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Formed in Brighton in 2015, Porridge Radio quickly evolved from a DIY band into one of the UK’s most emotionally resonant indie rock acts. Led by Dana Margolin, alongside bassist Maddie Ryall, keyboardist Georgie Stott, and drummer Sam Yardley, the group built a reputation for raw, cathartic live shows and piercingly honest songwriting. Their self-released debut Rice, Pasta and Other Fillers (2016) laid the foundation, but it was 2020’s Every Bad—and the searing single “Sweet”—that catapulted them into international acclaim, earning a Mercury Prize nomination and a devoted global following.

2022’s Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder to the Sky pushed the band’s sound further, blending grunge, pop, and post-punk with lyrical themes of vulnerability, uncertainty, and the strange weight of recognition. Margolin’s signature vocal repetitions and poetic contradictions became a defining element, described in a Pitchfork interview as “so changeable and self-contradictory” they begin to take on new meaning with each repetition. After Ryall’s departure in 2023, the band released their final album Clouds in the Sky They Will Always Be There for Me in October 2024—a stripped-back, quietly devastating farewell to a decade of noise, tenderness, and transformation.

Porridge Radio will play one of their final shows at RALLY. It's a fitting setting for a band whose music has always thrived on emotional extremes—joy and despair, chaos and control—and a powerful closing chapter for a group that never stopped evolving.