"Holy crap, holy crap, holy crap," were the first words to leave my mouth after seeing Florence + The Machine with my great friend Molly last Tuesday (August 10) at Challenge Stadium in Western Australia.
Their music is just so fierce and powerful that I could still feel it resounding throughout my entire body after the concert had finished. And Florence Welch has such a mighty voice I doubt she even needed the microphone. This is someone who knows the mechanics of their voice inside and out.
The opening act was POND, a local jam pop band who, Molly says, sound like The Flaming Lips. They were surprisingly cohesive and ... well, good considering the number of people in the band. And they even had their own dance, Jeremy, all decked out in a tie-dyed shirt and filmy purple material waving from his wrists.
Their music is just so fierce and powerful that I could still feel it resounding throughout my entire body after the concert had finished. And Florence Welch has such a mighty voice I doubt she even needed the microphone. This is someone who knows the mechanics of their voice inside and out.
The opening act was POND, a local jam pop band who, Molly says, sound like The Flaming Lips. They were surprisingly cohesive and ... well, good considering the number of people in the band. And they even had their own dance, Jeremy, all decked out in a tie-dyed shirt and filmy purple material waving from his wrists.
Here's the setlist:
Drumming Song
My Boy Builds Coffins
Girl With One Eye
Cosmic Love
Howl
Blinding
Florence says "Hello" to audience
Between Two Lungs
I'm Not Calling You A Liar
Hurricane Drunk
You've Got The Love
Strangeness & Charm
Rabbit Heart (Raise it Up)
Encore:
Heavy In Your Arms
Kiss With A Fist
band introductions
Dog Days Are Over
I did manage to get some photographs of the concert - we had epic seats in the reserved seating section, second row on the right - but the guy sitting next to me just couldn't stop feeling the music by tapping his legs continuously, so a lot of my photos make it look as though there was more than one Florence on stage.
The opening act POND. I cannot get over how much the guitarist on the right looks like Jack Hodgins from Bones.
Isabelle at the keyboard, not Florence.
Not in focus, but too wicked-looking to not upload.
Reading: Dead Air by Iain Banks
Listening to: "The Dance" by Charlotte Martin, Florence and The Machine's Lungs
Drumming Song
My Boy Builds Coffins
Girl With One Eye
Cosmic Love
Howl
Blinding
Florence says "Hello" to audience
Between Two Lungs
I'm Not Calling You A Liar
Hurricane Drunk
You've Got The Love
Strangeness & Charm
Rabbit Heart (Raise it Up)
Encore:
Heavy In Your Arms
Kiss With A Fist
band introductions
Dog Days Are Over
I did manage to get some photographs of the concert - we had epic seats in the reserved seating section, second row on the right - but the guy sitting next to me just couldn't stop feeling the music by tapping his legs continuously, so a lot of my photos make it look as though there was more than one Florence on stage.
The opening act POND. I cannot get over how much the guitarist on the right looks like Jack Hodgins from Bones.
Isabelle at the keyboard, not Florence.
Not in focus, but too wicked-looking to not upload.
Reading: Dead Air by Iain BanksListening to: "The Dance" by Charlotte Martin, Florence and The Machine's Lungs
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