Florence’s Glastonbury journey began on the John Peel Stage in 2009, the year her debut album Lungs came out. She had been featured heavily on Â鶹ԼÅÄ Introducing, who had taken a shine to her first single - the 2008 garage band stomp Kiss With A Fist - and kept an eye on her progress, voting her third in the Sound of 2009 poll. This was the beginning of her startling ascent. By the time she returned a year later, she was already pop royalty and Lungs was one of the best selling albums of the year.
Five years on, and Florence has continued to call down the very heavens with her voice, while dressing like an elvish princess. Her songs are primal rites, invoking water spirits and unknowable rituals across a second album - Ceremonials, a hit in America - and now a third, the extravagantly titled How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful.
All of which makes her an ideal choice to step up to fill the all-important Friday headline slot, vacated by The Foo Fighters since Dave Grohl’s leg injury forced them to pull out. Magic and incantations and primal rites, a perfect start to the Glastonbury weekend.
Florence’s Glastonbury journey began on the John Peel Stage in 2009, the year her debut album Lungs came out. She had been featured heavily on Â鶹ԼÅÄ Introducing, who had taken a shine to her first single - the 2008 garage band stomp Kiss With A Fist - and kept an eye on her progress, voting her third in the Sound of 2009 poll. This was the beginning of her startling ascent. By the time she returned a year later, she was already pop royalty and Lungs was one of the best selling albums of the year.
Five years on, and Florence has continued to call down the very heavens with her voice, while dressing like an elvish princess. Her songs are primal rites, invoking water spirits and unknowable rituals across a second album - Ceremonials, a hit in America - and now a third, the extravagantly titled How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful.
All of which makes her an ideal choice to step up to fill the all-important Friday headline slot, vacated by The Foo Fighters since Dave Grohl’s leg injury forced them to pull out. Magic and incantations and primal rites, a perfect start to the Glastonbury weekend.
