The Leisure Society

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Fight for Everyone 03:49 Tools
Save It for Someone Who Cares 00:00 Tools
The Last of the Melting Snow 00:00 Tools
We Were Wasted 02:56 Tools
A Matter of Time 00:00 Tools
A Short Weekend Begins With Longing 00:00 Tools
The Sleeper 03:51 Tools
The Sober Scent of Paper 03:38 Tools
Pancake Day 00:00 Tools
Dust On the Dancefloor 00:00 Tools
A Passing Thought 00:00 Tools
Into the Murky Water 00:00 Tools
Love's Enormous Wings 00:00 Tools
The Darkest Place I Know 00:00 Tools
Come to Your Senses 00:00 Tools
Are We Happy? 00:00 Tools
Another Sunday Psalm 03:09 Tools
This Phantom Life 00:00 Tools
A Fighting Chance 00:00 Tools
Our Hearts Burn Like Damp Matches 00:00 Tools
You Could Keep Me Talking 00:00 Tools
A Softer Voice Takes Longer Hearing 00:00 Tools
All I Have Seen 04:33 Tools
Tearing the Arches Down 00:00 Tools
Although We All Are Lost 00:00 Tools
The Hungry Years 00:00 Tools
Forever Shall We Wait 00:00 Tools
Give Yourself A Fighting Chance 00:00 Tools
Everyone Understands 00:00 Tools
Better Written Off (Than Written Down) 00:00 Tools
I Shall Forever Remain an Amateur 00:00 Tools
Life Is a Cabriolet 00:00 Tools
Just Like the Knife 00:00 Tools
One Man and His Fug 00:00 Tools
We Go Together 06:29 Tools
Cars (Gary Numan Cover) 04:45 Tools
The Last in a Long Line 00:00 Tools
Flying 00:00 Tools
The Fine Art Of Hanging On 00:00 Tools
Inchworm 00:00 Tools
Weir Road 00:00 Tools
It Dissolves in the Writing 00:00 Tools
Notions of What Is Right 00:00 Tools
A Richer Dust 00:00 Tools
A Short Weekend Begins With Longing (Original Demo) 00:00 Tools
Wanderin' Star 00:00 Tools
C'mon Anon 00:00 Tools
Bona Fide 00:00 Tools
Save It For Someone Who Cares - Single Version 00:00 Tools
If God Did Give Me a Choice 00:00 Tools
The Wayfarer 00:00 Tools
Nothing Like This 00:00 Tools
Tall Black Cabins 00:00 Tools
GOD HAS TAKEN A VACATION 00:00 Tools
Cars 00:00 Tools
A Bird, A Bee, Humanity 00:00 Tools
Something 00:00 Tools
Overheard 00:00 Tools
The Undefeated Ego 00:00 Tools
Outside In 00:00 Tools
Save It for Someone Who Cares (Single Version) 00:00 Tools
As The Shadows Form 00:00 Tools
You'll Never Know When It Breaks 00:00 Tools
You Are What You Take 00:00 Tools
I'm a Setting Sun 00:00 Tools
All Is Now 00:00 Tools
Wide Eyes At Villains 00:00 Tools
Beat Of A Drum 00:00 Tools
Arrivals & Departures 00:00 Tools
Colombia! 00:00 Tools
Inchworm (Hans Christian Anderson) 00:00 Tools
I'll pay for it now 00:00 Tools
LET ME BRING YOU DOWN 00:00 Tools
Be You Wherever 00:00 Tools
Don't Want To Do It Again 00:00 Tools
Arundel Tomb 00:00 Tools
LEAVE ME TO SLEEP 00:00 Tools
There Are No Rules Around Here 00:00 Tools
You've Got the Universe 00:00 Tools
Give Yourself A Fighting Chanc 00:00 Tools
Ways To Be Saved 00:00 Tools
Mistakes On The Field - Part II 00:00 Tools
Mistakes On The Field - Part I 00:00 Tools
Me And Julio Down By The Schoolyard (Originally by Paul Simon) 00:00 Tools
Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard 00:00 Tools
A Short Weekend 00:00 Tools
The Last of the Melting Snow (Live) 00:00 Tools
We'll Be Together Again (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
White Trashed (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
If God Did Give Me A Chance 00:00 Tools
Christmas Mistakes 00:00 Tools
I'm The Setting Sun 00:00 Tools
Mistakes On The Field (Part I) 00:00 Tools
Mistakes On The Field (Part II) 00:00 Tools
Save It For Someone Who Cares [Single Version] 00:00 Tools
The Last Of The MS 00:00 Tools
We Were Wasted (On The Ride) [TLOBF Exclusive] 00:00 Tools
A Matter Of Time (Radio Edit) 00:00 Tools
Fight For Everyone (Live) 00:00 Tools
A BIRD A BEE HUMANITY 00:00 Tools
A short weekend begins with longing - Original Demo 00:00 Tools
better written off 00:00 Tools
Me And Julio Down By the Schoolyard (Live) 00:00 Tools
Something (The Beatles cover) 00:00 Tools
Into The Murky Water (live on BBC 6 Music) 00:00 Tools
The Sober Scent of Paper (official stream) 00:00 Tools
Monkey Hair Hide 00:00 Tools
You Could Keep Me Talking (live on BBC 6 Music) 00:00 Tools
Arrivals Departures 00:00 Tools
Pancake Day (Streatham Mix) 00:00 Tools
This Phantom Life (Edit) 00:00 Tools
The Phantom Life (live on BBC 6 Music) 00:00 Tools
