Distraction Pieces Podcast With Scroobius Pip

Welcome, 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 (thanks to Jarin Blaschke - pronounced ‘Jah-Rinn Blash-key’), the collaborative nature of the whole endeavour, aspect ratio and cinematic intention, the local history of a location, theatre vs film, flatulence (it’s in context) and all manner of movie magic. You’ll dig it and your intrigue for The Lighthouse will certainly be piqued - keep an eye out for that and ENJOY THIS CONVERSATION!••• BIT OF A SP

Welcome, 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 him if you haven’t experienced Rob’s work already. Beginning with the recording of his Speech Development Records album ‘At Home With Rob’, the two get into everything including the difference between live and home performance, the weird alchemy of performance and presence, same setlist / different crowd, the ‘Takeshi’s Castle’ of getting it right, “to EX-press and not to IM-press”, the process of creating his themed shows, the absurdity but wonder of life and retaining a childlike fasci

Welcome, 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, from the time taken to get to this stage with the film, seeing the effect of it on an audience (especially comedically), the casting of Adam Sandler, the importance of voices, the use of extras in a far more involved sense, British acting and the realism of it, casting real people, working with musicians, using New York as a character, their intense focus on character even down to auditioning actors for one line appearances, and the sonic world of a

Welcome, 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, Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, as you will hear in this podcast right here - it wasn’t necessarily grumpiness. Nor was it disinterest. Karl was looking through the world through a different prism, and certainly a prism of which we should all have a go at experiencing. It’s really nice hearing him get around ideas at leisure and with Pip (and us) as a sounding board, and definitely a really cool way of sharing the worldview of one of the more fascinating characters in the

Welcome, 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 and feel free to agree or disagree at will! Whatever happens, it's a great ride and you'll hear all kinds of interesting points of view. This does start off with a mild downer though, spoiler alert - but is all handled with positivity and calmness and turns out okay. Just to warn ya. Anyway - enjoy and have a good'un, and please, travel safe and smooth this year. Let's make it a goodie, y'all. ENJOY!EPISODE LINKS:• FILMS TO BE BURIED WITH!• THE CINEMILE!• THE TWO SHOT

Welcome, welcome, welcome to EPISODE 304 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! WE ARE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS NOW PEOPLE - IT’S TWENTY TWENTY! Do you remember when Busta Rhymes told us there was only five years left? And how he kept lowering the number the closer we got to the millennium? Well boy oh boy must his face be red right now… Ladies and gentlemen - this is the final episode of the DrunkCast! Part five… Thanks for holding on, folks… WOO HAH indeed!HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU AND YOURS!Chris and Stu join Pip for the last stop on the journey, which involves choice picks from 2019, the MIA doc, The Great Hack, Tell Me Who I Am, Three Identical Strangers, Capturing The Friedmans, survivor etiquette, MMA, a tricky celebrity question handled carefully, TV recommendations, podcast recommendations, another guessing game which leads to some interesting bits and pieces and all rounded up with a guessing game. How could you want more? PLEASE ENJOY!EPISODE LINKS:• HARDCORE LISTING • Acast •

Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 304 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Just when you thought it was safe to make a dash for the exit of 2019 and calmly enter 2020… In stumble three drunk geniuses to sit down and block the exit. Oh you’re in this for the long haul now, ladies and gentlemen. It’s the End Of Year Drunkcast! PART 4!Pip, Stu and Chris settle in once more for hour FOUR of their drunken jibber jabber extravaganza... Kicking things off with a lovely shout out to... well... me! - cheers lads - and my Buddy's Buddies podcast, we ease in to such items on the agenda as Snog in London, running from the po-lice, Chris rap threats, Joker and all related controversies, getting bands back together, Stormzy at Glasto, Sup-U-Like, the Hardcore Listing podcast on vinyl, No Commercial Breaks on vinyl and Christmas Dinner controversy too. Lot of controversy. BRING IT!EPISODE LINKS:• HARDCORE LISTING • Acast • Spotify• REDSHIFT REBELS on INSTAGRAM• STU WHIFFEN on INSTAGRAMLINKS FOR

Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 304 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Just when you thought it was safe to make a dash for the exit of 2019 and calmly enter 2020… In stumble three drunk geniuses to sit down and block the exit. Oh you’re in this for the long haul now, ladies and gentlemen. It’s the End Of Year Drunkcast! PART 3!Pip, Stu and Chris settle in once more for hour three of their inebriated and chaotic chatramble, at which you are about to be guest of honour so FIX UP AND LOOK SHARP as they are about to go IN... Would you rathers and questions kick things off, followed by - well there's no other way to put this - toilet techniques, John Travolta's instagram, "Have a good one!", celeb questions (more of) and Pip working on Taboo (and Tom Hardy's 'best answer wins' approach). Let's GOWWW >>>EPISODE LINKS:• HARDCORE LISTING • Acast • Spotify• REDSHIFT REBELS on INSTAGRAM• STU WHIFFEN on INSTAGRAMLINKS FOR SCROOBIUS PIP & SPEECH DEVELOPMENT:• SCROOBIUS PIP

Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 304 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Just when you thought it was safe to make a dash for the exit of 2019 and calmly enter 2020… In stumble three drunk geniuses to sit down and block the exit. Oh you’re in this for the long haul now, ladies and gentlemen. It’s the End Of Year Drunkcast! PART 2!Scroobius Pip. Stu Whiffen. Chris Glassen. A 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), fan questions which take a mad surprising turn, a catch-up in a cinema, Youtubers boxing, pizza, what I like to call 'Bregmanomics', Katie Hopkins and Jordan Peterson, the Canadian Human Rights Act (relating to ‘C16’), Bryan Callen on Instagram, podcast guests and Meth Syndicate t-shirts! LET'S CONTINUE!EPISODE LINKS:• HARDCORE LISTING • Acast • Spotify• REDSHIFT REBELS on INSTAGRAM• STU WHIFFEN on INSTAGRAMLINKS FOR SCROOBIUS PIP & SPEECH DEVELOPMENT

Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 304 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Just when you thought it was safe to make a dash for the exit of 2019 and calmly enter 2020… In stumble three drunk geniuses to sit down and block the exit. Oh you’re in this for the long haul now, ladies and gentlemen. It’s the End Of Year Drunkcast! PART 1!Pip is joined by Chris and Stu of Hardcore Listing in true tried and tested seasonal fashion to kick things off with a bang, and several bottle pops! It’s an action packed but actually pretty controlled start to proceedings - naturally the sloppiness will increase as the night rolls on but here is a great one to introduce y’all to the night ahead. A whole bunch of goodies including the Tom’s Diner game (oh you gotta try this one), present giving, an amazing Amanda Palmer gig, shaving backs, questions from folks, The Irishman, Patreon and SEVERAL CLIFFHANGERS.Be rude not to, wouldn’t it? ENJOY.EPISODE LINKS:• HARDCORE LISTING • Acast • Spotify• REDSHIFT

Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 303 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! In a world where genres are so slippery and tricksy and hard to pin down, Anticon was a label in the hip hop realm which routinely defied definition. This week Pip sits down with one of the original crew members to chop it up about the good old days, as well as the present and the future - ladies and gentlemen, this week’s guest is YONI WOLF (aka WHY? - band and solo)!Pip and Yoni share many mutual friends, influences and interests, and it seems mad that the two haven’t gotten together in the podcast huddle and recorded a chat before. Well - let history be righted as they finally crowbar in some good jibber jabber time to reflect on all sort of necessary goodness, including mic control, Pip’s relationship with the first cLOUDDEAD album (the group comprised of Why, Doseone and Odd Nosdam), the exclusivity of hip hop and the rap milieu of the time, the rest of the Anticon crew including the truly unfortunate passing o

Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 302 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Two podcast forces meet and interlock their powers this week as Pip is joined by seasoned podcaster himself - not to mention film director / writer / actor and SO much more… It’s Kevin Smith!“I play the game like I’m trying to save the universe…”SNOOCHIE BOOCHIES! What a joy this is… While it is a 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 this one! It was expected though, as Kevin has basically found his true North by way of talking and telling stories for a living these days. But that’s not to say he’s thrown in the towel on films - oh good god no, as you will surely be aware of by the fact that his Jay & Silent Bob Reboot film is out and about and making much noise in the View Askew-niverse. This here is a chance to hear all about that, and the past hits in the Smith catalogue, as well as a gan

Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 301 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! The one that more than a few of you have been waiting for right here… Not to mention Pip… Yes indeed - this week’s guest is the phenomenally prolific and downright awesome author NEIL GAIMAN!“...Comics are a medium that is mistaken for a genre...”To even use the word ‘author’ risks belittling the 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 up on around 40 years, and on this chat you’ll hear about a huge amount of it. This includes the wisdom accrued along the way, lessons learned and notes made, ranging across the board and including finding his writing process, moving around artistically, Good Omens, Dr Who, working with DC and the Sandman comic, Neverwhere, the things that can get missed through the journey from writer to production, give and take behind the scenes, the holy trinity of Peter Sellers, David Tenant and Michael Sheen

Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode THREE HUNDRED of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! The Gerard Butler edition! We made it! Well, zero chances of Gerard sightings here, as Pip is joined this week by a mildly abbreviated by nonetheless great chat with the truly excellent director PAUL FEIG!With his new film ‘Last Christmas’ on the horizon, now is the perfect time to catch Paul, 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 cracking on it all - the film in question (‘Last Christmas’), his old Xmas film ‘Grounded’, the perennial success carrot to chase in a Xmas film, whether or not you can have too much fun on set, whether or not moments are funny in front of a crowd, fatal flaws and runaway trains, finding intimacy in London, well rounded characters and not just mindless representation, aiming for a perfect cast, getting along with said cast, film vs TV, the need for

Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 299 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! A cheeky bonus joint for your Friday right here as Pip chats to acclaimed director JAMES MANGOLD!“I don’t work for two years on a movie just to create a diversion…”A small but ever so perfectly formed conversation which takes in highlights from James’s illustrious career as well as thoughts on the 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 gradually finding his excitement and rush, importance of character, sequence vs scene, keeping the narrative dancing, the power of “I don’t know”, working with Robert De Niro and all things film from his older projects right up to Ford V Ferrari. Great times, enjoy!EPISODE LINKS:• JAMES MANGOLD on IMDB• JAMES on TWITTER• FORD v FERRARI• LOGAN• WALK THE LINELINKS FOR SCROOBIUS PIP & SPEECH DEVELOPMENT:• KILL BEN LYK - GET TICKETS HERE AND MAKE

Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 298 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Guess who’s coming… IT’S… Guess who’s coming… IT’S j-j-j-just your favourite DJ saviour / using and confusing beats that you never heard / since / 1990… Ladies and gentlemen, he’ll put a smile on your face like Ultra Brite - it’s DJ SHADOW!“…Not every musical moment affects people the same way…”A great 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 Shadow get to some really interesting ground when not dealing with the musical matters at hand, including his growing up in a remote town with limited access to hip hop which leads nicely onto how he eventually did find his way in, which then leads us into the whole Mo Wax side of things where he met and worked with James Lavelle extensively for a contained period (the foundation for which being laid by discovering NME, Melody Maker and also by the very intro o

Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 297 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! A celebration of the movie KILL BEN LYK, which features the guests Eugene and Erwan as actor and director respectively, as well as Scroobius Pip as cast member!Get to hear the proper inside scoop on the film from three people intimately involved in it - almost a directors commentary right here, and 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 world, won awards, how sitcoms travel well, the reactions of different nationalities, the film being a whodunnit / Agatha Christie style murder mystery, the approach to direction, feels in the audition, everyone pulling in the same direction cast and crew-wise, character nuances, and a whole world of other goodness.Do your best to find a screening near you, by following THIS LINK! You can kind of create your own screening - the locations screen it if they g

Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 296 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Fire up in the podcast booth today as Pip is joined by rap royalty and microphone melter mister WRETCH32!“For me, if you wanna get 30 goals in a season you gotta be able to score headers and volleys…”A real nice and insightful chat with Pip and Wretch, with a huge amount of angles getting their shine 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 a grand episode which will only bring you closer into his world… You can expect a ton in discussion here, from the release of his new ‘Upon Reflection’ album, to the weird capsule mentality before hitting the promo circuit, being an ‘album guy’ and not necessarily a singles artist, a brief stint at wrestling, enlightening moments seeing his dad DJ, measures of success, friendly competition, chorus revelations and looking back over wordy hooks, Example, mum’s love of pop songs, the beaut

Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 295 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Pure broadcasting brilliance for you this week, as Pip is joined by TV and radio presenter and all round delight FEARNE COTTON!This is the mirror side of a two podcast deal the two of them struck up, where Pip appeared on her ‘Happy Place’ podcast, so as you’ll witness, the driver is often 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 KNOWS! Whatever the case, it’s a breeze of a podcast which touches on so much including a sentence which features Hanson and Led Zeppelin in the same breath (in fact I think it could be called an “Mmm Bop-cast” but that’s of no consequence), her intro into different kinds of music, being mates with Sarah Cawood and how she eventually got into gig going through her, Coldplay haters, the power of music shared on a mass scale, cathartic crying sessions, early days of her present

Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 292 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! A real treat this week by way of writer and actor heavyweight DAISY HAGGARD!A proper nice chat right here is your gift, as Pip is joined by the writer of and actor in Back To Life and a whole bunch more (including a voice stint in a Harry Potter film - the key to knowing if someone has just skimmed her IMDB page!), and they have a grand old time getting down to the business of acting, film, cinema, movie, the whole bit. From pitching the series Back To Life (involving pub antics), to her reaction to feedback in general, the importance of collaborators, the memorable moment she got the call to say the show was being picked up, the whirlwind LA journey within a journey to promote said show, the balance of work and life, her dad being in cult horror classic Blood On Satan’s Claw, Man Stroke Woman, Breeders and all that’s to come! Lovely stuff.EPISODE LINKS:• DAISY on TWITTER• BREEDERS• BACK TO LIFE• MAN STROKE WOM