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Hey there my Stupid Hearted angels.

Alice Lowe is possibly the most fruitful creative person I know. In fact, when I went to her house, even her actual fruit bowl contained turnips, bananas, peppers, a pomegranate and much much more. I think that image kind of works as a very strong analogy for her output. As the reigning indie queen of UK cinema Alice has already delivered three cult classics with Sightseers, Prevenge and last years Timestalker, and in my opinion she is only just getting going.

This chat is part 2 of a recording I did when I visited her near Stroud in my camper van Linda. This weeks chat is more about Alices career and our shared (and differing) experiences as UK writers in and around the world of comedy and the arts.

It's a fantastic conversation that any budding or (struggling) creative will benefit from. There is a section of the conversation that is a little compromised by a zip or a button tapping Alices mic that I could not get rid of as it's woven into her words. So sorry about that, but I still think its v listenable, and Alices wisdom and wit will see us all through.

Enjoyyyy

Stupid Hearts Club Forever Baby

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If you enjoy what I do and would like to help support all the time and effort I lovingly put into the world of Stupid Hearts Club, which now includes, podcasts, live music events, music collabs and more, then please consider becoming a paid subcriber to my Patreon!

You will have immediate access to a well stocked treasure trove of really cool extra podcast bits, and you will be first to know about stuff like merch, news, and forthcoming plans to create an actual membership club, that means you will be able get into all SHC music nights and events for FREE.

Every paid sub really helps me keep going, even if it's just to try it out for a month! And all for around £5! Bargz

Either way. I'm still super happy you are here at all so thank you so much for listening!

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Don't be shy, come and say hello

Nico xx

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Welcome to Stupid Hearts Club. The Entertainment Community for everyone with a creative, open, loving, romantic and gloriously stupid heart!

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Hey there my Stupid Hearted angels.

This is the morning after the last one, in which I failed at being at a carvery near Stroud. Here I wake up and am all pleased with myself for sleeping in me van in a shit car park, before going off for a lovely chat with film-maker and personal hero Alice Lowe.

Part 2 of this will drop next week and is chat is a full 90 mins of talk about Alices career, cinema, surviving as a creative and the business of writing what you want to say.

Stupid Hearts Club Forever Baby

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If you enjoy what I do and would like to help support all the time and effort I lovingly put into the world of Stupid Hearts Club, which now includes, podcasts, live music events, music collabs and more, then please consider becoming a paid subcriber to my Patreon!

You will have immediate access to a well stocked treasure trove of really cool extra podcast bits, and you will be first to know about stuff like merch, news, and forthcoming plans to create an actual membership club, that means you will be able get into all SHC music nights and events for FREE.

Every paid sub really helps me keep going, even if it's just to try it out for a month! And all for around £5! Bargz

Either way. I'm still super happy you are here at all so thank you so much for listening!

Oh and if you want to see me on an almost daily basis titting about and being a legend of compassion come and follow stupid hearts club on Instagram,

Don't be shy, come and say hello

Nico xx

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Production support from Drew Toynbee

Copyright 2025 Nico Tatarowicz

Welcome to Stupid Hearts Club. The Entertainment Community for everyone with a creative, open, loving, romantic and gloriously stupid heart!

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Hey there my Stupid Hearted angels.

A couple of weeks back I took my darling Linda the camper van on another rain-sodden jaunt. This time in the direction of Cardiff, where I was to stay a couple of nights with my good pal Conor, before using 'Search For Sites' again to find somewhere to get my head down on the way back. First I headed to Porthcawl for a little admin errand that brought a very sweet surprise with it. At the end of the episode I am poised to go and visit Alice Lowe to record the episode that will follow this one. It wasn't my best stopover choice but making underwhelming choices is all part of the journey and always gives something for you lot to laugh at me about. In this case, a very disappointing carvery failure.

Am looking forward to the nights getting lighter and will soon be putting more Vanventures in the diary so please feel free to suggest stop-offs and places for me and Linda to visit. You might even end up on the podcast.

Beep Beep!

Stupid Hearts Club Forever Baby

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If you enjoy what I do and would like to help support all the time and effort I lovingly put into the world of Stupid Hearts Club, which now includes, podcasts, live music events, music collabs and more, then please consider becoming a paid subcriber to my Patreon!

You will have immediate access to a well stocked treasure trove of really cool extra podcast bits, and you will be first to know about stuff like merch, news, and forthcoming plans to create an actual membership club, that means you will be able get into all SHC music nights and events for FREE.

Every paid sub really helps me keep going, even if it's just to try it out for a month! And all for around £5! Bargz

Either way. I'm still super happy you are here at all so thank you so much for listening!

