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Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues (2011)

Helplessness Blues:
1. Montezuma
2. Bedouin Dress
3. Sim Sala Bim
4. Battery Kinzie
5. The Plains / Bitter Dancer
6. Helplessness Blues
7. The Cascades
8. Lorelai
9. Someone You'd Admire
10. The Shrine / An Argument
11. Blue Spotted Tail


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ETA: Track 1 skips twice, but all the others appear to play fine.

On May 3 in the U.S. and May 2 in the UK, Sub Pop will release Helplessness Blues,12-song LP from Seattle's Fleet Foxes, tipped as one of the most anticipated records in the indie world right now. Phil Ek, who produced the first album, co-produced and mixed this one.

Florrie plays Dublins The Academy 2 tonight.

RAGING I'm missing it!! :(

Florrie

Florrie is a 22 year old English singer-songwriter and drummer, not to mention the face of Nina Ricca! A busy lady by the sounds of things! She played in the Xenomania house band and played drums on bona-fide pop hits by Girls Aloud, Pet Shop Boys and Alesha Dixon.

Her latest track ‘Come Back to Mine’ featuring production by Moguai (recently signed to DeadMau5′s label) is her best yet – a six minute electro disco-stepper which has traits of all the best kind of pop music – big changes, big melodies, big production. Watch out for more from Florrie, destined to be a hit in 2011!

Her music is available for free download from her website or to buy from iTunes.
Irish Dates:25 Feb 2011 - Belfast @ Stiff Kitten 
                    26 Feb 2011 - Dublin @ Academy 2

1. Ghosts (Live)

2. Drumming Song (Live)

3. Girl With One Eye (Live)

4. Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up) [Live]

5. Cosmic Love (Live)

6. Between Two Lungs (Live)

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1. Stone Cold Sober (Live)
2. Broken Doll (Live)
3. Smoke & Mirrors (Live)
4. At Last (Live)
5. Upside Down (Live)
6. New York (Live)

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Florence works her magic on a rain-soaked Belfast

Rain failed to dampen spirits at Belsonic last night as Florence Welch and her five-piece machine ran through the fan favourites.

Jumping around the stage - Florence, dressed in a white flowing dress and resembling a Wiccan priestess, appeared to cast a spell on the crowd with her ethereal indie pop and mesmerising moves.

The red-head treated fans to tracks from debut album Lungs including My Boy Builds Coffins, Howl and Drumming.

While the soaring crescendo of Rabbit Heart is a highlight of any Florence and the Machine show, it is her cover of Candi Staton's You’ve got the Love that prompted the most euphoric reaction.

Florence, the band's only constant member, once described good music as "a kind of magic that lifts you up and takes you somewhere else". Last night, despite the weather, her musical sourcery did exactly that.

^{Gary Fennelly}


Read more: Belfast Telegraph

Florence and The Machine & The Drums, Olympia Theatre, Dublin

I'd the joy of getting a ticket for Sunday nights Florence gig, I would describe it as truly mind blowing musical experience, but that doesn't cut it so heres a proper review:

There’s a certain amount of intrinsic respect due when bands like Florence and the Machine – who could probably give selling out substantially larger venues a good go – choose artistic integrity over financial benefits and turn up in The Olympia instead. It’s one of those venues that, despite its size, seems intimate, like every member of the audience is within touching distance of the stage yet still able to flit away to the back bar to grab a top up. By booking two nights in a row here, Florence has opted to open her tour with a crowd-pleasing bang.

Before the main event, though, there’s the not insubstantial matter of heavily hyped support act The Drums to get through. The Brooklyn lads are portrayed in their promotional material as a bunch of scowling hard men. On stage, though, there’s an amusing contrast in their touch of camp, with lead singer Jonathon Pierce’s slurry vocals punctuated by flexing dance moves and flamboyant instrumental flicks. While the majority of Florence’s crowd responds tamely to The Drums strangely electronic-sounding indie (given the lack of anything but guitars and drums on stage), we can’t help being impressed by their energy, as well as the array of pop-edged indie-rock they’ve lined up for their up and coming summer debut.

