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Brit Beat: Island Bets Big on Last Dinner Party
U.K. label Island Records is not wasting any time when it comes to capitalizing on the success of the buzzy new alt-rock band the Last Dinner Party.
Indeed, at one stage last year, the Last Dinner Party seemed to be enjoying more backlash than actual hype, dubbed “industry plants” by some online after they spotted the band had heavyweight management (Tara Richardson and Cliff Burnstein at Q Prime) and had played an early Rolling Stones support slot at BST Hyde Park. But they found themselves caught in the fallout from the label’s 2023 revamp, during which many key staff – including Co-Presidents Nick Burgess and Mark Mitchell and General Manager Jack Melhuish – left the company. The label is named after the time Snuts frontman Jack Cochrane told someone at the record company he was feeling positive and the Parlophone exec replied, “That’s not good – no one likes a happy artist, things go wrong when that happens.”
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