Florence Road have covered Phoebe Bridgers’ ‘Georgia’ for the Like a Version series on Australian radio – watch below.
The fast-rising Irish band released their mixtape ‘Fall Back’ in June, their first release on a major label, and in September they shared the breezy single ‘Break The Girl’.
They have spent the last two weeks touring around Australia opening for Royel Otis, and on Thursday (October 30), they stopped by at Triple J as the latest act to perform a one-off cover version for the Like a Version series.
They picked ‘Georgia’ from Bridgers’ 2017 debut album ‘Stranger In The Alps’, with frontwoman Lily Aron explaining: “It was tough to pick a song because there’s so many great songs out there, but [drummer] Hannah [Kelly] had gone to see Phoebe Bridgers in Ireland and she played ‘Georgia,’ which she doesn’t normally do, and I think that kind of stuck in Hannah’s brain and she was like ‘What if we did ‘Georgia’?’ We normally rock out so it was kind of nice to do something a little more stripped-back.”
Watch Florence Road’s version of ‘Georgia’ here:
With the Australian tour now complete, Florence Road’s next show will be a huge hometown gig in Dublin’s Academy on November 30 – find any remaining tickets here.
The band spoke to NME earlier this year about their rapidly growing fanbase. “Obviously, we were quite wary of being seen as just a TikTok cover band or not a real band, and that was something we were nervous about,” Aron said. “But since we’ve started releasing and doing a whole bunch of gigs, the response has been so wonderful and it’s been a nice sigh of relief. We played a headline gig for the EP release, and I took my ear out during ‘Heavy’, and people were screaming the lyrics. The feeling is so crazy, that we created these words, and people are really feeling them.”
They will also be heading out to North America in March and April next year, opening for The Last Dinner Party on the first half of their tour. See all the dates here and find any remaining tickets here.
As for Bridgers, she secured a legal win in the long-running defamation case brought against her by producer Chris Nelson in July. She is also rumoured to be appearing in Primetime, an upcoming A24 film starring Robert Pattinson.
