florence + the machine
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Issue
No.
24
7 2012 Summer
Festival Guide and what ones suite
you
Florence and the machine is an English indie-pop band
with Florence Welch as the
lead singer that had a raise to fame in 2009 after the release
of their first album ‘Lungs’
which got high reviews from many different people. It
went straight to number two
in the UK album charts and after six months there finally
moved to the top spot, and in
October 2010 the album had been in the charts for sixty
-five consecutive weeks becoming one of the best-
selling albums of 2009-2010.
Florence, born on August 28,1986, grew up in London
where she went to school and
was toilets at a club and sang Etta James' 1962 song
"Something's Got a Hold on
Me". Mairead Nash is said to be
one of the most influential
promoters on the London music scene and has her label
named luv luv luv, she
o r i g i n a l l y d i s c o v e r ed Florence and the machine.
The huge record label Island
Records, which was first founded in
1959, by Chris
Blackwell and G r a e m e
Goodall in
Jamaica, now s i g n s
Florence. The company has
been based in
the UK for many years and has a long
list of successful artists
signed to it such as Nicki Minaj, Jessie J and Tom
Florence perform-ing, (bottom left) Florence on the red carpet
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Florence + the Machine
Jones. Florence also has released her second album
Ceremonials, which went to
number one in the album charts.
Florence is said to write her
best songs when she’s diagnosed with dyslexia but
still managed to do well
academically, she also got occasionally in trouble for
impromptu singing.
In 2007, Welch did her first officially recording with a
band named Ashok, who
released an album called Plans on the Filthy Lucre/
A b o u t
R e c o r d s label. This
album also
had the e a r l i e s t
version of
her later hit "Kiss
with a F i s t " ,
which at this point was titled
"Happy Slap". She signed a contract for Ashok with a
manager, but feeling that she
was "in the wrong band" she quit, which cancelled the
contract. Florence and the
Machine is managed by Mairead Nash (one half of the
DJ duo Queens of Noize),
who decided to manage the singer when an inebriated
Welch followed Nash into
the drunk or has a hangover, because that’s when the
freedom, the feral music
comes, creating itself wildly from the fragments gathered
in her notebooks and in her head. “You’re lucid,” she
explains, but you’re not really
there. You’re floating through your own thoughts, and you
can pick out what you need. I
like those weird connections in the universe. I feel that
life’s like a consistent acid
trip, those times when things keep coming back.”
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