Florence + The Machine have announced they will give a special performance of their debut album, Lungs, in celebration of the record’s 15th anniversary.
The concert, titled “Symphony of Lungs,” will take place on September 11th at the Royal Albert Hall in London as part of the BBC Proms classical music festival and will be aired live on BBC Radio 3.
The performance will also be recorded and broadcast later on BBC Radio 1, BBC TWO, and BBC iPlayer.
Florence Welch will perform the album in full, with backup support from Jules Buckley and his Orchestra.
“This album was such a patchwork of a period of time of my messy teenage years and early twenties,” Welch said of the upcoming anniversary show in a press release. “I had no idea what I was doing or where it would go, and a lot of the songs are simply an exhalation of joy. But that’s really where the sound of Florence + The Machine was born. So, to have it still be so present in people’s hearts 15 years later and to be invited to play through it orchestrally at the BBC Proms is such an honour.”
Welch announced the concert in a new interview with British Vogue.
“When [the invitation] came in, they were like, ‘We know you’re off, but would you…?’ and I was like, ‘Yes!’,” Welch said. “The background to life in my house is classical music, and especially the more obscure things. So it’s a really exciting thing to be asked to do – the Proms is just so special.”
The eight-week BBC Proms festival, which is billed as the world’s largest classical music festival, offers 90 concerts running from July 19th to September 14th.
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