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Florence + the Machine are set to play an extended run of North American headline dates later this year, kicking off September 2 in Montreal with further stops including New York’s Madison Square Garden, Los Angeles’ Hollywood Bowl and many more. One dollar from every ticket sold will benefit Choose Love to aid refugees worldwide.

Arlo Parks, Sam Fender, King Princess, Yves Tumor, Japanese Breakfast and Wet Leg will join as support on select dates throughout the tour. See full routing below and visit Florence + The Machine’s official site for further information.

American Express Card Members can purchase tickets in select markets before the general public beginning Tuesday, March 29 at 10am local time through Thursday, March 31 at 10pm local time.

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The tour will celebrate the release of Florence Welch’s forthcoming, highly anticipated fifth album Dance Fever , out on May 13 . Florence has shared three songs from the album—“My Love,” “King” and “Heaven is Here” – all of which arrived alongside videos by the acclaimed director Autumn de Wilde with choreography by Ryan Heffington.

Additionally, Florence will play two very special, intimate shows this spring: April 29 in Los Angeles at the Los Angeles Theatre and May 6 at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall in New York—both shows sold out in seconds.

Dance Fever was recorded in London over the course of the pandemic in anticipation of the world’s reopening. It conjures up what Florence missed most in the midst of lockdown—clubs, dancing at festivals, being in the whirl of movement and togetherness—and the hope of reunions to come.

Just before the pandemic Florence had become fascinated by choreomania, a Renaissance phenomenon in which groups of people—sometimes thousands—danced wildly to the point of exhaustion, collapse and death. The imagery resonated with Florence, who had been touring nonstop for more than a decade, and in lockdown felt oddly prescient.

The image and concept of dance, and choreomania, remained central as Florence wove her own experiences of dance—a discipline she turned to in the early days of sobriety—with the folkloric elements of a moral panic from the Middle Ages. In recent times of torpor and confinement, dance offered propulsion, energy and a way of looking at music more choreographically.

Starting, as ever, armed with a notebook of poems and ideas, Florence had just arrived to New York in March 2020 to begin recording when Covid-19 forced a retreat to London. Holed up at home, the songs began to transform, with nods to dance, folk, ‘70s Iggy Pop , longing-for-the-road folk tracks a la Lucinda Williams or Emmylou Harris and more, ultimately arriving somewhere that Florence describes as “Nick Cave at the club.” Lyrically, she took inspiration from the tragic heroines of pre-Raphaelite art, the gothic fiction of Carmen Maria Machado and Julia Armfield, the visceral wave of folk horror film from The Wicker Man and The Witch to Midsommar .

Dance Fever is an album that sees Florence at the peak of her powers, coming into a fully realized self-knowledge, poking sly fun at her own self-created persona, playing with ideas of identity, masculinity and femininity, redemption and celebration.

Pre-order Dance Fever .

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April 29: Los Angeles Theatre, Los Angeles, CA May 6: Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, New York, NY September 2: Place Bell, Montreal, QC September 3: Budweiser Stage, Toronto, ON September 7: Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island, Chicago, IL September 8: Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul, MN September 10: Pine Knob Music Theatre, Clarkson, MI September 12: Capital One Area, Washington, D.C. September 14: TD Garden, Boston, MA September 16: Madison Square Garden, New York, NY September 20: Ascend Amphitheater, Nashville, TN September 21: Ameris Bank Amphitheatre, Alpharetta, GA September 23: Amway Center, Orlando, FL September 24: FTX Arena, Miami, FL September 27: Moody Center, Austin, TX September 28: The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory, Irving, TX October 1: Ball Arena, Denver, CO October 4: Rogers Arena, Vancouver, BC October 6: Climate Pledge Arena, Seattle, WA October 7: Theater of the Clouds, Portland, OR October 9: Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA October 12: Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre, San Diego, CA October 14: Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, CA.

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Florence and the Machine Announce 2022 North American Tour

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Florence and the Machine have announced a North American tour that picks up in September. Arlo Parks, King Princess, Sam Fender, Yves Tumor, Japanese Breakfast, and Wet Leg are all set to take opening slots in different cities. See the full schedule below.

Earlier this month, Florence Welch announced Dance Fever , her first new album since 2018’s High as Hope . She’s shared three singles from the album so far: “ My Love ,”“Heaven Is Here,” and “ King .” Welch co-produced Dance Fever with Jack Antonoff and Glass Animals’ Dave Bayley, and the album arrives on May 13.

