Following that, the band were invited to debut the material at a special performance at Paris’ prestigious Centre Pompidou. “Visually, that was very much a collaboration with Ella and Ellie,” says Dana of the show she put together with her filmmaker sister Ella Margolin and set designer Ellie Wintour, “I had this idea of the album being a puppet show, but they took it to a new level.” The songwriter had seen the puppet work of the American mid-century sculptor Alexander Calder at New York’s Whitney museum, “I had watched his short film where he creates a circus out of puppets. It’s so funny and it’s so ludicrous and also very serious and beautiful and poetic.” That contrast began to feel very herself, very Porridge Radio. “There are joyful ways to portray something that’s also deeply sad and vulnerable.”