Florence Welch Postpones Tour After Breaking Foot

Florence + the Machine have been compelled to postpone their tour after lead singer Florence Welch broke her foot.

Welch introduced the information through her social media pages, writing: “I’m sorry to say that after an X-ray I used to be dancing on a damaged foot final evening. It’s not in my nature to postpone a present, and definitely not a U.Okay. tour, however I’m in ache and as dancers know, dancing on an harm just isn’t a good suggestion. And [I] have been informed to not carry out to keep away from additional injury.”

“Please hold on to your tickets,” Welch continued. “We’re working our hardest to reschedule these dates for subsequent yr and we’ll let you realize as quickly as attainable. I’m heartbroken because the ‘Dance Fever’ tour has been my favourite present we now have ever placed on. The communion with you. Your stunning faces shining. I like you a lot, and I’m so sorry to anybody who’s upset. My coronary heart is aching. I can’t wait to be again on my ft and again in your arms.”

Florence + the Machine are at present on the U.Okay. leg of their “Dance Fever” tour. They performed the 20,000-capacity O2 Area in London on Friday evening and have been as a consequence of play a second evening on the venue this night. There are seven extra dates scheduled all through the U.Okay. by the top of November.

Accompanying Welch’s assertion was {a photograph} of blood spattered on a stage subsequent to a microphone. Fan footage from the O2 gig final evening suggests Welch, who was performing barefoot, injured herself on stage. “When @florencemachine provides a lot she leaves her blood on the stage @o2,” tweeted one fan alongside a video of two roadies wiping down the stage ground.

“Florence ran round a lot her ft began bleeding so she needed to go backstage just a few occasions to get it mounted, and because the crew was wiping the precise literal blood from the stage my mind stored insisting that they should throw the paper towels to the gang afterwards,” tweeted one other.

The subsequent cease on the tour is Bournemouth on Monday night. There isn’t any phrase but from Welch’s camp whether or not that date will go forward.