On Sunday, Florence Welch defined on social media that she lately underwent a life-saving emergency surgical procedure. With out going into particulars, she defined that was the rationale Florence and the Machine known as off a sequence of latest concert events behind 2022’s Dance Fever, together with pageant units at Zurich Openair and Rock en Seine. The assertion reads:
“I’m so sorry that I needed to cancel the final couple of exhibits. My toes are superb, I needed to have emergency surgical procedure for causes I don’t actually really feel robust sufficient to enter but, but it surely saved my life. And I will likely be again to shut out the Dance Fever tour in Lisbon and Malaga. (Perhaps not leaping a lot however you are able to do that for me.) Suffice to say I want the songs have been much less correct of their predictions. However creativity is a approach of coping, mythology is a approach of constructing sense. And the darkish fairytale of Dance Fever, with all its unusual prophecies, will present me with a lot wanted energy and catharsis proper now.”
In November 2022, Welch was pressured to postpone a UK tour after breaking her foot. “It isn’t in my nature to postpone a present, and positively not a UK tour, however I’m in ache and as dancers know, dancing on an damage shouldn’t be a good suggestion. And have been advised to not carry out to keep away from additional injury.”