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Music journalist CAROLINE SULLIVAN chooses the five tracks she will meet in Hell!Caroline is an incredibly well respected and experienced music journalist, and as well as writing for publications like The Guardian and Melody Maker has also brought her skills to bear on biographies of some of the biggest pop stars in the world, including Taylor Swift, Dua Lipa, and now Harry Styles. We talked about losing out on a number one, writing the obituary of your favourite pop star, what Taylor Swift wanted to be when she was little, and the greatest named drummer of all time.We had a horrible tech issue with this episode, which meant we had to record on Microsoft Teams. Naturally, that did not make for great audio. We've done our absolute best to fix it, hopefully you can forgive us if it's not quite up to the usual standard. (Daniel had mic/computer issues!)Caroline's new book, Harry Styles: The Stories Behind the Songs came out last week, so you can buy it now. That, and her other books, are available from the Hellish bookshop.Read the obituary Caroline wrote for Vicki Wickham here, and Les McKeown here.The Michael Ian Black piece Daniel mentions is here, and the John Moe piece he reads from is here.

Musician HANNAH McELROY of The Sewing Club picks the five tracks she will meet in Hell!Hannah tells us about the origins of The Sewing Club, and how they came to make their first album, Sew, which came out on October 2nd. She also tells us about growing up in China as the daughter of missionaries; the passive aggressive boyfriend who posted songs on Instagram instead of actually talking to her; and we chat about whether or not the Strokes owe us anything.The Sewing Club's awesome debut album, Sew, is out now. Get it from Bandcamp. (You can get it from lots of other places as well.)The Sewing Club are touring the UK and Europe.Oct 15 The Shacklewell Arms LONDONOct 17 The Lanes BRISTOLOct 18 Yes MANCHESTER (Daniel will be at this show fyi)Oct 19 Nice n' Sleazy GLASGOWOct 20 Headrow House LEEDSOct 21 The Hope & Ruin BRIGHTONOct 22 Left of the Dial Festival Rotterdam, NetherlandsOct 27-29 Supersonic Paris, FranceOct 29 Mezz Breda, Netherlands

Double trouble this week as NICK ABADZIS and ANGELA WATSON give us the NINE tracks they will meet in Hell!Comics creator Nick and therapist Angela have just released My Beloved Other: A Memoir of Love, Race, and Optimism in a Time of Denial, an incredible comic book about their thirty+ year relationship. They tell us all about the process of creating the book, what it is like collaborating with your partner on a creative project, and they reveal two particularly horrible past jobs...Get My Beloved Other here.Hear Ray Heffernan's episodes of Hellish: Part One is here and Part Two is here.Watch Bowie and Jagger without music here.

Hello!Today we're putting out a five minute mini-episode, culled from the cutting room floor of our episode with Ariane Sherine Juniper.Ariane was our guest on episode 78, which you can listen to here. During our chat, we talked about her new podcast, Ari & Ad Fix Your Life, and a bit about podcasting in general. The original idea was that Ariane's episode would go out at the same time that Ari & Ad Fix Your Life debuted, but for boring logistical reasons that wasn't possible and so we cut the chat from the original episode. But Ari & Ad Fix Your Life is out now, wherever you get your podcasts, so here's a bonus five minutes of Alex, Ariane, and Daniel chatting.Enjoy!Hellish with Ariane Sherine Juniper is here.Hellish with Adam Juniper is here.Ari & Ad Fix Your Life is here.

Tech journalist (and now podcaster) ADAM JUNIPER chooses the five tracks he will meet in Hell.Adam becomes our first guest to be reunited with his wife in Hell: he's married to episode 78's damned soul, Ariane Sherine Juniper! (Listen to Ariane's episode here if you haven't already.) Adam and Ariane have teamed up for a brand new podcast, Ari and Ad Fix Your Life, in which they field listener queries and try to fix their lives. Episode one came out mere days before this episode drops, so you can grab it NOW. (Or actually, after you've listened to this episode.)Adam is also the editor of Digital Camera World, and so we talk about tech reviews, creepy drone blokes, and the glory days of Future Publishing's video game magazines. (Shout out to Super Play)Listen to Ari and Ad Fix Your Life here

This week TOM TURNER of the Failing Writers Podcast gives us the five tracks he will meet in Hell!Tom tells us all about his multi-award winning Failing Writers Podcast, in which two struggling writers – Tom and co-host Jon Rand – learn everything there is to know about writing. They talk to best-selling authors, screenwriters and poets in order to help their listeners achieve their writing goals. Tom also tells us about his day job as a voiceover artist (artiste), which has seen him lend his voice to a number of high profile brands; AND we get into politics, gravelly voices, and musical onanism.The Failing Writers Podcast is available here.Learn more about Tom's voiceover work here.

Writer LIAM HIGGINSON gives us the five tracks he will meet in Hell!We talk about Liam's debut novel, the excellent rural Welsh folk-horror The Hill in the Dark Grove. We hear about its origins as a lockdown project, how it was acquired in a four way auction, and what it has to say about the modern world. We also talk arcade games, the nightmare that is the UK immigration system, and Ireland's legendary Great White Horse.Get hold of a copy of The Hill in the Dark Grove here.You can watch footage of the vintage arcade game we talk about here.

Writer ARIANE SHERINE JUNIPER gives us the five tracks she will meet in Hell!As well as her Infernal Playlist, Ariane tells us about her many adventures, which include: nearly being in a massive pop band; winning then writing for a massive quiz show; getting hate mail for suggesting that existence of God is unlikely on the side of a bus; her teenage friendship with one of the biggest bands in the world; making her debut as a solo pop artist in her forties; and writing out labels for videotapes. And that's just the stuff we had enough space to keep in the edit. (Patreon listeners get a much longer episode - patreon.com/hellishpod)Ariane's debut solo album, Better, is available to buy here or you can stream it on Spotify and everywhere else.The Real Sinéad O'Connor, Ariane's biography of the singer, is available here.Ariane's novel, Sh*tcom, is available here