Growing up on the moors above Hebden Bridge, Lizzie Mayland might not have had Live At Leeds, the UK’s premier new music festival, on her radar, but she is nonetheless looking forward to bringing her band The Last Dinner Party to it this weekend.
“I don’t think I’ve ever been to the Leeds Beckett venue, but I’ve walked past it so many times, so it’ll be nice to go in and see what it’s like,” she says. In her youth Hebden Bridge Trades Club had been Mayland’s regular stamping ground, and she was at school with a couple of members of The Orielles. Another of Hebden’s best-known bands has somehow eluded her, though. “I’ve still not seen Working Men’s Club, we keep missing each other,” she says.
I’ve never been as nervous for a gig as I was at our first one at The George Tavern in Shadwell. I was like, ‘I don’t know if I can do this if it’s going to be like this every time’, I was so nervous.” Although Mayland says she’s “more of a vocalist”, she was inspired by the “jazzy chords” that Amy Winehouse favoured. “I learnt guitar to accompany myself singing, but then was finding some more joy in exploring that as an instrument.
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