There’s no doubting, though, that Florence Welch owns this stage. Tonight her impressive set up includes a six-piece orchestra tucked away in a Perspex box, while the stage backdrop looks not unlike your grandmother’s curtains. Florence performs like an actor at the front of a onrushing ship, flicking her hips and waving her arms, and somehow managing to look like her flowing white cape is in a wind tunnel, despite The Olympia’s still air. Florence once had a reputation as a somewhat shy performer, but tonight she sparkles under the spotlight, showing only the briefest hint of nerves at the end of a first airing of an epic seven-minute new track, a soaring, swirling effort called ‘Strangeness and Charm’.

It’s only a handful of tracks in when Florence tells us she’s decided to play ‘everything’, and it’s going to me ‘a long night’, which brings a massive cheer. With such a smash album behind her, tracks like ‘Howl’ and ‘Girl With One Eye’ prompt sing-alongs that fall only a touch short of modern day classics, like late comers ‘You’ve Got The Love’ (which has certainly revived Candi Staton’s already substantial profile) and the epic ‘Dog Days Are Over’. ‘Drumming Song’ is another highlight, featuring Florence head banging her way through her usual single-drum routine, while new single ‘Cosmic Love’ sees the backstage ‘curtains’ rise to reveal a glittering array of stars.

Florence’s on stage persona has developed no end. Her banter included a full ‘happy birthday’ for a lucky lady called Fiona down the front, and, despite often appearing almost artistically sedate, she did slip in some late crowd surfing and a brief interval atop The Olympia’s substantial speaker stacks, almost leaning against the lower set of boxes as she belted out the classics.

Amongst the organic, witchy ambience that seems to be Florence’s preferred on-stage style, the redhead’s a stand out star. An encore of the slightly lyrically disturbing ‘Kiss With A Fist’ and ‘Rabbit Heart’ rounded up a polished, confident performance that suggests that the ‘Cosmic Love’ tour is going to be yet another chapter in what’s becoming a ‘alternative pop takes over the world’ fairytale. On the evidence of tonight, Florence is a worthy queen.

(c) By James Hendicott

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Setlist:
Howl
Coffins
Hurricane
Girl With One Eye
Lungs
Hardest
Drumming
Blinding
Liar
Swimming
Cosmic
Strangeness & Charm
You Got The Love
Dog Days Are Over
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Kiss
Rabbit

Covers

For Rachel: Florence and The Machine - Addicted To Love (Robert Palmer Cover)

Kaiser Chiefs - Flowers In the Rain (The Move Cover) 

Department of Eagles - Love Me (Elvis cover) 

The Morning Benders - Lovefool (Cardigans cover) 

Elliott Smith - Car (Built To Spill cover) 

Babyshambles - Janie Jones (The Clash cover) 

Citizen Cope - Karma Police (Radiohead cover) 

Franz Ferdinand - Mis-shapes (Pulp cover) 

M. Ward - Tom Violence (Sonic Youth cover) 

Final Fantasy - No Cars Go (Arcade Fire Cover)

Robbers on High Street - Cool It Now (New Edition Cover) 

Spoon - Rocket USA (Suicide Cover) 

The Fray - Heartless (Kanye West Cover) 


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Ellie Goulding and Erik Hassle – Be Mine! (Robyn Cover)

Feist – Inside and Out (Bee Gees Cover)

Ben Gibbard - I Don’t Want To Get Over You (The Magnetic Fields Cover)(mp3)

Jónsi - Time To Pretend (MGMT Cover) (mp3)

Mumford and Sons – Cousins (Vampire Weekend Cover)

Yes Giantess – I’m Not your toy (La Roux cover)

Magnet & Gemma Hayes -Lay Lady Lay (Bob Dylan Cover)

Nouvelle Vague – Love Will Tear Us Apart (Joy Division Cover)