Florence + the Machine have announced a short Australia and New Zealand tour in early 2023.
Beginning in Perth on March 4th, Florence Welch and co. will then visit Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, before concluding the tour in Auckland on March 21st (see full details below).They’ll be supported for all five shows by indie pop singer-songwriter King Princess.
Presale for Frontier Touring members begins on Wednesday, May 4th at 11am local time. Tickets for all five shows then go on sale on Friday, May 6th at 11am local time Frontier Touring.
The tour is in support of Florence + the Machine’s forthcoming new album Dance Fever, set for release on May 13th. It’s the long-awaited follow-up to 2018’s High as Hope, which peaked at number two on the ARIA Albums Chart and U.S. Billboard 200.
Dance Fever has been preceded by four singles to date: ‘King’, ‘Heaven Is Here’, ‘My Love’ and ‘Free’. It was recorded in London during the COVID-19 pandemic, and was co-produced by Welch with Jack Antonoff and Dave Bayley (Glass Animals).
The concept of ‘choreomania’ – a Renaissance-era phenomenon where people danced to the point of exhaustion or death – was a fascination of Welch’s as she recorded the album. She also took lyrical 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 from The Wicker Man and The Witch to Midsommar,” according to the press release.
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Florence + the Machine Australia and New Zealand Tour 2023
Saturday, March 4th
RAC Arena, Perth, WA
Wednesday, March 8th
Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, VIC
Monday, March 13th
Qudos Bank Arena, Sydney, NSW
Friday, March 17th
Brisbane Entertainment Centre, Brisbane, QLD
Tuesday, March 21st
Spark Arena, Auckland, NZ