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Florence and the Machine Announce North American Headline Tour in Support of ‘Dance Fever’

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Florence and the Machine will return to the road later this year to bring their fifth studio album Dance Fever to North America on a headlining tour. The album will arrive on May 13 and be celebrated with two special shows in Los Angeles and New York in April and May, respectively, but the extended leg of the tour will begin in September.

The band will open with a show at Montreal’s Place Bell on Sept. 2 and extend through the fall, wrapping with a finale at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles on Oct. 14. In between, they will make stops in Toronto, Chicago, Boston, New York, Orlando, Austin, Denver, Portland, San Diego, and more.

General on-sale for the tour begins Friday, April 1 at 10 a.m. local time. For every ticket sold, one dollar will be put toward the charity Choose Love to aid refugees and displaced peoples.

Joining Florence and the Machine on select dates for the tour are Arlo Parks, Sam Fender, King Princess, Yves Tumor, Japanese Breakfast, and Wet Leg.

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April 29 – Los Angeles, CA @ Los Angeles Theatre May 6 – New York, NY @ Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center Sept. 2 – Montreal, QC @ Place Bell Sept. 3 – Toronto, ON @ Budweiser Stage Sept. 7 – Chicago, IL @ Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island Sept. 8 – St. Paul, MN @ Xcel Energy Center Sept. 10 – Clarkson, MI @ Pine Knob Music Theatre Sept. 12 – Washington, D.C. @ Capital One Area Sept. 14 – Boston, MA @ TD Garden Sept. 16 – New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden Sept. 20 – Nashville, TN @ Ascend Amphitheater Sept. 21 – Alpharetta, GA @ Ameris Bank Amphitheatre Sept. 23 – Orlando, FL @ Amway Center Sept. 24 – Miami, FL @ FTX Arena Sept. 27 – Austin, TX @ Moody Center Sept. 28 – Irving, TX @ The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory Oct. 1 – Denver, CO @ Ball Arena Oct. 4 – Vancouver, BC @ Rogers Arena Oct. 6 – Seattle, WA @ Climate Pledge Arena Oct. 7 – Portland, OR @ Theater of the Clouds Oct. 9 – Mountain View, CA @ Shoreline Amphitheatre Oct. 12 – San Diego, CA @ Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre Oct. 14 – Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Bowl

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NEW LP DANCE FEVER OUT MAY 13

Florence + the Machine are set to play an extended run of headline dates later this year, kicking off September 2 in Montreal with further stops including New York’s Madison Square Garden , Los Angeles ’ Hollywood Bowl and many more. One dollar from every ticket sold will benefit Choose Love to aid refugees worldwide.

Arlo Parks , Sam Fender , King Princess , Yves Tumor , Japanese Breakfast, and Wet Leg will join as support on select dates throughout the tour. See full routing below and visit florenceandthemachine.net for more information.

American Express® Card Members can purchase tickets in select markets before the general public beginning Tuesday, March 29 at 10am local time through Thursday, March 31 at 10pm local time.

The tour will celebrate the release of Florence Welch’s forthcoming, highly anticipated fifth album Dance Fever , out May 13 . Florence has shared three songs from the album—“ My Love ,” “ King ” and “ Heaven is Here ”—all of which arrived alongside videos by the acclaimed director Autumn de Wilde with choreography by Ryan Heffington . Pre-order/pre-save the album here .

Additionally, Florence will play two very special, intimate shows this spring: April 29 in Los Angeles at the Los Angeles Theatre and May 6 at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall in New York—both shows sold out in seconds.

Dance Fever was recorded in London over the course of the pandemic in anticipation of the world’s reopening. It conjures up what Florence missed most in the midst of lockdown—clubs, dancing at festivals, being in the whirl of movement and togetherness—and the hope of reunions to come.

Just before the pandemic Florence had become fascinated by choreomania , a Renaissance phenomenon in which groups of people—sometimes thousands—danced wildly to the point of exhaustion, collapse and death. The imagery resonated with Florence, who had been touring nonstop for more than a decade, and in lockdown felt oddly prescient.

The image and concept of dance, and choreomania , remained central as Florence wove her own experiences of dance—a discipline she turned to in the early days of sobriety—with the folkloric elements of a moral panic from the Middle Ages. In recent times of torpor and confinement, dance offered propulsion, energy and a way of looking at music more choreographically. 

