NEW RELEASE FROM THE LAST DINNER PARTY “BIG DOG”
ISLAND RECORDS
The Last Dinner Party are very pleased to share a brand new single. “Big Dog” is streaming now. A spoken word piece, “Come All You Beasts”, that the band regularly recites before performing the track live is also shared recently.
The British band has rarely been off the road since their second album, From The Pyre, was released last year, but “Big Dog” has become an important part of their live set long before the release of even their debut album, Prelude to Ecstasy. Fans have been quick to remind them that the song, a live favourite, is well overdue for its studio release.
Co-produced (the band’s first production credit) alongside Animesh Raval, “Big Dog” is a dark, forceful, and almost PJ Harvey-shaped three minutes of leftfield art-pop. It arrives with the band in the middle of a US headline run of dates, which runs to mid-June. They head home to play Isle of Wight, TRNSMT, Latitude, as support to Wolf Alice at Finsbury Park, and for their first festival headline slot at Wilderness – alongside a slew of European festival spots throughout the Summer.
Explaining the poem, “Come All You Beasts”, bassist Georgia Davies comments, “’Come All You Beasts’ was written as a way to introduce the folkloric and storytelling elements of ‘From the Pyre’ to ‘Big Dog’. The themes of the song were interpolated with Bible verses, subverting prescriptive messages about women’s safety. We have always been inspired by poetry and performance in all forms, so spoken word with improvisational accompaniment felt like a natural extension of our art.”
Last week, the band was announced as support for Olivia Rodrigo when she takes “The Unravelled Tour” to Los Angeles and New York in January and February 2027. All eight dates are now sold out. The band previously supported Rodrigo at her BST Hyde Park show back in June 2025.
In addition, this October, The Last Dinner Party will return to the US for a 14-date support run for Sombr. All confirmed live dates are listed below.
Last month, The Last Dinner Party hosted The Market Place at The MáLà Project, Brooklyn, where they invited a hand-picked selection of local artists and creatives to exhibit and sell their work, offering a unique platform to help introduce new and established artists to a new audience.
In addition to The Market Place, the band’s Ribbons for Provisions project has been active throughout their current US tour, supporting local food banks in each of the cities they’ve been performing, with ribbons handed out to volunteers and donors. The band recently raised almost £50,000 for the initiative in the UK and Europe, and has already raised over $40,000 in the US too.
The Last Dinner Party
[Single]
(Island Records)
Release Date: May 7, 2026
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