A triple-stack of welcomes upon your good self to this, the one hundred and seventeenth episode of the perpetually polished and buffed-up Distraction Pieces podcast with your host Mister Scroobius Pip!A powerful and shameless display of podcasting goodness this week with the highly requested, heavily demanded Frankie Boyle! Hold tight as Pip and Frankie (there's an animated crime-solving duo if ever there was one) summit the comedy mountain and check off all kinds of flags along the journey, inc...
Sep 27, 2016•1 hr 23 min
Welcome, welcome, welcome and good day to you, Team 3W! It is episode 116 of the radio friendly, golden voiced, always fine tuned Distraction Pieces podcast with Scroobius Pip, and this week you are treated the routinely awesome presenter Queen on high, Edith Bowman!Kicking things off with no delay by first delving deep into all things film geek, as Pip and Edith go head to head in their cinematic love and knowledge - and of course that doesn't end there, as the conversation meanders wonderfully...
Sep 20, 2016•1 hr 3 min
WELCOME WELCOME WELCOME back to PART 2 of a hefty double dose of Distraction Pieces / Satin Lizards Lounge greatness... Peep the last episode for a full background of how this came about (and if you're seeing this episode before the first part, certainly go back and grab that one immediately!), but here we have the remaining three guests from what would have been Pip's curated Bestival lineup. Check this lot out...PART 2 GUESTLIST!• HOLLIE McNISH! • JACK ROOKE! • CECILIA KNAPP!A superb conclusio...
Sep 14, 2016•1 hr 28 min
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Sep 13, 2016•1 hr 41 min
WELCOME WELCOME WELCOME to episode ONE HUNDRED AND FOURTEEN of the Distraction Pieces Podcast, hosted by Scroobius Pip! And once more it's another solid slammer of a show, this week featuring Neil Woods of UK LEAP and now published author!The perfect companion podcast to your steady diet of Distraction Pieces Network goodness (alongside Say Why To Drugs and Stop & Search), as Neil brings nothing but wisdom, refreshing outlooks and sobering stories which you will be glad you sat in on... Neil...
Sep 06, 2016•1 hr 19 min
W-W-WELCOME to DISTRACTION PIECES PODCAST: EPISODE 113: PART 2 - featuring, as before, Scroobius Pip as always, and again, as before, Limmy! Let's pick up from part 1 shall we...?Another revealing and refreshing nugget of podcast goodness fading in seamlessly from the previous instalment, where we join Limmy's quest from the crushing lows and internal struggles that one may face, as Limmy talks honestly and openly about fatherhood and life in general, and his climbing of the comedy ladder right ...
Aug 31, 2016•1 hr
WELCOME welcome welcome high and low, far and wide, to another bumper of a Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Congratulations on your download. You have made the correct choice. Especially being that this week the guest is comedy giant Brian "Limmy" Limond!A perfect back and forth with Glasgow's comic mastermind Limmy (and on occasion, mainly forth as Pip joins us, the listener, and lets Limmy hold court!), combing through the action packed origin story and leading us right up to aro...
Aug 30, 2016•1 hr 16 min
WELCOME WELCOME WELCOME one and all to your weekly (and sometimes more) delivery of the Distraction Pieces Podcast hosted as always by Scroobius Pip! And this week it's another comedic banger as he is joined by Marcus Brigstocke!A wonderful chat from start to end as Pip gets impossibly deep into the Marcus Brigstocke archives, combing through his incredibly heavy childhood and teen years, his comedic origins/roots/outlook and influence and all that entails (with a healthy amount of Fringe talk),...
Aug 23, 2016•1 hr 24 min
Welcome welcome welcome (no John Oliver) to your weekly Distraction Pieces podcast with Scroobius Pip! It's been an all the way live run of DPP goodness of late with Pip's UK book tour (hopefully you made it to a show or caught the book), but here he nails down an in-person in-studio guest - Perth's very own comic genius Brendon Burns!Wonderful stuff from start to end, with a lively tale of Brendon's upbringing and comic roots - which includes one of the simultaneously greatest and most horrible...
Aug 16, 2016•1 hr 7 min
Triple Welcome all up on you this week for a super lavish extra episode of your Distraction PIeces Podcast! Scroobius Pip is on road holding things down on his Distraction Pieces book tour, and we have a wonderful live dispatch from the plush confines of ORAN MOR up in Glasgow!Some awesome crowd work right here, as members make their way to the stage and have a fascinating series of mini-chats with Pip - as always, a huge amount of ground is covered, from comic books to MMA to artwork to poets t...
