Last Dinner Party

darthed1981

mrkb said:

darthed1981 said:

Well, if this doesn't trigger my mid-life crisis, nothing will...

How many seconds did you last

Oof... how vulgar!

Anyhow we're musicians, surely it should be bars?

darthed1981

merlin said:

The Wet Dinner Party Legs. 
They can't even sing "fuck" on live television.

Punk clearly died decades ago. 

Sing Fuck on American prime time TV?

They would never get booked again.

...and yes, of course punk died decades ago.

merlin

darthed1981 said:

merlin said:

The Wet Dinner Party Legs. 
They can't even sing "fuck" on live television.

Punk clearly died decades ago. 

Sing Fuck on American prime time TV?

They would never get booked again.

...and yes, of course punk died decades ago.

Of course. My post was ironic.....but irony doesn't work on the intraweb.

darthed1981

merlin said:

darthed1981 said:

merlin said:

The Wet Dinner Party Legs. 
They can't even sing "fuck" on live television.

Punk clearly died decades ago. 

Sing Fuck on American prime time TV?

They would never get booked again.

...and yes, of course punk died decades ago.

Of course. My post was ironic.....but irony doesn't work on the intraweb.

I do rather like the idea that there are big pads in offices through major labels nationwide with "to do: find next wet dinner party legs" written in marker pen on them!

Philly_Q

@darthed1981 here they are at the Brits....

EricTheWeary

I’ve been enjoying the ‘are they posh twats or not’ debate going on social media. The answer seems to be yes but not quite as bad as some would suggest. But I liked them more when I knew less about them (and back then I was still pretty meh). 

darthed1981

Philly_Q said:

@darthed1981 here they are at the Brits....

Oh crikey - I hope my wife doesn't see that.

She thinks I've got a thing about them...

darthed1981

EricTheWeary said:

I’ve been enjoying the ‘are they posh twats or not’ debate going on social media. The answer seems to be yes but not quite as bad as some would suggest. But I liked them more when I knew less about them (and back then I was still pretty meh). 

The press seem to have come hunting for them.

Posh or not, they are still 20-something girls new to the industry, the first experience of a press hunt for blood can't be nice.

Philly_Q

darthed1981 said:

Philly_Q said:

@darthed1981 here they are at the Brits....

Oh crikey - I hope my wife doesn't see that.

She thinks I've got a thing about them...

I'd have thought that picture would convince her that couldn't possibly be the case... no offence to them, like.

darthed1981

Philly_Q said:

darthed1981 said:

Philly_Q said:

@darthed1981 here they are at the Brits....

Oh crikey - I hope my wife doesn't see that.

She thinks I've got a thing about them...

I'd have thought that picture would convince her that couldn't possibly be the case... no offence to them, like.

They look - to be honest - knackered.

I remember the same at around the same time last year with Wet Leg - the publicity stuff is brutal.

I think I'd rather play down the dog and duck once a month... but more power to them.

Abigail (the singer) is genuinely attractive on her day.  The others are girls next door really.

Kurtis

Mysterious and spooky. 

Vintage65

ewal said:

darthed1981 said:

You won't get any idea of what young people like on the Fretboard, it's like looking for Dolphins in Trafalgar Square.

I spoke to some young people about them. They thought they were rubbish too.

It's a 6.5 from Pitchfork

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/the-last-dinner-party-prelude-to-ecstasy/

the_jaffa

Philly_Q said:

@darthed1981 here they are at the Brits....

What a fucking shambles.

darthed1981

Vintage65 said:

ewal said:

darthed1981 said:

You won't get any idea of what young people like on the Fretboard, it's like looking for Dolphins in Trafalgar Square.

I spoke to some young people about them. They thought they were rubbish too.

It's a 6.5 from Pitchfork

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/the-last-dinner-party-prelude-to-ecstasy/

Yeah that's one of the more moderate ones... though a lot of the actual text of the review is spot on...

Some others...

NME

https://www.nme.com/reviews/album/the-last-dinner-party-prelude-to-ecstasy-album-review-radar-3577784

Amazingly... a Good review from the Grauniad

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/feb/01/the-last-dinner-party-prelude-to-ecstasy-review

The Independent

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/last-dinner-party-prelude-to-ecstasy-b2488665.html

Morny Stannit...

https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/music/the-last-dinner-party-prelude-to-ecstasy-album-review-b1136157.html

Oh... and Justin Hawkins on one of the tracks - this video is what brought them to my attention.

Philly_Q

^^  I've heard very little of their material and my initial impressions are definitely "not for me", but the written reviews make the album sound interesting enough to have a listen.  I'm not promising I'll get all the way through though.

MagicPigDetective

I’m also getting targeted by them via Spotify. I’m classing firmly it in the ‘not my thing at all’ category. 

Litterick

Kitsch