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The Velveteen Orkestra / Catherine Elms / Mishkin Fitzgerald & The Chemical Perils

Fri, 21 Feb

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Newport

The Velveteen Orkestra / Catherine Elms / Mishkin Fitzgerald & The Chemical Perils
The Velveteen Orkestra / Catherine Elms / Mishkin Fitzgerald & The Chemical Perils

Time & Location

21 Feb 2025, 19:30 – 22:30

Newport, 14 High St, Newport NP20 1FW, UK

About the event

The Velveteen Orkestra has the ability to make audiences swoon while, at the same time, casting forth an air of unease with their intoxicating hybrid of rich romanticism and brutal intensity. Embodying essences of European folk and Americana with nodding acquaintances to Neil Young, Nick Cave, Tom Waits and Radiohead, their sound can gently pluck at your heartstrings while, at the same time, delicately slipping them around your neck. 


The Velveteen Orkestra are a ragged-trousered rock and roll orchestra conceived in a leaky, shadow-veiled district of South London. Bellowing out from underneath the grey brutalist tower blocks named in honour of romantic poets is a sound that is both savage, yet elegant… animal, yet noble… honest, yet fantastical. 


Catherine is a dark alternative singer-songwriter and pianist. Influenced by Kate Bush, Nick Cave and Tori Amos, Catherine creates an epic and transcendent sound described as “dark and lush”, “immersive and captivating”,…


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14 HIGH STREET, NEWPORT, NP20 1FW

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