The Last Dinner Party, on their North American tour, stopped in Sacramento at Channel 24 to the delight of a crowd full of fans seeing them live for the first time. For this tour, they teamed up with the non-profit WhyHunger to give support to local food banks in every city that they played. By selling ribbons, the concert-goers could contribute to the cause and to their own city’s food bank.
It’s an honor to play in North America and play music for you but it’s also an honor to be able to host something like this and to have you support.”
Being TLDP’s first time in Sacramento, they had several nice things to say about the city. They loved the 2017 movie Lady Bird, and Emily went to the World Famous Sacramento Train Museum. Her favorite train was the big grey and gold one. Unfortunately, their bass player Georgia was home recovering from a back injury and had to miss the rest of the tour. But the replacement bassist Max fit in pretty well with the girls.
The whole show, including the stage and artist costumes, were of a fantastical and whimsical theme. Huge mossy stone arches, a church bell, and a humongous bird-mirrored mobile hanging from the rafters. Each band member wore a very different outfit, fluffy dresses to pantsuits, each seemed to fit the personality of its wearer.
The set started with fan favorite early hits, before heating up in the middle transitioning into newer works with Second Best. It was very cool to see how the song Second Best was teased in their first performance at Bimbo’s 365 in San Francisco shortly after their Coachella performance last year, and how it adapted to the song performed here. Woman Is A Tree is where the set started digging into something more spiritual in the essence of rock and roll with acoustic guitar and harmonizing vocals. This flowed seamlessly into Gjuha. Rifle was a personal favorite that we were most looking forward to hearing. All the band members got their time in the spotlight with solos and songs they wrote. We went heavier rock with “Big Dog” which the fans decided to end barking. “No barking!” Abigail said, then laughed. “We’re so happy to be here playing rock and roll and having you give us that gift of giving these songs a home every night. They feel magical because of you and the energy you bring into them every night.” They then played The Scythe after the speech, and their biggest hits like Sinner and Lady of Mercy… “And now, for our sins, we shall be cast into the inferno” immediately into “The Inferno.” Abigail wanted to give this crowd “a present”, which happened to be an unreleased song! Before playing their biggest hit, “Nothing Matters” Abigail made a big request to everyone to put their phones away and enjoy the song in the moment with them. There’s nothing like shouting out “and you can hold me, like nothing matters” along with the band. It was really cool to see their excitement in playing in the crowd with fans that listened and danced along.
The Last Dinner Party gave us a lot to Party about, and also gave a lot of Dinner to those in need in Sacramento. All together, a pretty great night.
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