Florence + The Machine postpone remainder of UK tour as a consequence of damaged foot

Florence + The Machine have postponed the rest of their UK tour after Florence Welch broke her foot.

In a press release posted to Instagram, Welch revealed that she unknowingly performed final night time’s (November 18) present at London’s The O2 with the fracture, and had the break confirmed this morning after an X-Ray.

She shared her disappointment within the new publish and revealed that the exhibits – which have been set to proceed tonight with a second London gig and run till the tip of the month – are within the strategy of being rescheduled for 2023.

Welch wrote: “I’m so sorry to say that after an X ray it appears I used to be dancing on a damaged foot final night time. It's not in my nature to postpone a present, and positively not a UK tour, however I’m in ache and as dancers know, dancing on an damage shouldn't be a good suggestion. And have been advised to not carry out to keep away from additional injury.”

She added: “I’m heartbroken because the Dance Fever tour has been my favorite present now we have ever placed on. The communion with you. Your lovely faces shining.

“I really like you a lot, and I’m so sorry to anybody who's dissatisfied. My coronary heart is aching. I can’t wait to be again on my ft and again in your arms.”

See Welch’s full checklist of postponed UK and Irish tour dates beneath. The exhibits come on the again of her new album ‘Dance Fever’, and comply with a North American headline tour that happened this summer time. The tour will then head to Australia and New Zealand in early 2023.

A brand new 24-track dwell album, recorded on the band’s big Madison Sq. Backyard present in New York in September, was launched final month, with Welch saying: “For an album that was a lot about efficiency, the possession of it, the love-hate relationship with life on the highway. And the following grief once I thought it might by no means occur once more. To get out to carry out these songs has been essentially the most extraordinary expertise. The reference to the viewers and the catharsis is at a degree I've by no means skilled earlier than.

“Possibly it’s as a result of all of us missed it a lot. However individuals are bringing a lot of themselves to those exhibits, I needed to have a reminiscence of ‘Dance Fever’ dwell. As a testomony to this time, and a full circle second. For an album a lot in regards to the lack of dwell music. To have a recording of the return means a lot to me.”

NOVEMBER 2023
19 – The O2, London
21 – BIC, Bournemouth
22 – AO Area, Manchester
24 – Utilita Area, Birmingham
25 – First Direct Area, Leeds
27 – OVO Hydro, Glasgow
28 – Motorpoint Area, Nottingham
30 – Area, Dublin