Live From The Pyre, This is The Last Dinner Party

Apr 7

Chicago, Illinois - April 4, 2026

The Last Dinner Party are fueling the fire and stoking the flame on their current tour celebrating the myths of chaos, catharsis, love and passion that bind the contents of their new album From The Pyre. Picture a sold out show at Chicago’s Salt Shed, the room is buzzing with fans eager to scream, dance, love, and rejoice.

The show opened with a flare for the dramatic in Agnus Dei, the first track on From The Pyre. But the stakes only kept growing from there. Each song masterfully built off the previous, creating a harmonious blend of the bands two albums.

The bands love for their craft is palpable on stage. From lead singer Abigail Morris’ graceful and carefree dancing around the platform to her pointed and melodic growl of a voice, her personality and charisma are endearing. While Morris is the bands lead, each member plays an integral part of the craft. Emily Roberts (guitar, flute, and vocals), Aurora Nishevci (piano and vocals), and Lizzie Mayland (guitar and vocals) all gave everything they had out to fans. Sadly due to injury, Georgia Davis (bass and vocals) was unable to perform, sending her many well wishes and hopes for a speedy recovery. Some devoted fans even handmade and passed out signs sending love out to Davis, to which Morris thanked through a teary introduction of the band minus one of their key players. Morris even asked if one fan would be kind enough to part ways with their sign so they could bring one back to Davis to which of course the barricade became an array of signs ready to be gifted.

The Last Dinner Party created a space that felt grand and ever evolving into a larger story with every page turned. They bought the magic of straight From The Pyre on stage with them. Fans could feel the pleading and begging to be heard tales. The artistry on displays was impeccable. Two big highlights of the setlist were Rifle and Lady Of Mercy. Both songs had enough energy to transport you to another place and time entirely. Rifle being a very relevant to the times angry anti war track, off From The Pyre, and Lady Of Mercy, off Prelude To Ecstasy, being about reclaiming sexuality and femininity from the rhetoric of shame through the lens of catholic guilt.

In a final encore the band came back to perform This Is The Killer Speaking while Morris taught the crowd a dance to go along with the end of said song. It was playful moment full of joy that could been felt across the venue as fans looked around to their friends, family, lovers, and everyone in between and smiled through laughter and stumbles as they all danced around each other “to the beat, on the beat, with the beat”, in the words of the great Abigail Morris.