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Dive Lounge
Montez Press Radio presents ‘Dive Lounge’, a new performance project hosted by Nicky Harris and devised in collaboration with Poppy Moroney. Subverting the classic BBC Radio 1 ‘Live Lounge’ format, ‘Dive Lounge’ invites musicians, performers and live artists to perform a set of their own songs and cover versions. Taking performances like Lady Gaga’s ‘Poker Face’ as inspiration, the project seeks to highlight the cabaret roots that the ‘Live Lounge’ format draws on.
Montez Press Radio is an experimental broadcasting and performance platform. We were founded in 2018 with the goal of fostering greater experimentation and conversation between artists, writers, and thinkers through the medium of radio. This platform invites different corners of the art world to interact with each other in person and on air—a place where media finally meets flesh. We’re drawn to art that exists in the unexpected, the authenticity of sharing without a script, the sounds of ideas in the making, conversation that forgets there’s an audience. We also like books.