8th October, 2025
Guest Post – Alex Hubbard: Have you ever seen the rain?
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Have you ever wondered what writers listen to (if anything) when working on a book? In this guest post, Alex Hubbard shares some of the songs he listened to whilst writing his debut novel Storm. You can find his book in bookshops and here on our website from today!
A playlist for Storm: the novel
When writing Storm, I worked recklessly alongside endless streams of music. I’d put on my headphones and turn the volume up to max. This had such an effect on my already rather weak ears that I now avoid earpieces almost entirely. It was, however, an incredibly exhilarating and stimulating way to fire myself through the writing process.
Novels take a long time. Often, the writing process produces similar feelings to the daily grind of any other job which requires sitting at a desk and typing. So, when I think of a writing playlist, I think really of music’s effect on the mundane. I think of sitting in my dad’s car on a motorway flyover one Sunday night, looking out the window, seeing the rain coming down and all that red light from the cars beneath, made magic by Meatloaf’s ‘Paradise by the Dashboard Lights’. And I think that, really, reminds me of what is exciting about creativity: how it points to what we know is there and says, but what else could be?
So, with that in mind, I’d like to give you some insight into the music which helped make Storm. Now, to be clear, what you are about to read is not the authentic Storm playlist. There are in fact, four or five different ones, each with many overlaps and oddities. The longest clocks in at nearly 12 hours, altogether. In this one, you can listen to 13 songs which I think each represent about a thirteenth of the novel.
‘Walkin’ After Midnight’ by Patsy Cline
We meet Josephine in Aberystwyth, after midnight. A heavy rain is beginning to fall. She is walking the long stretch of road from the local night club where she works to the flat above the barber shop where she lives. It’s hardly ‘miles along the highway’, and Josephine is certainly not hoping to find a lost love. But, like Patsy, she is ‘lonesome […] as can be’. And loving it. For now.
‘Feels Nice’ by Clwb Chess
Like all cosmic, chaotic fever dreams, Storm is really a novel about nights out. Early on, Josephine, Glynn and their various connections go out-out in Aberystwyth. Nothing has ever captured the Aberystwyth night out quite like Clwb Chess’ 2025 EP, In Da Clwb. This Brummie-Cymraeg collaborative effort is forceful, fun and fabulous. ‘Feels Nice’ opens:
I caught you in the smoking cage
cornered in-between
the windy weather battering
and my suit-wearing shiny gleam
The smoking cage, I suspect, is belonging to Pier Pressure and overlooks the sea – a quite wonderful feature of an otherwise God-awful night club. And there is perhaps not a better image of an Aberystwyth night out than the one imagined here – stuck between the harsh wind and some smart-dressed idiot. I’d rather the clowns and jokers.
‘The Whale Has Swallowed Me’ by J.B. Lenoir
And then comes the next morning. If you’ve ever indulged a little too much in vices of the alcohol, you might also feel that ‘the same old whale’ that ‘swallowed Jonah’ has ‘swallowed’ you. You’re far less likely, however, to find that a whale has actually washed up right on your doorstep. Yet, come the dawn of Storm’s second day, that’s exactly what happens. At least whales don’t actually generally swallow people. I think.
‘Drowning (feat. BADBADNOTGOOD) by Mick Jenkins
House parties, though, are fundamentally different ontologically to night clubs. They are slower, stranger and illicit, like some stripped back version of a speakeasy. At the end of the novel’s second day, Josephine finds herself at a house party full of strangers. Just as Jenkins croons ‘we gon’ need some drugs/for this situation’, Josephine finds herself floating into more surreal substances than alcohol and nicotine.
‘Dafydd Iwan Yn Y Glaw’ by Datblygu
But descend to what? Well, I don’t want to give too much away, but something like this. Glaw, cerainly, but unfortunately Dafydd Iwan does not make a cameo. Fear not, there are plenty of other Welsh icons making appearances. If I could, I’d make sure all readers listened to this song on loop from pages 182 to 208.
‘The Winner Takes It All’ by Abba
And then, we come to Abba, as all things must. This song joined the Storm playlist quite late, when I was re-writing parts in relation to Josephine’s relationship with her mother. I went to see Tai Haf Heb Drigoyln perform at the Bank Vault’s experimental music night, and they covered the song in a manner simultaneously silly and sincere, comic and sad. Fundamentally, this is a song about futures: about what continues, what ends, what is remembered, what is lost. I heard it anew at just the right time to realise that this is what Storm is about, too.
Still with me?
Well, fair play, because I assumed that having someone tell you why they listen to certain songs when they write was one of the circles of hell. Still, I hope you enjoy the playlist. I think it holds up. You can read my breakdown on every song on my Substack. And if you’d like to read some prose which has a similar vibe, my book is available now!
Alex Hubbard
Check out a longer version of this post on Alex’s Substack.
