Embracing their Scottish heritage wasn’t always the plan for songwriting sisters Clementine and Valentine Nixon. Before writing their new album, The Coin that Broke the Fountain Floor, the pair had been on a big, hectic European tour under old band name Purple Pilgrims. However, unbeknown to them, it was to be their final outing under that title. The shows started in early 2020, then, on the Scottish leg of the tour, the Coromandel-based sisters headed to their ancestral home of Aberdeen.
“We knew we had quite deep family connections there, but we were in the tour mindset and weren’t thinking about reaching
