With this growing interest, Florence + the Machine signed to the independent label Moshi Moshi Records, releasing a debut single ‘Kiss With A Fist’ in June 2008. Playing gigs around London, they were championed by the BBC, which led to a string of 2008 festival appearances, as well as supporting MGMT on a European tour. She realised that Florence + the Machine needed to be seen and quickly put them to work. Nash, as one half of DJs Queens Of Noize, had the whole of the London underground scene at her fingertips. Nash was astonished she had never heard a voice quite like it. Drunkenly, she followed Nash into club toilets and proceeded to sing for her. Welch found manager Mairead Nash in December 2006. Finally, Welch’s dreams could be realised and the Machine remains a fluid line-up: Rob Ackroyd (guitar and backing vocals), Summers on keyboards, Chris Hayden (drums), Mark Saunders (bass guitar and backing vocals) and Tom Monger (harp) have supported Welch in various combinations since this time.
A band coalesced around the two of them, with a fluid line-up. Realising this would be a rather cumbersome and gimmicky name, it evolved into Florence + the Machine. She met keyboard player Isabella Summers and the two began playing together, initially going under the name Flo Robot/Isa Machine. She realised that she was in the wrong band and extricated herself from the contract. She dallied with two groups, Toxic Cockroaches and Ashok, actually signing a contract with the latter.
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She knew how to write melodies but needed a collaborator to make these sketches real. She began singing publicly while at college, writing songs in her spare time, some of which would carry forward onto her debut album. After attending Alleyn’s School in Dulwich, she went to Camberwell College of Arts, where her musical taste developed further. She grew up in South London and soon became immersed in her father’s record collection.
Her standing is thus that the Rolling Stones, the band she danced around her house to as a child with her father, asked her to duet ‘Gimme Shelter’ with them on their 50th Anniversary show at London’s 02 Arena.įlorence Mary Leontine Welch was born in 1986 to Evelyn, an American professor of art history, and father Nick, who worked in advertising. Proving that art-rock is alive and well and living at the heart of the music industry, with her unforgettable persona Florence Welch became the darling of the critics and the public alike in the early 2010s.
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