Aug 11, 2016•1 hr 44 min
Welcome, welcome, and as custom dictates, a third welcome upon you to the on-the-road globetrotting (UK-trotting) Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This marks your second live book tour podcast, this time broadcasting live (at the time) from Stand 3 in Edinburgh!Treats upon treats upon treats is what you have, with a nice intro holler from Pip, and a traditional DPP setup with some grand guest chat - this time from SAGE FRANCIS and B DOLAN no less! The Strange Famous brothers settle...
Aug 09, 2016•1 hr 26 min
THREE MORE WELCOMES would you believe, as we enter part 2 of the great and grand Distraction Pieces birthday throwdown in the salubrious confines of the Leicester Square Theatre with Scroobius Pip the chief birthday boy!Another slammer, this time with more guests from the crowd, a generous amount of back and forth and good solid banter work, science dropped on all angles of life in general - all bookended nicely with Pip's pops and Stu Whiffen of the DrunkCasts! So many stickers handed out! So m...
Aug 04, 2016•1 hr 33 min
WELCOME WELCOME WELCOME to the perpetual birthday party that is the Distraction Pieces Podcast, with our very own birthday boy Mr Scroobius Pip!Stickers, suits, caps, MMA, Craig, poetry, books - the Distraction Pieces book specifically, birth, boats, hip hop, Pokemon, comic books - too much ground covered to mention here, in what was a wonderful night out surrounded by awesome folk in a superb venue. Pip introduces the evening, and from then on we join him in mini chats with members of the audie...
Aug 04, 2016•1 hr 14 min
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Aug 02, 2016•12 min
Another handful of welcomes all over your podcast listening device as we welcome you to the final part of the DrunkCast trilogy, in episode 107 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast!More treats in store over here from start to end as the gang have now warmed into their seats and are all comfortable and relaxed in their respective drunken stupors. A surprisingly controlled performance from all three I'm sure you'll agree, with a very nice setup including the man, the myth - Jackamo Brown and the mult...
Jul 27, 2016•1 hr 23 min
Welcome (((welcome))) (((welcome))) (used an echo on that one) to PART 2 of DRUNKCAST PART 4 which is EPISODE 107 of the Distraction Pieces podcast! Enough with the numbers. Let's get into it.A pretty powerful and actually rather sobering talk about suicide straight off the bat, which is ultimately uplifting and very honest and refreshing, which melts into topics including Caroline Aherne and how she touched on the UK's funny/thoughtful/melancholy nerve so well, film talk in general, Chris's fic...
Jul 27, 2016•1 hr 13 min
You can go right ahead and multiply that welcome by 3, ladies and gentlemen, for this is episode 107 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast - but not only that - listen very closely and you'll hear a bottle being struck open and a can going >KSHHH< in the distance - it's another DrunkCast!This is the fourth time we join Pip, Stu and Chris down in the Whiff Inn (Stu's pub - surname Whiffen - you get it), and it's textbook goodness from the inebriated gang as always and it's only part 1! First of...
Jul 26, 2016•1 hr 11 min
3 X WELCOME to episode ONE HUNDRED AND SIX of the HD ready, 4K, 3D and fully rendered Distraction Pieces Podcast featuring one of the long term members of the Scroobius Pip army who you are about to become very acquainted with - it's Thomas Coles!A wonderful directors commentary style chat with Pip and Tom, going from their first visual transmissions right up the very recent work (and from the Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip days up to the solo Pip music) - and this is only part 1... A fascinating l...
Jul 19, 2016•1 hr 32 min
Welcome / Welcome / Welcome aboard to episode number 105 of the absolutely goddamn fabulous Distraction Pieces Podcast, with your host Scroobius Pip who is joined this week by Jordan Stephens of Rizzle Kicks!A fantastic session with Jordan, half of the UK's massive hip hop band who had crazy huge success a handful of years back (and continue to, naturally) who you will surely have heard on radios and TV and at festivals all over the globe. Rizzle Kicks live on, and you will hear some of the fort...
Jul 12, 2016•1 hr 26 min
Welcome, welcome, and as standard here is your third welcome, to the humbly magnificent Distraction Pieces Podcast! Episode 104 would you believe... Goddamn... Prepare yourselves for another heavy hitting good'un as Pip is joined by none other than UK comedy titan and overlord James Acaster!Are 'titan' and 'overlord' too strong to throw around like that? Nah. The man with the strong 'A' at the start of his surname (and partial sharer of the name of the platform you might be listening upon right ...
