The Final Dinner Get together at Roadrunner, Boston, 4/18/26
Concert events
At a sold-out present, the British five-piece band conjured an evening of baroque spectacle, Shakespearean sonnets, and at the very least one chainmail bikini prime.
The Final Dinner Get together at Roadrunner, Boston, April 18, 2026.
The Final Dinner Get together didn’t simply play Roadrunner on Saturday evening. They set it ablaze. From the second lead vocalist Abigail Morris — dressed as a nautical imp in a black sailor prime, shorts, and a three-pointed hat — pranced to the lip of the stage, it was clear this was going to be a deliciously lavish night: baroque, transporting, and fully its personal.
Earlier than any of that, although, there was Florence Highway. The Irish band delivered a set of head-rattling rock with hovering vocals from lead singer Lily Aron. A concert-goer standing close by summed it up succinctly: “I’ve been to 90 reveals. This opener was in all probability within the prime ten.” As an enormous fan of their music, I’d go even additional and place their efficiency amongst my prime 5 openers of all time.
The Final Dinner Get together took the stage promptly at 9, launching into “Agnus Dei” earlier than a backdrop of mossy arches and gossamer curtains that known as to thoughts “A Midsummer Night time’s Dream.”
The set was theatrical in one of the best sense: lush and intentionally extreme, it was a visible argument for placing the “baroque” in baroque rock. The band’s instrument decisions, too, harkened again to the campy flamboyance of ’80s hair rock; lead guitarist Emily Roberts moved fluidly between a flying V guitar and quieter melodic work on mandolin, whereas keyboardist Aurora Nishevci prowled the stage on a keytar.
A lot of the set drew from “From the Pyre,” the band’s sophomore album, launched final October — an album of character-driven, allegorical songs populated by cowboys, saints, scythes, and sailors.
Followers within the crowd had been desirous to embody the imagery, with extravagant costumes of frill and ruffles, and leather-based and metallic — to not point out many a flowy skirt.
The bard, the bikini, and the opposite Abigail Morris
After performing a scorching “The Female Urge,” Morris noticed an indication within the crowd. A Wellesley scholar had arrived bearing a poster promoting her faculty’s Shakespeare Society’s annual 24-hour marathon studying of the whole works. Morris, delighted, promptly learn Shakespeare’s Sonnet 115 to the room.
The Final Dinner Get together performed their first-ever present in Boston on March 24, 2024, on the Royale as a part of their first North American tour. Morris thanked the group for returning as they toured their second album.
“Boston, my babe,” Morris advised the group, earlier than launching into fan-favorite “Caesar on a TV Display.” “Thanks for coming again and thanks for bringing reinforcements!”
The band navigated a notable absence with grace: bassist Georgia Davies, who sustained a again damage throughout a Texas cease in March, was absent for this leg of the tour. Earlier than “On Your Aspect,” Morris paused and requested the room to boost its glasses and hearts to Georgia.
“She misses you a lot,” Morris mentioned, “and I do know she would like to be right here.”
Later, one other signal stopped the present: “My title is Abigail Morris too. Severely.” Morris demanded to see the fan’s ID, exclaiming “That is loopy! Dude, wait, we’re twins! I’ve by no means met one other Abigail Morris.”
The band’s five-part harmonies — whether or not in full choir or stripped to a duo — had been their most beautiful and quietly devastating weapon. “Girl Is a Tree” resounded with the pressure of a hymn, adopted by a young efficiency of “Gjuha” by Nishevci.
After performing an unreleased music, “Huge Canine,” a fan introduced Morris with a home made chainmail bikini prime constructed from soda pull tabs.
Morris accepted it with glee and used the second to ship an earnest plug for the fan’s craft.
“I’m sorry should you get an inflow of orders and also you’re pressured and it’s a must to drink so many Cokes and also you explode, however we help small companies!”
‘It truly is such a present that you just give us’
“Nothing Issues,” the 2023 single that launched a lot of the world to the band, was preceded by a easy request from Morris: no telephones, simply dancing, simply being right here. The gang fortunately obliged.
The band returned to the stage for an encore efficiency of “This Is the Killer Talking,” full with Morris educating the group choreography, and a reprise of “Agnus Dei” that despatched everybody out into the misty April evening barely dazed, barely giddy, and really glad they got here.
The Final Dinner Get together, it seems, is even higher in individual than their spectacular repute suggests. They play huge rooms now, they usually fill them — not simply bodily, however with the real heat of a band that appears genuinely grateful for the help and fanbase they’ve constructed.
“It truly is such a present that you just give to us. It’s due to you that these songs are given life each evening,” Morris mentioned.
The Final Dinner Get together promised fireplace. On Saturday evening in Boston, they delivered it — and rose from the ashes.
Setlist for The Final Dinner Get together at Roadrunner on April 18, 2026:
- Agnus Dei
- Rely the Methods
- The Female Urge
- Caesar on a TV Display
- On Your Aspect
- Second Finest
- I Maintain Your Anger
- Girl Is a Tree
- Gjuha
- Rifle
- Huge Canine (unreleased)
- The Scythe
- Sail Away
- Sinner
- My Woman of Mercy
- Inferno
- Nothing Issues
Encore:
- This Is the Killer Talking
- Agnus Dei (Reprise)
Join the In the present day publication
Get every little thing it’s essential know to begin your day, delivered proper to your inbox each morning.
