Watch Florence + The Machine debut new ‘Dance Fever’ tracks at intimate comeback show
nme.comFlorence + The Machine debuted new music as they returned to the stage in Newcastle last night (April 15). Check out fan-shot footage and see the full setlist below.The London band performed their first show since October 2019 at the 2,100-capacity O2 City Hall ahead of releasing their fifth studio album, ‘Dance Fever’, on May 13.Emerging in front of a theatre curtain that displayed a projected “F+TM” logo, the group opened with cathartic hit ‘Shake It Out’ before giving recent single ‘King’ its live debut.
Next up, Welch halted ‘What Kind Of Man’ in its first verse after forgetting the lyrics.“I think I lost some brain cells, but I’m trying,” she joked as the crowd cheered on in encouragement. “It’s been an intense couple of years.
Am I fired? It’s just ‘The Machine’ now. I am actually still sober…”Welch and co. later treated the Newcastle audience to the as-yet-unreleased ‘Dance Fever’ cuts ‘Free’ and ‘Girls Against God’, a reflective song in which she sings of “crying into cereal at midnight“.
She said: “It’s kind of about that [time] where I wasn’t sure if I would ever get to do this again.”And for a moment when I’m dancing I am free.
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