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 The Last Dinner Party - Prelude to Ecstasy, Debut album out 2/2/24 |
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 6th February 2024, 11:29 PM
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 I found the love, I found the love in me
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They were seemingly in the Live Lounge today!
They did 'Nothing Matters' and a cover of Troye Sivan's 'One of Your Girls'! Just so damn GOOOOOOD! |
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7th February 2024, 01:11 AM
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 Mansonette
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I've spent a few days with the album and I have to applaud the label's marketing. It's a good album but there are only really 3-4 very strong songs. It's definitely a welcome relief from the usual stuff that gets pushed but it's a very safe, mainstream choice and can be comfortably filed alongside Coldplay and Lana del Rey as not really alternative, alternative music.
Nothing Matters and Sinner are brilliant though. |
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9th February 2024, 09:12 PM
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I found the love, I found the love in me
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32,846 copies sold for a #1 debut.
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9th February 2024, 10:52 PM
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Extremely good sales for their debut
 glad 'Nothing Matters' has a top 20 peak now too 
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27th February 2024, 10:17 AM
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 Break the tension
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'The Lady of Mercy' has to be my runaway favourite, it's so exhilarating.
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27th February 2024, 05:35 PM
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Shakin Stevens
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Yeh I think I like that more than Nothing Matters despite the latter peaking at 1 on my PC and the former only at no2!
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27th February 2024, 07:05 PM
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BuzzJack Idol
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Nothing matters has grown on me alot lately
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27th February 2024, 10:42 PM
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Both 'Nothing Matters' and 'My Lady Of Mercy' are great, but sadly they're by far the two best songs on an otherwise average album.
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27th February 2024, 11:09 PM
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Shakin Stevens
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Sinner is a winner too!
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28th February 2024, 12:24 AM
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Mansonette
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In 20 years time (if they are still around) this band will be viewed like Coldplay and this albm will be their Parachutes - Perfectly competent, just alternative enough to be considered alternative, with 2-3 cracking tracks on it, yet they've ploughed the same furrow for two decades without out ever doing anything truly interesting and will be the average persons got to 'Indie' band.
(Except they won't be as popular because they're girls and people in general are narrowminded when it comes to female musicians) I hope they prove me wrong |
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29th February 2024, 09:04 PM
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A dead mouse (from my cat)
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They've been getting a bit of flack today from this comment:
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29th February 2024, 10:51 PM
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Sugar Like Apple Pie
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Deserved flack, I hope it’s just a silly comment the media have blown out of proportion, but I don’t know.
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1st March 2024, 01:36 AM
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Mansonette
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I don't see anything wrong in that comment by itself.
It's not criticising or dismissing anyone or their point of view. The history of music filled with periods where lyrical content and style focused on fantasy and escapism from awful reality - Glam Rock happened because the Psychedelic counter culture died at Altamont and Vietnam. New Romantic and Futurism happened because Punk's rage and discontent didn't break the social order. Acid House was a reaction to the 80s greed culture, Britpop a reaction against US Alt. Rock's inward looking angst. They're just saying people want music to distract them from how crap the world is right now. It doesn't mean the band aren't aware of these issues, being from an affluent background doesn't preclude you from seeing the world around you, especially if you're in a band who were very recently playing tiny venues, just means they believe people want to escape the drudgery through music when they can. How is that any different to Bowie or Muse? When Oasis wrote Rock N Roll Star they weren't making a comment about John Major's governments latest manifesto. It's the same reason why the latest MCU film, good or bad, will always sell more tickets than one from Ken Loach. I think that's a completely fair point. |
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1st March 2024, 02:38 AM
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is my brain across your walls?
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I would definitely rather listen to post-punk about the cost of living crisis than any The Last Dinner Party song. But I agree I don't really understand the backlash to that comment, it's a fair point. Maybe not worded the best I suppose.
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1st March 2024, 01:54 PM
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Good response from the band today: It's a shame that the original article took what was said originally out of context- but this happens all the time. I think it's equally a shame that there is this culture of immediately reacting with rage like this. Better to judge someone on their actions as opposed to how they are portrayed in one article and then jump on some massive pile-on just because the music isn't for you. |
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12th April 2024, 08:59 AM
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A dead mouse (from my cat)
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‘Sinner’ has been added to the Radio 1 playlist today.
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12th April 2024, 10:03 AM
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Mansonette
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Gotta love Radio 1. Always reliably 12 months behind what's going on.
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12th April 2024, 10:05 AM
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A dead mouse (from my cat)
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I think it's just a case of what the band/their team want to push at the moment, they also started pushing 'Sinner' on US alternative radio stations last week.
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12th April 2024, 11:15 AM
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BuzzJack Platinum Member
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QUOTE(Severin @ Apr 12 2024, 11:03 AM)  Gotta love Radio 1. Always reliably 12 months behind what's going on. Lol that's so not the case. They playlist whatever the label pushes as the current single. |
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12th April 2024, 05:42 PM
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Mansonette
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That may be so but they could have playlisted this off their own, when it was first released a year ago. That they haven't done so until the label asks them to, only further illustrates how slow they are with anything coming up on the 'indie' circuit.
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