album ‘The Sleeper’ re-released 5th October + free mp3
London symphonic pop band The Leisure Society have announced details of new UK live dates and are set to re-release their debut album ‘The Sleeper’ on the 5th October. The re-release on Full Time Hobby comes lovingly packaged with an 8-track bonus EP, ‘A Product Of The Ego Drain’, which features a number of b-sides, demos and an un-released cover of Gary Numan’s ‘Cars’. Full details of all the UK dates are below, including an appearance at Huw Stephen’s SWN festival and a headline show at St Giles Church in London.
To further celebrate the re-release of ‘The Sleeper’, The Leisure Society are giving away a track from the album. Please click the following link to download ‘We Were Wasted’
http://www.mediafilesccc.com/FullTimeHobby/WeWereWasted.mp3
‘The Sleeper’ was originally released by the Wilkommen Collective label in March 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’ & ‘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.
New live dates:
5 Oct Resident Records In Store Acoustic Performance, Brighton
24 Oct SWN Festival, Wales
25 Oct Canterbury Festival @ Orange Street Music Club, Canterbury
22 Nov Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
23 Nov The Glee Club, Birmingham
25 Nov St Giles In The Fields Church, London
To further celebrate the re-release of ‘The Sleeper’, The Leisure Society are giving away a track from the album. Please click the following link to download ‘We Were Wasted’
http://www.mediafilesccc.com/FullTimeHobby/WeWereWasted.mp3
‘The Sleeper’ was originally released by the Wilkommen Collective label in March 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’ & ‘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.
New live dates:
5 Oct Resident Records In Store Acoustic Performance, Brighton
24 Oct SWN Festival, Wales
25 Oct Canterbury Festival @ Orange Street Music Club, Canterbury
22 Nov Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
23 Nov The Glee Club, Birmingham
25 Nov St Giles In The Fields Church, London
