Nick Halkes - Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #203
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip
Scroobius Pip
4.7 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2018
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Summary
Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode two hundred and two of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!
Pure music industry geekout material right here people, so make yourself good and comfortable and prepare to be pelted with nothing but gems on this one, as Pip is joined by Nick Halkes! Perhaps you’re not familiar with Nick by name, but best believe you will have felt his influence on the music scene in no small way over the years. The man responsible for XL Records, as well as signing The Prodigy and a HUGE amount more over a lot of record labels, Nick is someone to whom we should all be listening, re-listening, and taking notes like it was revision. Hear him expand on his beginnings as a mobile disco unit with his mate rocking two hi-fi units, how he knows Pip’s uncle Pat, how the best art comes from just getting out there and doing it without focus-grouping it, The Prodigy, doing well when a bidding war isn’t involved, the humble demo, mental health in the music industry, blagging his way into a New York radio station, casting your life correctly, the importance of parameters, passing up on signing Aphex Twin, and that is barely scratching the surface. The rest is there for you to explore. But be sure that you do. You will not leave dissatisfied.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, welcome, welcome. This is episode 203 of the distraction pieces podcast. |
| 0:05.5 | It's only been two days since I saw you last, because it was a podcast out on Wednesday, |
| 0:11.5 | little peep behind the curtain. I've literally not took a breath since the outro of Wednesday's podcast. |
| 0:19.3 | Of course, because I'm recording them together, I've not been holding my breath for two days, |
| 0:25.0 | but you can imagine that if you'd like, I'm going to go in a bit crazy. It feels like it, doesn't it? |
| 0:30.3 | Thanks for tuning in, guys. This little bonus Friday episode. I'm going to do a few of these every now and then. |
| 0:35.5 | If I've got ones that either are a time-sensitive or I want to get out as quickly as possible or, |
| 0:40.4 | alternatively, just that feel like they're good together. So I'm hoping to do an MMA week in a couple of weeks, |
| 0:46.8 | ahead of the Bellator 200 event, the O2. |
| 0:52.6 | So yeah, I'm trying to, if I feel some, some, some work together, I'll double up for you and give you extra treats. |
| 0:58.2 | It seems to go down, well, I've done it a few times recently and it's got a good reaction. So yeah, |
| 1:03.6 | this week's guest is the wonderful Nick Hawkes. Nick, I've known for a while. Again, I always start |
| 1:08.9 | these intros and then realise half of the stuff we discuss in the podcast anyway, but Nick's great, |
| 1:13.5 | and he's just started a podcast with Eddie Temple Moist called Trailblazers. |
| 1:17.3 | And I think the guests that have had so far, in fact, by Slim and Gary Newman. So you can, |
| 1:25.5 | literally, as you're listening, you can click through and go and download them to queue up to listen |
| 1:30.4 | to later. But goldies to come and loads of others, we talk about it in the podcast. What I'm going to do, |
| 1:37.0 | if you stick around at the end as a little treat, I'm going to play you a little sample from |
| 1:40.6 | their podcast. And it's going to be a Gary Newman talking about working with nine-inch nails. |
| 1:46.4 | So that's a hell of a hell of a podcast. As you'll know, this week is all about the music industry. |
| 1:53.5 | And I'm from that music industry. Speech of element ruckles.com is where you can go and support |
| 1:59.8 | independent music. You can buy vinyl. That's important. I'm going to tell you a little secret, |
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