Starting, as ever, armed with a notebook of poems and ideas, Florence had just arrived to New York in March 2020 to begin recording when Covid-19 forced a retreat to London. Holed up at home, the songs began to transform, with nods to dance, folk, ‘70s Iggy Pop, longing-for-the-road folk tracks a la Lucinda Williams or Emmylou Harris and more, ultimately arriving somewhere that Florence describes as “Nick Cave at the club.” Lyrically, she took inspiration from the tragic heroines of pre-Raphaelite art, the gothic fiction of Carmen Maria Machado and Julia Armfield, the visceral wave of folk horror film from The Wicker Man and The Witch to Midsommar .

Dance Fever is an album that sees Florence at the peak of her powers, coming into a fully realized self-knowledge, poking sly fun at her own self-created persona, playing with ideas of identity, masculinity and femininity, redemption and celebration.

Dance Fever was produced by Florence, Jack Antonoff and Dave Bayley of Glass Animals.

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Fri Sep 2 – Place Bell – Montreal, QC*

Sat Sep 3 – Budweiser Stage – Toronto, ON*

Wed Sep 7 – Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island – Chicago, IL†

Thu Sep 8 – Xcel Energy Center – St. Paul, MN†

Sat Sep 10 – Pine Knob Music Theatre – Clarkson, MI†

Mon Sep 12 – Capital One Area – Washington, D.C.†

Wed Sep 14 – TD Garden – Boston, MA†

Fri Sep 16 – Madison Square Garden – New York, NY†

Tue Sep 20 – Ascend Amphitheatre – Nashville, TN‡

Wed Sep 21 – Ameris Bank Amphitheatre – Alpharetta, GA‡

Fri Sep 23 – Amway Center – Orlando, FL‡

Sat Sep 24 – FTX Arena – Miami, FL‡

Tue Sep 27 – Moody Center – Austin, TX§

Wed Sep 28 – The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory – Irving, TX§

Sat Oct 1 – Ball Arena – Denver, CO

Tue Oct 4 – Rogers Arena – Vancouver, BC**

The Oct 6 – Climate Pledge Arena – Seattle, WA††

Fri Oct 7 – Theater of the Clouds – Portland, OR**

Sun Oct 9 – Shoreline Amphitheatre – Mountain View, CA††

Wed Oct 12 – Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre – San Diego, CA††

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Florence + The Machine is a touring machine. Following a slew of singles from their upcoming album  Dance Fever , the indie rock band announced Monday (March 28) that they will be hitting the road in North America this year before heading out to Europe.

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“This is going to be fun,” frontwoman Florence Welch wrote on Instagram. “Go grab those Gunne sax my beautiful ghosts.”

The news follows an earlier announcement that Welch and her group would be joined by Willie J Healey and Aziya for performances in venues across Europe. Arlo Parks, Sam Fender, Wet Leg, King Princess, Japanese Breakfast and Yves Tumor will open for the band on select dates of the newly-shared North American leg, which kicks off September 2 in Montreal.

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Florence + The Machine’s latest era kicked off in February when they dropped “ King ,” the haunting lead single off Dance Fever  that was accompanied by a supernatural, female cult-led music video. Since then, Florence has unveiled two more singles and music videos (all of which have been directed by Autumn de Wilde): “ Heaven is Here ” and “ My Love .”

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Inspired by Renaissance-era imagery,  Dance Fever drops May 29 and will be preceded by two special sold out shows in Los Angeles on April 29 and in New York on May 6, according to a press release.

“Just before the pandemic Florence had become fascinated by choreomania, a Renaissance phenomenon in which groups of people—sometimes thousands—danced wildly to the point of exhaustion, collapse and death,” the release reads. “ Dance Fever is an album that sees Florence at the peak of her powers, coming into a fully realized self-knowledge, poking sly fun at her own self-created persona, playing with ideas of identity, masculinity and femininity, redemption and celebration.”

Check out Florence + the Machine’s North American tour dates in Welch’s announcement below.

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Florence + The Machine Announce North American Tour: See The Dates

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March 28, 2022

Florence + The Machine are gearing up to release their latest album Dance Fever on May 13, and a few months later they'll be touring North America in support.

After a pair of “special, intimate shows” on April 29 in Los Angeles and May 6 in New York, Florence Welch and company plan to head back to North America in September, beginning their trek on September 2 in Montreal and wrapping up October 14 in LA. Arlo Parks, Sam Fender, King Princess, Yves Tumor, Japanese Breakfast and Wet Leg will support on various dates, and one dollar from every ticket sold will benefit  Choose Love  in its mission to aid refugees worldwide.

Tickets go on sale Friday (April 1) at 10am local time. Get more info at Florence + The Machine's official website , and check out the announcement plus a full list of dates below.

