FLORENCE + THE MACHINE

I have post Florence + The Machine excitement.

Just returned home from one of the greatest nights of my life. Watching Florence + The Machine perform live at the Sydney Entertainment Centre was simply breathtaking. Florence has such an amazing voice, and the machine, what an amazing group. Yay for the return of the harp! I just love everything about Florence - her voice (both live and recorded), her songs, her fashion, her style, the design of the concert, everything. You leave her show loving songs even more than you could possibly imagine, but more importantly, you 'discover' a new favourite simply because she has transformed it into something amazing live.

I loved, loved that she sang songs from her previous album - Cosmic Love, Dog Days Are Over, You've Got the Love, Rabbit Heart, Between Two Lungs. My only disappointment was that she didn't play Drumming, one of my personal favourites. She played all my favourites from 'Ceremonials' (aka. the first half of the album), but also songs like 'Spectrum' which Florence called, "Let's play a dancing competition and see who loses the most shit." This made me laugh lots. A small girl in the audience 'won' the competition and got a personal visit from Florence, but also later followed Florence to the stage, and 'hijacked' it. Very cute. The images that projected onto the cathedral inspired centrepiece were gorgeous - I particularly liked the lungs which accompanied Between Two Lungs and the trees for Dog Days Are Over.

And even though the way she lead the concert was similar to previous shows (which I watched online), and I knew what she would ask of us next, watching it unfold live was still exciting. I knew what song she would sing next when she invited us to get on each other's shoulders (no, I unfortunately did not rise) thanks to Coachella, and anticipated the jumping when Dog Days Are Over began.

I just wished I had a camera to capture the amazingness of the show - the iPhone does not do well to focus or produce clear images, so I apologise in advance for the terrible images posted below (although I did Instagram them). I actually didn't take many photos. On the plus though, the new iOS feature that allows you to take photos while in 'lock' mode came in handy numerous times during the night.

If there had been enough room around me on the floor, I totally would've twirled around like Florence. That was how amazing it was.

Six months in the waiting

'Only if For a Night' opening spectacular

She wore a superb jumpsuit

'Shake It Out' - wished we had complimentary masks

'Spectrum' aka. 'Dancing competition to see who loses the most shit'
Notice: disco ball and disco ball beam of light