Florence And The Machine - Florence And The Machine To Embark On 'Stripped Back U.s. Tour

Come April she'll be embarking on a tour starting on April 14th and finishing up around a month later on May 12th, taking in some 16 dates. Not bad considering at that point she'll have already played in South America and Europe as well as, of course, her native UK. Wowing audiences in a series of televised appearances last year, 'The MAChine performances were a thing of visual as well as sonic grandeur but, talking to MTV, Welch explained that for the tour she'll be stripping things back a little.

"In a way, it's not going to be too big a production; we've done a lot of quite extravagant stuff, and that's been amazing, but for this tour, it's definitely going to be about showcasing the music," she told the entertainment channel. "The songs are going to be the most important thing. It will be heavily based on the music ... no bells and whistles just yet, we're going to try and keep it quite pure."