You are cordially welcomed, and tripley so, as we tiptoe ever closer to the Distraction Pieces milestone, the centenary, the HUNDREDTH EPISODE... But enough about that - let's concentrate on episode 98 and be present in the moment shall we... It's Essex's wrestling superstar Mr Will Ospreay!Ever since Pip had a chance meeting outside a Progress Wrestling event at the Electric Ballroom in Camden and then witnessed Will rip it up, it's been a matter of time until the two got together in the podcas...
May 17, 2016•1 hr 18 min
Welcome welcome and naturally WELCOME to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip - and episode NINETY SEVEN at that! Heck. A slammer of a show lies ahead of you ready for your listening enjoyment, as we welcome one of the UK's finest acting/writing/musical talents, the multi-threat herself, ISY SUTTIE!A wonderful and whimsical (license to use that word has been officially granted by Isy herself, you'll see) chat with Pip and Isy as we begin on the subject of hot beverages in some depth...
May 10, 2016•1 hr 39 min
Welcome 1, welcome 2 and of course, welcome 3 to your weekly Distraction Pieces dose, as we get you all good and cranked up on another killer episode of DPP glory - please welcome (three times) the delightful Kathy Burke!Such a nice chat with Pip and Kathy, as we get to join and listen in on all aspects of Kathy's diverse and strong-willed career, from her beginnings and early days in the Harry Enfield show and of course as half of Kevin & Perry, her enthralling role in the heavy Gary Oldman...
May 03, 2016•1 hr 33 min
Welcome, welcome, welcome to your 95th episode of the always immaculate Distraction Pieces Podcast! This week is a treat, as always, as we welcome one of the UK's finest, Michael Socha!A fantastic in-depth banter with Pip and Michael as we get some valuable insights and perspectives into the acting game, and the values of being a workhorse within it. Science and knowledge dropped from all angles too of course on all aspects of Michael's sturdy body of work, including of course the classic 'This ...
Apr 26, 2016•1 hr 19 min
At LEAST three welcomes all up on and over you as we sneak up on you and BOOM! Surprise! Bonus episode! The purest of pure Pip-casts right here with your gracious host delivering a powerful monologue on all that is set to come from the world of Speech Development Records and Scroobius Pip in the forthcoming days, weeks and months!Some genuine treats along the way, from the new Pip track/video, to the forthcoming documentary, to We.Are.Lizards developments and all things Distraction Pieces univer...
Apr 24, 2016•48 min
Welcome /// Welcome /// Welcome to the PART 2 of the 94th episode of Distraction Pieces - your second helping of the fantastic Ed Skrein! Or dessert helping, whatever you prefer.Another full on positive inspiration right here all the way, as Pip gets down and dirty in the Deapool talk - fans and not-yet-fans of the film, you're in for treat after treat as Ed lets you in on the behind the scenes camaraderie, fun and gossip of the making of the film, his own technique and the lessons learned along...
Apr 19, 2016•55 min
Welcome, welcome WELCOME to the 94th episode of Distraction Pieces, an episode so uncontainably fresh it's a two parter! Come around and witness the brilliance of North London's rapper-turned-actor phenomenon mister Ed Skrein!Pure inspirational joy right here while Pip converses with Skrein ("like wine" if you were pondering) and gets unfathomably deep about Ed's insane four year ascension into the world of acting, which threw him into such situations as, oh just a little series you might know a...
Apr 19, 2016•1 hr
Team 3W stand UP! Welcome Welcome Welcome aboard to episode 93 of the certified slamming heavyweight Distraction Pieces Podcast, hosted by Scroobius Pip and this week featuring Mr Carl Barât or The Libertines (and many more!).A proper nice back and forth with Pip and Carl, hitting every aspect of the life of a young raw rockstar, from humble origins, the sparks of instrument inspiration, London's uniqueness and of course, the straight-from-the-source history of one of the most interesting band d...
Apr 12, 2016•1 hr 13 min
A trilogy of welcomes upon you to this 92nd episode of the great, the grand, the mighty and almighty Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Whether there is a difference between mighty and almighty is IRRELEVANT. The Distraction Pieces Podcast contains multitudes.A good old fashioned up close and personal with your always hydrated host, direct from the floor of an undisclosed Stanford Le Hope studio. Your questions, his answers, and a textbook slammer of an 'Ask Pip' episode. The fourth ...
Apr 05, 2016•1 hr 11 min
Your final batch of three welcomes as we enter the octagon for a proper throwdown - and if you thought there'd be anything other than MMA talk then you WRONG!Full deep immersion banter on this one, which you are welcome to join in on as a non-MMA appreciator (and learn some names and trivia and whatnot) and will want to join in on as a fan/practitioner - all bases covered! ALSO - drinking game idea - take one shot of high strength spirit for every time Pip says the word "beast" or any variants. ...
