PORRIDGE RADIO are one of the most vital new voices in alternative music, having gone from being darlings of the DIY underground to one of the UK’s most thrilling bands in the space of less than a year. Their barbed wit, lacerating intensity and potent blend of art-rock, indie-pop and post-punk sounds like little else around, and led their 2020 album Every Bad to make the nominees list for the coveted Mercury Music Prize.
For frontperson Dana Margolin, drummer Sam Yardley, keyboardist Georgie Stott and bassist Maddie Ryall – who met in the seaside town of Brighton and formed Porridge Radio in 2014 – global recognition has been a long time coming, after years of self-releasing and music booking their own tours. In those eight years, Dana has gained a reputation as one of the most magnetic band leaders around with an ability to “devastate you with an emotional hurricane, then blindside you with a moment of bittersweet humour” (NME).
But if Every Bad established Dana’s lemon-sharp, heart-on-sleeve honesty, Porridge Radio’s third album takes that to anthemic new heights. Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky is the sound of someone in their late twenties facing down the disappointment of love, and life, and figuring out how to exist in the world, without claiming any answers. It’s also catchy as hell.
SATURDAY JULY 6th 2024 - Museo Nivola (Orani, NU).
I PORRIDGE RADIO sono tra le nuove voci più interessanti della musica alternativa, una delle band più entusiasmanti in circolazione. Originaria di Brighton (UK), ha già suonato nei top festival d’Europa, tra cui Primavera Sound, Green Man, End of the Road, Todays, La Route du Rock.
Con loro miscela tagliente, potente e al tempo stesso intimista e intensa di art-rock, indie-pop e post-punk - che non ha eguali in giro - e con il loro album Every Bad (2020) i PORRIDGE RADIO hanno ricevuto la nomination al prestigioso Mercury Music Prize.
Dana Margolin, pittrice e scrittrice oltre che leader della band, è tra le artiste più talentuose e magnetiche in circolazione, capace di “devastarti con un uragano di emozioni, per poi spiazzarti con il suo humor dolce-amaro" (NME).
SABATO 6 LUGLIO 2024 - Museo Nivola (Orani, NU).