Dance Fever North America 🌕✨ With support from @arloparks , @samfendermusic , @wetlegband , @KingPrincess69 , @Jbrekkie & @YvesTumor on selected dates. See poster for full details.🩸🫀 General sale Fri April 1st, 10am local. $1 from every ticket sold will be donated to @chooselove pic.twitter.com/4jKxJK9DT3 — florence welch (@florencemachine) March 28, 2022

Florence + The Machine North American Tour Dates

April 29 Los Angeles Theatre Los Angeles, CA

May 6 Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center New York, NY

September 2 Place Bell Montreal, QC*

September 3 Budweiser Stage Toronto, ON*

September 7 Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island Chicago, IL†

September 8 Xcel Energy Center St. Paul, MN†

September 10 Pine Knob Music Theatre Clarkson, MI†

September 12 Capital One Area Washington, D.C.†

September 14 TD Garden Boston, MA†

September 16 Madison Square Garden New York, NY†

September 20 Ascend Amphitheatre Nashville, TN‡

September 21 Ameris Bank Amphitheatre Alpharetta, GA‡

September 23 Amway Center Orlando, FL‡

September 24 FTX Arena Miami, FL‡

September 27 Moody Center Austin, TX§

September 28 The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory Irving, TX§

October 1 Ball Arena Denver, CO

October 4 Rogers Arena Vancouver, BC**

October 6 Climate Pledge Arena Seattle, WA††

October 7 Theater of the Clouds Portland, OR**

October 9 Shoreline Amphitheatre Mountain View, CA††

October 12 Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre San Diego, CA††

October 14 Hollywood Bowl Los Angeles, CA

*with Arlo Parks

†with Sam Fender

‡with King Princess

§with Yves Tumor

**with Japanese Breakfast

††with Wet Leg

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“When I make records, I make them with the idea that no one else will hear them,” Florence Welch tells Apple Music’s Zane Lowe. “When you get to the realization that this private dialogue is going to be completely public, it’s like I’ve tricked myself again.” On her band’s fifth album Dance Fever, such private dialogues include rejecting real love (“Girls Against God”), dance as the greatest form of release (the anxious synth-folk of “Free”), embracing less healthy coping mechanisms in her past (“Morning Elvis”), and the push-pull between a creative career and the possible desire to start a family. “I am no mother, I am no bride, I am king,” Welch declares in baritone on “King,” in which she ponders one of Dance Fever’s most prominent themes: her complicated relationship with her own artistry. “A lot of it is questioning what it gives to me as well, and being like, ‘Why do I need this so much, sometimes at the cost of more sustainable forms of intimacy or more stable relationships?’” she says. “I think this record is questioning, ‘How committed am I to my own loneliness? How committed am I to my sense of a tragic figure?’” Work on the album had begun alongside producer Jack Antonoff in New York in early 2020 before the pandemic forced Welch back to London, where her creativity was stifled for six long months. Dance Fever, then, also covers writer’s block (the cathartic “My Love,” a track intended to help shake off Welch’s blues, and our own) and her despair of what was lost in a locked-down world. Her lyrics occasionally poke fun at the image she has created of herself (“I think there's a humor also in self-knowledge that runs through this record that I've actually found really liberating,” says Welch), but they are often as strikingly vulnerable as on 2018’s High as Hope. And even if the singer admits on “King” that she is “never satisfied,” her band’s fifth album has brought her rare peace. “I feel like I managed to take everything that I learned in the last 15 years and consolidate it into this record, into this art, into the videos,” she says. “I felt like, if I had to prove something to myself, somehow I did it on this record.” Read on as Welch talks us through a selection of tracks on Dance Fever. “King” “Sometimes songs just arrive fully formed, and it's always when you think you'll never write a song again. I felt like my creative abilities were finally at the peak of how I understood myself as an artist and what I wanted to do. But if I wanted to have a family, there was this sense that suddenly I was being irresponsible with my time by choosing this thing that I've known my whole life, which is performance, which is making songs, which is striving to be the best performer that I can be. Somehow, it would be your fault if you miss the boat. I think that scream at the end of ‘King,’ it's just one of frustration, and confusion as well. I was thinking about Nick Cave and Leonard Cohen. I was thinking about how they can commit their body entirely to the stage. I was like, ‘Oh my god, I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm going to have to make choices.’ It's a statement of confidence, but also of humor that the album has, of ‘If I'm going to sacrifice these other things in my life, I have to be the best.’ I was like, ‘Why not me? Why can't I be king?’” “Free” “I think out of all the Florence + the Machine songs, it's sort of the purest sentiment of why I do it, distilled into why music is so important to me, why I need it, why performance is so important to me. Sometimes you just know a song is working: When we started playing it before it had even come out, just this ripple started in the audience of people catching onto the chorus and starting to move. And it was one of those moments where I was like, ‘Oh, this is a special one. This is really hitting something in people.’ And that's so magical for me. That's when the celebration starts.” “Daffodil” “I thought I'd lost my mind, because I remember coming home and being like, ‘Okay, I wrote a song today. It might be the most Florence + the Machine thing I've ever done. We're a year into the pandemic, I think maybe I'm losing it. The chorus is just “daffodil” over and over again.’ I was like, ‘Can you do that? That's a crazy thing to do.’ There were so many moments where I had nearly gave up on this record. There were so many moments where I nearly went, ‘It just feels like the way that the world is, this is just too hard to finish.’” “The Bomb” “There's a lot of nods, I think, to the previous records. All three of them are in this album, which is nice. Because I feel like somehow I'm bridging the gaps between all of them on this record, like all the things I've been interested in. This song is nodding to what I was thinking about, in terms of unavailability in people, in High as Hope in songs like ‘Big God,’ with like the obsession of someone who'll never text you back. Why is the person who creates the most space and gives you nothing the most appealing person? And really that's because if you're a songwriter, they give you the most enormous space for fantasy and you can write anything you want because they don't really exist. Every time I think in my life I've been in a stable place, something or someone will come up and be like, ‘How do you feel about blowing all this up?’ It's also a fear of growing up and a fear of getting older, because if you regenerate yourself constantly through other people by blowing up, changing everything, you never have to face aging or death.” “Morning Elvis” “I'm obsessed with Nick Cave as a performer, but the performer he's obsessed with is Elvis. So that's how it feeds back to me. I was at home and stuck and there was an Elvis documentary. It made me remember us, when we were on tour in New Orleans, it would have maybe been on the second record. The wheels were really coming off for me, in terms of drinking and partying. I just got very in the spirit of New Orleans and was at a party and just went, 'You all leave without me, I'm staying at this party.' I ended up with my dress completely shredded, because I'm always wearing these vintage things that basically just disintegrate: If you’re on a rager, you will come back with nothing. You would've thought things were going so well for me. What was it about me that had such a death wish? I had such little care for myself. It didn't matter what I had done the night before, or the week before, or what chaos I had created, I knew if I got to the stage, something there would save me and that I would be absolved. And that song is about that feeling, but also a testament to all the performers I've seen turn pain into something so beautiful.”

