Ceremonials Tour

Ceremonials Tour
World tour by Florence + the Machine
LocationNorth America, Europe, Oceania, South America, Asia
Associated albumCeremonials
Start date13 October 2011
End date14 June 2014
No. of shows126
Florence + the Machine concert chronology

The Ceremonials Tour was the second concert tour by the English indie rock band Florence and the Machine. The tour included performances at music festivals because it is lead singer Florence Welch's favourite way to perform live.[1] Welch had originally planned to spend over a year touring for Ceremonials (their previous tour lasted almost three and a half years)[2] before announcing that the December 2012 dates would be the final performances of the tour.[3] On 25 February 2013, it was announced that Florence and the Machine would be playing at the Coke Live Music Festival in Poland on 10 August 2013,[4] and, on 26 March 2013, it was announced that the band would be playing at Chime for Change's "The Sound of Change Live" concert at Twickenham Stadium in London alongside Beyoncé, Ellie Goulding and Haim, amongst others.[5]

The Ceremonials Tour was a critical and commercial success. Pollstar announced that it was the 40th best-selling tour in the world in 2012 having earned $31.8 million worldwide and having sold 618,436 tickets.[6] Paste magazine ranked the tour the seventh best tour of 2012.[7]

  1. ^ Nicholson, Rebecca (26 October 2011). "Florence Welch: 'My heart was going crazy' – video". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 October 2011.
  2. ^ Ellison, Jesse (23 October 2011). "Florence's Dark Side of Fame". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 15 November 2011.
  3. ^ Ellison, Jesse (November 2012). "Florence and the Machine: Lover to Lover". NOWNESS. Retrieved 24 November 2012.
  4. ^ "Coke Live Festival" (in Polish). Archived from the original on 28 February 2013. Retrieved 22 November 2021.
  5. ^ "Chime for Change". Archived from the original on 19 December 2013. Retrieved 22 November 2021.
  6. ^ "Pollstar Year-End Top 50 World Tours" (PDF). Pollstar. January 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 March 2013. Retrieved 7 January 2013.
  7. ^ Stiernberg, Bonnie (28 November 2012). "25 Best Live Acts of 2012". Paste. Retrieved 7 January 2013.