Florence + The Machine Release Their First Full Tour Live Album on November 6
Twenty-two tracks, recorded across the Everybody Scream arena tour — London's O2, Glasgow's Hydro and the rest of the run — arrive Friday via Republic Records. The band has released live music before. It has never bottled a whole tour like this.
Some bands treat a live album like a souvenir. This one's a document. Florence + The Machine will release Everybody Scream Tour Live on Friday, November 6, through Republic Records — 22 tracks recorded across the Everybody Scream arena tour as it crossed North America, the UK and Europe, including sold-out nights at London's O2 Arena and Glasgow's OVO Hydro.
One preview track, "Which Witch," is already streaming, and vinyl editions are up for pre-order. The set closes with a bonus track, "Perfume and Milk."
Why "first" is the operative word
Florence Welch's live reputation isn't in question — the voice, the bare feet, the sprinting down the barrier. What's new is the format. The band's previous live release, Symphony of Lungs, captured a single orchestral night at the BBC Proms: one room, one orchestra, one very special evening. This album does the opposite job — it follows a full arena tour cycle from city to city, which makes it, as the announcement itself frames it, the group's first full tour live album. (Pitchfork's coverage of the announcement uses the same framing: their first live LP documenting an entire tour.)
That distinction matters to the people who buy these things. A Proms record is a portrait. A tour record is a diary — the same songs, worn in differently by Glasgow than by London, with the crowd as a recurring character.
What we know, and what lands Friday
The full 22-track sequence is set out in the announcement; the shape is the tour's shape — the Everybody Scream material up front and centre, the catalogue songs that have become arena rituals threaded through it. What the announcement doesn't settle — and what Friday will — is the mixing philosophy: how much crowd, how much room, how close to the barrier the microphones sat. Live albums live or die on that choice, and this desk will file a listening note once the record is actually out and countable.
Until then, the facts stand on their own: 22 tracks, one tour, out Friday. "Which Witch" is the taster, streaming now.
Sources
- Hit Channel, Florence + The Machine live album announcement (published Nov. 2, 2026) — the release date (Friday, Nov. 6, 2026), Republic Records, the 22-track count, the tour routing (North America/UK/Europe, sold-out O2 Arena London and OVO Hydro Glasgow), the "Which Witch" preview, vinyl pre-orders, the "Perfume and Milk" bonus track, and the first-full-tour-album framing against Symphony of Lungs. https://hit-channel.com — opened in full Nov. 5, 2026.
- Universal Music announcement, carried by ad-hoc-news (Nov. 2026) — corroborates the release, label and framing. Search record, Nov. 5, 2026 (not opened in full; used as corroboration only, no fact rests on it alone).
- Pitchfork news coverage of the announcement — the "first live album documenting a full tour" framing. Search record, Nov. 5, 2026 (corroboration only).
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