In 2022, "Running Up That Hill" received renewed attention after it appeared in the television series Stranger Things, becoming Bush's second UK number one and reaching the top of several other charts. Please note the show scheduled at Birmingham Utilita Arena has been moved to Birmingham Resorts World Arena due to venue availability. Florence and the Machine | Official Store Dance Fever Standard 2LP. A couple covers on your list I havent heard (yet!) 2m Followers, 1,248 Following, 1,016 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Florence Welch (@florence) Credits. It's time for me to leave, and we all say goodbye. Florence and the Machine performing at Terminal 5 in New York City, 1 November 2010. "I'd experimented with so many different types of music. Reallyslowly"). Propelled up the charts by its use in season 4 of Netflix sci-fi saga Stranger Things, the song has just given Bush her first top-ten hit in the US, and is currently challenging Harry Styles - who wasnt even born when the track was originally released - for the number one spot in the UK. It was like this cocoon that I could go into.. Florence and the Machine's style has been described as "dark, robust and romantic". Georgia - "Running Up That Hill", originally performed by Kate Bush, out now on Domino Record Co. Number 10: Climb anything Yeah. It wasn't what I was expecting from a singer who once climbed 30ft of stage scaffolding, mid-show at the Reading festival, to dangle among the spots in her hot pants; who used to tell a story about getting so drunk she woke up, one morning, on the roof of a pub wearing only a paint-speckled Captain America costume. Florence was moved to the headline slot last week when . 1 How Big, but even then I still felt I had something to prove, she said. Somewhere in the middle sits perhaps her most genuinely affecting song. As a young artist, you can struggle to find your voice, and it takes a while to say, No, I want it to be like this. Now, she added, Im very O.K. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features NFL Sunday Ticket Press Copyright . Ceremonials is out on 31 October on Island. Just comment*All tabs/sheet in this channel are created by me, if you have any advice in the transcription feel free to comment*Gear: Taurus t-24 Washburn 4 String Bass (D'addario .45 Strings)/Cort CR250 Guitar/ Carlsbro E-Drums - Radial JDI DI Box - Behringer U-Phoria UMC1820 Interface - PC (Cubase) - Waves GTR/Amplitube/Guitar Rig Amp Emulators/Superior Drummer - Waves Plugins - Sony Vegas - Audio Technica m50x Headphones Really, the thrill of making a sound has never left me.. The giant diamant heels she is wearing look, to my eyes, not just painful but potentially lethal. And she wasnt just singing, but passionately grabbing hands and holding them with an almost religious furor. It just opened up doors for me that I dont know how to shut, she said. "It does feel more joyous, but I wouldn't say happily-ever-after. 661 Likes, TikTok video from Soph (@i_hate_todays_society91): "I didn't want to leave her #volcano #mountetna #italy #straydog". Thank god for google! The recent resurgence of Kate Bushs 1985 single Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God) is as surprising as it is welcome. GRAVELY TRACTORS - ANTIQUE & VINTAGE BRIGGS & STRATTON STATIONARY GAS ENGINES . As Florence Welch prepares new album Dance Fever and heads out on tour, we appraise the best of her torrid, maximalist songwriting. Last year I caught Meg Myers perform this song, live at the Women Who Rock event the iHeartRadio Theater LA and she was incredible. Future Publishing Limited Quay House, The Ambury, Welch, hunched, sipping, nods vigorously. They performed this maximalist baroque pop rager, which finds Welch trying to shake an almighty hangover by exorcising it from her body by sheer force alone. Anyhoo, I loved all the versions you shared, but the FIrst Aid Kit probably moved me the most. Florence's debut single makes it into the band's top ten. During Choreomania a term for a social phenomenon in early modern Europe where groups of people began dancing together erratically Welch sprinted all the way to the back of the arena floor where she briefly sang from atop an equipment case. I was definitely in a more settled place for the second, which was helpful for my concentration because I wasn't, like, crying all the time.". And it can feel like I'm definitely gonna manage to completely fuck it up. Make it awkward., In real life and in performance, Ms. Welch is looking for connection. Lyrically it ponders the paradox of performing live, exploring the huge highs that only temporarily pierce moments of strange isolation. MusicRadar is part of Future plc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. You've Got the Love - Florence & The Machine. From there the song keeps building, like a raging fire fuelled by the opening verses slow burn anger at societal expectations placed on women. She thought about tossing the whole track off the album, but, she said, Its at the heart of it. Her revelation stayed, and it helped her own understanding. to put yourself out there., [Never miss a pop music story: Sign up for our weekly newsletter, Louder. On 20 April, the fourth single "Free" was released . Its opening line At 17, I started to starve myself is a reference to an eating disorder that Ms. Welch struggled with as a teenager. Florence and the Machine (styled as Florence + The Machine) are an English indie rock band that formed in London in 2007, consisting of lead singer Florence Welch, keyboardist Isabella Summers, and a collaboration of other artists. The video for recent single "Shake It Out" even cast a giddy-looking