10 Oct 2009

Pre-Order 'You've Got The Love'

The CD and 7" vinyl formats can now be ordered from flotique to arrive on your doorstep on the day of release.

CD - Pre-order
1. You’ve Got The Love (Florence’s new single version)
2. You’ve Got The Love (Tom Middleton Remix)
3. Addicted To Love

Limited Edition 7” - Pre-order
A. You’ve Got The Love (Florence’s new single version)single version)
B. You’ve Got The Love (Jamie XX re-work featuring The XX)

'You've Got The Love' is officially released on November 16th, look out for download links coming soon.

8 Oct 2009

Pre-Order + Official Cover


Official Cover

Pre-Order for the 7" of 'You've Got The Love' is now available, to pre-order click here!

F+TM Pick One Song



Florence brought her Machine to Glasgow recently for a gig at the ABC. The team from Radio Scotland's The Music Bed were there to interview her and we got them to ask her to pick one song. Hear what she had to say below.

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'You've Got The Love' Out November 16th

Few cover versions truly re-imagine the original, but Florence's take on The Source and Candi Staton's club classic is one such instance.

The euphoric 'You've Got The Love' - which Florence has described as one of her favourite songs ever - has become a firm live favourite and is now set to be the next Florence and the Machine single, out November 16th.

'You've Got The Love' will be available with the following b-sides - including the all-conquering XX remix, described by Radio 1's Rob Da Bank as the "Best remix of the year."

CD:
1. You’ve Got The Love (single version)
2. You’ve Got The Love – Tom Middleton Remix
3. Addicted To Love

7” – limited edition
A. You’ve Got The Love (single version)
B. You’ve Got The Love – Jamie XX re-work featuring The XX

Download:
1. You’ve Got The Love – Album Version
2. You’ve Got The Love – Jamie XX re-work featuring The XX
3. You’ve Got The Love – Tom Middleton remix
4. You’ve Got The Love – Pitron & Sanna remix
5. You’ve Got The Love - Live From Abbey Road


The video is looking absolutely amazing and it premières this weekend on Channel 4 at the following times:

Sunday 11th October - 11am, 4Music
Sunday 11th October - 2:30pm, Channel 4
Monday 12th October - 12:15am, Channel 4

Make a note in your diary and stay tuned - pre-order links coming very soon.

Why Flo Loves Billie Holiday

The new issue of NME is dedicated to lost musical legends.

Billie Holiday actually pre-dates a lot of other artists in my life. When I was much younger – eleven, twelve - I was listening to Billie Holiday records in my room on my own, with a wineglass full of orange juice, already pretending to be a sort of tortured mistress of blues, wafting around my bedroom. Songs like 'Strange Fruit' – just incredible.



And her whole life story. I mean, she was a prostitute. And then she was part of the whole Harlem renaissance – so many amazing things came out of that.

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Her voice was just incredible. Her whole manner of perfoming was very restrained. So cool. Completely the antithesis of Janis Joplin, but had that same thing – the emotion she was able to create through singing.

She had these dogs – and in the balls in their collars, she'd keep her heroin. She was in trouble with the police loads. Even on her deathbed, they raided her for drugs offences.

She's got this biography called 'Lady Sings The Blues' – it's co-written by her, but she just glosses over the whole heroin addiction thing, like it never happened. The warts-and-all biography just wasn't done in those days.

But really it's the voice. It's that ability to touch someone. That's what makes her an icon, not the tragedy of her death.

6 Oct 2009

Flo w/ her Teen Vogue



I posted before that there was a bit on F+TM in Teen Vogue and here is a picture w/ Flo holding te magazine she appeared in.

Florence Welch goes gaga at Reading



Florence of Florence and the Machine fame appears to have a new fashion mantra: 'Whatever GaGa can do, I can do better'.

She might not be shooting sparks out of her boobs just yet, but she's certainly got the whole PVC unitard look down, with bat-wing style sleeves (or is that actually a cape???) adding a nicely gothic touch to the whole ensemble.

With recent reports claiming that Florence's mum wants her to quit the music industry and get a proper job, she'd better make the most of her crazy stage getups. Going to work dressed a bit like a bat just isn't the done thing when you're an accountant.

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