Everybody Scream Artist : Florence and the Machine Label : Polydor
When Florence Welch jumped headlong into the crowd at the end of a Saturday afternoon set on an obscure stage at the 2009 Oxegen festival at Punchestown in Co Kildare, she was, in a way, leaping into a future of her own imagining. From the humble beginnings of a slot at Oxegen’s Red Bull Music Academy – capacity: tiny – she quickly ascended to arena mega-stardom. Yet as she did so, she abided faithfully by the core principles that life is always better in a Wicker Man adjacent ethereal frock and that the bigger the song, the more
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