Funny / Florence + the Machine

• Her show as part of Sydney's Vivid Live festival. Florence was drinking what looked like water between songs... and then she pointed to the glasses and said 'Straight vodka!' The audience (being Australian) naturally loved it, especially when she admitted that she'd written 'Cosmic Love' under her worst ever hangover. She later told them about a game she once played with her manager where they went through old press photos, going 'Drunk... drunk... hungover... drunk..."
• "This is the part of the show when we do human sacrifices."
• An Almighty Sound, her biography is absolutely hilarious. There's a ghost house within the first ten pages. "Because it wouldn't be Florence if there wasn't."
• When she appeared on Spicks and Specks, she talked about her first band, The Toxic Cockroaches. She was the singer and guitarist (who didn't have a guitar), there was a bassist (who didn't have a bass) and a drummer (who actually did have drums). Someone said that they went one step past 'unplugged' and were actually uninstrumented.
• Flo and Isa have amusing Instagram feeds. Particularly interacting with each other.
• The band's first live performance since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic features a particularly hilarious moment where Flo mixes up the third and fourth verses for "What Kind of Man". The first time she cuts the music and asks the audience for the correct lyrics - said only for the audience to sing it incorrectly as well. She realises this during the second attempt, but by this time it is too late and she decides to Throw It In! instead.
  I'd already had a sip
  So I reasoned I was drunk enough to deal with it - "I am still sober actually"
• "Free", starring Florence Welch as herself, and Bill Nighy as her anxiety.
• In 2022, Florence made three compilations for streaming services. It's hard not to laugh at the titles, Water to Drink Not Write About, My Favorite Ghosts and Harder Than Hell (given they're songs about water, the supernatural and love), and her doodles in the cover.
• During the Dance Fever tour, she deliberately played up the “witch/vampire/pagan cult leader” schtick, especially during one show when she received a particularly notable “offering” from a fan:
  It’s a beautiful, bloody severed hand! How did you know? Oh, my God, thank you so much! I’m gonna eat this later. (She runs to put it on her altar near the back of the stage, then back towards the front.) It’s not good to eat during the show, but I will eat it after.

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