Hellish

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

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

Sunday Times bestselling author RJ BARKER magics up the five tracks he will meet in Hell!RJ tells us about his latest smash hit fantasy novel, Mortedant's Peril, and we discuss its unusual main character. Alex gets to chat about his love of David Gemmell, we listen to the greatest earworm in the history of the podcast, a popular thing that nerds like is simultaneously celebrated and given a kicking, AND Daniel issues a challenge to the pop star YUNGBLUD.We also get to hear about A Numbers Game, RJ's first crime novel which is being published this week under the name RJ Dark. Get that here.Check out Mortedant's Peril here.

Catherine Anne Davies, aka THE ANCHORESS, produces the five tracks she will meet in Hell!Catherine tells us all about the new Anchoress album, As We Once Were, including how she made it with Pete Townshend's vintage synth collection, and the surprise audio rediscovery that inspired it. We also hear about music video mishaps, sibling rivalry, what Catherine would do if we made her cover a track off her infernal Playlist AND Catherine tests Alex's songfacts abilities live on air!The new album by the Anchoress, As We Once Were, is out now. You can get it everywhere, but the best places are either The Anchoress Bandcamp or direct from the label, Last Night from Glasgow.In the interview, Catherine talks about how she isn't touring the album this year. Your one chance to see her live is at London's 100 Club on August 28th. Tickets here.