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The Last Dinner Party for this Saturday – in Concert at the TRNSMT Festival at Glasgow Green in the UK and recorded July 12, 2024 by the venerable BBC. 6 Music.

The Last Dinner Party  formed in 2021. The band consists of Abigail Morris (vocals), Lizzie Mayland (vocals, guitar), Emily Roberts (lead guitar, mandolin, flute), Georgia Davies (bass) and Aurora Nishevci (keyboards, vocals). They have no permanent drummer and, as of 2024, are joined during live performances by Casper Miles.

The band signed with Island Records before releasing their debut single “Nothing Matters” in April 2023, which became a top 20 UK hit. They were awarded the Rising Star Brit Award in December 2023, subsequently winning the BBC Sound of 2024 poll. Their debut studio album, Prelude to Ecstasy, was released on 2 February 2024 and debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart.^[2] The group’s second album, From the Pyre, will be released on 17 October 2025.

Morris (from London), Davies (from Australia) and Mayland (from Hebden Bridge) met in 2018 during Freshers’ Week at King’s College London, and decided to form a band after frequently attending gigs together at The Windmill, feeling inspired by being part of the scene around the venue, with bands such as Black Midi and HMLTD. Their original name the Dinner Party was “inspired by the idea of a huge debauched dinner party where people came together to celebrate with a hedonistic banquet”. Emily Roberts was recommended to Morris as a guitarist by a mutual friend, and Nishevci was then brought in. Roberts and Nishevci attended the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

The band initially struggled to find time to rehearse together because of the COVID-19 lockdown in the UK, and they did not perform live until their first gig at The George in London in November 2021. They signed with management group Q Prime in early 2022. They spent the following year honing their sound and building word-of-mouth support on the live circuit in London, including playing a set as the opening act (while still called The Dinner Party) for the Rolling Stones in Hyde Park in July 2022, along with supporting Benee on her world tour for the London show.

On 7 July 2025 the band teased a new single (and possible new album) on their Instagram page when they posted a twelve second video in which they were seen dancing around a bonfire while a soft, ethereal guitar riff played over the top. Fans were prompted to click on a link to the band’s website where they were met with a screen with the words “Mythologise Thyself”. On 17 July 2025 the group released “This Is the Killer Speaking”, the lead single from their second studio album From the Pyre, due to be released on 17 October 2025. The album’s second single, “The Scythe”, was released on 5 September 2025 while the third single, “Second Best”, will be released on 1 October 2025.^[32]

On 23 August 2025, The Last Dinner Party were due to play Victorious Festival but pulled out after an incident the previous day in which Irish folk band The Mary Wallopers had their set cut off after they brought out a Palestinian flag. In a statement on Instagram, The Last Dinner Party wrote “As a band we cannot cosign political censorship and will therefore be boycotting the festival today.” 

“Nothing Matters”, was described as “art-rock bombast” by Rolling Stone UK, while the Evening Standard described their music and live shows as having a “distinctive baroque-pop sound and look”. The band have been compared to David Bowie,  Fleetwood Mac, Kate Bush,  Siouxsie and the Banshees,  Roxy Music,  ABBA,  Queen,  Sparks,  Florence and the Machine  and Warpaint. The band’s members have cited Queen,  St. Vincent,  Chappell Roan  and Lana Del Rey  as leading influences.

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