Welcome, welcome, and BOOM another welcome right there to this, episode 140 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Please welcome (three times) to the stage, Lancaster's indie Queen, frontwoman of The Lovely Eggs, Holly Ross!A glorious chat with a hardcore touring indie band veteran, and thoroughly enlightening at that - a proper peek behind the curtain (or the sliding door of a tourvan) at what goes on in the day to day, which is a ton of hard work in itself but add to THAT a sma...
Mar 08, 2017•1 hr 15 min
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Mar 01, 2017•1 hr 4 min
WELCOME, welcome, WELCOME (shouted the first and third ones there to keep you on yer toes) to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Episode 138 awaits your immediate attention and is ready for your listening ears directly, and it is a great pleasure to welcome the London resident Canadian comedian Katherine Ryan to the microphone!What a treat this week, as Pip is joined by the Netflix-fresh comic heavyweight who has been putting in work for a good, good while, as well as her micro-d...
Feb 22, 2017•1 hr 3 min
Welcome, welcome, welcome (or indeed, goedemorgen, goedemiddag, goedenavond) to Pip's second half of the Dutch mini-podcast tour! It may have been a mini round-the-houses whirlwind but he fit in a lot, and in episode 137 he is joined by none other than Ancilla van de Leest of the Pirate Party!Now Pip may be bending one of the self imposed rules he set a while ago by having a politician on the show, but there is a fascinating scene to be set and tale to be told in Ancilla's journey to where she c...
Feb 15, 2017•1 hr 19 min
WELCOME, WELCOME, WELCOME to episode 136 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! A seasonally appropriate episode at that, as Pip is joined by the Ice Man himself, the legendary Dutch daredevil Mr Wim Hof! Don't get all wrapped and warm for this one - it's going to get incredibly frosty up in here...Chances are you may not already have made Wim's acquaintance - that's fine, for after this podcast you will most likely be digging around online and listening to his glorious cadence fo...
Feb 08, 2017•1 hr 5 min
A weekly podcast every Wednesday hosted by Scroobius Pip Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 01, 2017•50 min
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Shoutouts to Team 3W as always! Nothing less than three welcomes would suffice for this week's DPP greatness, as we proudly present to you the Distraction Pieces two-part Homelessness Special, featuring two wonderful podcasts for your listening pleasure. For the first instalment, please welcome (three times, you know the deal) Manchester's 'Mustard Tree', an organisation giving opportunity and dignity to the homeless...
Feb 01, 2017•1 hr 10 min
A weekly podcast every Wednesday hosted by Scroobius Pip Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 25, 2017•1 hr 8 min
WELCOME WELCOME WELCOME to EPISODE 133 of the DISTRACTION PIECES PODCAST with SCROOBIUS PIP! That looks like the appropriate amount of upper-case lettering for episode 133. Let's get on shall we? A true smash of an episode right here as we welcome aboard the man with many faces, James McAvoy!Pip was able to snag some time with the warm and inviting Glasgow heavyweight to get in deep about his new film 'Split', directed by M Night Shyamalan, which is released on January 20th. The film concerns a ...
Jan 18, 2017•44 min
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to YOU, the listener, of this, the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip - episode 132 at that! With any luck the new year has been treating you wonderfully, and at the very least, reasonably, and you've all been settling into 2017 snugly and comfortably. The Distraction Pieces Podcast will get you through, whatever the weather....and this week is no exception, as we welcome Matt Willis from Busted! Maybe they're a band you've enjoyed in the past, maybe you've s...
Jan 11, 2017•1 hr 22 min
WELCOME WELCOME WELCOME TO 2017!!! Happy new year to all Distraction Pieces crew (and non-crew, it's all love this year), we hope you had a phenomenal start to it all and saw off the remainder of last year's mayhem and carnage appropriately. Here's to the goodness and greatness ahead for all!SPEAKING OF WHICH... Here's a proper slice of Distraction Pieces Podcast confection for your ears, featuring very special guest Rob Parker! Maybe you know him... It's possible you don't... Nevertheless - pre...
Jan 04, 2017•1 hr 50 min
WASSSUUUP WASSSUUUP WASSSUUUP to this, your fourth and therefore FINAL DrunkCast podcast of 2016 with your three very wise and verrry drunken men (that'll be Scroobius Pip, Chris Glasson and Stu Whiffen), and the two equally drunken souls who accompany the trio (Brett Goldstein and Romesh Ranganathan - actually Romesh is considerably more drunk than everyone else)! Ladies and gentlemen, please enjoy the final quarter of the mayhem...So what do we have here... Well - you know the routine. And thi...
