Liam Howlett (side A) - Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #237
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip
Scroobius Pip
4.7 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2018
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 237 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Long awaited and hugely exciting longform chat awesomeness with the Prodigy legend LIAM HOWLETT!
“…I like tension in music… and I think the stage is where it manifests itself…”
A rare one right here folks, as Liam spends a good chunk of time chatting with Pip on all things Prodigy and solo, spanning the entirety of his incredible career. Such an engaging and interesting talk, running through the lot - from how he generates ideas and keeps writing through the craziness of tour life, the influence of punk, two-tone, hip hop and electro, early days winning mixtape competitions, the days of early rave and being introduced to acid house by Westwood of all people (circuitously but kind of!), the meeting of Nick Halkes up at XL Records and hand to hand demo hustling, the immediacy of making beats over learning instruments, moving from sonic landscape to sonic landscape naturally, the difference of harder over faster, the importance of image, finding the perfect band setup over a decade after their start, the amazing origin story of their hit Firestarter, their natural progression as a band, the Beastie Boys situation and just SO much more… And this is only part 1… KEEP IT LOCKED, PEOPLE!!!
'NO TOURISTS' by THE PRODIGY drops November 2nd - GRAB THAT!!!
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THIS EPISODE'S LINKS:
• THE PRODIGY - 'LIGHT UP THE SKY'
THIS EPISODE'S SPIRIT ANIMALS:
• Episode 31 • Eddie Temple Morris
SCROOBIUS PIP & SPEECH DEVELOPMENT LINKS:
• DISTRACTION PIECES NETWORK on FACEBOOK
• DISTRACTION PIECES NETWORK on INSTAGRAM
• NEW LISTENERS TAKE NOTE!!! You can find the full DISTRACTION PIECES episode list HERE!
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| 0:00.0 | This is a paid advertisement from Better Help. I've got a really clear memory when I first got a |
| 0:06.6 | dog of being really focused on how important all the things I have to do for this cute little guy |
| 0:13.6 | are. Like I need to make sure he's getting walks every day, fresh air every day, fresh water every |
| 0:21.1 | day, eating good food. And it becomes such a kind of a focus and a drive because you want to do all |
| 0:28.0 | you can for this little creature that you love. But we don't always put that much time and |
| 0:32.8 | attention into what we need for ourselves. Like what are our basic requirements to get through |
| 0:40.6 | life. And we need to focus on that more and Better Help can help with that. With over a thousand |
| 0:46.2 | therapists in the UK already, they can provide access to mental health professionals with a wide |
| 0:51.5 | variety of expertise in mental health. As far as I know, they've not got any that can help dogs, |
| 0:57.4 | but again, as long as you're dealing with that, then they can help you deal with you as well. |
| 1:03.0 | Alistair's get 10% off their first month at BetterHelp.com slash distraction pod. That's better |
| 1:09.5 | B-E-T-T-E-R-H-E-L-P.com slash distraction pod. Welcome, welcome, welcome. This is the distraction |
| 1:18.7 | pieces podcast episode 237 and it's a Halloween two-part special with a hell of a guest. You will |
| 1:27.4 | already know who it is. I've been holding off my Patreon crew. Well, know who it is already |
| 1:33.1 | because I told them a few weeks back. But yeah, I'm joined this week at long last by the one and only |
| 1:38.3 | Liam Howlett for an incredibly rare personal and in-depth two-part conversation. So yeah, I'm delighted |
| 1:46.2 | that this one's come about. I mentioned Patreon there. I, me, I, oh, I always said who I'm |
| 1:53.2 | collaborating with. Me and someone are releasing something today. I'm not going to tell you about it, |
| 1:59.7 | Josh, because I promised the Patreon lot. I'd give them a head start. So there's a good chance it |
| 2:06.0 | will sell out before anyone other than the Patreon lot know about it. So I'm giving you a warning |
| 2:13.4 | there. But if you want to head over to patreon.com slash screwvious pip, it's less than a quid to |
| 2:19.6 | join that gang and to get the heads up on these things. There's also, there's some other merch |
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