Discover Porridge Radio's Favorite Songs and Life Reflections

2023-08-13 10:23:42

“Do you ever think about / who you were then / and who you are now?” All questions about life are more fun together with Porridge Radio, that’s one of my favorite groups. And these are her favorite songs.

By Lisa Schneider

Lisa Schneider / FM4

Always cool: Porridge Radio at the Poolbar Festival in Feldkirch.

After some concerts, recovery phases are necessary, it has now been a good three weeks since Porridge Radio performed at the Poolbar Festival in Feldkirch – rain outside, sizzling warm inside. This band really enjoys, or at least has a great passion for, writing uplifting songs, that is, ones that not only bring tears to your eyes, but also get your feelings out through your fingertips.

And then of course there are also normal people who sit wrapped in blankets backstage and drink coffee from the machines, brush back their rather unwashed hair and then think together about the best songs in the world.

Porridge Radio aren’t playing a major tour at the moment, but there are a few European appearances, it was very nice in France by the sea, it’s almost even nicer in Feldkirch, even if the water comes from above. So if Dana Margolin and her top group had to curate a festival themselves, they would reach up: Oasis would be headliners, because if there was a reunion, then there.

Coldplay are allowed to be there too, but without the frills and the neon yellow-grey lights and confetti, just with songs like “Green Eyes”. Alex G is playing on the band bus, whose other songs, and then the question arises which song Dana would have liked to have written herself. She swallows and laughs, and then says two incredible words: “Crazy Frog.” Bewilderment squared, but she has the answer ready: “Because it slaps”.

But that’s the only outlier in this favorite song playlist, which otherwise contains songs by good musicians like Franz Ferdinand, Hot Chip or Radiohead. “This is a low flying panic attack” sings Thom Yorke on one of their best songs, and actually that’s a line he may have written for Porridge Radio and their music. The soft attacks are evil, but there is relief at the end, maybe even a little enlightenment.