From Brighton’s pebble beaches and salty breeze to the heat of a Roman summer night at Monk.
On Sunday 15th June, Porridge Radio took our hands to close a circle together. The tour was announced as their last after the release of The Machine Starts to Sing in 2025.
On the stage, Dana Margolin’s guitar and voice echo with Georgie’s Stott’s keyboards to open up a heart filled with longing, sweetness and absence. Sam Yardley and Dan Hutchins accompany them strumming down the rhythm of the passing of the days.
With Sick of the blues as the opening song, hearts start to breathe while tons of weights are relieved from our chests. The lightness filling the room embraces that instant where rage and suffering fade, dwelling for just that tiny moment, enough to say goodbye.
Clarity.
We are the God of everything else whenever we hide ourselves behind the versions of us we are not, whenever we try to grasp beauty and love from behind bars. We hide until we don’t anymore and find a way to do this – life – without being killed.
The worlds portrayed by Dana, Georgie, Sam and Dan linger through the space like delicate clouds protecting the eyes from the blinding lights we are not ready to look into.
And when we are ready to look into all of it again, we are also ready to bite and chew all the life that comes our way. Ready to ebb and float into the waves of new circles, neverending roller coasters, uncompromising jumps where we “lose our voice on an ocean’s floor”.
The Machine Starts to Sing in 2025 and Clouds in the Sky They Will Always Be There For Me in 2024 spread around the sense of maturity and peace that comes from growing up.
A peace often rejected and provoked in the album Every Bad, the witty heritage we do not deserve but that Porridge Radio has decided to gift us with.
You will like me when you meet me
You will like me when you meet me
You will like me when you meet me
You might even fall in love
