Florence & The Machine Cancel Two European Festival Appearances

Florence and the Machine have been forced to cancel two of their upcoming festival appearances.

According to a message on Florence Welch’s Twitter, doctors have told the singer to rest her voice for a week following on from a vocal injury: ‘I’ve sustained a vocal injury and been told i cannot sing for a week.., seriously i felt something snap, it was very frightening..’

Due to this, Florence and the Machine will no longer be appearing at this weekend’s Spanish Benicassim festival (12th July) and Portuguese Optimus Alive event (14th July): ‘Unfortunately this means i will not be able to perform at Benicassim and Optimus alive festival this weekend..i am so so sorry.. im so sorry to all the fans, i was desperate to still perform, but was told without question not to, so as not to do permanent damage..x’

Last weekend, Florence and the Machine performed at T in the Park festival in Kinross, Scotland. The band are still set to headline the Friday evening of this year’s Bestival, which takes place in September.

Watch the band perform ‘Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)’ live from last weekend’s event below.