Florence in the middle of a game of blind man's buff. When youre not holding anything back, no one can hurt you anymore, can they? he said. A lot of second album Ceremonials teeters on the brink of self-parody, with everything turned up to 11. High As Hopes lead single feels like a soft caress in comparison to the usual cold, hard slap of a big chart-facing hit. CNN . LONG. ], It was a path shed been on since 2015, with the No. It's the follow-up to her 2009 debut, Lungs, a star-making record that spawned ubiquitous single "Dog Days Are Over", lovesick anthem "Drumming Song" and the stunningly recast Candi Staton cover, "You've Got the Love", year-defining tracks, all three, which eventually urged the album to No 1 in the charts. The group have a flawless record on the Official Albums Chart - all three of . You could liken Imogen's music generally to Kate's, as they both have very experimental voices and use instruments in a really . Ruin never sounded so wonderful. The singer has broken three world records, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, thanks to her 1985 song "Running Up That Hill" being featured on the latest season of the series . Lively, engaged, she reveals a lovely luxurious laugh that punctuates her disconnected confessions (on a secret enthusiasm forfootball: "I'm good at distracting runs") and helps her out of trouble when she can't quite finish a sentence. Soundtrack: Snow White and the Huntsman. Throughout Welch conjures up images of great white sharks and killer whales to represent her demons, continuing her philosophy of never writing small songs about big emotions. And this wasnt just hollow pointing and smiling or slapping hands. Florence + The Machine's grand art-pop cuts straight to the essence of raw emotionno matter how bruised and bloody the result. No more climbing. But where to next for the glamour queen of goth pop now that she is back with her ex, asks Tom Lamont The crumpled print-out is laid on the bar for close study. Over airy production, here she half-remembers nights spent holding hands with strangers high on E, and relishes in the false certainty of it doesnt get better than this. So when I heard it sampling the NTWICM songs on youtube, I thought, hmm, how was this played so much recently when its from 1985? Bloody mary time, I say. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Huge: I can hear it above the noise of the engine. I didnt really talk about it with my mom until really recently. Lungs sold well, here and abroad, and won Welch a diverse roster of fans, including various kingpins of fashion (earlier this month Karl Lagerfeld had her sing inside a giant clam shell at his Paris fashion week show) and David Cameron and Ed Miliband, both of whom made their determined walks-to-podium at their recent party conferences to the sound of Welch's music. She wrote a poem about it, New York Poem (for Polly), which contained a line that became the title of the fourth Florence and the Machine album, High as Hope: Heady with pagan worship/of water towers/fire escapes, ever reaching/high as hope.. Earlier she endured a blitz of interviews with the dreaded European press corps, a lengthy chunkof which involved a German reporter reading aloud from her printed-out Wikipedia page, to no discernible end ("It can feel like your skin's being peeled off. "And salt." My nerves, if any, are that fans of Lungs, that great dossier of discontent, must have been fans of its fury, its tartness. They wrote, too, sitting back to back in the tiny space, composing music, Welch tells me, "on a 100 Yamaha keyboard and half a stolen drum kit". And a google search brought me here to learn the answer. . Forum Member. 2. "It wasn't until I went into Isa's studio that I knew I'd hit on a sound I loved.". It's a busy, expensively fitted venue with a beautiful ebony bar in its front salon; inevitably, then, it's the sort of place that's got an arbitrary rule forbidding anyone to stand at this wonderful bar with a drink. "Well of course she bloody does. The singer posted a statement to her website about how the 1985 track is . Whatever was hurting her, I can just hear it in her voice, how collected she is now. Vitamins, energy." "I used to think it was all part of the performance to go out there, go on tour, and get as drunk as possible. Meg Myers - Running Up That Hill [Kate Bush Cover]Stream "Running Up That Hill" on all platforms:https://ffm.to/ruthConnect with Meg Myers:Site: http://megmy. Check out Reverb Machines excellent instrumental cover above, which uses Arturias Fairlight-emulating CMI V for the leads, chords and drone, and Aly James VProm 2 for the LinnDrum drums. Welch is visibly bucked by his arrival, stepping from sparkly heel to sparkly heel. ", The growing up, happily, is a work in progress. The group Gang Gang make a valid point that she should have come up with the "homage" excuse much earlier on. Another song created on a hangover, Lungs sixth single takes a classic subject being really really in love and straps it to a rocket aimed at the moon. She can suddenly hold the whole room rapt. but will be checking out, especially FAK. Biography. NIGHT. They'd both been "messed around by boys", Summers has recalled, "and we'd lock the doors and turn the sound system up and listen to Madonna". Except that instead of involving a frantic effort to build a youth centre or an ape sanctuary (as in that venerable and much-missed TV show helmed by Anneka Rice), Welch's beat-the-clock task has been the promotion of a new album, Ceremonials, out this month. A recent month-long tour in support of U2, she says, passed totally soberly. Here are all of Florence and the Machine albums ranked.