stuff and florence in detroit!!!

[obliviousally]

took a mini-trip up to detroit with friend sam to see....................



!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

this was a bit of a birthday surprise for me, which is an insanely cool thing for a friend to do and i'm so so so grateful we got the chance to be able to see florence together!!

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Setlist
Everybody Scream
Witch Dance
Shake It Out
Seven Devils
Big God
Daffodil
Which Witch
Cosmic Love
Spectrum
You Can Have It All
Perfume and Milk (Live debut)
Buckle
King
The Old Religion
Howl
Heaven Is Here
Sympathy Magic

Encore:
One of the Greats
Dog Days Are Over
Free
And Love

i had previously spoiled myself for the setlist b/c i wanted to know every song to sing along lol - but she debuted 'perfume and milk' at our show, which is one of sam's favorites off the album! so that's really cool - it's always fun to be at a show that gets a new song played. i think the only track that she's not doing on this tour that i would've LOVED to hear live is 'bedroom hymns' or 'dream girl evil', but if i had to choose, definitely the former lol.

but!!! 'shake it out'! 'seven devils'!! 'king'!!!! 'dog days'!!!!!! i love the stuff off the new album, as well, but i've obviously always wanted to hear some of the 'classics' in person, as well.

before 'perfume and milk' she talked about how they hadn't performed it on the tour yet and she was waiting for the right time and said she was antiquing in detroit and ran into a mother and daughter who were going to be attending the show and the daughter had a 'perfume and milk' tattoo and she took that as a sign to play it while she was there, which is an insanely sweet and cool thing to do

i was also stoked to hear 'you can have it all' live, even though it's clearly a hard song for her to perform (she talks about how she wrote this album in the aftermath of her miscarriage and then had the realization that she'd have to perform them all on tour!) and i would've also been happy hearing 'hunger', but i really love 'you can have it all'. before she performed it, there's a minute or two where the stage is dark and she explains it's so she can get a drink of water and say a little prayer that she can make it through the song

i took a few video snippets (i didn't expect them to come out very well and, while the video itself isn't great, the audio is pretty good in them!) - they're on my bluesky, so you'll have to be logged in to view them

your dazzling pain like diamond rings / you need to go to war to find material to sing
the rot and the ruin, the earth and the worms / the seasons change, the world turns
see i was dead when i woke up this morning / i'll be dead before the day is done




fit check, post-concert. we were wandering around our floor at the hotel to find somewhere to take a nice pic lol



these are a little better images, tho i tweaked it a bit. nixed the mask ('howl' rep!!) b/c i wasn't sure if i'd be able to take it into the arena. added some fake tattoos (the rose you can see in the other pic, as well as a tooth on my left forearm and a decaying crow on my left leg lol), added a strap that looped around my right side, more necklaces/bracelets/rings lol

i scored the top at a goodwill a few weeks back - it was a long men's shirt and ran with the 'i crawled up from under the earth / broken nails and coughing dirt' lyric lol. i wanted to be comfortable, but look aesthetically in line with the vibes lol

i also did a fursona pic the other day of my outfit lol (this'll get posted seperately, too, realized i don't think i've done any art entries in a bit)

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our hotel (the antheneum) was really cute and very interestingly laid out - but i really loved the vibes of the glass blocks around the bathroom (and the bathroom was BIG and had a huge tub) and how the bedroom area was set down some stairs (a pic from the opposite angle from the hotel website). there was a little social/living room style space when you first enter, but we didn't really use it outside of making coffee this morning lol

we also had great weather for the drive there and back (it didn't storm until well after we got home!). our timing for everything was just on point lol - we got to the hotel earlier than anticipated, we were ready well in time to grab the shuttle over to get in line not too far from the doors and the line went FAST (arena security was QUICK, even tho i did have to get wanded b/c i was wearing my jacket + real metal jewelry lol, but it was painless overall). got in the merch line real fast and snagged a shirt (gritting my teeth at $50 for a concert tee but IT'S FINE. IT'S FINE. my mom would tell me, 'it's just paper and dead presidents') - i'm gonna embroider some little stars around our show date



(i would've really loved the tour poster image as a shirt, but alas!)

(belatedly, i embroidered around my tour date!)