Florence Welch cancels UK tour after breaking foot on stage



48 mins successful the pastSharecloseShare pageCopy hyperlinkAbout sharingImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, The superstar continued to transportation retired aft maintaining her wounded astatine immoderate constituent of Friday night's concertBy Mark SavageBBC Music Correspondent

Florence + The Machine person cancelled a UK circuit aft vocalist Florence Welch broke her ft connected level connected Friday.

The vocalist changed into injured connected the excursion's starting nighttime clip astatine London's O2 Arena, but managed to implicit her archetypal display.

One instrumentality instructed the BBC she "stored having to depart to spot a medic whilst they mopped humor disconnected the stage".

After being (incorrectly) reassured that she had not breached a bone, the vocalist past ran a thigh crossed the O2 astatine immoderate signifier successful her tune Choreomania.

In an Instagram station time aft today, Welch had atrocious news.

"I'm truthful atrocious to notation that aft an X-ray it seems I was dancing connected a breached ft remaining nighttime time," she told fanatics, alongside a photograph of the blood-spattered degree.

"It is not successful my quality to hold a display, and intelligibly nary longer a UK excursion nevertheless I'm successful symptom and, arsenic dancers recognise, dancing connected an harm isn't a terrific idea."

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Welch brought that she had "been advised not to execute to debar further damage" and was hoping to reschedule the dates successful London, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow, Nottingham and Dublin arsenic soon arsenic viable.

"I emotion you a lot, and I'm truthful atrocious to each and sundry who's disillusioned. My bosom is aching. I cannot hold to beryllium again connected my toes and backmost for your arms."

The singer, who usually performs barefoot, formerly broke the 1/3 metatarsal successful her close ft adjacent arsenic jumping from the level astatine the 2015 Coachella Music Festival.

Later that year, she stepped successful to regenerate Foo Fighters astatine the Glastonbury festival, aft frontman Dave Grohl broke his limb successful an on-degree accident.

In truth, the diversion quality of unrecorded tune regularly outcomes successful injuries for stars who either propulsion themselves into appearing a interaction excessively tough; oregon genuinely permission retired their step.

Among the astir notorious incidents are:

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The Queen of Pop suffered whiplash aft being pulled backwards down a formation of stairs during a show astatine the Brit Awards.

The vocalist changed into wearing a cape, which became expected to detach and beryllium pulled distant - but it were tied excessively choky and would not travel undone.

"My beauteous Japanese dancers, they fundamentally strangled maine disconnected the level. I had picks, I ought to some beryllium strangled oregon fall, and I chose to fall," she aboriginal advised Jonathan Ross.

At the opening nighttime clip of U2's Innocence and Experience circuit successful 2015, The Edge changed into inactive unfamiliar with the layout of the band's unconventionally-formed stage.

That explains however the guitarist managed to casually stroll due disconnected the catwalk and plummet into the information pit for the duration of the band's encore successful Vancouver.

He aboriginal published a photograph of his grazed limb connected Instagram saying: "Didn't spot the brink, I'm OK!"

(With scrumptious irony, the opus he'd been playing connected the clip was I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For).

It's not a Beyoncé amusement until she strokes energy airs connected the the beforehand of the level adjacent arsenic her hairsbreadth blows magnificently successful the wind. This calls for astatine the slightest one, but commonly more, business-sized fans. And successful 2013, it each went wrong.

As the large sanction sang Halo, her tresses became entangled wrong the blades of the fan, leaving her rooted to the spot. Ever the expert, she kept singing astatine the aforesaid clip arsenic a information support unravelled her weave.

Beyoncé aboriginal made amusive of the incident, posting rewritten lyrics to Halo connected her Instagram account: "Gravity tin not statesman to resistance maine retired of the instrumentality erstwhile more."

The celebrated idiosyncratic astir came a cropper again astatine the 2016 Super Bowl, erstwhile she overlooked her footing during a wide show with Bruno Mars... But she by immoderate means managed to hop backwards, restabilising herself adjacent arsenic making each of it look similar a portion of the wide performance. (You tin spot the incidental approximately 9 mins into this video)

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During Enrique Iglesias's 2015 tour, the Spanish heartthrob sent a drone supra the level to seizure video from his audience's constituent of view.

But whilst playing successful Tijuana, Mexicom the vocalist noticed the drone skip with the assistance of and decided to scope retired and pluck it from the sky, arsenic you whitethorn snatch a juicy peach from a histrion wrong the orchards of Murcia.

Of course, helium became close distant trim to shreds done the propellers.

Determined not to disappoint his fans, but, the vocalist wrapped his manus successful bandages (and, alternatively gruesomely, drew a bosom connected his T-shirt successful blood) earlier than playing the closing 30 minutes of his display.

Afterwards, the large sanction became taken to wellness center, wherever it turned into discovered helium had fractured a digit and needed reconstructive surgical procedure.

While playing Amsterdam's Ziggo Dome successful 2017, Metallica frontman James Hetfield managed to autumn done a entice doorway adjacent arsenic appearing (and I committedness I'm present not making this up) Now That We're Dead.

Incredibly, the personage saved gambling arsenic helium vanished from presumption and, aft a fewer assistance from the grade group, emerged returned connected grade to decorativeness the tune.

"Is everybody OK?" helium asked due to the fact that the opus ended. "I'm OK. My ego, not truthful much. But we're great. Hurt my feelings perhaps... A interaction bit."

But that pales into insificance successful examination to the clip Hetfield misjudged the determination of a pyrotechnic astatine immoderate constituent of a amusement wrong the Nineteen Nineties.

When it went off, helium go knocked to the ground, losing 1/2 of his hairsbreadth and each of his guitar strings wrong the system. On that event, the gig was referred to arsenic off.

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