After lead vocalist, Florence Welch injured her foot on stage on Friday, Florence + The Machine postponed a UK tour.
The singer suffered an injury on the first night of the tour in London’s O2 Arena, but she still managed to finish the first performance.
According to a fan, “they continued mopping blood off the stage as I kept having to leave to see a nurse.”
The singer took a circuit around the O2 during her song Choreomania after being (mistakenly) persuaded that she had not fractured a bone.
The following day, Welch shared some unfortunate news through Instagram.
She apologized to her followers and shared a photo of the stage covered in blood along with the statement: “I’m so sorry to say that following an X-ray it seems I was dancing on a fractured foot last night.”
I’m in agony, and as dancers know, dancing when injured is not a good idea. It is not in my character to postpone a show, particularly not a UK tour.
Welch stated that the gigs in London, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow, Nottingham, and Dublin will be rescheduled as soon as possible and that she had “been ordered not to perform to avoid more damage.
“I adore you so much, and I apologize to everybody who has been let down. My entire being hurts. I can’t wait to stand up again and be in your arms once more.”
The singer, who typically performs barefoot, once fell from the stage at the 2015 Coachella Music Festival and broke the third metatarsal in her right foot.
When Dave Grohl, the frontman for the Foo Fighters, fractured his leg onstage later that year, she filled in for them at the Glastonbury festival.
In reality, the physically demanding aspect of live music frequently leads to injury for performers who either push themselves a bit too hard or just misjudge their steps.
Among the most well-known instances are:
Madonna
During a performance at the Brit Awards, the Queen of Pop was pushed backward down a flight of stairs and sustained whiplash.
The cape the performer was wearing was intended to come off and be hauled away, but it had been tied too tightly and would not loosen.
“My two wonderful Japanese dancers strangled me off the stage. I might have been strangled or I could have fallen, and I decided to fall “Later, she informed Jonathan Ross.
“The Edge”
The Edge was still unsure of how the band’s unusually shaped stage was set up on the first night of their 2015 tour, Innocence, and Experience.
That explains how, during the band’s encore in Vancouver, the guitarist was able to nonchalantly wander off the catwalk and fall into the security pit.
“Didn’t see the edge, I’m OK,” he captioned a later Instagram photo of his scraped arm.
I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For was the song he was playing at the time, which was delicious irony.
Beyoncé
Without striking a power posture at the front of the stage and letting her hair blow majestically in the wind, it isn’t a Beyoncé performance. This calls for a minimum of one industrial-sized fan, but generally more. And everything went wrong in 2013.
The star’s hair became tangled in the fan’s blades while she performed “Halo,” immobilizing her. She continued singing as a security guard undid her weave, being the consummate professional.
Gravity can’t begin to drag me out of the fan again, Beyoncé wrote altered lyrics for Halo, which she later posted on her Instagram account.
During a performance with Bruno Mars at the 2016 Super Bowl, the star came dangerously close to falling again, but she miraculously managed to hop backward, regaining her balance while making it all look like part of the act. (The event can be seen about minute nine of this video.)
Iglesias, Enrique
Enrique Iglesias sent a drone over the stage during his 2015 tour to record footage from the perspective of his crowd.
However, when he was performing in Tijuana, Mexico, the singer noticed a drone sky past and decided to reach out and grab it from the air like you would a luscious peach from a tree in a Murcian orchard.
Of course, the propellers ripped him to pieces right away.
To avoid disappointing his audience, the singer bandaged his hand and, in a pretty gory gesture, wrote a heart in blood on his T-shirt before performing the final 30 minutes of his performance.
The celebrity was then sent to the hospital, where it was determined that he needed reconstructive surgery after breaking a finger.
Hetfield, James
I’m not making this up; James Hetfield, the lead singer of Metallica, accidentally fell through a trap door while singing Now That We’re Dead at Amsterdam’s Ziggo Dome in 2017.
Amazingly, the artist continued to perform as he disappeared from view and, with assistance from the stage staff, reappeared back on stage to complete the song.
As the song concluded, he questioned, “Is everyone all right?” “I’m OK. Not too much for my ego. We’re okay, though. possibly hurt my feelings a little.”
But compared to the time Hetfield erred in pyrotechnic placement during a performance in the 1990s, that incident is inconsequential.
He was knocked to the ground as it went off, losing all of his guitar strings and half of his hair in the process. The performance that night was canceled.
