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The story of The Leisure Society began in Burton-Upon-Trent when Nick Hemming picked up a guitar and formed a band with Shane Meadows, Paddy Considine and Rich Eaton. Following a year of demos and increasingly bizarre gigs, Shane and Paddy were drawn towards careers in film, leaving Nick to pursue a life of making music. After serving time with Burton’s best known exports The Telescopes (latterly Unisex), Nick contributed scores to some of Shane’s movies, including A Room For Romeo Brass and Dead Man’s Shoes, under a new moniker The Leisure Society.

Then in 2005 he was asked to collaborate with fellow Burtonians Christian Silva, prompting a move to South London where he bunked up in singer Christian Hardy’s postage stamp bedroom. One thing inevitably led to another and soon Nick started shyly presenting his compositions in the wee hours of the morning, picking up a ukulele, mandolin, banjo or guitar and pouring out songs that were wistful, romantic, poetic and drenched in longing. Hemming was dismissive, Hardy was transfixed. Thus The Leisure Society was reborn, a new band in which Christian tinkled the ivories, twiddled the knobs and sung all the notes Nick couldn’t reach.

Christian and Nick continued with other musical exploits: Christian Silva released debut album Onward! and enjoyed a number of high profile tour dates; Nick joined the ranks of two Brighton folk ensembles, Sons Of Noel and Adrian and Shoreline, both members of a newly formed Willkommen Collective. It was from this rich pool of talent that Nick and Christian found band members to realise their ever-expanding vision of The Leisure Society.

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1	The Last Of The Melting Snow	388
2	The Sleeper	306
3	A Short Weekend Begins With Longing	294
4	We Were Wasted	279
5	Save It For Someone Who Cares	269
6	Pancake Day full track	261
7	The Darkest Place I Know	247
8	A Matter Of Time	245
9	Love's Enormous Wings	241
10	Are We Happy?	238
11	Come to Your Senses	234
12	Give Yourself A Fighting Chance	167
13	A Fighting Chance	148
14	A Passing Thought full track	134
15	Cars (Gary Numan Cover)	54

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cut_paste_twist wrote:
Friday afternoon

We have a review of The Leisure Society's show at St Giles in London, if anybody is interested! http://fistfulofawkward.blogspot.com/2009/11/leisure-society-st-giles-church-nov-9th.html

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IndieLove92 wrote:
Friday afternoon

these guys were so so so good at st giles. the last of the melting snow live is devastatingly beautiful.

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wreckastow wrote:
last month

The Last of the Melting Snow is so beautiful.

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RobBulman wrote:
last month

I have now found this place Nick! Cheers Bully

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clark_ wrote:
September 2009

"the sleeper" album is a good surprise to me

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ShadyAdy wrote:
September 2009

A wonderful album indeed. A 'hug for the ears', to paraphrase a friend of mine. :)

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LittleSmil3 wrote:
August 2009

That's Awsome !!

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iamcardboard wrote:
July 2009

I saw these guys live last night, wow! They're amazing live :D. Love Christian's sense of humor! Loved the fiddle player (Mike?). I'm looking forward to their next visit to the North East!

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AbnegationXIV wrote:
June 2009

One of the best debuts of this year hands down.

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perhapsornot wrote:
June 2009

чудное)

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liverpulez wrote:
June 2009

чудо чудесное...

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harry_Powell_85 wrote:
June 2009

Really nice record. See you at Faraday!

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james_DHP wrote:
June 2009

Buy tickets for The Leisure Society's upcoming shows in Newcastle, Manchester, London and Bristol from: http://www.gigantic.com/alttickets/home_the_leisure_society.html

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hoedoro wrote:
May 2009

Just lovely!

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Magic_Alex wrote:
May 2009

Check out the nice words about The Leisure Society at http://magicalexdjs.blogspot.com/

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yugman wrote:
May 2009

Bought the album today in HMV of all places, it was on the staff recommendations rack. Seems great so far.

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Warlock1963 wrote:
May 2009

A superb track and a well deserved nominataion. Let's hope Nick gets the Novello. The best thing to come out of Burton-upon-Trent since Marson's Pedigree (God's own ale)!

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Warlock1963 wrote:
May 2009

The best thing to come out of Burton-upon-Trent since Marston's Pedigree! Great and really well done with the deserved Novello nomination.

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DustedMusic wrote:
April 2009

Good stuff. The Sleeper reviewed at Dusted Music Review

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GezD wrote:
April 2009

Session on Jon Richardson on BBC6music about 2 hours in http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00jxdf8/Jon_Richardson_19_04_2009/

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Events

Jan 14 Eurosonic Binnenstad, Groningen, The Netherlands, Netherlands
50 shouts | 132 attendees
Jan 20 The Leisure Society Moby Dick, Madrid, Spain
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Jan 21 The Leisure Society Sidecar, Barcelona, Spain
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News

The Leisure Society video and Brighton in store performance

13 Oct 2009 | from www.willkommenrecords.co.uk

The Leisure Society have an amazing video for their latest single “Save It For Someone Who Cares”, you can watch it below: The band also play at Resident Records, Kensington Gardens, Brighton…

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