Porridge Radio

In the organizer's words:

When Porridge Radio was formed in 2014 - ten years ago - the very last thing London-born Dana Margolin expected was to play in a band. Studying Anthropology at the University of Sussex, Dana began performing her songs herself at local open mic nights before assembling a full band - with Georgie Stott on keyboards and backing vocals, Sam Yardley on drums and keyboards and former bassist Maddie Ryall (who left in 2023 and was replaced by Dan Hutchins). Their debut album Rice, Pasta and Other Fillers (2016) was followed by Every Bad (2020), which was shortlisted for the Mercury Prize and praised by The Guardian as "uncompromisingly brilliant". Later, Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder to the Sky (2022) became her first Top 40 album chart success in the UK.

When Dana Margolin began work on the fourth Porridge Radio album, the songwriter's approach to creativity was somewhat different.

"Almost all the songs started out as poems," Margolin says of working on Clouds In The Sky They Will Always Be There For Me (2024), "I wanted to challenge myself. In songwriting, Dana says, she learned that the writer can always hide behind the tricks of music and time-honored techniques like repetition. "In a poem, on the other hand," says Dana, "you can't hide."

Recorded in the Somerset countryside in early 2024 by longtime Big Thief and Laura Marling sound engineer Dom Monks, Clouds In The Sky They Will Always Be There For Me is Porridge Radio's new album and first new music in two years. The British band's new album is a coming-of-age moment, inspired by burnout, the music industry, heartbreak and the brutal failure of significant relationships and, crucially, Dana's own increasing immersion in her craft as an artist.

Clouds In The Sky They Will Always Be There For You will be released on Secretly Canadian on October 18, 2024.

Price information:

VVK: 25€ plus fees