Florence + the Machine - Shake it Out (Live at GMA - Summer Concert Seri...

You can watch many of the songs from this GMA 2018 gig in single song segments on YouTube, but it's not available to watch in full. Similarly, there doesn't seem to be any professionally filmed or good quality full live concert sets from the High As Hope tour of 2018 and 2019 to watch, at least not on YouTube. You can find Florence's set from The Biggest Weekend in Swansea in 2018 on iplayer though.

With all of this in mind, the full live set I've chosen for you today is a really good NPR Tiny Desk set, with a stripped down Machine of Florence, Rob, Hazel and Tom, which you can watch here. It's a lovely set. You can also watch Florence's lockdown at home performance of 'Light of Love', released to raise funds for The Intensive Care Society, here.

Pre-Code Hollywood - Shake It Out

I'm not entirely sure who it was who originally introduced me to this mash up, but I think it was my friend Michelle Drury who combines her encyclopediac knowledge of all things Fall, Doctor Who, Radiophonic Workshop and Wars of the Roses with a similar degree of knowledge of all things Pre Code Hollywood and silent film.

This mash up is pretty apt given that the official promo video for 'Shake It Out' is very 1930s glamour anyway. This particular take on it never fails to cheer me up, as did Florence Welch's very emphatic disowning of the Conservative Party's unauthorised use of the Florence + The Machine's version of 'You've Got The Love' at their recent party conference in Manchester. I didn't make it to the customary anti-Conference march this year because I had a horrific migraine, but I gather it went well.