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The Lone Dining Society

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The Lone Dining Society, the music project founded by composer, singer and multi-instrumentalist Ian Chapman is an experience in the truest sense of the word. Beyond any formal genre and structures of more ordinary harmony, The Lone Dining Society manages to create its very own fantastically nostalgic ‘art world’ that transcends the boundaries of music.

The Society invites you into a world full of myths and Grimm fairy tales, which are provocative, sometimes almost tragic, but always with a cheeky wink. Something like a bag of colourful confetti - a mixture of retro pop, rock and street music.
Chapman and his international cast of players take the audience along on their travelling circus somewhere between brilliant fantasy and unembellished reality, a mini odyssey that finally, always brings one home.

So if you're looking for something different - a powerful presence that still hugs you softly and quietly in its own way... you deserve the right to dine alone...

Like a DiseaseThe Lone Dining Society
00:00 / 02:58
Gaggle of our FriendsThe Lone Dining Society
00:00 / 03:47
Weather TogetherThe Lone Dining Society
00:00 / 03:34

"In the music itself, one can also hear the ‘Lone Dining Society’ concept. A good dozen music styles of LDS idiosyncrasy find their place: Folk, Jazz, Moorish, Cirque Noir, Cabaret… a fantastic hustle and bustle. Brass, accordion, Mandolin and Hammond Organ draw us in and through a funfair and everything meshes smoothly together like a well oiled mechanical apparatus. Quite remarkable for a debut album."
Komalé Akakpo - BR Bayern 2 (Heimatsound 5.3.22)

"What's going on here?' asks the fascinated ear of the audience seeking to place the music into a genre...Chapman is a unique bag of surprises with his innuendos and cross-references and creates a 'Magical Mystery Tour' that is all of his own making, somewhere between Brit-Pop, Jazz, a sprinkling of Rock, Brass tradition and unconditionally romantic.."
Thomas Lochte - Merkur (Bosco 29.10.21

The Brothers Grimm (Official Music Video)
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The Brothers Grimm (Official Music Video)

A new experimental film created to support the title ‚The Brothers‘ Grimm‘ by Ian Chapman‘s new project ‚The Lone Dining Society‘ (LDS). The song is inspired by the brother‘s fairytale stories collection. Linda Sollacher (Stage Designer / Theater - Film Conceptualist) created for this occasion a new film at McGraw (one of the rehearsal halls of Bavarian State Opera) in which she built a huge ‚fairytale‘ wood out of cardboard in 2 circles, 4 meters high that was populated with a variety of fairytale characters, including a princess with a huge head also made out of cardboard. The concept explores the use of Theatre being filmed. The theater piece plays out with actors performing within the Wood circle and it was filmed by cameraman Pius Neumeier as a one-shot in a way that blends the artforms of Theater and Film. Alternative Pop Rock, Skurril, Quirky, uplifting, feel good music, black humour. If you like any of these artists, perhaps this might tickle your fancy: They Might Be Giants, Particle Man, The Divine Comedy, Andrew Bird, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Kate Nash, Neutral Milk Hotel, Grizzly Bear, The Mountain Goats, The Beautiful South, Belle & Sebastian, Crash Test Dummies, Misty's Big Adventure, Frank Zappa, Richard Dawson, David Byrne, Talking Heads, Jens Lekman, Devendra Banhart, Vampire Weekend, Dizraeli & the Small Gods, Fiona Apple
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