiser Chiefs) • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #291Welcome, 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 Riot! It is ON from the moment they step in the room, moving deftly through the sheer madness of social media, onward through to his life being...
2019-10-091h 02
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipJack Sexsmith (part 2/2) • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #290Welcome, 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 observation on all things wrestling. But as Pip mentions at the start and end and at points on the last episode, we can all get along wherever we stand...
2019-10-0250 min
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius PipJack Sexsmith (part 1/2) • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #290Welcome, 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… They begin at the end, Memento style, with Jack’s recent injury which resulted in his retirement, and so you will hear everythin...
2019-10-021h 09