Florence Welch has turned her back on rock and roll excess while recording her band’s next album, revealing she is making a packed lunch, wearing an anorak and cycling to the studio every day.
The 27-year-old singer made a rare public performance last night after being locked away in a London recording studio for most of the year recording Florence + The Machine’s follow-up to their hugely successful 2011 album Ceremonials.
She was at The Other Ball, a charity gala in Mayfair hosted by Mark Ronson to raise money for Arms Around The Child.
Speaking about her time in the studio, she told the Standard: “It’s going good. It’s been a kind of really amazing process so far but it’s really hard to describe. It’s like a journey and I’m not quite sure how to describe it yet.
The Other Ball
“I put myself under a lot of pressure. But basically, I’ve been working so solidly now, every day, day in day out. I’ve kind of been more disciplined with myself than I ever have been so I think I’m putting pressure on myself this year.
“The daily routine involves a bicycle and an anorak. I make a packed lunch – I do. Bicycle, anorak, packed lunch. It’s kind of like, really old English. I’ve just really dedicated myself to one thing and everything else has got simplified.”
Florence + The Machine performed, as did Ronson, Lily Allen and Rudimental.
On Tuesday, Allen posted her new unofficial World Cup anthem, Bass Like Home, online only for it to be taken down soon after. She said: “I think it’s just a legal thing. Someone got their knickers in a twist about it and it came down. But it will come out soon, don’t worry.”
Ronson said of the event, which was held at One Mayfair: “I think it’s really important to do anything that we can. This charity helps the people that are the most helpless.”