The trek will support the Florence Welch’s forthcoming album ‘Dance Fever’
Florence + The Machine have announced an extensive North American tour. The trek kicks off September 2 at Place Bell 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.
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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 which arrives 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. 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. The 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.
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.
Tuesday, April 29 – Los Angeles Theatre – Los Angeles, CA
Friday May 6 – Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center – New York, NY
Friday September 2 – Place Bell – Montreal, QC*
Saturday September 3 – Budweiser Stage – Toronto, ON*
Wednesday September 7 – Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island – Chicago, IL†
Thursday September 8 – Xcel Energy Center – St. Paul, MN†
Saturday September 10 – Pine Knob Music Theatre – Clarkson, MI†
Monday September 12 – Capital One Area – Washington, D.C.†
Wednesday September 14 – TD Garden – Boston, MA†
Friday, September 16 – Madison Square Garden – New York, NY†
Tuesday September 20 – Ascend Amphitheatre – Nashville, TN‡
Wednesday, September 21 – Ameris Bank Amphitheatre – Alpharetta, GA‡
Friday, September 23 – Amway Center – Orlando, FL‡
Saturday, September 24 – FTX Arena – Miami, FL‡
Tuesday, September 27 – Moody Center – Austin, TX§
Wednesday, September 28 – The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory – Irving, TX§
Saturday, October 1 – Ball Arena – Denver, CO
Tuesday, October 4 – Rogers Arena – Vancouver, BC**
Thursday, October 6 – Climate Pledge Arena – Seattle, WA††
Friday, October 7 – Theater of the Clouds – Portland, OR**
Sunday, October 9 – Shoreline Amphitheatre – Mountain View, CA††
Wednesday, October 12 – Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre – San Diego, CA††
Friday, 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