Florence + The Machine headlined Studying Pageant for the primary time tonight (August 30) – see the complete setlist and photographs under.
The band appeared on the competition’s most important stage – now referred to as The Grid – at Little John’s Farm simply earlier than 8pm, forward of fellow Sunday headliners Chase & Standing.
It marked Florence Welch and co.’s first efficiency at Studying since 2012, and adopted their headline set on Welch’s birthday at Leeds Pageant on Friday (August 28).
The present additionally introduced their ‘Everyone Scream’ tour to an finish, having begun with a run of UK and European area dates in February earlier than travelling throughout North America and returning to Europe for the summer time competition season.
Welch was on characteristically energetic kind, prowling and spinning her manner throughout The Grid’s large stage, main singalongs to the likes of ‘Rabbit Coronary heart (Elevate It Up)’ and ‘You Acquired The Love’.
She advised the gang that it was “the primary competition I ever wished to go to”, including that her dad took her when she was 14. “That is my childhood dream, so thanks a lot.”
IDLES guitarist Mark Bowen joined her for ‘One Of The Greats’, the track the pair wrote collectively and recorded in a single take. He additionally appeared on stage along with her on the tour’s opening evening in Belfast in February, and in addition at Madison Sq. Backyard later within the 12 months.
With the rain tearing down, ‘Canine Days Are Over’ drew one of many evening’s most frenzied crowd reactions, with Florence imploring the gang to hitch her in “a small ritual”, asking “each single particular person at this competition” to “put your telephones the fuck away”, as a result of “filming this track will cease you from experiencing this track, and is that not why you got here?” As the ultimate refrain hit, the gang leapt as one, arms within the air.
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Florence + The Machine’s Studying 2026 setlist was:
‘Everyone Scream’‘Shake It Out’‘Which Witch’‘Spectrum’‘Rabbit Coronary heart (Elevate It Up)’‘You Acquired The Love’‘Howl’‘What Type Of Man’‘Heaven Is Right here’‘One Of The Greats’‘Buckle’‘Sympathy Magic’‘Canine Days Are Over’‘Free’
‘Everyone Scream’ arrived final October as Florence + The Machine’s sixth studio album and their first since 2022’s ‘Dance Fever’. Welch revealed on the time that it was partly formed by the ectopic being pregnant and emergency surgical procedure that nearly killed her in the course of the ‘Dance Fever’ tour in 2023.
“The closest I got here to creating life was the closest I got here to loss of life,” she stated final 12 months. “And I felt like I had stepped by this door, and it was simply full of ladies, screaming.”
“Are you prepared to maneuver?!” – Florence Welch celebrated her birthday at Leeds, ripping by ‘Spectrum’ with a energetic crowd #RandL26 #FlorenceandTheMachine #FlorenceWelch pic.twitter.com/happr6q94z
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NME awarded ‘Everyone Scream’ 5 stars, describing it as “a tempestuous file, one which stays with you longer than the fad and anguish which, right here, is as fleeting as it’s putting”.
Welch’s historical past with Studying stretches again significantly additional. The competition was the primary she ever attended as a fan, having acquired a ticket as a 14th birthday current. “I used to be terrified,” she advised NME in 2012. “However it feels good to be going again as a result of I keep in mind what it was wish to be within the crowd.”
Florence + The Machine first carried out at Studying in 2008, earlier than returning the next 12 months to open the competition with an unannounced two-song look on the BBC Introducing Stage.
Within the intervening years, Welch has grow to be a longtime competition headliner. Florence + The Machine famously stepped in for Foo Fighters at Glastonbury 2015 after Dave Grohl broke his leg, with their Pyramid Stage set together with a canopy of ‘Occasions Like These’.
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