Porridge Radio / Support: Tapir! (Solo)

In the organizer's words:

EU Tour Winter 2024
Indie rock concert at KESSELHAUS

Waves develop the most power when they build up for a long time, overlapping until they break effectively in glittering, foaming spray on the steep shore. The songs by Porridge Radio are very similar. The fact that they also come from the coastal town of Brighton perhaps makes the wave metaphor even more plausible. In any case, the band, whose third album, their first for Secretly Canadian, was released right at the start of the pandemic and triggered an astonishing amount of hype, is one of the best indie/post-punk bands of the moment. For reasons we were only able to see them live two years ago at Festsaal Kreuzberg. It's magnificent how the voice and charisma of their front woman Dana Margolin majestically towers over her band's sound, which oscillates between dreampop and postpunk. Sometimes embedded in three-part call-and-response harmonies, sometimes whispering, sometimes howling, she tells of self-flagellating, circling thoughts, the fear of death and broken relationships. It's so devastatingly good and cathartic that it just has a way about it - no wonder, with songs that are meant to sound "like your heart is breaking so much that your whole body hurts", as Margolin once explained in an interview. She has succeeded. Most recently, her album "Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky" was released, transforming the fear of facing a wider public with her vulnerability into a creative maelstrom. Margolin's statement this time: the songs should sound "stadium-epic like Coldplay", which is of course coquetry, if only because there is not even a hint of self-pity in them. "The result sounds more stadium-epic like Bright Eyes, if Conor Oberst ever got near a stadium," Rolling Stone rightly wrote. We would add that he would at least have his old buddy Tim Kasher with him - and Marianne Faithfull. Tapir! on the other hand, actually an excellent 6-piece pop/indiefolk/postpunk band from London, who recently caused quite a stir with their album "Their God and the King of My Decrepit Mountain", are supporting Porridge Radio today in a much slimmed-down form - as a solo show by their singer Ike Gray.

Price information:

B.O. € 30,00 VVK € 29,30