It has been quite the ride for The Last Dinner Party since the London-based quintet released their debut single Nothing Matters in April last year. It was a song met with a lot of love for its Sparks-ish, indie playfulness and one that sent the five-piece on their way to stardom – their debut album, Prelude To Ecstasy, comes out next week and is shaping up to be one of the year’s biggest breakthrough records. However, as is the way things go in the modern world, the curmudgeons had to get involved too. Not convinced that a Good Thing could possibly be a Good Thing, there was a naysayer pile on, accusing the five-piece of being an “industry plant”, or a supergroup of nepo babies, or a band who were having someone else write their songs for them because a group made up of five women who’d formed at university during lockdown armed with some of the most entertaining indie-rock anthems in years couldn’t have possibly written them themselves.
The band’s response to this made-up palava, written by bassist Georgia Davies, came via their Twitter/X account and it was swift and decisive. “This is just a nasty lie,” she wrote, adding that they weren’t ‘put’ together by some mysterious Svengali but met, formed a band and played some gigs, you know, like men bands do.
