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The Last Dinner Party – are pleased to share ”Prelude To Ecstasy: Acoustics and Covers”

The Last Dinner Party are pleased to share Prelude To Ecstasy: Acoustics and Covers – a deluxe edition of their Mercury Prize-shortlisted debut which includes reimagined versions of the band’s own songs alongside unique covers of their favourite tracks from other artists. 

Prelude To Ecstasy: Acoustics and Covers arrives with an on the road video for ‘Portrait of a Dead Girl’; made with footage from the band’s recent inaugural trip to bassist Georgia’s home country of Australia.

To sum up the impact The Last Dinner Party have had, or simply to try and summarise the highlights of their last twelve months would inevitably be doing the band an injustice. With sell out tours across the globe, chart-bothering singles, a fastest-selling number one album by a debuting band for years, a Rising Star BRIT Award, BBC Sound of 2024 winners, reams of acclaim and now an inclusion on the Mercury Prize – Albums of the Year shortlist: you’d be hard pushed to liken it to any new artist introducing themselves within the last decade, perhaps further beyond. The wildest of rides.

But amongst all the deafening noise stand five smart young musicians trying to ignore what they cannot control and instead leave a permanent impression out on the stages they’d always dreamed of performing on. A mesmerising, captivating live act, The Last Dinner Party started this journey honing their craft on the basement stages of London’s grassroots venues and have been telling their story to bigger capacity rooms across the UK, Europe and the US ever since.

Having commenced the summer with a spree of stellar festival appearances including Radio 1 Big Weekend, Primavera Sound, TRNSMT and a scene-stealing return to Glastonbury, The Last Dinner Party have wrapped their debut run of Australia shows and an appearance at Japan’s Fuji Rock Festival, with the band now amid a collection of sold out dates on both sides of the Atlantic: culminating in 3 nights at London’s Eventim Apollo.


LP 1:

Side A

Prelude to Ecstasy
Burn Alive
Ceaser On A TV Screen
The Feminine Urge
On Your Side
Beautiful Boy

Side B
Gjuha
Sinner
My Lady of Mercy
Portrait of A Dead Girl
Nothing Matter
Mirror

LP 2:

Side C

Ceaser On A TV Screen (Acoustic)
Sinner (Acoustic)
My Lady of Mercy (Acoustic)
Nothing Matters (Live)
Mirror (Live)

Side D

This Town Ain’t Big Enough For Both Of Us (Cover)
Up North (Cover)
Wicked Game (Cover)
Army Dreamers (Cover

Order Prelude To Ecstasy: Acoustics and Covers here

Photo credit – Ian Mc Donnell @mcgigmusic

Ian Mc Donnell

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