THE LAST DINNER PARTY RELEASE DEBUT ALBUM
“PRELUDE TO ECSTASY”
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“The year’s most hyped band totally deliver” **** – The Guardian
“icons in waiting live up to the hype” * – Rolling Stone UK
“An album that dreams not just big but huge” * – DIY Magazine
“fantastic songs that are easy to embrace” **** – NME
“a towering debut” 9/10 – CLASH
The Last Dinner Party are excited to release their critically acclaimed debut album, Prelude To Ecstasy.
The album quickly follows the band’s first BRIT Award, winning the Rising Star Award, and picking up BBC Radio 1’s Sound of 2024 in January too.
The Last Dinner Party on their album: “Ecstasy is a pendulum which swings between the extremes of human emotion, from the ecstasy of passion to the sublimity of pain, and it is this concept which binds our album together. This is an archeology of ourselves; you can exhume our collective and individual experiences and influences from within its fabric. We exorcised guitars for their solos, laid bare confessions directly from diary pages, and summoned an orchestra to bring our vision to life.
“It is our greatest honour and pride to present this offering to the world, it is everything we are.”
At the turn of 2023, The Last Dinner Party was little more than a new name being shared amongst those that had caught them live. Great songs, strong aesthetic. Having spent much of 2022 writing those songs, road-testing them, and then taking them into the studio, it wasn’t until April when the band released the instantly more-ish, dark guitar-pop of Nothing Matters that seemingly everyone had now formed an opinion on them. It was an introduction that took the online world by storm, and yet behind all the excitement and narrative was a fantastically confident indie-rock song by a band doing it the old-fashioned way, out on the road.
Following a heady first-on performance to a packed crowd at the new Woodsies tent at Glastonbury, The Last Dinner Party released Sinner, another gloriously infectious, leftfield pop song that fuelled the fully-formed zeitgeist and set the band up for a Summer that replicated that success of Glastonbury with uncomfortably packed tents ensuing at the likes of Green Man, Reading & Leeds, Latitude and End of the Road (interspersed with support slots to the likes of Florence & The Machine, Lana Del Rey and First Aid Kit). It was a breakthrough Summer for one of the most talked about new British acts in years, delivering on all that early promise emphatically.
Concentrating on their own headline shows, the band skipped confidentally from venue to venue, playing to bigger rooms and on wider stages. Shows sold out and shows were upgraded. In London alone, the band have moved from sell-out dates at Moth Club to Camden Assembly, Oslo to two nights at EartH, and now move on to the 3000 capacity Roundhouse on the eve of album release which has already sold out. Crucially, it’s not just London where the band finds its early fans, but right across the UK and into America too, with all five debut shows selling out several weeks in advance – and plenty more now announced and selling out quickly.
The band often set a themed dress code for the shows, with many fans relishing the task of rising to the request and donning their finery for a night with their new heroes.
But this is no case of style over substance. The release of their third single, My Lady Of Mercy, an almost gothic, haunting rock song, and now with this atmospheric and anthemic ballad, On Your Side, the band’s songwriting is testament to all the buzz and excitement already accumulated. As it should be. Rather than wilt under the spotlight, they’ve arguably become a tighter, stronger unit because of it.
Prelude To Ecstasy is both the closing of that introductory chapter and the opening of the next.
The Last Dinner Party are: Abigail Morris – vocals / Aurora Nishevci – keys / Emily Roberts – lead guitar/flute / Georgia Davies – bass / Lizzie Mayland – guitar.
LIVE:
In-Store/Out Store Dates:
2nd February – Pryzm, Kingston (in association with Banquet Records) SOLD OUT
3rd February – Rough Trade East, London (afternoon show) SOLD OUT
3rd February – Rough Trade East, London (evening show) SOLD OUT
5th February – Resident Records, Brighton SOLD OUT
6th February – HMV, Manchester SOLD OUT
7th February – HMV Vault, Birmingham SOLD OUT
8th February – Rough Trade, Bristol SOLD OUT
11th February – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds (in association with Crash Records) SOLD OUT
Headline Dates (Europe/US/Mexico/Canada):
16th February – Gretchen, Berlin SOLD OUT
17th February – LUXOR, Cologne SOLD OUT
19th February – Melkweg OZ, Amsterdam SOLD OUT
20th February – La Maroquinerie, Paris SOLD OUT
21st February – Le Botanique, Brussels SOLD OUT
23rd February – Mascotte Club, Zürich SOLD OUT
25th February – Santeria Toscana 31, Milan
26th February – Grelle Forelle, Vienna SOLD OUT
4th March – Trades Club, Hebden Bridge (BRITs Week War Child Show) SOLD OUT
19th March – Lunario, Mexico City
21st March – Scoot Inn, Austin
22nd March – The Studio at The Factory, Dallas
24th March – Royale, Boston
26th March – Webster Hall, New York
27th March – Brooklyn Steel, Brooklyn
29th March – Studio TD, Montreal
30th March – The Concert Hall, Toronto
31st March – The Majestic Theatre, Detroit
2nd April – Newport Music Hall, Columbus
4th April – First Avenue, Minneapolis
5th April – Turner Hall Ballroom, Milwaukee
9th April – McMenamins Crystal Ballroom, Portland
10th April – Hollywood Theatre, Vancouver
11th April – The Showbox, Seattle
13th April – Coachella Festival, Indio
14th April – Crescent Ballroom, Phoenix
16th April – Bimbo’s 365 Club, San Francisco
20th April – Coachella Festival, Indio
29th May – 2nd Jun – Primavera Sound, Barcelona
6th June – 8th Jun – Primavera Sound, Porto
22nd June – Hurricane Festival, ScheeBel
23rd June – Southside Festival, Neuhausen ob Eck
5th July – 7th July – Down The Rabbit Hole, Ewijk
6th July – Rock Werchter, Rotselaar
12th July – TRNSMT Festival, Glasgow
31st July – The Truman, Kansas City
2nd August – Hinterland Music Festival, Saint Charles, IA
6th August – Gothic Theatre, Englewood
7th August – The Complex, Salt Lake City
NEW UK/Ireland Autumn Tour:
23rd September – O2 City Hall, Newcastle
24th September – O2 Academy, Leeds
25th September – Octagon Centre, Sheffield
27th September – The LCR, UEA, Norwich
28th September – The Engine Shed, Lincoln
29th September – Tramshed, Cardiff
1st October – O2 Academy, Birmingham
2nd October – Rock City, Nottingham
4th October – O2 Academy, Bristol
5th October – O2 Guildhall, Southampton
7th October – 3Olympia, Dublin
10th October – O2 Academy, Glasgow
11th October – O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester
12th October – Mountford Hall, Liverpool
14th October – Corn Exchange, Cambridge
16th October – Eventim Apollo, London
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