“I wanted something that, when you hear it, it’s not obvious. I wanted people to go, ‘What is that?’” The Last Dinner Party’s Emily Roberts on why she’s ditching Fenders and Gibsons in favor of this genre-bending guitarist’s signature model

Emily Roberts of The Last Dinner Party performs onstage during their From The Pyre album release concert at The 1865 on October 19, 2025 in Southampton, England.

When The Last Dinner Party’s debut single, Nothing Matters, dropped in 2023, the band was immediately met with dizzying success – momentum that continued with their 2024 debut album, Prelude to Ecstasy. It signaled to everyone that, if there was ever any doubt, guitar bands were well and truly back in the mainstream.

The band’s lead guitarist, Emily Roberts, in particular, dazzled guitar aficionados with carefully crafted parts that wouldn’t be out of place on Queen or Mick Ronson-era Bowie albums – and the jazz-schooled guitarist remains a defining pillar of the band’s sound on their sophomore record, From the Pyre.