FLORENCE & THE MACHINE, COSMIC LOVE MUSIC VIDEO

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Working with Directors Tom & Tabitha and Aldene Johnson Florence’s stylist, we created the set and costume for Florence & the Machine‘s Cosmic Love Music Video. In order to create the cosmic feeling we created an orange rotating forest, an infinity room, with lots of flickering hand painted light bulbs, and finally the light up dress. Her other outfit was designed by Hannah Marshall It was a wonderful experience working on this project as everyone involved did an incredible job.
To see the project in the portfolio click here


Florence in the infinity room in a Hannah Marshall catsuit


The rotating trees in action


This is the under layer of lights and electrics


the final layer of tule to diffuse the light


Final checks florence in the dress


Florence through the monitor


we suspended 50 coloured light builbs in a hexagonal mirror room to create an infinity space


Florence emerging from the rotating orange forest


Florence & the Machine in the forest


Florence ready to go


the painted light bulbs


Natalie Oldham putting the finishing touches to the rotating trees


Setting up the orange forest

Breath of Life

Sneak peak of Florence + The Machine's new song that is featured on the OST for Snow White and the Huntsman.

Never Let Me Go

BRIT Awards 2012

Mash Ups

Some of you Flows that are also fans of Ellie Goulding may remember the ElGo vs ABBA that was circulating around the web, well here is some remixes also by Reborn Identity but with Florence + The Machine!

Florence To Open Harrods' End Of Year Sale

F+TM will perform an acoustic set at the opening of the luxury London department store, Harrods. The event will start at 8:45am on the 27th of December. The performance will also be streamed live at Harrods.com/florence

Missed it, watch again here:



PS Video is quite jumpy throughout WTWGM

X Factor USA

Tom and Chris feature on DeLooze's Album Glass Army and Promo

No Light No Light Video

Skavlan

X Factor Performance

'My heart was going crazy'

Backstage after Florence and the Machine's sold-out gig to launch their new album, Ceremonials, at London's Hackney Empire, Florence Welch talks about her hopes for the record plus what Nick Clegg has to do to win her affections …

You can read a full interview with Florence in this Sunday's Observer

Creators Project Festival

Last night F+TM performed Creators Project Festival in New York, they performed tracks from the upcoming album 'Ceremonials' as well as other hits from 'Lungs'. Here are some clips (all credit to @carinacontreras unless stated otherwise) of the debuted to the general public last night from the new album:

Spectrum


Never Let Me Go


Heartlines


If Only For A Night (Clip by 18vbarbosa)


No Light, No Light (Clip by 18vbarbosa)

Shake It Out Official Video

Preview Ceremonials

Click here to listen to previews on Amazon or listen below!



Live previews from the Luv Luv Luv Lauch:

Florence and the Machine to Headline Creators Project Festival

The VICE and Intel-spawned arts venture dubbed The Creators Project will return to New York to put on the Monster Arts and Culture Festival on October 15 and 16. British power-vocalist Florence and the Machine is scheduled to headline, marking her first live appearance in promotion of her forthcoming full-length Ceremonials.
Florence and the Machine will be joined by Harlem rapper ASAP Rocky, Atlas Sound, Four Tet, John Maus, The Field, Girl Unit and Teen Daze, among others, during the two-day festival at various venues in Brooklyn. Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwoman Karen O will also debut Stop the Virgens, a side project described as a "psycho-opera." A series of film screenings will take place, including a showing of the Spike Jonze-directed Arcade Fire short film Scenes From the Suburbs, and a number of pieces of original artwork will be on showcase.

M.I.A. headlined the inaguaral Creators Project party back in 2010; the venture has been throwing blowouts in cities across the world ever since. Access to the October festival is free with an RSVP. To get a sense of Florence and the Machine's festival-capable pipes, watch her performance of "Cosmic Love" off her debut LP Lungs from this year's Bonnaroo festival below.

