Josie Long's Lost Treasures Of The Black Heart

The Lost Treasures Of The Black Heart is a sort of comedy club in Camden town each month, where comedians, writers and musicians write special sets venerating an unsung hero or celebrating an obscure thing.

It's very rough and silly.

It's compered by Josie Long, who tries out new ideas and improvises things.

We hope you like it, we wanted to make it as close to the bizarre, ramshackle nature of the night as possible.

hello! This show is from the 12th September 2011 - I repeat a joke in this one from the July show, hiya!

I sound everso cheery, I hope you like it! Some of the stuff was later published in a cartoon in the guardian guide, sorry.

I think this is quite a good one, sorry the first bit is so long, there's an arts workshop in the middle that you

can feel free to skip some bits of! Also at the very end I talk about how I met James Franco.

The guests this month are Benjamin Partridge (@benpartridge / http://www.benjaminpartridge.com/), Nadia Kamil (@NadiaKamil / http://www.nadiakamil.co.uk/), Rebecca and AJ from The Peg Powler Gallery in Stockton On Tees (http://pegpowler.blogspot.co.uk), Nathaniel Metcalfe (@natmetcalfe), Phil O'Shea (@PhilOSheacomedy), Jonnie Marbles (@JonnieMarbLes), Martin Croser (@M_Croser) and Sara Pascoe (@sarapascoe)

You can drop us a line at [email protected], if you like!

The Lost Treasures Of The Black Heart is a sort of comedy club in Camden town each month, where comedians, writers and musicians write special sets venerating an unsung hero or celebrating an obscure thing.

It's very rough and silly.

It's compered by Josie Long, who tries out new ideas and improvises things.

We hope you like it, we wanted to make it as close to the bizarre, ramshackle nature of the night as possible.

This fifth episode was recorded on the 5th July 2011, and was a bloody shambles of a gig - the first 15 minutes or so are really all over the place. I hope you like it. It's got a few bits that are like prototype bits for my 2011 show, too!

I seem to be in a stupid and grumpy mood, I really hope you can endure it!

The guests this month are Dougie Anderson (@DougieAndo), James Acaster (@jamesacaster), Jonnie Marbles (@JonnieMarbLes), We Are Goose (@wearewearegoose), Benjamin Partridge (@benpartridge), Saban Kazim (@SabanKaz), Nathaniel Metcalfe (@natmetcalfe), The Sweet Valley Twins (@emmy_the_great), and Brigitte Aphrodite (@bbbrigitte)...

You can drop us a line at [email protected], if you like!

The Lost Treasures Of The Black Heart is a sort of comedy club in Camden town each month, where comedians, writers and musicians write special sets venerating an unsung hero or celebrating an obscure thing.

It's very rough and silly.

It's compered by Josie Long, who tries out new ideas and improvises things.

We hope you like it, we wanted to make it as close to the bizarre, ramshackle nature of the night as possible.

This fourth eisode was recorded the day after I had a big break up.

Thatís why itís taken me so long to do the cuts, I hope itís not too much of a shambles.

If anyone's at all interested, there are a few seeds of jokes that went into my 2011 show "The Future Is Another Place".

Also a very facile play about the Mitfords.

This is a really meandering one, sorry!

There's a really long top trumps sequence at the end, you might want to skip it.

The guests this month are Martin Croser, John-Luke Roberts, Benjamin Partridge, Martha Owens, Nikesh Shukla and - of course - regular act Nathaniel Metcalfe - all held together by Josie, in a snuggle bag.

You can drop us a line at [email protected], if you like!

The Lost Treasures Of The Black Heart is a sort of comedy club in Camden town each month, where comedians, writers and musicians write special sets venerating an unsung hero or celebrating an obscure thing.

It's very rough and silly.

It's compered by Josie Long, who tries out new ideas and improvises things.

We hope you like it, we wanted to make it as close to the bizarre, ramshackle nature of the night as possible.

This third episode was recorded at the Black Heart on the 9th May 2011 (over a whole year ago now! Have a listen and see how different everything was!!!)

The month was blighted somewhat by loads of noise from the bar downstairs, where a karaoke night was being held by - of all people - the mayor of Camden!

Whilst it may have been frustrating on the night, Josie would like it be known that the mayor turned out to be lovely and they even became friends on twitter.

No grudges were formed in the making of this podcast.

It features performances by Josie Long, Matthew Crosby (and his female counterpart), Broderick Chow, Elis James, Joe Lycett, Neil Hughes, Tim Kennington and Lost Treasures regular, Nathaniel Metcalfe.

We hope you enjoy it!

You can drop us a line at [email protected], if you like!

The Lost Treasures Of The Black Heart is a sort of comedy club in Camden town each month, where comedians, writers and musicians write special sets venerating an unsung hero or celebrating an obscure thing.

It's very rough and silly.

It's compered by Josie Long, who tries out new ideas and improvises things.

We hope you like it, we wanted to make it as close to the bizarre, ramshackle nature of the night as possible.

This second episode was recorded at the Black Heart on the 5th April 2011, and was opened from offstage by Josie and her trumpet!

This month we welcome a wicker owl, enjoy an agressive one-woman play about the Brontes and the game "If you can guess what's in the box, you will win the box, and it's contents whether you like them or not."

It features performances by Josie Long, Benjamin Partridge, Cariad Lloyd, Nicholas Cook, Phil O'Shea and Lost Treasures regular, Nathaniel Metcalfe.

We hope you enjoy it!

You can drop us a line at [email protected], if you like!

The Lost Treasures Of The Black Heart is a sort of comedy club in Camden town each month, where comedians, writers and musicians write special sets venerating an unsung hero or celebrating an obscure thing.

It's very rough and silly.

It's compered by Josie Long, who tries out new ideas and improvises things.

We hope you like it, we wanted to make it as close to the bizarre, ramshackle nature of the night as possible.

This first episode was recorded at the Black Heart on the 8th March 2011, during which everyone was given a free copy of David Nicholls' 'One Day' by a generous publisher (this is worth noting for when the acts refer to it).

It features performances by Josie Long, Robin Ince, Nathaniel Metcalfe, Edward Aczel and Nadia Kamil.

You can drop us a line at [email protected], if you like!

This is an introduction to the Podcast version of The Lost Treasures Of The Black Heart, which is a Stand Up Club night run by Josie Long every month in Camden with a variety of guests. Comedians, writers, musicians, and others are all invited to give presentations and short sets on obscure people or things that deserve veneration.

It is often ramshackle, and always fun.

These podcasts will be edited highlights of the monthly shows, which we have been recording throughout 2011 and we will begin releasing the shows within the next week.

We hope you enjoy them!