Dec 28, 2016•1 hr 14 min
Triple welcome upon you as standard, as we enter the twilight hour with our fully refreshed cohorts in this, the third part of the OFFICIAL year in review - the absolute ONLY official year in review at that. Don't bother checking into whether that's true or not, just know that. DrunkCast season is now upon us!...so I said to my sensai...Season greetings to each and every one of you, however you get down at this time of year, whether you identify with annual gift giving day or not, as you are all...
Dec 26, 2016•1 hr 9 min
Welcome 1, welcome 2, and welcome 3 (you had five welcomes on the last episode, come on now) to the Distraction Pieces Podcast five-man drunken pile-up, it's the end of year DrunkCast Xmas Special! SCROOBIUS PIP! CHRIS GLASSON! STU WHIFFEN! ROMESH RANGANATHAN! BRETT GOLDSTEIN!Yes indeed, another instalment in the batch with more gossip, more thought experiment games (this one involving death which is - as you'll hear - a good'un to try out at the xmas table this year) and a bunch more awesomenes...
Dec 23, 2016•1 hr 11 min
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome - consider yourself quintupley welcomed as this week you are served with FIVE drunken Distraction Pieces members! Yes indeed... It is that time of year... Light the fires... Sketch the pentagram on the floor in chalk... Lock up the doors... Lift your skinny fists like antennas to heaven... For it is the DRUNKCAST CHRISTMAS YEAR REVIEW! Not a review of Christmas necessarily, but you get the idea eh.Join the ever present black bearded Santa himself Scroo...
Dec 21, 2016•1 hr 18 min
WWW EEE LLL CCC OOO MMM EEE (all three welcomes wrapped up right there) to episode ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY NINE of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Full on DPP greatness is assured as ever, as Pip catches up with the insanely awesome UK acting/writing/poetical treasure Michaela Coel!From her early days knocking around Tower Hamlets in a pentecostal upbringing, and how a psalm triggered her interests in poetry, Michaela gets deep into what added up to her present day self, as a m...
Dec 14, 2016•1 hr 10 min
Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY EIGHT of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Lovely to have you aboard. As ever it's a heavyweight slammer of an episode as this week's guest of honour is television and big screen's Robert Sheehan!A delightful peek behind the curtain of the wild hectic acting game with Ireland's very own Robert, who drops gold at every step of this awesome chat with Pip. Everything from battling his caffeine demons, growing up in the eas...
Dec 07, 2016•1 hr 9 min
Welcome, welcome, WELCOME (shouted that last one) to episode 127 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week is a sureshot slammer as Pip is joined by the long-hinted at national treasure Lauren Laverne!A perfect broadcasting-based chat as Pip and Lauren get along like old mates, venturing easily back and forth into her past and present and covering all necessary awesomeness along the way. We get all the scoops on her early days with pop band Kenickie (surely at least a few o...
Nov 30, 2016•1 hr 20 min
Welcome. Welcome. Welcome. WELCOME. Yes indeed, an additional welcome is necessary this week as you are treated to FOUR Distraction Pieces Network reps right here - it's episode 126 of Distraction Pieces and it is the DISTRACTION PIECES NETWORK SPECIAL!Join your regular host Scroobius Pip and the presenters of the amazingly informative (award winning!) drug education podcast Say Why To Drugs (Dr Suzi Gage), the super superb wrestling show Tuesday Night Jaw (Jim Smallman) and the LEAP UK podcast ...
Nov 23, 2016•1 hr 30 min
Welcome, welcome, welcome to your one hundred and twenty-fifth episode of the all knowing, all seeing and all conquering Distraction Pieces Podcast with your host Scroobius Pip! A solid gold slammer this week as you have become accustomed to by now, with Strange Famous and Speech Development's very own B. Dolan!B's third visit to the Distraction Pieces labs is on official business, this time not specifically involving rap music but focused more on the current efforts to get the incredibly import...
Nov 16, 2016•1 hr 9 min
WELCOME WELCOME WELCOME and SURPRISE - it's a full strength Monday morning shot of triple-distilled Distraction Pieces goodness for your immediate attention!Not so much a DrunkCast as a Sleep-DeprivedCast BUT no less on point and razor sharp, as Pip is joined by the DrunkCast regular and Distraction Pieces Champ/Redshift Rebels homie Mr Chris Glasson, as well as special guest Sam Marshall of Chester Le Street CrossFit (who you will know from various references and bigups in previous podcasts).A ...