Mar 30, 2016•1 hr 37 min
More welcomes, more booze, more banter - we're going in, people - Empire Strikes Back-ing it up in here... It's the DrunkCast part 2 of 3!!!Another few rounds of bar-room banterbrawl action, with your by now fairly steaming host and our liquored up cohorts, all in line with part 1 and perhaps even a little looser, but all awesome podcast entertainment and in places, podcast GOLD! Films, MMA, pop culture treats and perhaps a lil' more MMA crowbarred in for balance... Step aboard, stay aboard, do ...
Mar 30, 2016•1 hr 16 min
Welcome / Welcome / Welcome (rapped fast with a mouthful of scampi) to your first 0.3-recurring of episode 91 of the powerful Distraction Pieces Podcast! It's a DrunkCast! They're going in AGAIN!Join your - at this point in the trilogy - sober-ish host Scroobius Pip and his good mates Stu Whiffen (Pink Toothbrush, We.Are.Lizards) & Chris Glassen (Redshift Rebels, We.Are.Lizards) down in Stu's bar 'The Whiff Inn' as they recreate history in podcast form, by revisiting that magical harmony tha...
Mar 29, 2016•52 min
(welcome) WELCOME w-e-l-c-o-m-e (trying to match Pip's impulse to change that cadence at the start) to your 90th episode of the Distraction Pieces Podcast, featuring the wonderful and crazy skilled Georgina Campbell!A bright and breezy chat to match the time of year, with a super nice back and forth between Georgina and Pip covering all the good stuff, from her being talent-scouted in the street, to her earlier roles and influences, her awards win for 'Murdered By My Boyfriend', and the back cat...
Mar 23, 2016•1 hr 8 min
Here. Have a welcome. In fact, nah brother man, here have three. Okay fair enough, no Mr Wendall references going forward. Please welcome this week's truly unique and fascinating guest, it's Limerick's own Blindboy from The Rubberbandits!An absorbing and engaging chat with a very interesting character, who plays half of the Irish comedy music duo who perform and roam the earth with plastic bags over their faces. If you are unfamiliar with the two, let Blindboy take you through it himself as we b...
Mar 16, 2016•1 hr 23 min
All of the welcomes and a very merry Friday to you, and for making it to the end of the week here is a bonus Distraction Pieces Podcast to rock and shock your pre-weekend listening entertainment... It's a LEAP UK exclusive, and their formal introduction into the DISTRACTION PIECES NETWORK! (More on that particular nugget to come in due course...)All shall be made clear in Pip's introduction and indeed, outroduction, but essentially this is a fairly rough and ready recording snatched from a post-...
Mar 11, 2016•40 min
Not one, not two, but THREE welcomes upon you as standard to episode 87 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast, with Kirby's own cinema superstar Mr Stephen Graham!Full on good time chatter goodness from Pip and Stephen as they get along like old pals (with one very important thing in common - no spoilers here yo, you'll find out), and we glean much from Stephen's diverse acting career. From his beginnings as a self proclaimed scally out on the streets to his acting school progressions right up to hi...
Mar 09, 2016•1 hr 45 min
Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 86 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast, a special with Housing For Women and guest Mira!Pip breaks down the full process of what it took to get to the interview/chat stage with guest Mira in the intro (including the discussions with Comic Relief/Sport Relief and Housing For Women), which will prime you perfectly for what follows. And indeed, what follows from guest Mira is awfully hard to take in but a truly valuable, and an ultimately inspiring tale of what ca...
Mar 02, 2016•1 hr 37 min
Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 85 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast, dripping with paint and resin and all manner of art materials, fresh from a visit to the studios of Ryan Callanan aka RYCA!Crazy inspiring stuff as Pip links up with RYCA to dig deeper into his works - but the focus today is, of course, the absolutely stunning Scroobius Pip toy!!! Beautiful. Catch the images while you listen on Acast! On top of that, get acquainted with RYCA as you hear his origins in 2D and 3D art, the V...
Feb 24, 2016•1 hr 25 min
Welcome, welcome, welcome to all of you over at Team 3W! Please enjoy episode 84 of the powerful, the almighty Distraction Pieces Podcast with this week's guest, Saul Williams!Heavyweight verbal artillery is locked and loaded as Pip goes head to head with Saul and covers more ground than the run-time allows, venturing topics including his massive and awesome new multi-media project 'Martyr Loser King' (and his body of work as a whole), the wide and scary world of technology and where the develop...
Feb 17, 2016•1 hr 24 min
This right here is the WWW. Welcome Welcome Welcome. No WWE, no WWF. It's episode 83 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with comedian and 1/3 of PROGRESS Wrestling, Jim Smallman!Full on behind and in front of the scenes wrestling talk with Jim and Pip, and a huge amount of knowledge and science for the hardcore fan and the unacquainted. Hear about the humble beginnings of PROGRESS, the ups and downs of being a three-man UK indie wrestling company (and moving venue to venue), the process of 'booki...
