I love to find music everywhere. Even though the BBC is not exactly the place where I am normally hipped to music I haven't heard before; I love this one. The link's got a live video of Dog Days Are Over, which I like. I haven't checked out anything by her yet. Can't wait, though.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/new...775935.stm

By Greg Cochrane
Newsbeat music reporter

Fearless fantasist Florence Welch is a one woman whirlwind, drum banging banshee from Camberwell who isn't "scared of anything". She'll be all over 2009, if she can get out of bed...

Playing table football with Klaxons in a rusting aeroplane cockpit at midday in the depths of Glastonbury's Shangri La hinterland, Florence Welch aka Florence And The Machine, is lost in her own world.

That was last summer but it's not an entirely unusual position for the Londoner.

She does, by her own acknowledgement, spend most of her time engrossed in her own psychological warren.

Indeed, anyone who's already heard the 22-year-old's debut single Kiss With A Fist and follow up Dog Days Are Over will know she lives her life, like she writes her songs.

That's in a dreamy vortex caught somewhere between the characters of Enid Blyton and Lewis Carroll.

"I can imagine myself walking into the song and becoming part of it, seeing what's happening in it," she explains. "You can close your eyes and step into it and become part of it - part of the fun."

Welcome to Florence's existence, where she'll lose whole weekends seeking "adventures".

"I woke up in a graveyard covered in scratches because I'd jumped over a bush," she recalls of one recent escapade. "I was just covered in scratches, bruises and cigarette burns. It was really terrible."

Dog Days

Take one look, or a listen, at Florence's current single Dog Days Are Over and you'll notice that Florence has a vivid imagination.

Right now that song is receiving universal acclaim and looks like pushing her status skyward.

"It just feels bizarre," admits Florence of the track. "It was just a song that I did at my friend's studio in Crystal Palace [south London].

"We didn't have any instruments and we were in a studio the size of a loo.

"All the drums were done by like banging on walls and endless vocal tracks tuned into this big screaming mess.

"The journey from Crystal Palace to the ears of someone on the motorway or another city… it's strange."

Home-grown

Odd yes, but not as strange as many of the characters who Florence grew up surrounded by before discovering music in her native Camberwell, south London.

"There was this guy who used to walk around Camberwell and he had two pet rats - one on each shoulder," she giggles. "A yellow rat on one side and a black rat on the other. He had a feret as well."

And there's more.

Florence: "There was this guy who used to talk to the bus stop.

"I haven't seen him in a while actually, I'm worried about him. Maybe he actually got on the bus.

"And then there was this woman who had hair which went down to her knees who'd take all of her clothes off outside the hospital."

Wimpier people would have run a mile.

"I'm not scared of anything, ever," says Florence. "Except for the dark and ghosts."

Of course, Florence being reared amongst the 'interesting' characters of south London was more concerned with listening to Kate Bush and The White Stripes - strains colourfully evident in her music.

"I just think they're incredible," she shrieks on the subject of her favourite band. "I got really into them when I was at school.

"Meg White: she's the best drummer, really visceral.

"I used to be my own drummer. So that's why I have a drum."

Real geek

Aside from a fascination with Jack 'n' Meg and graveyard sleepovers, Florence can often be found with her nose in book.

"I'm a real geek - I got really into like Philip Pullman and then a lot of ghost stories," she muses.

"Edgar Allen Poe too. There's this story about this artist where he became so obsessed with painting his muse he made her sit for like a week and she died and then her ghost moved into the painting.

"That kind of stuff I was really into as a kid, sort of grizzly tales for gruesome kids."

Indeed, with her debut album pencilled in for late spring, Florence might be one of 2009's hottest properties. But she still has difficulty dealing with the frosty mornings like everyone else.

"Getting out of bed this morning was like the hardest thing," she says.

"The winter creeping and wrapping itself around me - it's horrible," she shivers. "It's just like, 'ooooowww get back in the duvet'."

With her bubbling enthusiasm, limitless imagination and arsenal of feral tunes don't bet against Flo herself covering next year like a woolly blanket.

And more from the BBC; their list to watch in 2009 with interviews and clips.

Rather cool, actually.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/introducing/

Cocknbullkid is on there too.

lol, look at my response from a few days ago:

http://prince.org/msg/8/291121

IstenSzek said:

STOP copying me.

STOP IT!

HamsterHuey said:

oh piss off, i was there december 8th



anyway ik ga de kerstboom opzetten dit jaar
weer een echte, een prikkende boom, jippie.

IstenSzek said:

Bij mij staat de namaak weer. Echt is te duur.

Trut.

HamsterHuey said:

please. er gaat nu echt een foto van jou op
de fee die ik bovenop de boom ga planten

anywayz, back on topic!

IstenSzek said:

I planted the faerie
On top of the tree
Hey how strange that faerie
Looks like me

Bang on the drum, Florence
It ain't gonna change
The fact that this faerie
Is the sexiest of the grange

Here's the video, big girl.

Girl With One Eye live

the interest is overwhelming i see

perhaps florence should post for pictures with britney,
that will get her some much deserved org attention

IstenSzek said:

Or kiss Madonna. Or make a string of uniteresting albums, like Janet.

[grin]

Anyways. Just waking up her. Playing Grace Jones' Compact Session. Did you know Grace is coming to Amsterdam in March?

HamsterHuey said:

i'm already awake from walking joris in the freeze breeze and playing
fetch with his damn tennisball for half an hour after that. but i'm
also having coffee. gonna go get the groceries in a minute and later
i'm off to maastricht to get a book ("the ministry of special cases")

grace is coming to amsterdam? i suppose you're going? i like her new
album but i wouldn't call myself a big fan tho. i think i'll save my
money for the pinkpop ticket, lol.

maybe i'll catch you later, anywayz, have a nice weekend

I'm going back to bed.

HamsterHuey said:

I love this song.