Oh and if you want to see me on an almost daily basis titting about and being a legend of compassion come and follow stupid hearts club on Instagram,

Don't be shy, come and say hello

Nico xx

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Copyright 2025 Nico Tatarowicz

Welcome to Stupid Hearts Club. The Entertainment Community for everyone with a creative, open, loving, romantic and gloriously stupid heart!

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Hey there my Stupid Hearted angels.

Hey you lovelies,

Am wearing my Music Dad hat this week to introduce you to Mookie, a fabulously confident young lady from the Brighton burgeoning music scene who is about to release her third single. Mookie is one of several new acts I regularly see playing around town who are very accomplished even though they are still babies (to me) coming through the music college system. It's a brilliant, inspiring little community, and it makes it a lot easier putting live music nights on when there are so many quality local acts out there earning their performing stripes who want to come and play and who also indulge my old ass when I am singing on the same bill.

We had a lovely chat here where I live vicariously by asking all about what it's like going to Waterbear college to learn to be an independent artist.

I think you can hear the envy dripping off me. Mookie also does three gorgeous acoustic tunes at the end so stay tuned.

Her single 'Murmuring' is out on 21st February 2025, with a fancy video! And she has a fab pre-release gig at The Folklore Rooms in Brighton on Monday 17th.

You can find her music on Spotify where she is called Mookie

Check her out @mookiesmusic on Instagram for much more info

Enjoyyyyy the episode!

Music Dad

x

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If you enjoy what I do and would like to help support all the time and effort I lovingly put into the world of Stupid Hearts Club, which now includes, podcasts, live music events, music collabs and more, then please consider becoming a paid subcriber to my Patreon!

You will have immediate access to a well stocked treasure trove of really cool extra podcast bits.

Every paid sub really helps me keep going, even if it's just to try it out for a month! And all for around £5! Bargz

Either way. I'm still super happy you are here at all so thank you so much for listening!

Oh and if you want to see me on an almost daily basis titting about and being a legend of compassion come and follow stupid hearts club on Instagram,

Don't be shy, come and say hello

Nico xx

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Production support from Drew Toynbee

Copyright 2025 Nico Tatarowicz

Welcome to Stupid Hearts Club. The Entertainment Community for everyone with a creative, open, loving, romantic and gloriously stupid heart!

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Hey there my Stupid Hearted angels.

Here is the third part of my trip to Manchester and back in Linda the Camper Van. It's a Freezing January Monday late aftertnoon on the M1 and I am very tempted to stay in a fancy BnB and do some laptoppin'. But then I remember what I am supposed to be doing. I'm supposed to be using my van to break up journeys. I'm supposed to be being more adventurous. And so I end up making friends with some pigs in the dark. This yanks my mind open and makes me connect with the true value of planless, aimless, travelling....just to see where it leads to....

I can only hope you enjoy the ramblings of a middle aged man under the moonlight in an empty car park

X

Nico Van Diesel

Stupid Hearts Club Forever Baby

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If you enjoy what I do and would like to help support all the time and effort I lovingly put into the world of Stupid Hearts Club, which now includes, podcasts, live music events, music collabs and more, then please consider becoming a paid subcriber to my Patreon!

You will have immediate access to a well stocked treasure trove of really cool extra podcast bits, and you will be first to know about stuff like merch, news, and forthcoming plans to create an actual membership club, that means you will be able get into all SHC music nights and events for FREE.

Every paid sub really helps me keep going, even if it's just to try it out for a month! And all for around £5! Bargz

Either way. I'm still super happy you are here at all so thank you so much for listening!

Oh and if you want to see me on an almost daily basis titting about and being a legend of compassion come and follow stupid hearts club on Instagram,

Don't be shy, come and say hello

Nico xx

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Production support from Drew Toynbee

Copyright 2025 Nico Tatarowicz

Welcome to Stupid Hearts Club. The Entertainment Community for everyone with a creative, open, loving, romantic and gloriously stupid heart!

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Hey there my Stupid Hearted angels.

Here is stage 2 of my mid January trip North in Linda. Having slept at a pub in Bedford I headed north to visit family. Would I maintain my rogueish vanlife legend status there or go and have a shower in a Premier Inn and then go and kip at my mums because she thinks I've gone weird. Only the open road and my mum can decide.

Enjoyyyyy

Nico Van Diesel

Stupid Hearts Club Forever Baby

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If you enjoy what I do and would like to help support all the time and effort I lovingly put into the world of Stupid Hearts Club, which now includes, podcasts, live music events, music collabs and more, then please consider becoming a paid subcriber to my Patreon!