Mistakes On The Field 00:00 Tools
Mistakes on the Field, Pt. II 00:00 Tools
Mistakes on the Field, Pt. I 00:00 Tools
Something (The Beatles) 00:00 Tools
Dust On The Dance Floor 00:00 Tools
Pancake Day - Single Version 00:00 Tools
Me And Julio Down By The Schoolyard (Saturday Sessions 2011) 00:00 Tools
2000 Miles (Pretenders Cover) 00:00 Tools
The Last Of The Melting Snow (Live On The Dermot O'Leary Show) 00:00 Tools
We Were Wasted - The Leisure Society 00:00 Tools
A Short Weekend Begins With Longing (Original Demo) - Single Version 00:00 Tools
Something[The Beatles cover] 00:00 Tools
We'll Be Together Again 00:00 Tools
Last of the Melting Snow - 10th Anniversary Live Performance 00:00 Tools
Short Weekend 00:00 Tools
A Passing Thought - Single Version 00:00 Tools
Cars (Gary Numan Cover) - Single Version 00:00 Tools
White Trashed 00:00 Tools
Something (Beatles) 00:00 Tools
If God Did Give Me A Choice - Single Version 00:00 Tools
Colombia 00:00 Tools
The Wayfarer - Single Version 00:00 Tools
We Were Wasted (On The Ride) 00:00 Tools
A Little Respect 00:00 Tools
A Little Respect (Live) 00:00 Tools
Bona Fide - Single Version 00:00 Tools
We Were Wasted (Tyrannosaur ost) 00:00 Tools
A Bird, A Bee, Humantiy 00:00 Tools
All I Have Seen (Remixed by White Label) 00:00 Tools
THE LEISURE SOCIETY 00:00 Tools
Our Hearts Burn Like Damp Match 00:00 Tools
God Has Taken a Vacation (Richelieu Acoustic Demo) 00:00 Tools
The Last of the Melting Snow (Marc Riley Session 15/12/2008) 00:00 Tools
We Were Wasted (On The Ride) TLS5mp3 00:00 Tools
MISTAKES ON THE FIELD (PART 1) 00:00 Tools
A Pancake Thought 00:00 Tools
The Phantom Life 00:00 Tools
Our Hearts Burn Like Damp Matc 00:00 Tools
In A Matter Of 00:00 Tools
We Were Wasted (Marc Riley Session 15/12/2008) 00:00 Tools
Blalock's Indie/Rock Playlist: May (2009) - 109 - The Last Of The Melting Snow 00:00 Tools
The Last of the Melting Snow (blip.up) 00:00 Tools
Love’s Enormous Wings 00:00 Tools
Inchworm - The Leisure Society 00:00 Tools
I Shall Forever Remain An Amate 00:00 Tools
Save It For Someone Who Cares (Radio edit) 00:00 Tools
Love's EnormousWings (Marc Riley session 15/12/2008) 00:00 Tools
Fight For Everyone (Radio 2_Rip) 00:00 Tools
I Don't Mind 00:00 Tools
A Short Weekend Begins With Longing [Original Demo] 00:00 Tools
Me And Julio Down By The Schoolyard - Saturday Sessions 2011 00:00 Tools
Sorter Voice Takes Longer Hearing 00:00 Tools
Save It For Someone Who Cares - Bandstand Busking Acoustic Session 00:00 Tools
Better Written Off (Than Writte 00:00 Tools
A Little Respect [Erasure] 00:00 Tools
It Dissolves In the Writing (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Cars (Gary Newman cover) 00:00 Tools
The Leisure Society - Dust On The Dancefloor 00:00 Tools
God Has Take a Vacation 00:00 Tools
This Phantom Life (Radio Edit) 00:00 Tools
A Matter of Time (live on BBC 6 Music) 00:00 Tools
Something (Beatles cover) 00:00 Tools
Alone Aboard the Ark (album trailer) 00:00 Tools
YOU LL NEVER KNOW WHEN IT BREAKS 00:00 Tools
This Phantom Life (live on BBC 6 Music) 00:00 Tools
Fight For Everyone - 6 Music Session 26/03/2013 00:00 Tools
All I Have Seen (Radio 2 Session, 26 Mar 2013) 00:00 Tools
Forever Shall We Wait (Radio 2 Session, 26 Mar 2013) 00:00 Tools
The Sober Scent Of Paper (Radio 2 Session, 26 Mar 2013) 00:00 Tools
A Short Weekend Begins With Longing (Demo) 00:00 Tools
I Shall Forever Remain An Amat 00:00 Tools
Tyrannosaur 00:00 Tools
Mistakes On The Field (Part 2) 00:00 Tools
01 Another Sunday Psalm 00:00 Tools
Setting Sun 00:00 Tools
Better Written Off (Than Writt 00:00 Tools
Wanderin'Star 00:00 Tools
The Leisure Society - A Matter Of Time 00:00 Tools
The Last Of Melting Snow 00:00 Tools
Colombia! (WMA'14) 00:00 Tools
Cars (Gary Numan) 00:00 Tools
Wanderin Star 00:00 Tools
The Darkest Place I Know [The Sleeper, 2009] 00:00 Tools
The Leisure Society: A Softer Voice Takes Longer Hearing 00:00 Tools
