The Last Dinner Party are pleased to announce details of a huge headline tour that spans the UK and Europe, with a major run of Australia and New Zealand shows confirmed for January 2026.
The 35-date run kicks off with a UK/Ireland run which starts at Dublin’s 3Arena on 14th November and concludes with two nights at O2 Academy Brixton in London on 7th and 8th December. The band then heads to Australia in January for shows in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane and Perth, then to Auckland and on to Europe in February.
The Last Dinner Party will release their second album, From The Pyre, on 17th October 2025 via Island EMI.
The London five-piece headed into the studio early 2025 with Grammy Award winning producer Markus Dravs (Wolf Alice, Florence & The Machine, Bjork) to start work on the follow-up to their number 1 debut album, 2023’s Prelude to Ecstasy. From The Pyre is the sound of a band having a lot of fun rather than feeling any innate pressure to follow-up on what was an explosively successful debut record. It’s also the sound of a young band developing and maturing their songwriting together, as tight a unit as the endless months out on the road pay testament to.
Speaking about the LP, the band said: “This record is a collection of stories, and the concept of album-as-mythos binds them. ‘The Pyre’ itself is an allegorical place in which these tales originate, a place of violence and destruction but also regeneration, passion and light.
“The songs are character driven but still deeply personal, a commonplace life event pushed to pathological extreme. Being ghosted becomes a Western dance with a killer, and heartbreak laughs into the face of the apocalypse. Lyrics invoke rifles, scythes, sailors, saints, cowboys, floods, Mother Earth, Joan of Arc, and blazing infernos. We found this kind of evocative imagery to be the most honest and truthful way to discuss the way our experiences felt, giving each the emotional weight it deserves.”
“This record feels a little darker, more raw and more earthy; it takes place looking out at a sublime landscape rather than seated an opulent table. It also feels metatextual and cheeky in places, like a knowing look reflected back at ourselves.”
With two BRIT Awards to their name (including Breakthrough Artist earlier this year), and having sold out virtually every show they played right across the globe (including three sold-out hometown shows at London’s Eventim Apollo), The Last Dinner Party’s arrival and subsequent worldwide success was one of the most thrilling introductions to a new British band in decades, and From The Pyre’s opening introduction suggests that unparalleled success story shows no signs of relenting.
Tickets for Australian and New Zealand tour dates will be on sale from 10am local time on Friday 12th September.
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THE LAST DINNER PARTY
AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND 2026
Sat 10 Jan 2026 – Red Hill Auditorium, Perth // Boorloo
Tue 13 Jan 2026 – AEC Theatre, Adelaide // Tarntanya Wama
Thu 15 Jan 2026 – Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne // Naarm
Sat 17 Jan 2026 – ICC Sydney Theatre, Sydney // Warrane
Mon 19 Jan 2026 – Riverstage, Brisbane // Meeanjin
Thu 22 Jan 2026 – Spark Arena, Auckland // Tāmaki Makaurau
