Biography
Before forming Florence and the Machine, Florence Welch and Isabella Summers released music under a few other names/bands, Florence released music with the band Ashok for awhile, then Florence and Isabella created Florrible and Misrabella. They also performed under the name “Florence Robot/Isa Machine” for a short while, a name they chose before realising it was “so long it’d drive me mad”, according to Florence.
Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.