The Last Dinner Party have announced details of a huge headline tour that spans from the Autumn through to next Spring.
The 35-date run kicks off with a UK/Ireland run which starts at Dublin’s 3Arena on November 14 and concludes with two nights at O2 Academy Brixton in London on 7th and 8th December. The band will then head to Australia in January and across Europe in February, concluding at Sentrum Scene in Oslo on 6thMarch. The band will release their second album, From The Pyre, on October 17 via Island EMI
The UK and Irish dates are as follows:
NOVEMBER
14– 3Arena, Dublin
17 – Corn Exchange, Edinburgh
20 – O2 City Hall, Newcastle
23 – Bridlington Spa, Bridlington
26 – Aviva Studios, Manchester
29 – The Civic Hall, Wolverhampton
30 – The Prospect Building, Bristol
DECEMBER
2 – Utilita Arena, Cardiff
4 – Plymouth Pavilions, Plymouth
5 – Brighton Centre, Brighton
7 – O2 Academy Brixton, London
8– O2 Academy Brixton, London
For details of the band’s Australian and European dates please see here
Tickets for the tour go on general sale from 10am local time on Friday September 12. Fans who pre-order the album from the official store here, will be offered access to tour pre-sale.
The London five-piece went into the studio earlier this year 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.
Speaking about From the Pyre, the band said:
“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.”
The video for the first single from the album ‘This Is The Killer Speaking‘ may be seen below
