Listen Listen to Florence + The Machine and Ethel Cain perform ‘Morning Elvis’ live

During Florence + The Machine’s recent sold out tour of North America, Ethel Cain joined Florence on stage to perform a rendition of ‘Morning Elvis’, from Florence’s latest album ‘Dance Fever’.

“Morning Elvis is a song about the power of performance,” Florence says. “Of rock and roll tragedy and transcendence. And it’s a sign of a truly special artist when they make a cover their own. When Hayden sang this song it felt like it was hers, she really gave it that outlaw energy, like witches of the Wild West. I even threw more lines at her on the day because her tone and cadence was so perfect I wanted to hear more. And she did not miss a line even with only an hour to rehearse. I truly think I have found a kindred spirit aesthetically and artistically. And now every show I sing Morning Elvis with an Ethel Cain inflection.”

“I was giggling when we rehearsed the song just the two of us before the show because Florence told me that Morning Elvis was her channeling her inner Southern rocker, and I told her I couldn’t stop myself from emulating her British accent on certain words,” Ethel adds. “It felt like a holy convergence happening in a basketball arena. Florence’s dressing room smelled like powder and sage and we were both dressed in white, singing our lines back and forth to each other, and I felt like I was back in choir practice, but with an actual angel this time. She’s never not smiling, and if you would have told me we were the only two people in the entire venue while we sang it in the middle of her set, I would have believed you.”

In our review of Florence’s album ‘Dance Fever’, we said, “‘Dance Fever’ is an expert revamp from one of alternative music’s torch-bearing misfits, a welcome shot of fairy-tale hedonism ripe for post-pandemic dancefloor indulgence.”

Read our full review of ‘Dance Fever’ here, and listen to Florence and Ethel performing ‘Morning Elvis’ below.