You will have immediate access to a well stocked treasure trove of really cool extra podcast bits, and you will be first to know about stuff like merch, news, and forthcoming plans to create an actual membership club, that means you will be able get into all SHC music nights and events for FREE.

Every paid sub really helps me keep going, even if it's just to try it out for a month! And all for around £5! Bargz

Either way. I'm still super happy you are here at all so thank you so much for listening!

Oh and if you want to see me on an almost daily basis titting about and being a legend of compassion come and follow stupid hearts club on Instagram,

Don't be shy, come and say hello

Nico xx

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Production support from Drew Toynbee

Copyright 2025 Nico Tatarowicz

Welcome to Stupid Hearts Club. The Entertainment Community for everyone with a creative, open, loving, romantic and gloriously stupid heart!

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Hey there my Stupid Hearted angels.

This episode marks the start of my concerted effort to use Linda the camper van in a more adventurous way when I am bobbing around the country. I thought I wouldn't be feeling the call of the road at least til the Daffodils are up but after feeling poorly and getting cabin fever, I thought I'd brave a pub car park stopover to break up my recent trip home to Manchester. Being mid January it was bloody freezing and Linda does not have heating yet, but I wanted to experience a winter over-nighter to see whether it was bearable.

Have a listen and see how I got on......

This particular trip lasted a few days and I have squeezed a couple more episodes of navel gazing and following my nose out of it. I hope you enjoy my ramblings -

Nico Van Diesel

xxx

Stupid Hearts Club Forever Baby

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If you enjoy what I do and would like to help support all the time and effort I lovingly put into the world of Stupid Hearts Club, which now includes, podcasts, live music events, music collabs and more, then please consider becoming a paid subcriber to my Patreon!

You will have immediate access to a well stocked treasure trove of really cool extra podcast bits, and you will be first to know about stuff like merch, news, and forthcoming plans to create an actual membership club, that means you will be able get into all SHC music nights and events for FREE.

Every paid sub really helps me keep going, even if it's just to try it out for a month! And all for around £5! Bargz

Either way. I'm still super happy you are here at all so thank you so much for listening!

Oh and if you want to see me on an almost daily basis titting about and being a legend of compassion come and follow stupid hearts club on Instagram,

Don't be shy, come and say hello

Nico xx

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Production support from Drew Toynbee

Copyright 2025 Nico Tatarowicz

Welcome to Stupid Hearts Club. The Entertainment Community for everyone with a creative, open, loving, romantic and gloriously stupid heart!

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Hey there my Stupid Hearted angels.

This episode features meself and Flavour Fred, my wild food pal and collaborater from our forthcoming project The Wild Lunch Podcast, going for a New Year walk up at Devils Dike above Hove. It was a snowy very crisp day and the sloshy snowy paths made it quite an aggy little trek. But we pressed on because, as usual, Fred had a little mission for us to find 'Tree Mallow' so that he could serve me Wild Dolmades at the end of the journey. Yes, that's right, cold meze, in the snow. Lovely stuff.

There is about to be much more of this sort of thing when we launch The Wild Lunch Podcast for real in the next few weeks. We are both very excited about it. Especially as we plan our first dining/podcast/music experience in a lovely venue in Brighton.

It will be our attempt to capture a live/event podcast version of The Wild Lunch experience, in which Fred will be serving up some of his genius Wild Ingredient recipes, amidst banter and some gentle live music courtesy of Stupid Hearts Club (Oh, that's me isn't it?). Cannot wait to get it going.

Enjoy the episode!

And have a bloody great and productive year

Nico Van Diesel and Linda

x

Stupid Hearts Club Forever Baby!

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If you enjoy what I do and would like to help support all the time and effort I lovingly put into the world of Stupid Hearts Club, which now includes, podcasts, live music events, music collabs and more, then please consider becoming a paid subcriber to my Patreon!

You will have immediate access to a well stocked treasure trove of really cool extra podcast bits, and you will be first to know about stuff like merch, news, and forthcoming plans to create an actual membership club, that means you will be able get into all SHC music nights and events for FREE.

Every paid sub really helps me keep going, even if it's just to try it out for a month! And all for around £5! Bargz

Either way. I'm still super happy you are here at all so thank you so much for listening!

Oh and if you want to see me on an almost daily basis titting about and being a legend of compassion come and follow stupid hearts club on Instagram,

Don't be shy, come and say hello

Nico xx

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Production support from Drew Toynbee

Copyright 2025 Nico Tatarowicz