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The Leisure Society is a British folk-pop band formed in Brighton in 2009 by Nick Hemming. Their debut single, "The Last Of The Melting Snow", was honoured with a 2009 Ivor Novello nomination for Best Song Musically & Lyrically. Their single "Save It For Someone Who Cares" was also nominated for the Ivor Novello in the same category in 2010, making the band one of very few consecutive nominees. The band released their album, Alone Aboard The Ark, in 2013 through Full Time Hobby. The album is being supported by an eleven date tour of the UK, commencing on April 12 at The Kazimier in Liverpool and ending on April 25 at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall. The new LP - recorded at Kinks frontman Ray Davies‘ Konk Studios - is the follow up to 2011’s lauded Into The Murky Water, which the band toured in ever distinctive fashion, including a date at the London Barbican backed by the 40-piece Heritage Orchestra. Fittingly, Alone Aboard The Ark sees the band expanding their arcadian, Baroque pop sound with a more diverse array of sounds and inventive orchestration. Following a summer of rehearsals beside the River Ouse in Befordshire, The Leisure Society decamped to Konk Studios to begin recording the tracks that would become Alone Aboard The Ark. Having declared himself a fan of The Leisure Society, Kinks frontman Ray Davies (owner of Konk) originally sought out the band to help him arrange and record his new solo material, and also included the band in his curation of 2011’s Meltdown Festival on the South Bank. The genesis of The Leisure Society spans back to the friendship made by Nick Hemming and Christian Hardy in their hometown of Burton on Trent. When the pair relocated to London they fell in with the Brighton-based Wilkommen Collective, and with Helen Whitaker, Mike Siddell and Sebastian Hankins, came to form The Leisure Society. The single 'The Last of The Melting Snow' from their debut LP The Sleeper was nonimated for a 2009 Ivor Novello (alongside heavyweights such as Elbow & The Last Shadow Puppets), and the band joined an incredibly select group when a year later, 'Save It For Someone Who Cares' was also nominated for an Ivor. Lyrically, Alone Aboard The Ark is an album informed by a palette as eclectic as it's musical flesh. Album standout 'The Sober Scent of Paper' is a hair-raising, elegiac waltz informed somewhat unconsciously by the demise of Sylvia Plath: 'When I began writing‘ says Nick 'I didn’t know what it was going to be about. For some reason, the first line 'Chains dredge the great lake around you / Pull you along by the knots in your hair‘ made me think of her. I guess it’s quite a dark desolate image‘. Yet there's light to this shade, with 'Tearing The Arches Down' marrying a wryly observed narrative 'The boy with the bloodshot eyes / A legend in your lunchtime' to an ebullient chant. Over the summer, Nick’s 8 hours a day Olympic TV habit manifested inself in 'Fight For Everyone‘, which whilst celebrating British success, also considers those who also 'had this spine-tingling roar of support, but could only ever be an also-ran'. The track also marks The Leisure Society’s first foray into synths, utilising as it does six different vintage synth lines, layered up by Helen and Christian. Having recorded both The Sleeper and 2011's follow-up Into The Murky Water in home studios, the range of technology both old and new at the band's disposal at Konk proved to be the perfect foil for The Leisure Society's ambitious designs. Alone Aboard The Ark was recorded on a 2“ tape machine and a 1970s mixing desk, and the value of recording live, coupled with the band's minimal approach to arrangement, is borne out across the album. Nick Etwell’s (trumpeter to Mumford & Sons) brass lines permeate 'One Man and His Fug', whilst the electric guitar lines heard on 'The Last in A Long Line' were the product of Christian and Mike‘s two Gretches recorded playing at opposite ends of the studio. Even the piano part for 'We Go Together' underwent a nocturnal reinvention when Christian had 'a moment of inspiration, whilst deeply drunk at midnight listening to the playback'. Ask the band what makes them most proud of Alone Aboard The Ark though, and the answer is likely to be 'a gang mentality'. Say Christian and Nick, 'There’s no question that this is 'the one' in terms of us five working together to create something. As a result of the camaraderie and everyone having their say, we’re all at our absolute peak on this album'. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.