The Ferret presents:
Clementine Valentine (NZ, fka Purple Pilgrims)
+ Constant Smiles (US)
+ Audrey’s Dance (UK)
Richly layered indie folk & shimmering dream-pop from New Zealand's Clementine Valentine (formerly Purple Pilgrims) and tour-partners Constant Smiles of Massachusetts/NYC. With special guests, local dream-pop duo Audrey's Dance.
Thursday 22nd February | Doors 7pm
The Ferret | Preston
To buy tickets for this event please visit our events page: Clementine Valentine (fka Purple Pilgrims) + Constant Smiles tickets from Skiddle .
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CLEMENTINE VALENTINE (fka Purple Pilgrims)
New Zealand // Flying Nun Records
Sisters Clementine and Valentine Nixon make music drawn from nomadic family heritage that conjures unique moods of contrasts: ancient and modern, paradise and isolation, beauty and brokenness, ritual and the right now.
Raised itinerantly between New Zealand and Hong Kong, the sisters cut their teeth performing in renegade gallery spaces and rogue music venues across Hong Kong’s abandoned industrial estates, performing experimental noise and futuristic dream-pop under the moniker Purple Pilgrims. The duo have since toured the world extensively alongside Aldous Harding, Weyes Blood and more. It’s a lifestyle embedded in their lineage; travelling musicians and performers go back hundreds of years on their maternal side (as documented on recordings such as The Travelling Stewarts, from 1968).
They now perform under their birth names, and have begun collaborating with world-renowned musicians and producers – from producer Randall Dunn (Oneohtrix Point Never, Danny Elfman, Jim Jarmusch) to legendary drummer Matt Chamberlain (David Bowie, Lana Del Rey, Fiona Apple).
The Coin that Broke the Fountain Floor marks a pivotal moment in the creative evolution of Clementine and Valentine Nixon – regal and richly layered, shimmering and softly orchestral, an accumulation of songcraft stretching back centuries.
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CONSTANT SMILES
Massachusetts/NYC // Sacred Bones Records
Over the last half decade, the music collective Constant Smiles has produced a prolific output of acclaimed music, culminating in their 2023 release Kenneth Anger, masterfully brought to life by engineer Jonathan Schenke (Parquet Courts, Liars, Dougie Pool). The album received unanimously positive reviews from press and saw the band growing rapidly in streaming numbers at DSPs. The group was known previously for their much-praised debut album for Sacred Bones records, Paragons, an emotionally resonant offering of indie folk masterpieces that all confront the internal ways we process our struggles with intimacies, addiction and humanity - produced by Ben Greenberg.
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The Ferret presents:
Clementine Valentine
+ Constant Smiles
with special guests, local dream-pop duo Audrey's Dance.
Thursday 22nd February | Doors 7pm
The Ferret | Preston
All ages welcome, under 18s must be accompanied by a responsible adult.
Tickets: skiddle.com/e/37885922