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Florence + The Machine Announced Fall 2022 US Tour Dates

Our “king” is coming.

The world is mere months away from finally getting to hear Florence + The Machine’s long-awaited fifth studio album, Dance Fever . To gear up for its release, the musician has announced a full-blown U.S. tour in celebration of the record that’ll be kicking off this fall.

The famed singer had already confirmed a handful of U.K. and European live shows beginning in mid-April, including festival appearances at Nos Alive 2022 and Madrid’s Mad Cool Festival. She’s also set to play two standalone shows on April 29 in Los Angeles at the Los Angeles Theatre and in New York City on May 6 at Alice Tully Hall. But it seems she won’t be hitting the road in earnest until September, when she’ll kick off her North American leg in Montreal, QC on September 2 before hopping into the U.S. for shows in Chicago, St. Paul, MN, Washington D.C., Boston, MA, New York City, and more.

These won’t be modest productions — she’s taking over stadiums and amphitheaters alike, from New York’s Madison Square Garden to Los Angeles’ Hollywood Bowl.

The “King” singer will also bring on a smattering of opening acts to support her on the tour: Japanese Breakfast, King Princess, and Arlo Parks are among the star-powered musicians that will be sharing the stage during the run of dates.

The Dance Fever tour will be Florence + The Machine’s first tour in the U.S. since 2019’s High As Hope tour, so no doubt tickets will go fast. For everything you need to know about attending, including the full tour dates, location, and how to score those coveted tickets, read on.

Who’s opening the tour?

Japanese Breakfast , Arlo Parks , King Princess , Sam Fender, Yves Tumor, and Wet Leg are all scheduled to open dates on the Florence + The Machine’s Dance Fever tour. See the dates each artist will play below.

Where is Florence + The Machine playing?

The fall 2022 Dance Fever tour will take Florence + The Machine across the U.S. and to select cities in Canada. See the full tour route below.

