One drunken evening in 2019, Abigail Morris and Georgia Davies rushed into a discount store in Brixton, south London, and bought a cheap notepad to write down their band’s manifesto.
At that point, the rock group, then called the Dinner Party, only had three members, and had never actually rehearsed any songs.
But Morris and Davies — the singer and bassist — knew exactly how they wanted to look and sound: “Gothic,” “Indulgent” and “Decadence” were at the top of their list.
Later in the evening, Morris accidentally cut herself on a broken glass, and dripped blood onto the notepad.
The splatters emphasized the pair’s vision for a band teetering between the beautiful and the grotesque.
Persons:
Abigail Morris, Georgia Davies, Morris, Davies, —, “, ” Davies
Organizations:
Party
Locations:
Brixton, London