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“I got to meet the new British Rock Royalty tonight”: The Last Dinner Party's Emily Roberts moonlighted as Brian May in a Queen tribute band – now the guitar legend is endorsing her band

The Queen legend attended The Last Dinner Party's London show at the Eventim Apollo, praising their “good ol' dose of Rock Tonic”

Guitar World

“My original guitar hero has always been Brian May”: The Last Dinner Party’s Emily Roberts on her new (red) special friend

She loves a guitar solo you can sing along to

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Queen star Brian May hails The Last Dinner Party as 'new British rock royalty'

Queen guitarist Brian May has hailed The Last Dinner Party as "new British rock royalty", after they "completely smashed it" at their show at London's Eventim Apollo on Wednesday night (16.10.24).

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"I got to meet the new British Rock Royalty tonight" - Brian May praises The Last Dinner party after attending sold-out London show

It turns out Queen's Brian May is a big fan of the Queen-influenced The Last Dinner Party

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“I didn’t get it before because I was too scared to touch them”: St Vincent reveals how a gift from Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready changed her mind about the Stratocaster

Who couldn’t love a Strat? Well, according to St Vincent, there’s the weight of pop-cultural history and that can be hard to bear

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“Brian May is my main influence for writing guitar parts. I like how melodic and catchy his playing is. It’s not trying to show off”: The Last Dinner Party’s Emily Roberts on bringing jazz into pop, and how St. Vincent shaped her playing (and her gear)

Her band has the biggest-selling debut album in nearly a decade in her native UK, and secured tours with Hozier and Florence & The Machine. Guitarist Emily Roberts explains how her background in jazz, theater and a Queen tribute band inspired her evocative playing style

Guitar World

“It wasn’t a conscious decision to invent our own scale! The idea was to do something inspired by Jeff Buckley... but we added a mandolin”: The Last Dinner Party’s Emily Roberts is the jazz schooled Queen-inspired indie guitar hero you’ve been waiting for

Roberts reveals how their hit debut album was created, and how her unique approach to the instrument was shaped by jazz greats and one rock legend in particular…

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“I spent an entire summer solidly trying to get inside Brian’s playing, hearing all the little details”: The Last Dinner Party’s Emily Roberts on how a Brian May tribute gig radically changed her guitar playing

Before The Last Dinner Party, Emily Roberts took the role of Brian May in a Queen tribute band

Guitar World

The Last Dinner Party review – like watching firecrackers going off indoors

The British indie rock band demonstrate just why they’ve won every rising star award around in a gig of swashbuckling, musical bravura showcasing their newly released debut album, Prelude to Ecstasy

The Guardian - UK

The Last Dinner Party: Prelude to Ecstasy review – the year’s most hyped band totally deliver

The five-piece ground their Sparks-like tendency towards excess and musical theatre with consistently well-written songs primed for festival singalongs

The Guardian - UK

Packers’ Jaire Alexander Comically Mistaken for Fan While Crashing TV Reporter’s Live Shot

WBAY-TV’s Emily Roberts handled the hilarious interruption with aplomb.

Sports Illustrated

The Last Dinner Party review – hyped baroque-pop band build a following

With just three released tracks, the confident young band still have some rough edges – but it’s heartening to see them experiment on the fly

The Guardian - UK

The Last Dinner Party: the most talked-about band in Britain on defying the haters and their Glastonbury debut

They’ve been accused of being manufactured, an industry plant, and nepo-babies - but the music speaks for itself

Evening Standard

The Last Dinner Party at Oslo review: a legend in the making

There was Midsommar cosplay, there were silver chalices, there were lashings of charisma

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