About Us

WATER PAGEANT are a boy/girl duo from Oxford and have recently concluded work on their debut album OUTLINES.

Specialising in a realm that lurks somewhere between alt-folk and Cocteau Twins style 80s synth dreamscape; deceptively sweet on the surface, dive a little deeper and the lyrics betray a darker side of singed dreams and pasts. Water Pageant attempt to measure the immeasurable shadow of nostalgia as it casts itself ever longer, ever wider, ever surer.

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Alot of people seem to be talking about the duo Water Pageant at the moment
Fiona Talkington, LATE JUNCTION, BBC RADIO 3

WATER PAGEANT are:

Nick Tingay – Guitars, vocals, various
Lizzy McBain – Keyboard, vocals

Having previously played & toured with Ralfe Band, guitarist and songwriter Nick Tingay formed WATER PAGEANT during the dying embers of 2012 when he was visited upon by a Shamanistic courier who suggested it might be time.  Written and recorded during a protracted period of hermetic creativity Outlines is the crystallisation of these compositional endeavours.

Nick painstakingly crafts the material in a solitary manner (verging on madness), before gaining input from his muse, singer and keyboard player Lizzy, the duo certainly have something in common with other alt folk/dream wave acts such as Beach House, Fleet Foxes and Sharon Van Etten and a classic songwriting edge which echoes the likes of Camera Obscura, Low and Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings.

The 12 songs were predominantly recorded at home in Oxford over the last 3 to 4 years and the album was self-produced, mixed & mastered in studios in and around Oxford & London throughout summer 2015.  They have since recieved attention from Radio 3’s Late Junction,  6 MusicCanada’s CBC, BBC Radio Wales Oxford.

Great songs out of nowhere!
Dave Gilyeat, BBC INTRODUCING OXFORD

Wonderfully ambient folksters are just a delight to behold!
Liz Green, BBC INTRODUCING OXFORD

Show stealing…keening…a headrush as much as a questioning of the voices inside your own head…something to marvel at…
Nightshift


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Genre:
Dreamy-alternative-synth-folk

Home Town:
Oxford

Predicament:
Fragile