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Porridge & Hotsauce

album by You Am I

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 1, 2024
Entity authorityQ23763193 ↗
Source-derived summary

Porridge & Hotsauce is the tenth studio album by the Australian rock band You Am I. It was released on 6 November 2015.

The album was mainly recorded at Daptone's House of Soul Studio in Bushwick, Brooklyn, United States with some additional recording taking place at two studios in Melbourne. Porridge & Hotsauce peaked at No. 20 on the ARIA Albums Chart, and it was ultimately the band's lowest charting album since their debut album in 1993.

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The public source identifies “Porridge & Hotsauce” as album by You Am I. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Porridge, Hotsauce and album.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2015, 1993—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Porridge, Hotsauce and album providing the first useful test.
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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 1, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q23763193. The first chronological checks are 2015 and 1993.

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This entry incorporates text from “Porridge & Hotsauce” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.