After cancelling a pair of tour dates, the inexhaustible force that is Florence + the Machine's Florence Welch has revealed that she is currently recovering from undergoing an emergency surgery that "saved [her] life."
Touring behind last year's Dance Fever, an album inspired by the Renaissance-era phenomenon of choreomania — where groups of people would dance themselves to death — Welch broke her foot in November 2022, forcing her to bring the band's UK tour to an early end. Recently, they announced the cancellation of scheduled appearances at the Zurich Openair and Rock en Seine festivals, which the frontwoman addressed on Instagram yesterday (August 24).
"I'm so sorry I had to cancel the last couple of shows," Welch wrote in a statement. "My feet are fine, I had to have emergency surgery for reasons I don't really feel strong enough to go into yet, but it saved my life." She added that she would be back on the road to close out the tour in Lisbon and Malaga in early September (but she may need the audience to do much of the jumping for her).
"Suffice to say, I wish the songs were less accurate in their predictions," the artist added. "But creativity is a way of coping, mythology is [a] way of making sense. And the dark fairytale of Dance Fever, with all its strange prophecies, will provide me with much needed strength and catharsis right now."
See the statement from Welch below.
Touring behind last year's Dance Fever, an album inspired by the Renaissance-era phenomenon of choreomania — where groups of people would dance themselves to death — Welch broke her foot in November 2022, forcing her to bring the band's UK tour to an early end. Recently, they announced the cancellation of scheduled appearances at the Zurich Openair and Rock en Seine festivals, which the frontwoman addressed on Instagram yesterday (August 24).
"I'm so sorry I had to cancel the last couple of shows," Welch wrote in a statement. "My feet are fine, I had to have emergency surgery for reasons I don't really feel strong enough to go into yet, but it saved my life." She added that she would be back on the road to close out the tour in Lisbon and Malaga in early September (but she may need the audience to do much of the jumping for her).
"Suffice to say, I wish the songs were less accurate in their predictions," the artist added. "But creativity is a way of coping, mythology is [a] way of making sense. And the dark fairytale of Dance Fever, with all its strange prophecies, will provide me with much needed strength and catharsis right now."
See the statement from Welch below.