In the new issue of Hot Press, cover star Florence Welch talks candidly about how she attempted to sabotage her own career.
Asked by Olaf Tyaransen if she had a period of trying to sink the career she had so successfully built up, she said:
"I think so, I think so. I definitely have a very self-destructive streak, and I think I wrote ['Ship To Wreck] after I somehow managed to end up on MTV News drunk in a bar when I got filmed being really drunk... and I chucked a shot over my shoulder and then crowd-surfed off the stage. I was like, 'Oh, shit...' (laughs) I was like, 'Fuck!' Because you know, I wasn't really working, I was writing, I was in LA back and forth, but without structure it was like, 'This party could go on forever!' And then it maybe went on a little too long and then... you end up drunk on American TV!"
Clearly in a good place now, having topped the charts with comeback album How Big How Blue How Beautiful and gearing up for the Picnic in September, Florence chats about her new LP, the traumas of a long holiday and explains why even free spirits need a little rider in their lives in the new Hot Press.
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