The Leisure Society to Release Single ‘Save It For Someone Who Cares’
out 28th Sept + live dates September 4, 2009, 03:49 PM Views: 337
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 Full Time Hobby’s latest signing The Leisure Society are set to release their new single ‘Save It For Someone Who Cares’ on the 28th September. There will be plenty of opportunities to witness their intoxicating symphonic pop played live throughout September and October on the following dates:
SEPTEMBER
5th Long Melford Festinho Festival
11th Larmer Tree Gardens End of the Road Festival
19th Exeter Exeter Festival
21st Brighton Duke of Yorks
23rd Milton Keynes The Stables
OCTOBER
24th Cardiff SWN Festival
25th Canterbury Canterbury Festival
‘Save It For Someone Who Cares’ is taken from the band’s brand new 8-track EP ‘A Product Of The Ego Drain’, a bonus EP accompanying the re-release of The Leisure Society’s debut album ‘The Sleeper’ out on the 5th October. ‘A Product Of The Ego Drain’ EP features a number of b-sides, demos and an un-released cover of Gary Numan’s Cars. ‘The Sleeper’ was originally released by the Wilkommen label in March earlier this year to much critical applause and also features includes the Ivor Novello-nominated track ‘The Last Of The Melting Snow’.
The story of the Leisure Society began in Burton-Upon-Trent when Nick Hemming formed a band with Shane Meadows, Paddy Considine and Rich Eaton. Meadows and Considine would later go on to successful careers in film while Nick, in his own words, would spend a few years ‘working to support a music habit.’
After having contributed a couple of scores for Meadows’ films (A Room For Romeo Brass & Dead Man’s Shoes) under The Leisure Society moniker and a stint in The Telescopes, Nick found himself in London where he ended up sharing a flat with fellow Burton exile Christian Hardy.
The pair began writing together and playing in a number of bands – Nick would join Brighton bands Sons of Noel and Adrian and Shoreline and both would play in Christian’s band Christian Silva. It was through Nick’s Brighton connections that they met and began working with the Willkommen Collective, a loose collection of Brighton based musicians promoters and artists - it was from this collective that they drew the musicians who formed the permanent line-up of the band – Mike Siddell, Will Calderbank, Helen Whitaker, Bas Hankins & Darren Bonehill.
By the end of 2008 the pair had written and recorded almost 30 songs, 11 of which would end up on ‘The Sleeper’.The firstcouple of singles from the album, ‘The Last Of The Melting Snow’ and ‘A Matter Of Time’, picked up considerable radio support from the likes of Radcliffe and Maconie (where bothwere voted ‘record of the week’), Zane Lowe, Marc Riley Lauren Laverne, Dermot O’Leary, Bob Harris and Guy Garvey.
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