4Music brings you some totally random facts and, if we're honest, the odd bit of speculation about Florence + the Machine:
- Florence is known as Flo to her friends.
- The colourful singer quotes her Dad as her biggest influence.
- She claims to have OCD, ADD and dysmetria (i.e. inability to tell spatial distances). Said Florence: "I mean, I couldn't tell you if that wall is 5ft or 50ft away." How does she get from day to day?!
- If she had to go back in time, Florence would try out the decadent 1920s.
- The fiery redhead describes herself as a 'real geek' and loves reading. She says she was always "the weird girl at the back of the class". We can definitely see that.
- It's rumoured that Florence was discovered singing in a nightclub toilet, so there's hope for all of us!
- On hearing she'd won the Critics Choice BRIT Award she said: "Blimey, a BRIT Award wowtheworldsgoneweird!" and about attending the awards "I'll be the one trying to get off with Katy Perry and passed out next to Leona Lewis."
- Her Mum would rather she was at University or got a 'real job'. Sound familiar?
- The style icon takes a trunk of clothes on tour, previously full of charity shop and vintage, but fame now means it also includes a designer freebie or two!
- Florence reckons that she writes her best songs when she's drunk or has a hangover.
- 'The Machine' is flexible it can be just Florence and a drum kit or a piano, but right now it's a seven-piece band
. - As a teenager, she fronted a band called 'Toxic Cockroaches and Ashok,' but after deciding it wasn't for her, quit and formed Florence and the Machine.
- The fearless eccentric's energetic stage performances have included diving into a paddling pool and crowd surfing in a chain-mail dress (ouch!)
