Florence + The Machine are heading downunder and doing a special gig for Channel V.
The gig will take place in Sydney on Friday July 24 and air on Channel V a few days later. To score tickets fans are required to watch Channel [V], and listen to KIIS 1065 Sydney or KIIS 101.1 Melbourne or Spotify,
How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful”, debuted at #1 on the ARIA Album chart on release and has already reached gold accreditation one month later. Welch, previously took out the top spot with her critically acclaimed second album ‘Ceremonials’. For Florence Welch, the success of her first two Florence + the Machine albums Lungs (2009 – Album of the year, Brit Awards 2010) and Ceremonials (2011) meant five years of back-to-back recording, promoting and touring. Lungs ran straight into the making, promoting and touring of the Grammy-nominated Ceremonials, an album written while on the road and recorded straight after coming off tour. The shows were getting bigger, the hair redder, the success wider and wilder.
Current single Ship To Wreck was written with Kid Harpoon, the London-based songwriter/producer with whom she’d written Ceremonials’ Grammy-nominated Shake It Out, during a month-long creative furlough in Los Angeles that also yielded first single What Kind Of Man: a full-force ear-pinning anthem of uplifting defiance.
1pm Sunday July 26 on [V]