Porridge Radio have announced their split and shared their goodbye single ‘Don’t Want To Dance’ from their forthcoming final EP.
The Brighton band took to their official X/Twitter account to share ‘Don’t Want To Dance’ and wrote that their upcoming EP ‘Machine Starts To Sing’ – which is set for release on February 21 and available for pre-order here – will mark “the last new music from us as Porridge Radio and marks the end of the band.
“The songs on this EP are an important part of Clouds In The Sky They Will Always Be There For Me, and mean as much to us as the 11 songs on the album. We are excited for you to hear them,” they tweeted.
They continued: “This band has been our life, we’re family now. These tours will be our last, thanks so much for listening. With love, Dana, Georgie, Sam and Dan.”
The melancholic ‘Don’t Want To Dance’ sees Dana Margolin softly wail: “No, I don’t want to dance, but I don’t want to cry about it / I think I’ve taken all that I can take / And I don’t want to think because I don’t want to think about it / I can’t sleep, can’t sleep without it,” describing something that is eating away at her.
Formed in 2015, Porridge Radio was created by Margolin as a way to express herself and via inspiration from the sea in her hometown of Brighton. In 2019, the band were signed by the US indie label Secretly Canadian. They released their second album and first on their new label home ‘Every Bad‘ in 2020. ‘Every Bad’ landed the 18th spot on NME‘s 50 Best Albums of 2020 and was also nominated for the Mercury Prize that year.
In a five-star review of the LP, NME shared: “Here Porridge Radio nail some of music’s hardest tricks – breathing fresh life into indie and making a record that can loosely be compared to other bands in fragments, but also feels entirely their own. ‘Every Bad’ is a breathtaking step up from their bedroom-recorded 2016 debut, ‘Rice, Pasta And Other Fillers’. No wonder they’ve declared themselves the “best band in the world”.
The songs on this EP are an important part of Clouds In The Sky They Will Always Be There For Me, and mean as much to us as the 11 songs on the album. We are excited for you to hear them.
— Porridge Radio (@porridgeradio) January 15, 2025
This band has been our life, we’re family now. These tours will be our last, thanks so much for listening.
With love, Dana, Georgie, Sam and Dan.
— Porridge Radio (@porridgeradio) January 15, 2025
Previously speaking to NME as part of The Big Read, Margolin opened up about her ambitions in regard to Porridge Radio and shared: “I wanna be Coldplay, obviously. Fucking stupid question!”
She also addressed legendary rock critic Everett True declaring Porridge Radio “the best band in the world” after catching 40 seconds of their performance in Brighton’s The Prince Albert.
“He’s great; we know him pretty well now,” she said. “But I’ve always known that we’re the best band in the world. Before Everett True wrote it.”
Elsewhere, Porridge Radio are set to embark on a final run of tour dates across North America and Europe. Check out a full list of dates below and visit here to purchase tickets.
Porridge Radio 2025 US and European tour dates are:
JANUARY
23 – Washington, DC, The Atlantis
24 – Philadelphia, PA, The Foundry
25 – Brooklyn, NY, Warsaw
26 – Boston, MA, Brighton Music Hall
28 – Toronto, ON, The Garrison
30 – Chicago, IL, Thalia Hall
31 – Minneapolis, MN, 7th St Entry
FEBRUARY
4 – Portland, OR, Mississippi Studios
5 – Seattle, WA, The Chapel
7 – San Francisco, CA, Independent
9 – Los Angeles, CA, Echoplex March
MARCH
13 – Rennes, FR, Antipode March
14 – Nantes, FR, Stéréolux
15 – La Roche-sur-Yon, FR Qaui M
17 – Barcelona, ES, Razmatazz
18 – Zaragoza, ES, Sala López
19 – Madrid, ES, Copérnico
21 –Lisbon, PT, Lisboa ao Vivo
23 – Donostia-San Sebastian, ES, Dabadaba
25 – Lyon, FR, L’Épicerie Moderne
26 – Clermont-Ferrand, FR, La Coopérative de Mai
27 – Dijon, FR, La Vapeur
MAY
6 – Athens, GR, AnClub
8 – Istanbul, TR, Blind
10 – Bucharest, RO, Control Club
The band’s last release was 2024’s ‘Clouds In The Sky They Will Always Be There For Me‘. In a glowing five-star review of the LP, NME shared that the album is “a deliberate leap towards feeling OK and also a bow tied around a record that is surprising, affecting and invigorating in its honesty.”
