[ATTENDED: September 26, 2025] The Last Dinner Party-All Things Go [Day 1]
I was most excited to see The Last Dinner Party. They had only played Philly once but I had tickets to another show that night. Ugh. So this was my first time seeing them. And they were terrific.
The opening strains of Prelude to Ecstasy played over the speakers as they came out on stage. The five women up front filled the whole stage–keys (Aurora Nishevci) , guitar (Emily Roberts), vocals (Abigail Morris), guitar (Lizzie Mayland), bass (Georgia Davies) with their drummer back on the riser.
They opened with Burn Alive and it was cool to hear these songs come to life. The problem for me was that the woman next to me felt compelled to scream every single word.
The empowering anthem Caesar on a TV Screen came next and Aurora played keytar which was fun to see. She rocked out next to Emily–who plays some phenomenal solos.
Count the Ways played live for the first time 2 nights ago in New York City. Abigail went over to acknowledge the ASL interpreter and to thank them–she said they didn’t know they had one.
Abigail introduced the next song as being from the first record and you might know it. And Lizzie said no you won’t this is from the new record. Abigail laughed “I don’t know my own setlist.”
Second Best opens with gorgeous acapella harmonies from all of them. It’s a great song, continuing their streak of great songs. And of course since they were new, the woman next to me couldn’t sing them.
On Your Side has some really gorgeous quiet moments that showcases how great their voices are.
Aurora sang Gjuha next after giving a brief introduction about it (it’s about her relationship with her mother tongue). Everyone sang backing vocals and Emily played the mandolin–absolutely lovely. And it segued right into the rocking Sinner. It was really fun to see Abigail dancing around the stage with abandon. Lizzie sings some lead vocals on this song too, which I didn’t realize.
Then came another new one Agnus Dei. Which Abigail introduced as “This is a song about a boy–ew!”
After a moment with a QR code to donate to Palestine, Abigail said she was really sorry for what was happening on our country and it was not a time to be scared–letting us really know how the rest of the world sees us right now.
Aurora started playing the piano up on the riser and as Abigail walked up the risers and as they started the next song Aurora gasped and stopped playing–she was attacked by a huge moth. Everyone laughed–“you guys have some massive bugs here.”
They returned to Portrait of a Dead Girl which builds to some great sing alongs–over and over again as well as the really fun “give me the strength.”
I didn’t realize that the band doesn’t have a drummer. They use session drummers for tour (wonder why). For this show they had Victoria Smith who was great–she totally rocks. (more…)
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The weather was a but threatening and we didn’t really want to see anyone at the Chrysalis Stage, so we decided to park in the Pavilion. We missed the end of Hazlett and saw some of Bartees Strange on the video screen. So G Flip was up next.
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