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Tuesday 31 January 4:57 p.m.
Florence Welch from Florence and the Machine has admitted she
once "set fire" to a hotel room when she was drunk.
Florence explains how she woke up to find a burnt suite in New York. The fire came
about after she forgot to blow out a candle following a backstage party and it
almost destroyed the place.
"I think I must have had about 17
Dirty Martinis. I lost my phone and ripped my dress very badly," she told
the March edition of Q magazine.
"I accidentally set fire to The
Bowery Hotel because I'd left a cinnamon tea light burning. I came back to the
hotel, passed out in my ripped dress - no phone, chipped tooth - came round and
there was black stuff all over the wall, my book had melted on the bedside
table and there was a bucket of water on the floor. Actually the last scene you
want to wake up to with a hangover. Half the room was singed."
Her publicist was unimpressed with the
bill from the hotel, but surprisingly the singed room wasn’t that expensive.
"My American publicist was like, 'Ah
yes, there was a very big bill on my credit card.' But the fire damage was only
a couple of hundred," she said.
"The big bill was the bl**dy dressing
room drinks bill. Kanye West, Lykke Li, me, the doormen, most of Lower Manhattan, whoever, drinking Dirty Martinis and
what have you. [The amount is] undisclosed."