Hot Blooded

First thing you notice is that hair. I wouldn’t be surprised if the colour on the packet said ‘Almighty Red’. Beyond that is voice, which, like the sirens portrayed in Homer’s ‘The Odyssey,’ seem to posses the power to bewitch those who hear it to the point of an ecstasy induced frenzy.
I must confess I have a crush on Florence and her Machine. On wikepedia her rise to fame includes adolescence riddled with "falling into severe holes” and diagnosed dyslexia. Her album ‘LUNGS’ is a triumph to contemporary music. The debut single ‘Kiss with a Fist’ was used in the soundtrack of the film ‘Jennifer’s Body’ and the follow-up single ‘Dog Days are Over’ was recorded with no instruments in a studio the "size of a loo.”
Her stage presence is electrifying, her dancing (which is a cross between a fire lit witchcraft ceremony with a touch of ‘spirit’ fingers from ‘Bring it On’ thrown in) makes you feel excited and saddened and angry and everything all in one go. Her Brit Award performance with Dizzee Rascal…….. No words can describe that vision that was Florence, singing as though it were the end of the world and she were trying to convince everyone on the planet ‘you’ve got the love.’
Welch’s outfits at the recent Brit awards garnered some attention, her eclectic/diva/vintage/kooky style perfected in three flawless looks; starting off on the red carpet in a Zuhair Murad Spring mini dress, on to her performance in a jaw-dropping elegant Ashley Isham gown that perfectly framed her porcelain pins, and ending finally with the after-party do of a Christian Dior mini dress. Ah the girl’s got taste.


But off stage Florence is just like the rest of us bourgeoisie, without her stylists and personal shoppers. If you want to steal Florence’s look, I suggest you spend a Saturday trailing the markets at Camden Town and nit-pick your way through the hoards of retro-chic apparel in ‘Beyond Retro’- authentic Welch at your fingertips.

At present her ‘Cosmic Love Tour’ is sold out. Trust me here when I say I’ve tried. Then again, nothing is impossible.