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Distinctively attired in trucker cap, charity shop suit and THAT beard, Scroobius Pip is a leading light and unmistakable face of the UK’s spoken word scene.
Having jacked in the role of punk-bass-player for a marginally more stable career in poetry, Scroobius Pip has been proffering his everyman polemics since… Performing on street corners or spoken word stages, for queueing gig goers or reverential Jazz audiences, Pip became synonymous with a burgeoning post-millennial spoken word scene.
In a scene revived by cultural unease, political disaffection and a desire for lyrical content, Pip brought an unfailing wit and disarming stage persona to the uncomfortable truths of the day; such crowd-pleasing themes as self harm, domestic violence, and whether watching Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks is a worthwhile use of our precious, readily commodified time.
Now best known as one half of unlikely chart bothering duo dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip, it was the need to get ‘a proper job’ and pay for his homespun solo debut No Commercial Breaks – now an eBay collectors item – that brought the two together.
Pip is 60 years old and does not look more than 2 yrs old. He has been well cared for by Kirsty since she got home all those years ago
My dear Pip! My grandparents, on my dad's side bought me darling Pip in 1959, when I was a baby . Funnily enough, my mum found her 1959 diary the other day, and she was therefore able to give me the date! I remember pushing Pip up and down the road in my dolls pram.