» Review: Florence and The Machine
Florence Welch may have a big fringe and give kooky interviews, but she ain’t no Lily Allen. Tonight the 22-year-old rose goddess-like from the stage, her chiffon shawl and Titian locks billowing behind her. Yes, there was a wind machine and rather a lot of cape-flapping, but the performance more
than lived up to the stage-twirling melodramatics.
With soaring vocals to rival Jefferson Airplane’s Grace Slick, and some hair-on-end harmonies and harp-plucking, F&TM delivered a phenomenal set, from the shouty ’Kiss with a Fist’ to a soul-raising cover of Candi Staton’s ’You Got the Love’. Will these young upstarts ever come down to earth? Let’s hope not.
Concorde, 2 June
5/5
Colette Bernhardt







June 19th, 2009 at 2:07 am
This video of Rabbit Heart is weirder than the original. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HqY0H944tE&feature=channel_page