THREE years on from her breakthrough album, Lungs, and Florence Welch is back in Bournemouth. The stage is bigger and so is the excitable audience.

First support band, Spector came and went. But it was the dark and intense wall of noise from The Horrors who set the atmospheric mood.

Florence took to the stage in a black cat suit and swirling black cape. Her outlandish attire came as no surprise to fans and she gracefully commanded the art-deco inspired stage set.

The set list seamlessly blended material from 2009’s Lungs and last year’s album Ceremonials. Florence proved a charming host with an added physicality to her stage show that saw her running, twirling and leaping throughout.

While her new material didn’t have the same familiarity as her earlier work, the audience screamed and clapped along just the same.

This was the second date of her UK tour and you could tell that Florence and her backing band The Machine were enjoying every second of playing live.

Dog Days and a reworked You’ve Got The Love almost brought the house down, leaving Florence genuinely humbled by the deafening roar that greeted her goodbye. Flame-haired Florence Welch and her band are riding the crest of a wave this year and judging from this performance, they could well give Adele some serious competition.