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Guitar World
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Cheri Amour

“I didn’t want to go down the route of Fenders or Gibsons – I wanted something that sounds and looks different”: She’s Brian May and Johnny Marr’s new favorite guitarist, but The Last Dinner Party’s Emily Roberts still has imposter syndrome

EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND - NOVEMBER 17: Emily Roberts of The Last Dinner Party performs on stage at The Corn Exchange on November 17, 2025 in Edinburgh, Scotland. (Photo by Roberto Ricciuti/Redferns).

The meteoric rise of The Last Dinner Party has been well documented. Before releasing any music, the quintet were selling out shows – and by the end of their first year they’d opened for The Rolling Stones at BST Hyde Park.

Some critics dubbed them industry plants or nepo-babies. In fact, frontwoman Abigail Morris, bassist Georgia Davis and guitarist Lizzie Mayland met at college in 2020. They enlisted pianist Aurora Nishevci, a student at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, and guitarist Emily Roberts, who played the role of Brian May in a Queen tribute band – a guitar legend who later praised her band.

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