Porridge Radio

Porridge Radio Brighton

Porridge Radio live in Brighton at CHALK on Saturday 30th November! Get tickets until 6pm on the show day with only a £1 booking fee above, or from SeeTickets.

Stage times:

Porridge Radio 8.30pm

The Umlauts: 7.30pm

When Dana Margolin started working on the fourth Porridge Radio album, there was something different in how the songwriter approached creativity.

“Almost all the songs started out as poems,” says Margolin of the work that became Clouds In The Sky They Will Always Be There For Me (2024), “I wanted to challenge myself.” In songwriting, Dana argues, she had learnt that the writer can always hide behind the tricks of the music and well-worn techniques such as repetition. “In a poem, though,” says Dana, “you can’t hide.”

Recorded in the Somerset countryside in early 2024 by longtime Big Thief and Laura Marling 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 UK band’s new album is a coming-of-age moment inspired by burnout, the music industry, heartbreak and the brutal collapse of significant relationships and – crucially – Dana’s own increasing immersion in her craft as an artist.

When Porridge Radio formed in 2014 – a decade ago – being in a band was the very last thing that London-born Dana Margolin expected to do. Studying anthropology at the University of Sussex, Dana began performing her songs on her own at local open mic nights, before assembling a full band – taking in Georgie Stott on keyboards and backing vocals, Sam Yardley on drums and keyboards, and former bassist Maddie Ryall (who departed in 2023, 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 acclaimed by The Guardian as “uncompromisingly brilliant.” Later, Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder to the Sky (2022) became their first UK Top 40 Album Chart success. https://porridgeradio.com

+ The Umlauts: “We’re just your average trans-European, multi-lingual, art-school, post-punk, techno-inspired, über-group/circus-troop/diaeresis”. That’s The Umlauts there, attempting to describe the matrix-like myriad of influences that they’ve somehow managed to gel together to create the beguiling sounds of their new EP, Another Fact. If that description sounds to you like a group that favour the equivalent freedom of throwing paint at the canvas and seeing what happens then it may have some element of truth. On their debut EP Ü, the four-piece revelled in the crackling energy brought by forming a band first and peeling back the layers of its members later.

Although The Umlauts’ genesis is in Stroud, thanks to song writing partners Alfred Lear and Oliver Offord, the addition of visual artists Annabelle Mödlinger and Maria Vittoria Faldini as lyricists and
vocalists, after meeting at art college in London, blew the group wide open in terms of what they could do creatively. As such, Ü’s tightly hewn mix of mechanical synth-pop, spiky no wave and bristling post-punk bore the hallmarks of a band exhilaratingly committing ideas as quickly as they could have them. Audiences were just as excited to receive them. The group played a memorable End of the Road Festival slot for their fourth ever show, and have since picked up slots at Wide Awake, Pitchfork Music Festival London and tour support with Shame, among others, as well as taking in airplay and plaudits from BBC 6music, NME, Loud & Quiet and more.

Upcoming Love Thy Neighbour shows:
30112024 – Porridge Radio. Chalk
02122024 – Victory Lap. The Hope & Ruin
05122024 – Blood Wizard. Green Door Store
05122024 – Die Twice. The Hope & Ruin
07122024 – John Otway & his band. Lewes Constitutional Club
08122024 – Stick in the Wheel. Lewes Constitutional Club
11122024 – Hollow Hand. The Hope & Ruin
12122024 – Hard Skin. The Prince Albert
12122024 – Predeceased. The Hope & Ruin (bar)
12122024 – Francis Pig. Daltons
13122024 – Dub Pistols. Concorde 2
15122024 – Yenkee. Folklore Rooms
15012025 – John Craigie. Komedia
15012025 – Langkamer. The Prince Albert
21012025 – The Bel Air Lip Bombs. The Prince Albert
22012025 – Jim Moray. Komedia Studio
23012025 – Belako. The Hope & Ruin
02022025 – The John Martyn Project. The Old Market
14022025 – Jake Xerxes Fussell. St Luke’s Church
20022025 – BABii. Green Door Store
21022025 – Rats on Rafts. The Prince Albert
21022025 – MAQUINA. The Hope & Ruin
22022025 – She Drew The Gun. Revenge
01032025 – Personal Trainer. Chalk.
09032025 – Sean Rowe. Lewes Constitutional Club
10032025 – Carter Sampson. Prince Albert
12032025 – Helen Ganya. Alphabet
12032025 – Pom Poko. Chalk
21032025 – Pure Adult + Cassels. Daltons
29032025 –The Tubs. Brighton
03042025 – Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs. Chalk
08042025 – Divorce. Chalk
20042025 – Chat Pile. Chalk
02052025 – Henge. Concorde 2
06052025 – Soccer Mommy. Chalk
13052025 – Snapped Ankles. The Old Market
29052025 – Throwing Muses. Chalk
30052025 – MJ Lenderman. Chalk
01062025 – Shonen Knife. Concorde 2

Accessibility:

Fully accessible venue, disabled toilet at the back. Ask bar for assistance. Entrance for wheelchairs at the back of the venue. Toilets gender neutral on some nights. If you require a carer at the venue, please contact us at info@lovethyneighbourmusic.co.uk for guestlist, with evidence such as a blue badge or access card. If strobe lighting is an issue or if standing for long periods of time is an issue, please contact us in advance. Wheelchair area, and sofa at the side for seating, but depending on how many people are in it may affect the viewing.

Porridge Radio Brighton

Porridge Radio Brighton