Liam Howlett (The Prodigy) • Friday Rewind
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip
Scroobius Pip
4.7 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2025
⏱️ 103 minutes
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Summary
emocleW, emocleW, emocleW to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!
This is your bonus FRIDAY REWIND episode! Today, we catch up with Liam Howlett, originally episode 237 (a 2 parter) from 2018-10-31.
Original writeup below:
“…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!!!
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| 0:00.0 | Emmo clue, in Mo clue, it's rewind time again. It's Friday and it's rewind time. And this, again, |
| 0:08.5 | I feel like I say this a lot, but this is another one of my favorite conversations ever. |
| 0:13.0 | It's with Liam Howlett. Now, Liam doesn't really do podcasts at all. We're actually |
| 0:17.3 | planning another one at some point in the not too distant future. |
| 0:22.5 | Because we recorded this one just before Keith passed and it feels really beautiful. |
| 0:29.0 | And we wanted to do kind of a return to that. |
| 0:33.3 | But yeah, this was a big old chat and yeah, it was an absolute joy. |
| 0:37.3 | I love Liam. |
| 0:38.6 | He's such a good dude. |
| 0:39.6 | He's a legend. |
| 0:40.5 | He's a living legend. |
| 0:41.7 | The fact that I get text messages off Liam Howlitt blows my mind regularly. |
| 0:46.3 | And the fact that we get to sit down and have chats like this really does. |
| 0:50.2 | So yeah, you're going to enjoy this if you've not heard it before. |
| 0:54.1 | This is my chat from |
| 0:55.2 | 2018 with Liam Howlett. to the structure This piece of fiction is the intro to the section So I always do a backup now Because out of the 200 and 30 odd I've done I had one that didn't The file corrupted And it broke my heart I managed to go back and re-record it But I was just heartbroken I felt like an felt like an amateur. Just, I was watching it the whole time. |
| 1:28.6 | It all recorded. |
| 1:29.5 | And then I got to, I had a three-hour drive afterwards, |
| 1:31.7 | and I got to the hotel room. |
| 1:33.1 | And the file was 10 seconds long. |
| 1:35.6 | And I was like, |
| 1:37.3 | what? |
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