Florence + The Machine Provide Soundtrack to Women’s World Cup on FOX
Music from Grammy Award-nominated English rock band Florence + The Machine provides the backdrop for FOX Sports’ coverage of FIFA Women’s World Cup 2015™ when the tournament begins later this week. FOX Sports has gained the rights to all 11 songs featured on Florence + The Machine’s new album, “How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful,” along with nine additional cuts from her catalog, including hit songs “Shake It Out” and “Dog Days Are Over.”
The title track from “How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful” is used to close coverage most nights, while other songs score coverage elsewhere, a few providing the musical backdrop to some of the more than 60 team and player features produced specifically for FOX Sports’ FIFA Women’s World Cup 2015 coverage. The track “Mother” plays in a story about U.S. Women’s National Team player Christie Rampone – a mother of two who turns 40 during the World Cup, and “Third Eye” accompanies a feature on the artistic USWNT midfielder Megan Rapinoe, a guitarist, style aficionado and openly gay.
The complete list of tracks follows:
How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
Ship to Wreck
What Kind of Man
How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
Queen of Peace
Various Storms and Saints
Delilah
Long and Lost
Caught
Third Eye
St. Jude
Mother
Catalog
Shake It Out
Dog Days Are Over
Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)
Drumming Song
No Light, No Light
Spectrum
Howl
Breaking Down
Cosmic Love
FOX Sports is set to execute the most expansive multi-platform coverage ever of the FIFA Women’s World Cup™, including an unprecedented 16 matches airing live on FOX broadcast network. FOX Sports televises all 52 games in the expanded tournament from six cities across Canada between June 6 and July 5, 2015, live on FOX; FOX Sports 1, America’s fastest growing sports network; and FOX Sports 2. Digitally, all games are available on tablets and mobile devices via the FOX Sports GO app and online at www.FOXSportsGO.com. No broadcast network has ever televised 16 FIFA Women’s or Men’s World Cup matches, and the 2015 event marks the first time since 2003 that any FIFA Women’s World Cup™ matches are scheduled for over-the-air broadcast in the U.S. Combining games with anticipated pregame, postgame and complementary programming, FOX Sports is expected to provide almost 200 hours of coverage from FIFA Women’s World Cup 2015™. Coverage begins with reports in AMERICA’S PREGAME and FOX SPORTS LIVE, Thursday, June 4, and FIFA WOMEN’S WORLD CUP SPECIAL, a live one-hour preview show airing on the eve of match play, Friday, June 5 (7:30-8:30 PM ET) on FOX Sports 1.