Florence + The Machine’s 2022 North American tour dates

• April 29 — Los Angeles, CA @ Los Angeles Theatre
• May 6 — New York, NY @ Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center
• September 2 — Montreal, QC @ Place Bell *
• September 3 — Toronto, ON @ Budweiser Stage *
• September 7 — Chicago, IL @ Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island †
• September 8 — St. Paul, MN @ Xcel Energy Center †
• September 10 — Clarkson, MI @ Pine Knob Music Theatre †
• September 12 — Washington, D.C. @ Capital One Area †
• September 14 — Boston, MA @ TD Garden †
• September 16 — New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden †
• September 20 — Nashville, TN @ Ascend Amphitheater ‡
• September 21 — Alpharetta, GA @ Ameris Bank Amphitheatre ‡
• September 23 — Orlando, FL @ Amway Center ‡
• September 24 — Miami, FL @ FTX Arena ‡
• September 27 — Austin, TX @ Moody Center §
• September 28 — Irving, TX @ The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory §
• October 1 — Denver, CO @ Ball Arena
• October 4 — Vancouver, BC @ Rogers Arena **
• October 6 — Seattle, WA @ Climate Pledge Arena †
• October 7 — Portland, OR @ Theater of the Clouds **
• October 9 — Mountain View, CA @ Shoreline Amphitheatre ††
• October 12 — San Diego, CA @ Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre ††
• October 14 — Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Bowl

*with Arlo Parks

†with Sam Fender

‡with King Princess

§with Yves Tumor

**with Japanese Breakfast

††with Wet Leg

How to buy tickets to Florence + The Machine’s 2022 US Tour

A presale for American Express card members kicks off Thursday, March 29 at 10 a.m. local time until Thursday, March 31 at 10 p.m. local time. Tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday, April 1 at 10 a.m. local time. Find more information on the band’s website or on Live Nation .

Florence + the Machine Reveal 2022 North American Tour Dates

Florence + the Machine have been releasing a slew of music videos recently. Now, they've revealed something else for fans: fall 2022 North American tour dates.

After playing a show in Los Angeles on April 29 and performing at NYC's Alice Tully Hall on May 6, Florence Welch's North American tour will pick up in September. Arlo Parks, King Princess, Sam Fender, Yves Tumor, Japanese Breakfast, and Wet Leg will take opening slots in different cities.

Stops on the tour include Chicago, Boston, Nashville, Orlando, Austin, Denver, Portland, San Diego, and more. The North American leg of the tour will conclude in Los Angeles on October 14. After that, Florence and her band will trek through Europe during November.

Earlier this month, Florence Welch announced Dance Fever , her first new album since 2018’s High as Hope . Fans have gotten a preview of the record with the three singles that have already been shared: “My Love,” “Heaven Is Here,” and “King.” The music videos for each single are notable for featuring Ukrainian production units, and the visual for "Heaven Is Here" in particular was filmed in Kyiv four months before Russia invaded Ukraine.

Welch co-produced Dance Fever with Jack Antonoff and Glass Animals’ Dave Bayley. The album is out May 13 and can be pre-ordered here . As for tickets to Florence + the Machine's tour, dates and ticket links can be found on the band's official website under the "Live" tab. Tickets go on general sale Friday, April 1 at 10am local time. One dollar from every ticket sold will benefit Choose Love to aid refugees worldwide.

See Florence + the Machine's North American tour poster below.

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Florence Welch shares how anxiety came with her sobriety as she and the Machine embark on tour

Florence Welch feels things intensely.

From early hits “Dog Days Are Over,” “Shake It Out” and “Spectrum (Say My Name)” to the evocative emotional tsunamis on fifth album  “Dance Fever,” Welch’s music with her band the Machine takes root in your soul.

The London-born Welch and seven-piece Machine launch a North American tour on Friday that will roll through October before heading overseas.

The band’s brew of indie pop  and Welch’s distinctive mezzo-soprano voice – enticing on record – is even more striking on stage.

Calling from home on “Flo’s iPad,” Welch, 36, talked to USA TODAY about the intriguing songs on “Dance Fever,” filming videos in Ukraine and how Charles Dickens’ Miss Havisham factors into the upcoming tour.

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Question: “Dance Fever” is such a phenomenal album . Can we talk about the song “Free"?  

Answer: “Free” was written in 2019 and ironically was the last song written before the first lockdown in the U.K. But even before the pandemic, I had been struggling with panic attacks and anxiety. There’s this thing that happens when you’ve been sober for a while and it’s been eight years for me. Your anxiety or whatever you’ve been suppressing comes to meet you, and when you get sober, you’re still managing it in other ways. When your life basically is settled and stable, it’s almost as if the body goes, “OK, time to release this,” but it was confusing to me, like why? The anxiety has been a constant force in my life for as long as I can remember, but there was a period in 2019 when it was particularly bad.