Feb 10, 2016•1 hr 26 min
Once, twice, and thrice WELCOME to episode 82 of the wicked and the divine Distraction Pieces Podcast, featuring comic book writer and illustrator supremes Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie!Pure nerd heaven and comic book bliss right here, as Pip chats with the pair of comic book heroes (in a more physical real world sense) about their own origin stories, previous work (of which there is a LOT to dig through), their current projects including - of course - 'The Wicked + The Divine' (which you wil...
Feb 03, 2016•1 hr 10 min
WELCOME / WELCOME / WELCOME to episode 81 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast, featuring drug policy writer and LEAP.org co-ordinator Jason Reed!Maybe you are unfamiliar with Jason, but prepare for all that to change over the course of his chat with Pip. Watch his documentary 'The Culture High' now or later (it'll surely happen one way or another), and join in on this enlightening chat touching on his extensive drug-based blog work, the greater global drug issues/wars/laws, and just SO much fascin...
Jan 27, 2016•1 hr 16 min
WELCOME WELCOME WELCOME to episode 80 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast, and the first guest of 2016 - it's Robin Ince!A thoroughly engaging chat with Pip and Robin, covering bases which you would expect (and demand) from someone so well versed in comedy writing and performance - everything from his comedy origin story entangled with Ricky Gervais through to performing in Edinburgh and the issues therein, and of course his prolific podcasting output which includes his amazing 'Infinite Monkey Ca...
Jan 20, 2016•1 hr 48 min
Three welcomes upon you and good on you for returning for MORE - here is your second and final part of episode 79 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast!Picture Pip pacing back and forth in his deluxe cottage out there in Stanford Le Hope, little bobble hat balanced immaculately upon his domepiece with some deluxe beard adornments jingling with every footstep (more on those later...), asking himself question after question submitted by the good folks out there (maybe some of y'all), and answering the...
Jan 13, 2016•1 hr
Welcome, welcome, welcome to 2016! BUT - more urgently - episode 79 of the Distraction Pieces podcast!With all this fallout from the festive period and the traditional winding down and winding up of the big machine, Pip has made it clear that rest is not an option within the DPP dojo. As such, you are now treated to a big old fashioned two parter jam with the man himself - a thorough Q&A dispatch from Pip Manor covering all sorts, so go in and dig deep and enjoy this upfront and personal que...
Jan 13, 2016•1 hr 1 min
Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 78 of the battered, bruised and all disheveled Distraction Pieces podcast! Welcome aboard to 2016!Same crew (Chris of Redshift Rebels, Stu of Pink Toothbrush/We.Are.Lizards and the Pip the boss), different year - this is the final instalment of the roundup of 2015, and since the booze intake has been steady throughout all five episodes, you can expect some good back and forths and fancy footwork as standard! Actually it's not quite as sloppy as you may imagin...
Jan 06, 2016•1 hr 13 min
Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 77 of the rough and rugged Distraction Pieces podcast! Not done yet - not even close (well, a little closer)...Same crew (Chris of Redshift Rebels, Stu of Pink Toothbrush/We.Are.Lizards and the Pip the governor), same location, only this time with even more booze inside em and additional pizza too, you know the getdown - banter, riffing and friendly savagery, but it's all love as this New Year's Eve gets underway in proper Distraction Pieces style and fashion...
Dec 31, 2015•1 hr 15 min
Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 76 of this ever so festive Distraction Pieces podcast! It seems we're through the looking glass here, people...With the same crew consisting of Chris (Redshift Rebels), Stu (Pink Toothbrush/We.Are.Lizards) and the overlord Pip, this is the perfect time in this run-up to new year to join in on more furious banter, ruthless bickering and heavyweight back and forth in this year's end roundup. Podcast chat, MMA talk, films, music, the whole bit... Oh and some piz...
Dec 30, 2015•1 hr 13 min
Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 75 of the mad Christmassy Distraction Pieces podcast! We're getting in deeper now... And we're not even halfway through the year...More tangents, more booze, and more of the year's goodness/badness to delve into from Pip and his pals Stu (Pink Toothbrush/We.Are.Lizards) and Chris (Reshift Rebels), and a lot of entertaining banter and the standard bickering as we join in on this delightful roundup of the past twelve months. Oh there is MUCH more to come... Hol...
Dec 24, 2015•1 hr 15 min
Welcome, welcome and thrice welcome to episode 74 of the hella festive Distraction Pieces podcast! The whole show has been sufficiently draped in tinsel and adorned with all manner of decorations befitting the season and you're in a for nothing but treats from here on, as we ride out 2015 in pure elegance and style...Here is the first of the YEAR REVIEW roundups, where Pip is joined by close pals Chris Glassen (founder of Redshift Rebels and OG sponsor of the podcast) and Stu Whiffen (founder of...
Dec 23, 2015•1 hr 4 min
