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The Last Dinner Party 'This Is The Killer Speaking' by Harv Frost

Rob Ulitski - 24th July 2025

Harv Frost returns with another spectacular promo for The Last Dinner Party - a surreal Soho-set Western for the first release from the band's second album. 

The video for This Is The Killer Speaking transforms London streets into a Western-style town, complete with its own dive bar, fashion and... ethereal centaur. Okay, maybe that's a new addition. 

In the same ambitious, stylish and often surreal aesthetic as Frost's previous collaborations with the band, it's a fresh vibe and a great introduction to the foloow-up to their acclaimed debut LP Prelude To Ecstasy

HARV FROST:

"Returning to work with TLDP was a dream, after collaborating together on the videos for the first album and our short for the album Prelude To Ecstasy. We have built such a rich mini-cinematic universe that was a joy to dive back into.

"This time it was about doing something different, we wanted to burn the book on what we have done previously, and create something that combines all we have learnt from our previous videos.

"The pitch for the video was ‘the band wreaks Western-style havoc in Soho’ so I knew from the start it was going to be a challenge in itself - around the band’s availability we could only shoot on a Thursday morning for the Soho scenes, so that meant lots of curious passers-by and stopping traffic.

"This a complete contrast from the locked-off controlled environments we were used to shooting in for previous videos, it posed a new kind of challenge. Thanks to 1st AD master Rose Lucas and the rest of the crew we managed to pull it all off while causing a bit of a scene.

"For this video my references were stooped in classic spaghetti westerns like Fistful of Dollars, Django and The Good, The Bad And The Ugly, but wanted to give them this acid-western feeling and shoot them in a way that felt modern without being too pastiche. It was about carving out our own style.

"The challenge was making something that felt unlike past TLDP videos that still kept that DNA. That theatricality and character but with a new lick of paint, a darker palette and an even a bleach blonde wig for Abigail. And in typical Last Dinner Party fashion, a western without horses, but rather, a centaur!

"Always such a privilege to work with this powerhouse of a band, and to kick off the campaign for their second album."

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Credits

Production/Creative

Director
Harv Frost
Producer
Lottie Lindsay-Beavan
Production Company
Executive Producer
Nathan Killham
Production Manager
Nahal Ashrafithe
1st AD
Rose Lucas
Production Assistant
Azeen Porssa

Camera

Director of Photography
Fraser Rigg
Focus Puller
Anil Duru
Focus Puller
Sinan Yilmaz
2nd AC
Matthew Hollis
Steadicam
Tom Colli

Lighting/Grip

Gaffer
Riaz Ahmed

Art

Art Director
Sasha Hilton

Choreography

Movement Director
Théïa Maldoom
Stunt Coordinator
Alex Payne

Editorial

Editor
Eden Read
Editing company
The Assembly Rooms
Edit Producer
Ella Kean

Grading

Colour Producer
Suzanne Holland
Colourist
Tim Smith
Colour grade company
Rascal

VFX

VFX
Covert

Agent

Director's Representation

Commission

Commissioner

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