Jul 05, 2016•1 hr 43 min
Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome (threw you a bonus one there, that's for you) to Distraction Pieces Podcast episode 103! Another slammer this week, featuring actor and comedian Tom Rosenthal!Following a good long intro from Pip about the forthcoming Distraction Pieces book and his book tour dates (go here for more: http://www.scroobiuspip.co.uk/blog/), we have a lovely and lively chat with Pip and the talked-out but snacked-up Tom, who breaks down the elements of where he's at now and where h...
Jun 28, 2016•1 hr 2 min
A-welcome 1, a-welcome 2 and a-welcome 3 - to part 2 of episode 102 of Distraction Pieces featuring Radio 1 and Talksport's very own Colin Murray!More and more radio goodness for your ears, getting deeper into the hows and the whys, not to mention the whos of Colin's radio universe, and some choice nuggets on his non-radio work too including his Metro writings and sports documenting (yes indeed, that good good sports nerd science!) - you will surely be a Colin Murray fan after all of this if you...
Jun 22, 2016•58 min
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Jun 21, 2016•1 hr 12 min
A slightly maudlin and melancholy WELCOME WELCOME WELCOME to you all as we enter the fourth and final quarter of this epic DrunkCast session... It's been a powerful and revealing few hours with the gentlemen and I'm sure we've all come out of this stronger, fuller and more complete than before we began. This is episode 101 - part 4 - of the Distraction Pieces Podcast!Your pals Chris Glasson (Redshift Rebels, WeAreLizards), Stu Whiffen (Pink Toothbrush, Redshift Rebels, WeAreLizards) and your hos...
Jun 15, 2016•1 hr 16 min
Whassurrrp, whassurrrp, whassurrrp to your THIRD Drunkcast in a series of four - check your watch, you are still on episode 101... But we are halfway through the carnage and you still have two more quarters to go... Look alive!A wonderful barrage of increasingly drunken goodness (actually still pretty sharp and focused, believe it or not - well, up to a point), in which we hear about the legendary Tom Coles and the complicated history around the homie, The Pink Toothbrush club, the attractive so...
Jun 14, 2016•1 hr 3 min
WELCOME WELCOME WELCOME! You made it... So here we are, one quarter of the way into your crisp, dry and bubbly batch of DrunkCasts and we are just getting warmed up... Episode 101 still, but part 2......and indeed, the drunk chatter goes on and on til the break break of dawn as we flow through Mr Heggie, DJ Yoda, jackets and the potential instance of stylebiters, wrestling / MMA / boxing and all the noble arts, and a blissful anecdotal nugget regarding a recent hotel visit which you'll certainly...
Jun 08, 2016•1 hr 11 min
Welcome. Welcome. Welcome. And you will need them... For we are about to pop the cork on another premium strength bottle of DrunkCast for your listening delectation with your three favourite Essex boozehounds! Yes! Episode 101 y'all...A fine gallery of banter as we get all the way into DJing career lows, We Are Lizards gossip, Prince of course, Nandos, The Only Way Is Essex, film talk, music talk, booze talk, and all round good times with the DPP Trio - and hold tight because there are three mor...
Jun 07, 2016•1 hr 12 min
THREE MORE WELCOMES AS STANDARD as we re-join and re-group and re-connect for part 2 of this long awaited double episode, featuring Pip's long-term music making other-half Dan Le Sac!It's been a long time coming, but the time was right for the two to sit down for a good long chat/catch up - a full on in-depth one at that where we hear all the backstory/origins of the Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip partnership, from all the way back in the mixtape days, through all the gigs, right up to the forthcom...
Jun 01, 2016•1 hr 44 min
WELCOME WELCOME WELCOME to EPISODE ONE HUNDRED of the now centenarian Distraction Pieces Podcast! By now Scroobius Pip will have received his letter from the Queen (very interested to know when she's on the podcast, that'll be ace), and enjoying a celebratory non-hot beverage, so let's all celebrate along with the DPP master and welcome his long term music making partner and long awaited guest MISTER DAN LE SAC!!!It's a long awaited one as people have been understandably hassling since the very ...
May 31, 2016•1 hr 36 min
Welcome, welcome, welcome to your 99th - NINETY NINTH - Wednesday-fresh instalment of the powerful, the savage, the almighty Distraction Pieces podcast. This week is a tag-team of sorts - it's the UK comedy gems David Earl & Joe Wilkinson!You probably know David Earl from his cringingly brilliant 'Brian Gittins' character, or 'Cumbo', and perhaps you've see Joe Wilkinson holding it down on '8 Out of 10 Cats' (and the Countdown cross-pollenation) and in various TV spots - well whether you do ...
May 24, 2016•1 hr 11 min
