A message from Scroobius Pip

I helped empty a room in my mums house today and for some reason felt the need to write a blog about it. The amount of forgotten stuff I found was amazing. A suitcase full of t-shirts. The story there being that around 2003/4 (I guess) my dear friend Chris Rees and I started a t-shirt company called Eccentricism. A lot of the designs were based on stencils of mine and some crazy images of his. I stand by the fact that we were the first to do the “Paper, Scissors, Rock” design (with three hands, the third going for the devil horn rock salute). We were listed in Kerrang as one of the top independent t-shirt companies around. I still have the cutting somewhere. In the end we folded the company due to the fact it was very much part time and we couldn’t REALLY see a way to take it up a notch. I guess we were more into painting walls that t-shirts. Don’t know what I’m going to do with the stock though! All hand printed. Good stuff. I think I will have to call a meeting with my co-Director.

Also found A LOT of old spray cans. Kind of made me realize how much I miss spraying walls. Found an old camera with loads of pics from those days on it too so I will have to sling a folder of them up somewhere.

The other most common find was lyric books. Found 4 or 5 with stuff in that I don’t even remember writing. A lot of early versions of stuff that ended up being le sac vs pip tracks to. I plan to sit and read through them soon. Some of it, of course, is really really shitty. Always fun to go through though.

My two BIG finds were (1) the copies of the original “Thou Shalt…” 7” that I thought I had lost and (2) a box of copies of my debut album. Both of which were limited runs of 1000 and I thought the “Thou Shalt..”’s had been stolen so that was a good surprise! Normally when I find copies of “No Commercial Breaks” I sling them on eBay. Doesn’t feel right doing that this time round though as I literally found about 40 of them!

There are numerous projects coming up next year (new le sac vs pip singles & album, a Scroobius Pip book, etc) so I think I will hold on to them and do some kind of give away around the time of those releases. Found a few bits from early shows too. My “Flow Chart” from REAL early on was a good find. Think I have a pic of it on my MySpace but it was good to re-find the original. Fuck Photoshop….its all about prit-stik and scissors!

Anyway, Im very aware that this is an incredibly pointless and poorly structured blog but felt the need to ramble something in more than 140 characters and felt that spreading this over about 40 tweets would just be bad twitter etiquette.

P>I>P

More new noise

Here is another recording from Glasto i just found on camera! From the soon to be announce 2nd le sac Vs Pip LP!

Enjoy!
dvp

Not slack

Apologies for the lack of posts of late, ridiculously busy working on the next LP! Promise we’ll get back on the web soon with news of the release dates and all that ish!

Below is a live version of the first track we wrote for the album, but i have to admit it mightn’t even make it onto the record! So if you wanna know what the new stuff sounds like imagine this but better and loads different!

We did a boo boo

Our manager told me yesterday that we have inadvertently accepted a gig sponsored by Relentless, which is in turn owned by the evil overlord Coca-Cola, and said festival is less than 2 weeks away. If the offer had been for the Coca-Cola Boardmasters Festival, it would have been an instant no but it wasn’t and maybe we should have done our research but we didn’t, and now we are in the awkward position of deciding what to do.

Now for those who don’t know, this is a problem for us, Pip’s “Thou Shalt not buy Coca-Cola products” line in Thou Shalt… isn’t just a controversial demand made to make us appear more interesting, it is a belief, it is something we both adhere to not matter how much I miss Dr Pepper & Cherry Coke. You see Coca-Cola aren’t a good company, now no multi-national company can be said to be angelic but Coke really take the biscuit, their rap sheet highlights include the murder of 8 union leaders in Columbia and the use of polluted water in India.

So what do we do, festivals are massively expensive things and corporate sponsorship is how a lot of festivals survive, think of Reading & Leeds festival, the headline sponsor for years was Carling, a beer company, more than 30000 people die a year in Britain from alcohol related diseases but you don’t hear of anyone pulling out because its the Carling Weekend. Corporate Sponsorship cannot be avoided but as a band we do have options:

1. We could play dumb and pretend we didn’t know thus taking the ignorance is bliss route and do the show with blinkers on.
2. Play the show and talk openly about the issue.
3. Cancel the show.

Now of those 3 options only option 2 makes sense to us, option 1 is sadly the standard route but we don’t want to be those guys, also me writing this blog kinda destroys the credibility of route 1. Option 3 has potential but 2 weeks before the festival all we’ll be serving to do is let down the people that are coming to see us and the damage will already have been done by association. So option 2 is the only way.

So if you want to find out just how evil Coke are head over to Knowmore’s Coca-Cola Company Page or the mildly aggressive KillerCoke.org.

cheers
d

On the road

So this summer we’re on the road very little compared to previous years, and to make matters worse we’re not likely to gig in Europe for 3 months at the end of the year, poo, but dan has bought a little video camera so hopefully will be able to fill you brains with some exciting lil bits of footage….

Its a new track so we hope you enjoy it!

oh and here’s Beat that my heart skipped too…