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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Nicole Holcroft-Emmess

Baroque'n'Roll: meet London's fans of The Last Dinner Party

Outside the Eventim Apollo one regular Wednesday evening, groups are dressed like they’ve just wandered out of a Peter Paul Ruben’s painting. They are twirling and skipping, hand-in-hand across the pedestrian crossing outside Hammersmith station.

Tightly laced corsets, billowing skirts and red hair dye is the unofficial uniform for fans of The Last Dinner Party, the five-piece British band whose founding members met in 2020 during Freshers' Week at King's College London.

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