Electric Picnic announced today that Florence & The Machine will be playing the Picnic this year. They are the bookies favourite to win this year’s Mercury Prize, nominations were announced yesterday.
Their current Facebook status states that they are “thrilled to welcome FLORENCE & THE MACHINE – who was yesterday nominated on the shortlist for the Mercury music prize and is already the bookies favourite to win, Senegalese superstar BAABA MAAL, cricket pop fanciers Duckworth- Lewis Method, singer-songwriter MICK FLANNERY, soul diva LAURA IZIBOR, epic duo THE BIG PINK, and NIGHTMARES ON WAX SOUNDSYTEM”.
