Florence + the Machine

when ur crowd loves u so much that u just cant handle it

When I was growing up, there were these news stories that kept popping up in my life about children who would get swept out to sea, and the parents would dive in after them. I’d seen these news stories crop up again and again, and it made me think of this idea of the sea being this entity that needs a sacrifice—like, if it’s going to take your children, then you have to give yourself. It got me thinking about the power of water, like in Virginia Woolf, and that sense of really being overwhelmed by something. I also remembered this idea, I think from a childhood story, about a river that has to have someone drowned in it before you can cross it—like, if you see a river running smoothly, it’s because someone has drowned in it, and if it’s raging, it means that it’s still got bloodlust … It’s all very morbid. My dad always gets asked at parties, “What did you do to her?”

Photographed by Maria Boyadgis

Ivor Novello Awards 2014 

Avril 2010 : Florence avec Oliver Sim et Romy Madley Croft (The XX)

"Me and Isa got into loads of trouble because we did get really drunk and she was banging on JLS’s dressing room door because she had this tiny piano, like, this tiny Snoopy piano and was just like ‘JLS! JLS HAVE YOU GOT PERFECT PITCH? I WANTED YOU TO TELL ME IF MY PIANO’S IN TUNE!’ She was in this monkey hat and, like, an acid smiley t-shirt playing this piano. And then we drove around in a golf buggy literally just shouting at people."

I want you to turn to the person next to you and embrace them! Kiss them, hug them, show them that you love them! (x)

sweet nothing (x)

@ouhoh leaving messages to @isamachine for her bday!!