Can you share the backstory about the video, too, which you filmed in Ukraine and stars Bill Nighy?

There is a character in this video . I’m always running from something, so what is this something and how do we represent this? It’s extremely British to say something terrible and then be like, “ha ha ha.” We wanted to capture the sense of humor in the song, and (video director Autumn de Wilde) said, what about Bill? I didn’t think he’d say yes and he did. He was so good. He’s playing my anxiety. He’s a complete treasure. 

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It’s a beautiful scene at the end of the video, which you shot in Kyiv in November, along with the videos for “King” and “Heaven Is Here.” Do you feel a strong kinship with the Ukrainians?  

I can’t talk about it without crying. It was an amazing crew, amazing people. We had such an amazing time. We knew we were going to do a lot of stunts and they have amazing stunt people. It’s all been so devastating. A lot of it lately has been finding out if people were OK, making sure people were safe.

Does “King,” where you sing about mixing motherhood and a career, take on even deeper resonance now with everything women are dealing with in the U.S. with reproductive rights?

I think songs can hold things. The reason I make songs and I do performances is to give out statements. Songs can hold my feelings about things. They do tend to reflect what’s happening and it enters into the song and changes it.

You got me fascinated by choreomania (explored in a song of the same name). When did you learn about this phenomenon, where groups of people danced themselves to hysteric exhaustion?

I discovered it in 2019 when a friend told me about it and I went down a complete rabbit hole. I’d never heard of it. I couldn’t believe that this thing existed and there were outbreaks of it all over Europe from the 14th to 16th century. There are lots of theories about why it happened. It could have been a virus or a hallucinogenic brain and people were high or it was a psychological response to stress. I understood deeply that you could be so stressed that you could go onto the street and dance until you collapsed.

What can you share about the production for the Dance Fever tour?

We were looking at a lot of Miss Havisham references. There’s a funny sense of tragedy ascribed to unmarried, childless women at 35 and I do think people maybe think I sit in an old, crumbling mansion, crying in a wedding dress. So I was like, let’s just make that, then! I wanted to play with the humor and that sense of tragedy.

When you’re on the road, are there any must-haves on the tour bus?

I have to bring stuff to decorate every dressing room. Over the years, I’ve collected a lot of old piano shawls from various vintage stores and bring my own embroidered bedspreads. That really helps. No matter what hotel room I’m in, no matter what bus I’m in, I have things I can dress a room in.

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About 20 minutes past Florence + the Machine ‘s slated start time for their headlining set at the Hollywood Bowl on Saturday, most of the venue was still pitch black from a venue-wide power outage.

The crowd’s anxiety mounted as many wondered whether the show would still happen — until the stage’s two display screens suddenly rebooted and the Bowl’s lights blared back on. Fans, many wearing flower crowns to match Welch’s mystical aesthetic, roared in thunderous applause at the sight of a Windows login screen — as if Florence herself had stepped onto center stage, and Welch and the group masterfully channeled the chaos into a night to remember.

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Before the frenzied final drop of “Dog Days,” Welch took a few minutes to welcome the crowd to the final stop of her U.S. “Dance Fever” tour, acknowledging that the power outage had almost caused the cancelation of the show before cracking some lighthearted self-referential jokes about her shows.

“To anyone out there who may have just been brought along, and you’re wondering: ‘What the fuck is this? Is this a show, or is it a cult? Is it a haunted house experience, or is it a British pagan dance ritual?,'” she joked before imploring the audience to put their phones away, “give in” to the music and dance the night away with her.

Upon her return to the stage, she chuckled a sly “Whoops!” to rapturous applause.

Later in the set, she ran even higher up the bleachers during “Choreomania” as the rain poured down even harder. Standing on a platform with adoring fans all around her, Welch raised her hands in time with the song’s big drop in a picture-perfect moment before running down back to the stage to continue her set.

But even without running-into-the-crowd moments, Welch remains a kinetic performer, with movements are so visceral and theatrical that it’s difficult to look away. And during the slower songs like “June,” she explained the stories and inspiration behind them in an equally immersive way.

Closing out the night with the disco-pop anthem “My Love” before coming back out to do an encore that included “Never Let Me Go” and “Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up),” Welch showed the Hollywood Bowl that music and determination (and a little help from technology) can overcome a power shortage and a rain storm.

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Florence + The Machine Announce Spring 2022 Tour Dates

Featuring a handful of intimate shows in the UK and US

Florence + The Machine have announced a handful of Spring 2022 tour dates in support of their upcoming album Dance Fever .

