FLORENCE ROAD

Florence Road turn the turbulence of growing up into guitar music that hits with equal parts intimacy and abandon. Hailing from Bray, County Wicklow, the Irish four-piece, Lily Aron, Emma Brandon, Ailbhe Barry and Hannah Kelly, have been playing together since their school days, developing a sound that moves between the raw edges of alternative rock and the kind of melodies that stay with you long after the noise fades. There’s a tension at the heart of their music: the intimacy of a thought you can barely admit to yourself, set against guitars that seem determined to make it heard. Drawing on the bruised melodicism of ’90s alternative rock and the confessional instincts of contemporary indie, Florence Road balance vulnerability with a distinctly physical kind of catharsis. Fronted by Lily Aron’s vocals, which shift effortlessly between fragility and full-throated abandon, their songs capture the messy contradictions of feeling everything at once, the uncertainty of growing up, the complexities of love and the search for a version of yourself that feels real. There’s a rawness to their songwriting that never comes at the expense of melody, pairing emotional candour with the kind of choruses built to be shouted back from a crowd. Their 2025 mixtape, Fall Back, established a band with an instinct for both the immediacy of a great hook and the emotional volatility of a great rock song. Its follow-up, Spring Forward, expanded that palette, tracing the shifting contours of love, attachment and self-understanding while pushing their sound into more expansive territory. Across both releases, Florence Road have shown an ability to turn deeply personal experiences into something communal, finding the extraordinary in the uncertainty of everyday life. That connection has translated emphatically to the stage. After a breakthrough that took them from their beginnings in Bray to an increasingly international audience, Florence Road have spent 2026 relentlessly on the roa