I enjoyed this very much.
“Live at the BBC Proms: Florence + The Machine joins Jules Buckley and his Orchestra for a fresh take on the BRIT Award-winning Lungs.”
Florence + The Machine
Jules Buckley Orchestra
Jules Buckley
“‘As grand and mysterious as the Big Bang itself’ concluded Pitchfork when Florence Welch – aka Florence + The Machine – released her debut album 15 years ago, a year after attracting the attention of BBC Music Introducing. The BRIT Award-winning Lungs immediately announced Florence as an artist of huge courage, theatricality and vocal abilities – earning her a place on BBC Radio 1’s prestigious ‘Sound of …’ list. For her Proms debut, she joins Jules Buckley and his Orchestra for a celebration of Lungs, and of the compelling poetry and music of this singular artist in whom the darkly gothic meets all that glistens.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0022k5m
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lungs_(album)
Prom 69: Florence + The Machine – Symphony of Lungs information
Artists:
Florence + The Machine
Jules Buckley Orchestra
Jules Buckley conductor
London Contemporary Voices
– Tonight’s Prom was Florence Welch’s BBC Prom debut
– 20,000 people tried to get Promming tickets this morning at 10.30am and sold out in 7 mins
– Florence wore Rodarte
– The orchestra and choir wore costumes by Allen and Adcock
Molly Hawkins, Creative Director of the BBC Florence + The Machine said: “BBC Proms is such an important piece of the story of British music, it was such an honor to work on this show and with Florence and the wonderfully talented Jules Buckley. The show, to me, was an opportunity for the Florence of now to look back at the young woman who made this seminal album, Florence’s debut, Lungs, and bring her into this incredible moment in which her dreams have come true. I wanted to preserve the sense of fun drama and of things being handmade from the original album into the show. We worked with London costumers Allen & Adcock who hand-made costumes for the choir based on an interpolation of the album cover by Andrea Zanatelli. They also costumed the orchestra in hand-dyed shirts with hand tied bows.”
Set List:
1. Drumming Song
2. My Boy Builds Coffins
3. You’ve Got the Love
4. Bird Song
5. Swimming
6. I’m Not Calling You a Liar
7. Kiss with A Fist
8. Howl
9. Girl with One Eye
10. Hardest of Hearts
11. Rabbit Heart
12. Blinding
13. Hurricane Drunk
14. Cosmic Love
15. Between Two Lungs
16. Dog Days
17. Falling
“The Florence + The Machine Prom is available on BBC Sounds and will be broadcast on BBC TV in October.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c303ggvv114o
The original album…
Good lord Colin.
What next ? Might i espy you in the crowd at Glastonbury ?
Yes Peter, but only if you join me and can bring a tent. 🙂 Colin
About as much relevance to the Proms tradition as a group of songs from Wolf’s Italianisches Liederbuch would be at Glastonbury. That distant groan listeners may have heard, I suspect, was that of Sir Henry Wood turning in his grave. Thank God there are those of us who still remember what the Proms was, and why it was set up in the first place, before witnessing its current systematic destruction.