Episode 305 - The Last Dinner Party

Sodajerker On Songwriting

Sodajerker

Music, Music Interviews

4.8 • 912 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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The Last Dinner Party's Abigail Morris chats with Sodajerker about the band's new record, From The Pyre, and their songwriting process. The dynamic frontwoman explores the challenges of songwriting on the road, the evolution of their sound, and the collaborative spirit that drives their creativity.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Sodyjker on songwriting, episode 305.
0:22.8	Brian and Simon here and we hope you keep him well.
0:25.4	Joining us today is the Front Woman for one of the UK's most exciting rock bands.
0:29.3	The talented quintet have just scored their second top ten album with From the Pire,
0:33.8	another supremely confident offering recorded in the spring of this year with producer Marcus
0:38.5	Dravs and they're currently on the first leg of a mammoth world tour which will continue well into
0:43.2	2026 we're delighted to welcome the last dinner parties Abigail Morris to the show lead singer abbey
0:49.7	rhythm guitarist lizzie mayland and australian-ist Georgia Davis first met at King's College London in 2018.
0:56.9	They began exploring the city's live music scene together, and during one wine-soaked evening in Brixton,
1:01.9	Abbey and Georgia put together a manifesto for a band, which they initially christened the dinner party.
1:06.8	Meanwhile, their future bandmates lead guitarist Emily Roberts and keyboardist Aurora Nishevsi,
1:12.3	were studying at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Abbey met Emily through a mutual friend
1:16.9	who'd recommended her as a guitar whiz, very accurately as it turned out, before classically
1:21.6	trained Aurora completed the line-up. They conducted their first rehearsals during the summer of
1:26.2	2020 and made their live bow the following year at the George Tavern in London's East End.
1:31.2	They wasted no time in building a passionate following, not to mention a reputation as an unmissable live act, and in early 22, a video of them performing at another East London venue came to the attention of major labels.
1:41.8	One of those labels was Ireland Records, who won the subsequent bidding war.
1:45.7	The group released their first single, Nothing Matters, in the spring of 2023,
1:49.9	followed in early 24 by their debut LP, the James Ford produced Prelude to Ecstasy,
1:55.3	which shot to number one in the UK chart and was shortlisted for the Mercury Prize.
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2:03.7	and explore our huge archive of over 300 interviews.
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