Nov 14, 2016•1 hr 45 min
WELCOME WELCOME WELCOME - three welcome as standard of course - to episode 123 of your weekly Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! ...and what a perfect companion to last weeks broadcasting gold, as we welcome (thrice, naturally) radio maverick and all round frequency-waves captain Iain Lee!A wonderfully wide-ranging discussion between Pip and Iain, covering the whole journey which has led him to where he currently makes his radio home at Talk Radio. From his glorious pseudonym IAIN IN...
Nov 09, 2016•1 hr 28 min
WELCOME - multiplied by three as always - to episode 122 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Now that you've been sufficiently welcomed, please enjoy another glorious show, as Pip gets deep in the choppy broadcasting waters with radio veteran Geoff Lloyd!Surely you will have come into contact with Geoff over the years, from his decades of radio presenting on all manner of stations (the formative years of which beginning in Manchester), and more than likely heard his awesome sho...
Nov 02, 2016•1 hr 39 min
Welcome, welcome, welcome to this week's Distraction Pieces Podcast, episode 121 at that! A truly powerful episode too, as Pip heads up to the offices of Dignity In Dying to speak with Lloyd and Mick about the charity and all details within...You may have noticed in listening to the Distraction Pieces podcast that there is something of a through-line for the most part. Death. Death comes up frequently, but as you will also have noticed, it is rarely spoken about in a morbid, depressing or negati...
Oct 25, 2016•1 hr 9 min
Welcome /// Welcome /// Welcome to your weekly instalment of the all seeing, all knowing and all chatting Distraction Pieces Podcast, presented by Scroobius Pip! Episode one hundred and twenty this week - and holy heck here comes John Bradley of Game Of Thrones strolling casually into the podcast control room!A truly great convo with Pip and John, covering all things Game Of Thrones - from the story, to the background, to the involvement of the king himself George R R Martin, to his character Sa...
Oct 18, 2016•1 hr 24 min
(WWE)lcome, (WWE)lcome, (WWE)lcome to the World Wide Epic and permanent championship winning DISTRACTION PIECES PODCAST with Scroobius Pip! Clocking in at a solid 119 episodes at that - and this week, Pip is joined by the almighty WWE wrestler and immaculately turned out JACK GALLAGHER!A rock solid and super strong style convo as Jack runs through it all... From his British independent circuit beginnings right up through to his WWE signing, Cruiserweight Classic involvement, Progress, training, ...
Oct 11, 2016•1 hr 18 min
As ever, as standard, welcomewelcomewelcome to you, the whole Team 3W massive - you are here LIVE AND DIRECT at the gate of madness and mayhem which is the final quarter of the craft beer-drenched DrunkCast!...and you know what that means don't you......shall we let Craig take it from here...?Oh you betchya.You know what it is. Have fun. Thank you for tuning in. It's been wild. Now it's time to sleep it off and remember fragments of it tomorrow morning and throughout the day as the smoke clears ...
Oct 05, 2016•59 min
You are welcomed thricely to the third instalment of four, of the fifth instalment of the DrunkCasts which fall into the 118th instalment of the Distraction Pieces Podcast! So many instalments. Let's go girls!Seal! The Greyhound bus! The Grand Canyon! Pip the young tourist! Games! Computer games at that! Cinema! Bad Boys! Star Trek! JJ Abrams! Kevin Hart! Accidental Paul Blart! The friendliest text messager Brett Goldstein! Rousing drum! More computer games! Fighting Fantasy books! A mouthful of...
Oct 05, 2016•1 hr 15 min
Triple-welcome shot of Distraction Pieces DrunkCast boozed up, sloppy and over-long welcomes upon your good selves, for the second installment of EPISODE 118! And the FIFTH installment of DrunkCasts. The three merry men with solid steel livers will take you through safely and in most entertaining fashion... Let's do this...Moving swiftly through live comedy, clubs, and that infamous beer-ad series, we land a solid right hook on the subject of MMA and UFC and everything within - you knew it was c...
Oct 05, 2016•1 hr 7 min
1. Welcome. 2. Welcome. 3. Welcome. You are welcomed, basically, to episode 118 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast which this week decided to take a brief stop-off at the Whiff Inn for some gentle advance refreshment! It would seem that said refreshment was such a success that it evolved from a brief stop to a very lengthy and comfortable stay... And as such, you are now making ground on the vast frontier of episode one of FOUR of this week's episode... It's a DrunkCast, people! LOOK ALIVE!Join y...
Oct 04, 2016•1 hr 4 min
