“I spent an entire summer solidly trying to get inside Brian’s playing, hearing all the little details”: The Last Dinner Party’s Emily Roberts on how a Brian May tribute gig radically changed her guitar playing

The Last Dinner Party’s lead guitarist Emily Roberts has recently revealed how a spot as Brian May in a Queen Tribute band was key to developing her sound, and in turn, the guitar parts on the band’s celebrated debut record Prelude to Ecstasy. 

“I was around 21 or 22 years old when someone messaged me on Facebook about being Brian May in that band,” she explains in the new issue of Total Guitar. “I thought, ‘Yeah, why not?’ 

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