Baroque'n'Roll: meet London's fans of The Last Dinner Party
Outside the Eventim Apollo one regular Wednesday evening, groups are dressed like they've just wandered out of a Peter Paul Ruben's painting. They are twirling and skipping, hand-in-hand across the pedestrian crossing outside Hammersmith station.
After attending gigs at The Windmill, the quintet decided to form a band but struggled to rehearse together due to lockdown, performing live together for the first time at The George pub in 2021.
Their rise to cult-status since has been astronomical; they opened for the Rolling Stones in Hyde Park in 2022 and won this year's rising star award at the BRITs.
Mollison has been photographing fans attending concerts around the world since 2005 for his project The Disciples, fascinated by the different tribes that attend the shows and how people emulate celebrities to form their identity and what emerges when photographed as a group.
I love that their music is really inspired by 1980s synth-pop, glam-rock and they also take inspiration from femininity and art and literature
If you were going to tell the people of London to listen to one TLDP songs which would it be?
If you were going to tell the people of London to listen to one TLDP songs which would it be?
If you were going to tell the people of London to listen to one TLDP songs which would it be?
I really like the way they use religious imagery and intertwine it with queerness. I think that is such an interesting dynamic, catholics can be queer too!
If you were going to tell the people of London to listen to one TLDP songs which would it be?
Burn Alive - I love songs that are about being in toxic relationships, it's such a good encapsulation of what it's like to be in love in a bad situation. The lyric "You don't wanna hurt me, but I want you to" says it all
Not gonna lie they go off the vibes of a renaissance painting and that's what this look was inspired by. I had this in my basket on the website Cider but it was £16 and then I saw it in a charity shop for 2 quid! And the leg warmers I already had from ballet. My mum helped me decide, she's the stylish one!
I like the style of music, I listen to a lot of punk normally, but their songs are like a story, they have a narrative. I love their use of instruments and of course their music video aesthetics are gorgeous.
If you were going to tell the people of London to listen to one TLDP songs which would it be?
The Feminine Urge, the first time I listened to it because I had three separate friends message me because it has the word ballerina in it and they said it made them think of me. My mum loves them too!
If you were going to tell the people of London to listen to one TLDP songs which would it be?
If you were going to tell the people of London to listen to one TLDP songs which would it be?
