Mpls: The Last Dinner Party at Palace Theatre (Jun 5, 2026)
June 5 @ 6:30 pm
The Last Dinner Party (Jun 5, 2026)
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The Last Dinner Party
It’s very exciting to see UK’s The Last Dinner Party returning to America, in support of From the Pyre (Island Records). The band is more popular than ever, thanks to their CBS This Morning’s appearance.
The band explains the title of their album:
This record is a collection of stories, and the concept of album-as-mythos binds them. ‘The Pyre’ itself is an allegorical place in which these tales originate, a place of violence and destruction but also regeneration, passion and light. The songs are character driven but still deeply personal, a commonplace life event pushed to pathological extreme. Being ghosted becomes a Western dance with a killer, and heartbreak laughs into the face of the apocalypse. Lyrics invoke rifles, scythes, sailors, saints, cowboys, floods, Mother Earth, Joan of Arc, and blazing infernos. We found this kind of evocative imagery to be the most honest and truthful way to discuss the way our experiences felt, giving each the emotional weight it deserves. This record feels a little darker, more raw and more earthy; it takes place looking out at a sublime landscape rather than seated an opulent table. It also feels metatextual and cheeky in places, like a knowing look reflected back at ourselves.
Last Dinner Party
We saw the band on their first Minneapolis appearance in April 2024 and wrote, “On their maiden US tour, the band stopped by First Avenue, in Minneapolis, on Thursday night. The venue was packed full of diehard fans, who all wore dresses or suits. The fashion was a nod to The Last Dinner Party’s fashion sense… but they were also dressed as if they were attending a dinner party. It’s really fun to both watch the band on stage, but also watching the audience. What’s cool about these Last Dinner Party shows is that you can bring a canned food and, in exchange, you’re gifted a personalized ribbon. The cans are collected and donated to a local food bank.”
2026 North American Headline Tour:
- March 27 – Austin, TX – ACL Live at The Moody Theater*
- March 28 – Dallas, TX – The Bomb Factory*
- March 30 – Houston, TX – White Oak Music Hall*
- April 01 – Kansas City, MO – The Midland Theatre*
- April 03 – Milwaukee, WI – Riverside Theater*
- April 04 – Chicago, IL – The Salt Shed*
- April 06 – Cleveland, OH – The Agora*
- April 07 – Washington, DC – The Anthem*
- April 08 – Pittsburgh, PA – Stage AE*
- April 15 – Philadelphia, PA – Franklin Music Hall*
- April 17 – New Haven, CT – College Street Music Hall*
- April 18 – Boston, MA – Roadrunner*
- April 20 – Portland, ME – State Theatre Portland*
- April 21 – Montreal, QC – MTELUS*
- April 23 – Toronto, ON – Massey Hall*
- April 25 – New York, NY – Hammerstein Ballroom*
- April 26 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Paramount*
- May 19 – Vancouver, BC – Orpheum^
- May 20 – Portland, OR – Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall^
- May 22 – Seattle, WA – Showbox SoDo^
- May 26 – Sacramento, CA – Channel 24^
- May 27 – Oakland, CA – Fox Theater^
- May 29 – Los Angeles, CA – The Orpheum^
- May 31 – Del Mar, CA – The Sound^
- June 02 – Denver, CO – Mission Ballroom^
- June 04 – Des Moines, IA – Val Air Ballroom^
- June 05 – Saint Paul, MN – Palace Theatre^
- June 07 – Detroit, MI – Masonic Jack White Theatre^
- June 09 – Columbus, OH – KEMBA Live!^
- June 10 – Nashville, TN – The Pinnacle^
- June 12 – Charlotte, NC – The Fillmore Charlotte^
- June 13 – Atlanta, GA – The Eastern^
*w/ Florence Road
^w/ Automatic
If your band is coming to the Minneapolis/St Paul area, please email details to vu@weheartmusic.com with a good lead time. Thank you.