Kae Tempest • Polarbear • Hollie McNish • Musa Okwonga • Jodi Ann Bickley! #626
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip
Scroobius Pip
4.7 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2025
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!
This week Pip is joined by a full assortment of UK spoken word and poetry excellence - KAE TEMPEST, POLARBEAR, HOLLIE MCNISH, MUSA OKWONGA & JODI ANN BICKLEY!
Listeners who got on board in more recent years might not be aware of the incredible XFM radio show that Pip used to host called 'The Beatdown'. It was totally essential listening for those with even a passing interest in Hip Hop and Rap and spoken word poetry, and if those were your chose specialist subjects, you would be spoiled by the riches contained within each episode. Interviews, special themed segments, live recordings, spoken word and poetry, it was all in there. This is producer Buddy typing and I was even a guest at one point, which was a true delight (and a rare treat to see Pip operating the set in real time).
Here is a collection of some classic moments from the shows, which all pre-date the Distraction Pieces Podcast mind you, where Pip gets in full interview mode and gets some marvellous results from the guests.
Here are some timecodes if you want them but do peep the whole ep in full, it's a total treat:
Kae Tempest • 3m 20s
Polarbear • 19m 51s
Hollie McNish • 27m 42s
Musa Okwonga • 33m 10s
Jodi Ann Bickley • 54m 49s
Lovely stuff, a really great chance to hear some long lost treaures!
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by pop chips. |
| 0:02.7 | Do you ever find yourself deep in thought contemplating the contradictions of modern life? |
| 0:06.9 | Or is that just, is that just me? |
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| 0:41.4 | Latitude was the first festival I ever played. |
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| 1:08.7 | Welcome, welcome, welcome. |
| 1:10.6 | This is the distraction pieces podcast episode 626. And it's another |
| 1:16.1 | special one. We did an episode where we dug into the archives of my old award-winning radio show, |
| 1:22.1 | The Beatdown, and listened to conversations I'd had like over a decade ago with childish Gambino, we've run the jewels, with Danny Brown, over a decade ago, with childish Gambino, |
| 1:28.5 | we've run the jewels, with Danny Brown, with Oprah Mike Eagle, with Gene Gray. |
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