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Glastonbury Festival have announced that Florence + The Machine will be replacing Foo Fighters as Friday night's headliner.

The Foos were forced to pull out of all forthcoming UK and European shows, including their Glastonbury headline slot, after Dave Grohl fell off stage last week and broke his leg.

The news prompted plenty of upset, followed by plenty of speculation as to who could step in to replace them. According to Paddy Power's betting odds this morning, Blur were the 4/1 favourites for the job. 

However the festival has now announced that Florence + The Machine - who was already scheduled to appear but wasn't headlining, will step into Foo Fighters' shoes.

In a statement, Emily Eavis said, "Once we heard the sad news that Foo Fighters had been forced to pull out, there was only one person we wanted to call and that was Florence. Every time she has played here she's done something spectacular and we always knew she would headline the Pyramid one day. I'm delighted she's agreed to step up to it – she's going to smash it!"

Welch released her third album, How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful, earlier this month - which included singles 'What Kind Of Man' and 'Ship To Wreck'.

Strangely enough, the singer is also suffering from an injury after leaping off stage during a performance at Coachella and damaging her foot. She played a largely stationary set at Radio One's Big Weekend a few weeks ago.

Speaking a few weeks ago of her position on the bill (it was mildly controversial that she wasn't headlining in the first place), Welch told NME: "I think I'm quite happy with where we are. It would be wonderful to headline, but also I don't know how I'd be dealing with that right now."

She also added that her foot injury from Coachella may shape her performance: "I'm not really planning what's going to happen at Glastonbury, because I just don't know. it's almost quite hard for me to remembr gigs sometimes, because I just don't know what happens. It's almost as if something else completely takes over. So if I'm back in fully charged feet mode, I'm nervous for what's going to happen. It's this sense that anything could happen."

Last week saw Glastonbury reveal the rest of the remaining acts and announce stage times. See the full line-up and timetable here. 

Meanwhile, Florence's new album How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful is out now. Read our full track by track review and guide here. 

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