Review at a glance

Abigail Morris, dressed like a runway-ready Elizabethan bard - part Vivienne Westwood; part Blackadder - is reminiscing about a time really not that far away. “We played our second ever show down the road at the Windmill four years ago when we had five songs, some ball gowns and a dream,” she declares, “and now we’ve sold out Brixton Academy!”

From South London’s most zeitgeist-creating pub to its most storied music venue isn’t to be sniffed at, but that undeniably impressive trajectory does something of a disservice to The Last Dinner Party’s actual journey since debut single Nothing Matters sent the quintet turbo back in April 2023. In the time since, the band have topped the BBC Sound of 2024 poll and won the Brits’ Rising Star award a few weeks after. Celebrated

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