Lately it seems like all of the moments in Florence and the Machine
frontwoman Florence Welch's life are surreal. From being called on stage by
childhood hero Billie Joe Armstrong to being portrayed on Saturday Night
Live by Katy Perry, Welch is the darling of the music industry at the
moment.
We spoke with her backstage at KROQ's Almost Acoustic Christmas shows in L.A.
about some of those surreal moments, her 2012 plans and why, now that she's
single, she could play David Bowie in a movie.
You played the other night in Oakland with Green Day at a radio
station show. Was it everything you imagined?
I got to live out my
11-year-old fantasies – I got to go on stage with Green Day. Billie Joe called
my name from the stage. Dookie was the first album I ever bought. I
covered the whole of Nimrod and he'd heard it. That was like the
11-year-old girl dreamed.
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