Episode 89

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18th Jul 2024

SHC EP 89 - The Music Dad Podcast With Russ Pritchard of Noel Gallaghers High Flying Birds

Welcome to the Stupid Hearts Club Podcast! A place for everyone who believes in love, openness, creativity and giving life a good bloody go.

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This weeks chat is very special and is a Music Dad Podcast episode.

Last week I took myself to off to a fancy-pants Rock Star hotel in Kensington, London to chew the fat with Scouse bass legend Russ Pritchard of Noel Gallaghers High Flying Birds. Also formerly of the Zutons, and The Big Kids (who you MUST check out).

in this brilliant, insightful and beautifully honest chat we hear what it's like and what it takes, alongside luck, to claw your way up in the music scene. We discuss the dedication and guts it takes to hone your craft so hard that you one day may find yourself casually sparking a co-write of a song that will then become a part of popular culture as ubiquitous as salt in the briny sea (none other than 'Valerie'). I think you will love Russ, he is very much a person who clearly doesn't take a single moment of his job for granted, and he made me a proper Brew with not too much milk in it.

This FREE version of the chat is dead ace but FYI, there is a different edit with a longer cut of our chat on my patreon at patreon.com/stupidheartsclub in which Russ tells the very amusing story of how he got the job with Noel Gallagher- There are a good few extras sitting waiting for you in the patreon feed going back months, including episodes of 'Tea and Empathy' where I meet strangers in cafes for a brew and find lots of humanity, and several episodes of The Busking Chronicles, which is what I called my music based eps before I realised I was in fact The Music Dad.

Wherever or however you enjoy the joy thank you so much for being here

Stupid Hearts Club Forever Baby

Nico

xx

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If you like what I do and you want to contribute to my efforts as well as get access to some really cool extras, please take a look at my Patreon! And if you can't, or indeed just don't want to, then I'm still super happy you're here (but I will now ignore you if I see you in the street)

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Editing by Nico Tatarowicz

Production support from Drew Toynbee

Copyright 2025 Nico Tatarowicz

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Finding Nico (Formerly Stupid Hearts Club)
His comedy career died, now he needs to find a new life
Nico Tatarowicz was a busy, in-demand TV comedy writer and actor between around 2005 and the bloody pandemic. He loved it. It was sort of who he was. Since then 72% of the freelancers in the telly industry have found themselves seriously struggling for work. Including Nico who is now pluckily trying to find new ways to stay afloat, inspired and frankly alive. Follow his brutally honest accounts of his sometimes bleak, sometimes joyous and often hilarious adventures, usually in Linda the camper van- As he keeps us updated on his mission to find himself and some bloody work once more.
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