The Last Dinner Party | Biografie

 

“From The Pyre should cement their place in the biggest of leagues” ***** - Rolling Stone UK

“Instantly addictive… The Last Dinner Party have done it again” ***** – DIY Magazine

“the overflow of imagination, character and drama is a joy to lose yourself in… brimming with ideas” **** – The Times

 

The Last Dinner Party are excited to share their second album, “From The Pyre”. The album is out today via Island Records.

 

 

The London five-piece headed into the studio early 2025 with Grammy Award winning producer Markus Dravs (Wolf Alice, Florence & The Machine, Bjork) to start work on the follow-up to their number 1 debut album, 2023’s Prelude to Ecstasy. From The Pyre is the sound of a band having a lot of fun rather than feeling any innate pressure to follow-up on what was an explosively successful debut record. It’s also the sound of a young band developing and maturing their songwriting together, as tight a unit as the endless months out on the road pay testament to.    

  

The Last Dinner Party on From The Pyre:  

  

“This record is a collection of stories, and the concept of album-as-mythos binds them. ‘The Pyre’ itself is an allegorical place in which these tales originate, a place of violence and destruction but also regeneration, passion and light.   

  

“The songs are character driven but still deeply personal, a commonplace life event pushed to pathological extreme. Being ghosted becomes a Western dance with a killer, and heartbreak laughs into the face of the apocalypse. Lyrics invoke rifles, scythes, sailors, saints, cowboys, floods, Mother Earth, Joan of Arc, and blazing infernos. We found this kind of evocative imagery to be the most honest and truthful way to discuss the way our experiences felt, giving each the emotional weight it deserves.”   

  

“This record feels a little darker, more raw and more earthy; it takes place looking out at a sublime landscape rather than seated an opulent table. It also feels metatextual and cheeky in places, like a knowing look reflected back at ourselves.”   

  

With two BRIT Awards to their name (including Breakthrough Artist earlier this year), and having sold out virtually every show they played right across the globe (including three sold-out hometown shows at London’s Eventim Apollo), The Last Dinner Party’s arrival and subsequent worldwide success was one of the most thrilling introductions to a new British band in decades, and From The Pyre’s opening introduction suggests that unparalleled success story shows no signs of relenting.   

   

 

Outstore Live Dates: 

17th October – The Level, Nottingham (w/ Rough Trade) *Matinee* – SOLD OUT 

17th October – The Level, Nottingham (w/ Rough Trade) *Evening* – SOLD OUT 

19th October – 1865, Southampton (w/ Vinilo Records) – SOLD OUT 

20th October – HMV Empire, Coventry (w/ HMV) – SOLD OUT 

22nd October – Live House, Dundee (w/ Assai) – SOLD OUT 

23rd October – The Dome, Liverpool (w/ Rough Trade) *Matinee* – NEW DATE

23rd October – The Dome, Liverpool (w/ Rough Trade) *Evening* – SOLD OUT 

  

UK Headline Tour:  

14th November – 3Arena, Dublin 

17th November – Corn Exchange, Edinburgh 

18th November – Barrowland, Glasgow 

20th November – O2 City Hall, Newcastle 

21st November – Octagon, Sheffield 

23rd November – Bridlington Spa, Bridlington 

25th November – UEA, Norwich 

26th November – Aviva Studios, Manchester 

29th November – The Civic Hall, Wolverhampton 

30th November – The Prospect Building, Bristol

2nd December – Utilita Arena, Cardiff 

4th December – Plymouth Pavilions, Plymouth 

5th December – Brighton Centre, Brighton 

7th December – O2 Academy Brixton, London

8th December – O2 Academy Brixton, London 

  

  

10th January – Red Hill Auditorium, Perth 

13th January – AEC Theatre, Adelaide 

15th January – Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne 

17th January – ICC Sydney Theatre, Sydney 

19th January – Riverstage, Brisbane 

22nd January – Spark Arena, Auckland 

8th February – Colisieu dos Recreios, Lisbon 

10th February – Sala La Riviera, Madrid 

11th February – Razzmatazz, Barcelona 

13th February – Fabrique, Milan 

14th February – The Hall, Zurich 

16th February – Zenith, Munich 

17th February – Forum Karlín, Prague 

19th February – Gasometer, Vienna 

20th February – COS Torwar, Warsaw 

22nd February – UFO im Velodrom, Berlin 

23rd February – Palladium, Cologne 

25th February – Le Zénith, Paris 

27th February – Forest National, Brussels 

1st March – AFAS Live, Amsterdam 

3rd March – Vega, Copenhagen

4th March – Fållan, Stockholm 

6th March – Sentrum Scene, Oslo