READING: Saint Laurence Church

Friday 24th March, 2023

6:30pm

Event information

Heavy Pop & Dork team up again for now a weekend of music, dancing and togetherness: BEAT CONNECTION

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Line-up & timings subject to change
Entry subject to venue capacity
* + ticket company booking fee

- FRIDAY ARTISTS-
Headliner: Porridge Radio -

"spiky, strange and uncompromisingly brilliant" The Guardian
Back to the radio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDw9nTQKGd4

We are happy to announce that Porridge Radio will headline the Friday night (24th) of Beat Connection.

The band are one of the most vital new voices in alternative music, having gone from being darlings of the DIY underground to one of the UK’s most thrilling bands in the space of less than a year. Their barbed wit, lacerating intensity and potent blend of art-rock, indie-pop and post-punk sounds like little else around, and led their 2020 album Every Bad to make the nominees list for the coveted Mercury Music Prize.

The band last year released their second album 'Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky' to further acclaim.

- Lime Garden -
"Brighton’s new guitar heroes " NME
Bitter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1kPfF1VObE

Sliding from one music genre into another – from indie to surf to disco – they play with noise in a completely fearless and youthful way, unique to the chaotic energy of their close-knit group. Named as one of NME’s top 100 artists for 2022 and will be playing at U.S festival SXSW soon.

- Baba Ali (late-night guests -
"Stevie Nicks, Sleaford Mods and Fela Kuti are among the touchstones for this free-ranging New Yorker’s adventures in sound" The Guardian
Burn Me Out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrSGMhitMO8

BBC 6Music Playlist endorsed Anglo-American Indie electro duo Baba Ali will support and they are an act with one foot firmly placed on the dance floor!

- Adam & Elvis -
Currency: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPV7X-ccKN0

Reading/London-based 'Frustrated Pop' band Adam & Elvis support. The band has been championed by BBC Radio legend Steve Lamacq and are known on the local circuit for always putting on a show.

- This. -

Lo Fi Indie band based in Reading.

- Tracks & Grooves DJ -

Derry born and Reading based multi-genre party DJ will be entertaining us all in the early hours.

*Please note - our Saturday headliner is Billie Marten with guests including AK/DK, Keg, Priestgate and more.

Previous Beat Connection artists include:

BC Camplight, Jane Weaver, Matt Maltese, Peaness, JOHN, Talk Show, The Lounge Society and more.

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