Tour news: Florence and the Machine

Florence Welch of Florence and the Machine at Glastonbury last month (AP)

British indie rock outfit Florence and the Machine is returning to Auckland for a show in November.

It will be the fourth New Zealand appearance by the group led by Florence Welch, the band having played the inaugural Laneway Festival in Auckland in 2010.

The November 21 Vector Arena show follows the release of FATM's third album How Big How Blue How Beautiful earlier this year and high-profile appearances at northern hemisphere summer music festivals in recent months.

Energetic frontwoman Welch broke her foot jumping off stage at the Coachella festival in California in April.

Two months later she and band replaced the Foo Fighters as headliner at Britain's Glastonbury festival after Dave Grohl broke his leg at an earlier European date.

Earlier this year Welch told DJ Zane Lowe that the runaway success of her first two albums had led to to a battle with drinking and "a little bit of a nervous breakdown".

That led to How Big How Blue How Beautiful being the "most personal record she had ever made" after 2009's 3 millions selling breakthrough debut Lungs and 2011's Ceremonials.

FATM last played here in 2012 with a show at Vector Arena with the Herald review saying Welch had taken "her nightingale voice and built it into a dramatic arena-filling stage show of grand proportions".

Tickets for the upcoming Auckland show go on sale on August 3.

Florence Welch of Florence and the Machine performs on the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury last month (Photo AP)