Welcome to Hellish, the only podcast that comes to you from Hell's waiting room.
In each episode, Hell's receptionist Daniel Whelan and Satan's tea boy Alex Gale interrogate a newly damned soul, asking them for the five songs they will meet in Hell: the music that we will use to torment them for all eternity. The condemned take us through songs they are embarrassed to have once liked; songs they can't stand that are otherwise universally adored; songs that remind them of bad times; songs they hate by artists they love; and songs that once stuck in their heads, they can never get out.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Welcome to Hellish, the only podcast that comes to you from Hell's waiting room.
In each episode, Hell's receptionist Daniel Whelan and Satan's tea boy Alex Gale interrogate a newly damned soul, asking them for the five songs they will meet in Hell: the music that we will use to torment them for all eternity. The condemned take us through songs they are embarrassed to have once liked; songs they can't stand that are otherwise universally adored; songs that remind them of bad times; songs they hate by artists they love; and songs that once stuck in their heads, they can never get out.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Writer and pop music expert JUSTIN LEWIS gives us the five tracks he will meet in Hell!
Justin's latest book, Into the Groove, is a fun, fact-packed race through 1980s pop music, so we had a lot of fun talking about that. We also found time to touch on Radio X, Liz Kershaw's wrongun ways, how to write a biography in seven weeks, and the terrors of press day for a TV listings compiler.
You can find out more about Justin here. You can buy a copy of Into the Groove here. (Using this link will help Hellish keep going)
We had to cut loads of cool stuff from this episode for time and also legal reasons. Patreon subscribers get the full thing, which this week means an extra twenty seven minutes! https://www.patreon.com/hellishpod to sign up.
Lament, the terrible music video Alex and Daniel appear in can be found here
BUY US A COFFEE! If you just want to be nice/bribe your way out of Hell then you can tip us over at https://www.ko-fi.com/hellishpod
FIND US ON SPOTIFY! To hear the songs on Justin's Infernal Playlist in full, as well as the Ultimate Infernal Playlist which combines the choices of every damned soul we've met so far. https://tinyurl.com/hellishpod
BECOME A PATREON SUPPORTER! https://www.patreon.com/hellishpod to access episodes early and ad free, where you will find out which artists our guests will meet in Hell. You'll also get our two pilot episodes, a bunch of advent calendar extras, and some other stuff depending which tier you pick.
FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA for Alex's fiendishly impossible weekly picture quiz...
Instagram: www.instagram.com/hellish_pod
BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/hellishpod.com
Threads: https://www.threads.net/@hellish_pod
Facebook: www.facebook.com/hellishpodcast
TikTok: www.tiktok.com/hellishpod
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.