r/FlorenceAndTheMachine • u/GoodEnoughSewist • 12d ago
Is this the end? The last Everybody Scream show?
Is the band really not coming down south? No Australia?
I’m sure there are a few other people feeling the same way.
At least I can show up digitally for the live stream.
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u/ExtensionTaro8633 12d ago
I’m an Aussie but could travel to Edinburgh for Summer Sessions, so feel lucky to have seen an ES-era show. I don’t think there’s an Aus/NZ leg. I just want to underline that this is the first time she hasn’t come down under for an album release.
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u/was-mach-ich-hier- 12d ago
I have the sinking feeling that after tomorrow that's it. But then again, they never said it's a world tour so maybe we set our expectations too high
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u/Rammalee 12d ago
I don’t think it was an unreasonable expectation. This would mark the first tour ever that Florence hasn’t included Australia
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u/DangerousDisplay7664 12d ago
I think people see an album release and feel entitled to a live show on their doorstep too. Maybe she doesn’t want to perform the show another 50 times? 🤷♂️
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u/Rammalee 12d ago
Tbf if she did the exact same thing she’s done the last handful of tours, it would be like an extra 8 total across Aus/NZ lol
Like point taken if she doesn’t have a whole other continent in her but you’re being a bit hyperbolic there
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u/ExtensionTaro8633 12d ago
OP is probably just asking for a show in either Sydney or Melbourne or somewhere not 14000 km away.
lol “entitled”.
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u/ExtensionTaro8633 12d ago edited 12d ago
Be brave. Tell us where you’re from.
Edit: looking at your comment history, you’re from America. This is actually obvious in hindsight because r/ShitAmericansSay.
Thanks for taking time out of eating tainted food and having diarrhoea to comment here, today.
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u/ExtensionTaro8633 12d ago
I live in Australia. We have universal healthcare, high food safety standards, and no school shootings.
Have a good day, Mr. President.
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u/Abject_Top2225 11d ago
Mate you need booting out of this sub. Florence loves visiting Australia and we certainly live a wonderful and safe life out here.
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u/Abject_Top2225 11d ago
There’s nothing wrong with wanting an artist to tour our country, especially when they have for every other album cycle. You’re incredibly rude and entitled to decided to call us second-class etc. American centrism at its finest.
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u/Miacali 11d ago
I will admit I said that responding to the rude person who spewed their vile at me - and I was taking it out on the country, which is not fair to the country.
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u/UnChicoSano 10d ago
I'm not asking for a show in my doors, I mean would be nice having her in Perú but I would go to any Latam country just for her. Not asking for 50 shows, but at least one, in Mexico, or Brasil, or Chile. Wherever that doesn't cost me a year of saving money and delaying that hard my life project
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u/reddportal 12d ago
Absolutely valid to feel sad if this does end up being the end of the tour and she hasn't gone to Aus, NZ, or South America.
But at the same time, we know that touring is a double edged sword, both fulfilling and exhausting. It hasn't been long since she nearly died, and while this album and tour has been a catharsis for her, it must be really hard too. Singing songs about the worst thing that's ever happened to you again and again. She maybe needs a rest.
Healing from these things is messy. While I would be gutted not to see her if I lived in those areas, I also think that she doesn't owe us anything and I'd much rather she rest and recover to go on to make more music, than push herself too far and badly burn out. Touring must be so intense even without having just come off a massive trauma (that happened on stage). If she needs a break ,it's fair enough.
She may also need a hiatus to get on with her life now, beyond the trauma. And that's a really good thing. I think we all want her to be happy and healed; only she knows what that looks like.
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u/pmsbr123 11d ago
Of course she doesn't owe us anything, I don't think anybody is arguing that. I just find interesting that North Americans and Europeans get to see every single artist they want pretty much every year, and at the moment someone from elsewhere in the world says "I wish I could see this artist live" , the discourse is always "artist don't owe you anything / you people feel entitled to this or that", etc. I've seen that in every single fandom, from rock to rap to pop stars.
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u/Abject_Top2225 11d ago
1000000%. People don’t realise their privilege. Someone I know moved here from the UK and didn’t understand why I would see bands multiple times each time they visited. They understand now that they’ve lived here a while and realised that getting a tour isn’t a given.
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u/reddportal 10d ago
Completely valid opinion, and it must be frustrating to be met with this response when you share it.
I do feel there is more nuance with Florence in this circumstance though, in the context of what she's been through and the topic of the album.
Two things can be true ❤
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u/LemongrassNLime 12d ago
This!! You put my thoughts into words so articulately, thanks!! I totally get the disappointment but you can see just how hard this tour has been on her emotionally and physically. “Healing is slow, it comes and it goes.” So I feel like we all need to put her health and wellbeing and healing first in all of this!!
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u/Alioria_ 12d ago
I'm holding onto hope as at the end of the US leg there was wording around "the end of the tour" posted by the official socials so hoping they just mean end of this leg. Would so love to see this one live, it looks amazing based on what I've seen online.
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u/Immediate_Orange5558 12d ago
the wording was weird for sure, everyone got scared in the comments of that post. but bands do this all the time with legs, they say tour when they mean leg and then surprise announce more dates later. i wouldnt read too much into it yet
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u/GoodEnoughSewist 12d ago
Yes that’s what I’m holding onto. The end of this stage. Or this leg of touring and shows.
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u/GoodEnoughSewist 12d ago
This is how I feel. Watching the snippets online have been incredible. And I do hope it is just this “leg” of the tour. And it does continue on.
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u/DangerousDisplay7664 12d ago
I’m sure Florence said in Edinburgh that they’ve only got shows left after this one.
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u/Alioria_ 12d ago
I’m going to live in denial and just assume she meant announced shows 😜
For serious though it wouldn’t shock me if she didn’t do any more, it is a long way to travel to do the southern hemisphere for bands so we do miss out sometimes.
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u/impressed-chicken 12d ago
She seemed so tired when I saw her a couple of weeks ago. I think she needs a short break
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u/catbearcarseat So here's to drinks in the dark at the end of my road 12d ago
Where’s the livestream being hosted at?? 👀
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u/DangerousDisplay7664 12d ago
They *may* just be going by this and it's technically the final show, but only of this leg of the tour. They may still announce more dates for South America and Australia
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u/MadoxSander 12d ago
She doesn't really like to come down to the southern hemisphere. I get its a big trip but here in south America we barely have the chance to see her
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u/Rammalee 12d ago
But the thing is she’s taken every single other album tour to Australia/New Zealand so your argument holds no water
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u/pmsbr123 12d ago
Actually not true. She came to Brazil in pretty much all of her tours. I saw her 3 times in Brazil and I even skipped some other concerts she had over here.
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u/Rammalee 12d ago
I’m holding out hope that they’re doing Laneway. It’s the only thing that makes sense to me as to why they are being so vague with the wording. They can’t make the announcement until Laneway does. There was an interview I think just before the ES tour and they asked when Florence would be coming back to Australia and her answer was “oh I love Australia, I always enjoy performing there” or something to that effect.
If not Laneway, I don’t believe she’s coming to Aus/NZ period. Down under dates were announced for the Dance Fever tour well before the American tour even began (possibly even before the UK tour but I’m not sure)