Porij are an English four-piece band formed in Manchester in 2019 after meeting at the Royal Northern College of Music. At the time, the band consisted of Tommy Villiers, Tom Donaldson, James Middleton, and Scout Moore. Villiers and Donaldson later left and were replaced by guitarist Jacob Maguire and drummer Nathan Carroll. They have released the EPs Breakfast, Baby Face, and Outlines, before supporting Coldplay for four Manchester gigs of their Music of the Spheres World Tour in mid-2023. They released their debut album, Teething, in April 2024, which was received positively by DIY, The Line of Best Fit, NME, Dork, and Clash, but not The Guardian.
Porij was formed in early 2019 by four popular music students at the Royal Northern College of Music. The band's original members were vocalist and guitarist Tommy Villiers, drummer Tom Donaldson, bassist and keyboardist James Middleton, and vocalist and keyboardist Scout Moore. Moore, who uses the stage name Egg, suffers from fibromyalgia, grew up in Peckham, and was classically trained on the trumpet, before giving it up aged nineteen due to a wonky tooth. The four of them had just begun making primitive beats together when, with less than a week's notice, a friend asked if they could deputise for a gig in Leeds they could not make; though Middleton was out of the country at the time, the other three played the gig. The four of them formed a band shortly afterward, adopting their band name Porij as a misspelling of porridge, intended to evoke the way a five year old would spell it; their debut single was "I Like That".
Porij are an English four-piece band formed in Manchester in 2019 after meeting at the Royal Northern College of Music. At the time, the band consisted of Tommy Villiers, Tom Donaldson, James Middleton, and Scout Moore. Villiers and Donaldson later left and were replaced by guitarist Jacob Maguire and drummer Nathan Carroll. They have released the EPs Breakfast, Baby Face, and Outlines, before supporting Coldplay for four Manchester gigs of their Music of the Spheres World Tour in mid-2023. They released their debut album, Teething, in April 2024, which was received positively by DIY, The Line of Best Fit, NME, Dork, and Clash, but not The Guardian.
Porij was formed in early 2019 by four popular music students at the Royal Northern College of Music. The band's original members were vocalist and guitarist Tommy Villiers, drummer Tom Donaldson, bassist and keyboardist James Middleton, and vocalist and keyboardist Scout Moore. Moore, who uses the stage name Egg, suffers from fibromyalgia, grew up in Peckham, and was classically trained on the trumpet, before giving it up aged nineteen due to a wonky tooth. The four of them had just begun making primitive beats together when, with less than a week's notice, a friend asked if they could deputise for a gig in Leeds they could not make; though Middleton was out of the country at the time, the other three played the gig. The four of them formed a band shortly afterward, adopting their band name Porij as a misspelling of porridge, intended to evoke the way a five year old would spell it; their debut single was "I Like That".