FLORENCE + THE MACHINE: DANCE FEVER TOUR
with Japanese Breakfast
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2022
ROGERS ARENA – VANCOUVER, BCTICKETS AVAILABLE AT www.livenation.com
Florence + the MachineĀ are set to play an extended run of headline dates later this year, kicking offĀ September 2Ā inĀ MontrealĀ with further stops includingĀ New YorkāsĀ Madison Square Garden,Ā Los AngelesāĀ Hollywood BowlĀ and many more. One dollar from every ticket sold will benefitĀ Choose LoveĀ to aid refugees worldwide.florenceandthemachine.netĀ for more information. American ExpressĀ® 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 ofĀ Florence Welchās forthcoming, highly anticipated fifth albumĀ Dance Fever, outĀ May 13. Florence has shared three songs from the albumāāMy Love,ā āKingā and āHeaven is Hereāāall of which arrived alongside videos by the acclaimed directorĀ Autumn de WildeĀ with choreography byĀ Ryan Heffington. Pre-order/pre-save the albumĀ 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 Centerās Alice Tully Hall in New Yorkāboth shows sold out in seconds.
Arlo Parks,Ā Sam Fender,Ā King Princess,Ā Yves Tumor,Ā Japanese BreakfastĀ andĀ Wet LegĀ will join as support on select dates throughout the tour. See full routing below and visitĀ Dance FeverĀ was recorded in London over the course of the pandemic in anticipation of the worldās reopening. It conjures up what Florence missed most in the midst of lockdownāclubs, dancing at festivals, being in the whirl of movement and togethernessāand the hope of reunions to come. Just before the pandemic Florence had become fascinated byĀ choreomania, a Renaissance phenomenon in which groups of peopleāsometimes thousandsādanced 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, andĀ choreomania, remained central as Florence wove her own experiences of danceāa discipline she turned to in the early days of sobrietyāwith 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, ā70s Iggy Pop, longing-for-the-road folk tracks a la Lucinda Williams or Emmylou Harris and more, ultimately arriving somewhere that Florence describes as āNick Cave at the club.ā 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 fromĀ The Wicker ManĀ andĀ The WitchĀ toĀ 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.Ā Dance FeverĀ was produced by Florence, Jack Antonoff and Dave Bayley of Glass Animals.