The brief UK outing kicks off on April 15th in Newcastle, UK, and will also feature intimate shows in Blackburn and London. Florence Welch and company will then make their way across the pond for concerts at Los Angeles Theatre in Los Angeles and Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall in New York City.

£1 from each ticket sold in the UK will go to the Choose Love fund, which supports refugees and displaced people globally. In the US, $1 from each ticket for the LA show will go to The Los Angeles Community Action Network , with those sold in New York benefiting the organization Women in Need .

See the full schedule below. General on-sale begins in the UK on Thursday, March 17th at 9:00 a.m. local time here , with tickets available in the US the next day at 10:00 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster .

Dance Fever is due out May 13th. Thus far, we’ve heard the singles “My Love.” “Heaven Is Here,” and “King,” the latter of which was named Song of the Week . Pre-orders are  ongoing .

Florence + The Machine 2022 Tour Dates: 04/15 – Newcastle, UK @ O2 City Hall 04/16 – Blackburn, UK King George’s Hall 04/19 – London, UK @ Theatre Royal Drury Lane 04/29 – Los Angeles, CA @ Los Angeles Theatre 05/06 – New York, NY @ Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center

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Florence + The Machine live in Manchester: a cathartic and euphoric outbreak of dance fever

Florence Welch proves she is no false prophet by commanding the masses during the resumption of her injury-interrupted UK and Ireland tour

Everything Florence Welch does is marinated in melodrama. When she could finally tour her 2022 quasi-lockdown album ‘Dance Fever’ — inspired by both Welch’s desire to return to the live arena and the medieval dancing plague “choreomania” — she was quite ironically forced to postpone her UK and Ireland dates after “dancing on a broken foot” during a November gig in London, arguably the most gloriously on-brand performance injury that Welch could ever suffer.

Even before she steps on stage in Manchester tonight (“Shoes are new to me, but I can’t be tripping over my laces right now!” she later jokes), this rescheduled tour date is high on drama. Chandeliers descend from the ceiling, while the set’s gothic grandeur makes it look like the Florence + The Machine leader has booked into the Corpse Bride ’s Airbnb. Beginning by punching her fist in time to the staccato opening of ‘Heaven Is Here’, Welch’s ensuing two-hour set is a visceral bacchanal of precise arena-primed choreography.

Tasmanian Devilling around the stage in her billowing white ruched dress, the artist appears as seemingly afflicted by the hysteria her recent fifth album (and this tour) cribbed its name from. When Welch says that she wants to practice “a resurrection of dance”, she isn’t kidding: marshalling undulating limbs during euphoric anxiety anthem ‘Free’’s “ picks me up ” and “ puts me down ” chorus, as well as sprinting the entirety of the arena during the gospel-tinged widescreen chamber-pop of ‘Choreomania’, she achieves such unity without compromising an ounce of her vocal prowess.

Tonight, pagan and biblical imagery interweave. Midway through a thundering version of early calling card ‘Dog Days Are Over’, Welch casts herself as a messianic figure to any newcomers in the 21,000-strong crowd: “If you’re wondering, ‘What the fuck is this? Is it a cult?’ All I have to say is it really is better if you get into it.” During the similarly Midsommar :  The Musical vibes of ‘Dream Girl Evil’, Welch sings into the face of a floral headdress-adorned fan in the front row as if she’s just been chosen to be the May Queen.

Welch has previously described ‘Dance Fever’ as a collection of fairy tales in which she scatters a trail of personal lyrical breadcrumbs to make sense of her life. A moving ‘Morning Elvis’ explores her past battles with drink and drugs ( she’s been sober for nearly nine years ), and it’s one part of a brace of songs where she exorcises her personal demons like spirits escaping the traps in Ghostbusters . Nowhere is it more powerful than 2018 cut ‘Hunger’ and its stark lyrical sucker-punch “ At 17, I started to starve myself. ” Tonight, that line becomes even more bracing when it’s sung cathartically back by women who know what it’s like to treat their own bodies as battle zones. It’s followed by the once-ubiquitous The Source cover ‘You’ve Got The Love’, where Welch removes the vocal safety limits from her banshee-wail and effortlessly stokes a party atmosphere.

Like all the best cult leaders, Welch demands “a sacrifice” at the end of the gig. Rather than ushering a wicker man on-stage, though, she only requires her audience members to vault on each others’ shoulders. As the propulsive ‘Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)’ strikes up and the crowd duly clamber aboard each other like joyous human Jenga towers, you can only conclude that Welch is no false prophet.

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