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The Last Dinner Party review – Victoriana pomp and bombastic baroque rock
Clearly having a whale of a time leaning into classic guitar rock it’s refreshing to see a group embracing the imaginative and unexpected
They’re waiting for the Last Dinner Party, a group of women and non-binary people whose debut album Prelude to Ecstasywas the culmination of a sharp recent rise – BBC Sound Of … and Brit Award wins, a Mercury nomination – which coincided with criticism of their privileged backgrounds. The production on record holds them back a bit, but on stage they rock out – thanks largely to guitarist Emily Roberts, playing huge riffs in a frilly minidress, biker boots and black angel wings. It would be good to see them fully commit to this mode, reclaiming unfashionable guitar music like the Darkness for zoomers – and the choice of Dire Straits’ Money For Nothing to play them off stage suggests it’s on their minds.
Or read this on The Guardian