Interview

If there were ever any doubts about Florence Welch’s self-possession as a performer, they were quickly dispelled during her set at the Met’s Costume Institute Gala last May honoring the late Alexander McQueen. Backed by her band, The Machine, her improbably red red hair loose to the shoulders, and her impossibly long, lean, five-foot-eight-inch frame draped in an orange-gold McQueen gown, Welch offered up powerful renditions of a handful of songs off her critically lauded 2009 debut album, Lungs, before closing out her set with a blistering cover of David Bowie’s “Rebel Rebel,” which she dedicated to McQueen. Welch then punctuated the tribute by running out into the crowd of assembled heavies, which included Karl Lagerfeld, Jay-Z, and Madonna, and sidling up to Paul McCartney, with whom she purposefully locked eyes as she sang, “Rebel rebel, how could they know? / Hot tramp, I love you so . . . ” Welch had never before met McCartney. But he, like most everyone else in attendance, was up and dancing—a testament to Welch’s ability to win fans in even the toughest of rooms.

It was the kind of moment—and the kind of instinct—that makes it easy to understand how so many people have so quickly become so enamored with Welch and her brand of dramatic, monumental pop. The Met gig marked a culmination of a season of high-profile command performances for Welch—she’d also been summoned earlier this year to sing at both the Grammys and the Oscars. Just five years ago, though, she was still an art-school dropout from Camberwell, in southeast London, who was discovered by her manager, Mairead Nash, while belting out an Etta James song in a bathroom at a club. At the time, Welch was working with a rotating cast of musicians as she developed a raw, nascent version of the widescreen art-pop sound that would later emerge on Lungs.

In reading descriptions of Welch, two terms appear over and over: pre-Raphaelite, which is usually used to describe the left-of-center effect of the way her shock of fiery hair frames her prominent features and cream-colored skin; and whirling dervish, which often refers to the bouncing, swaying hippie rain-dance she likes to do when she sings. But neither gets at the eclectic set of ideas and influences that seem to converge in Welch’s work: Lungs is a nuanced but unabashedly outsized record that draws on aspects of classic soul, confessional singer-songwriter music, and British art-pop and post-punk—Aretha Franklin funneled through Carly Simon and dressed up like Kate Bush; her lyrics read like extended journal entries; live, she seems like she’s leading a rapturous spiritual gathering that’s also a clubby performance-art piece; and her predilection for billowy boho tops, sparkly short shorts, and sky-high heels projects both an easy earthiness and a high glamour. Welch’s endearing eccentricity has also captured the attention—and affection—of the fashion world. Gucci designer Frida Giannini has said that Welch served as an inspiration for the house’s Fall 2011 collection; Giannini also created the costumes for Florence + The Machine’s most recent US tour.

Next month, Welch will unveil her as-yet-untitled (at press time) follow-up to Lungs, the first single from which, “What the Water Gave Me,” is a swirling, mounting, moody ballad in the mode of more elegiac tracks from her first album such as “Dog Days Are Over,” “Kiss With a Fist,” and “Cosmic Love.”

On a warm evening in June, director Baz Luhrmann, who helped stage Welch’s performance at the Costume Institute Gala, met the 25-year-old singer and her younger sister, Grace, at the Standard Grill in New York City’s Meatpacking District, where they were decompressing after having miraculously recovered Florence’s cell phone from the taxi in which she’d inadvertently left it behind.

BAZ LUHRMANN: Hi, Flo. How are you? Baz Luhrmann, intense interviewer, reporting for duty. [laughs] I’m holding a Gucci handbag, which I found in a taxi, and I was one of the crowd standing outside of the Standard Hotel in the Meatpacking District in New York City, where I saw this striking-looking woman with red hair shaking and trembling . . .

FLORENCE WELCH: In the gutter!

LUHRMANN: Yes, and wearing this fantastic gypsy velvet frock, and there was a lovely person with blonde hair sitting next to her going “Snap out of it! You can survive this! Pull yourself together!”

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What The Water Gave Me

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