Did anyone happen to see a red-headed woman running away from Dave Grohl in Sweden? Because Florence + the Machine have got the call-up to replace Foo Fighters as the Glastonbury headliner.
While Dave Grohl rests his bolted broken leg after falling from a stage in Sweden (before carrying on singing as a cast is constructed), Florence Welch will lead her band on the Pyramid Stage on the coveted Friday night slot.
Glastonbury organiser Emily Eavis said: “Once we heard the sad news that Foo Fighters had been forced to pull out, there was only one person we wanted to call and that was Florence. Every time she has played here she’s done something spectacular and we always knew she would headline the Pyramid one day. I’m delighted she’s agreed to step up to it – she’s going to smash it!”
Not only is it a dream come true for the replacement act fronted by 28-year-old Welch, it will be a whopper of a pay day. They will perform tracks from their first two LPs, as well as new album ‘How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful’, for which album sales will surely soar.
Here’s hoping wild Welch has her feet strapped in preparation for her boundless stage antics – she fractured her foot while leaping off the stage at Coachella in April.
Fans will also remember when she shocked the crowd at Reading festival in 2009 scaling the stage rigging – in high heels. Legend.
Speaking before landing the headline gig, she said: “I’m not really planning what’s going to happen at Glastonbury, because I just don’t know.
“It’s almost quite hard for me to remember gigs sometimes, because I just don’t know what happens. It’s almost as if something else completely takes over.
“So if I’m back in fully charged feet mode, I’m nervous for what’s going to happen. It’s this sense that anything could happen.”
Perhaps a harness isn’t a bad idea.
