It was the Grammys that revealed the problem. With just one meagre British winner in more than 80 categories and with no new UK pop acts breaking into the American chart, it’s obvious that British pop has faded as an influence on the global music stage.
So perhaps this explains the feeding frenzy around The Last Dinner Party, a new indie rock group who met as students at freshers’ week in London back in 2020. In the past few months these five young women have seen their debut album, Prelude to Ecstasy, crash into the charts at No 1 and be heralded as “biblical, ravenous, damned and fantastical” by talent-starved UK critics.
