"You know what's been really interesting … in real life, it's super annoying with the boot, but the performances, I was really worried about them, and actually, like, we had a load of smaller shows booked, we didn't cancel them," Welch explained. "But I think had I not injured myself I would've probably performed them with the same kind of, you know, energy I would've done at a bigger show Coachella and that kind of thing. But this injury and having to sit down, it kind of created this intimacy and connection with the audience that I hadn't thought about."

Struggling to find the right words, the singer draws an analogy between the intimacy of the seated shows with the nature of her band's recently released third studio album How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful.

"We did these shows stripped back and there was a kind of… it kind of forced me to interact with the audience in a different way and it stripped another layer of… because this record is so sort of exposing in a way to kind of be vulnerable it kind of made sense," she said.

During that fateful Coachella performance, Florence + the Machine revealed more songs from How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful, including the album's epic title track, which ends on horn-driven and symphonic coda that the singer said still makes her cry.

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