Arrivals & Departures The Leisure Society

• 1 Arrivals & Departures 03:16
• 2 A Bird A Bee Humanity 04:30
• 3 God Has Taken A Vacation 02:39
• 4 I'll Pay For It Now 03:04
• 5 Overheard 04:22
• 6 Let Me Bring You Down 03:02
• 7 Be You Wherever 05:02
• 8 Arundel Tomb 03:32
• 9 Don't Want To Do It Again 03:13
• 10 Mistakes On The Field (Part I) 04:45
• 11 Mistakes On The Field (Part II) 01:45
• 12 Leave Me To Sleep 03:41
• 13 Beat Of A Drum 03:22
• 14 There Are No Rules Around Here 03:28
• 15 You've Got The Universe 03:19
• 16 Ways To Be Saved 03:11
• Total Runtime 56:11

Info for Arrivals & Departures

Even before you get to the music there’s plenty to pique one’s interest with The Leisure Society. Main-man Nick Hemming began his career in shoegaze band The Telescopes and shared a further outfit with Paddy Considine and Shane Meadows.

They’ve had two consecutive Ivor Novellonominations for Best Song Musically and Lyrically, and have enjoyed the endorsement of everyone from Guy Garvey to Brian Eno. They’ve collaborated with Ray Davies and the Heritage Orchestra, not to mention soundtracking a few films, most notably Mr Considine’s brutal masterpiece Tyrannosaur.

Their long awaited fifth album, Arrivals & Departures, is set for release in Spring 2019 and the band will be touring it throughout May.

“Gorgeously delicate” (The Guardian)

“A true gem” (Brian Eno)

“Warm, colourful, literate songs that reach into the heart and the head” (The Independent)

“As close to any of The Beatles’ greatest records as anything I’ve heard in the last five years or so” (Drowned In Sound)

The Leisure Society

The Leisure Society
We self-released our first single The Last of the Melting Snow in December 2008, swiftly followed by our debut album The Sleeper. It was named a Rough Trade Album of the Year, and iTunes Singer Songwriter Album of the Year. We were lucky enough to receive a lot of media support during that period, which intensified when Melting Snow, then Save it for Someone Who Cares received two consecutive Ivor Novello nominations for ‘Best Song, Lyrically and Musically’. Being the first unsigned artists to be nominated brought with it quite a lot of media attention. The nadir was probably the Sun headline ‘Ivor no idea who he is either’. Anyway, we signed to Full Time Hobby, re-releasing The Sleeper (+ bonus disc) and putting out our next 3 records (Into the Murky Water, Alone Aboard the Ark and The Fine Art of Hanging On) with them.

In the intervening years we’ve enjoyed some amazing highlights and honours; packing the acoustic tent at our first Glastonbury, playing Meltdown Festival for Richard Thompson, then for our hero Ray Davies, (who asked us to record and perform new material with him), getting to work with Brian Eno, helping score our friend Paddy Considine’s debut film Tyrannosaur, performing with The Heritage Orchestra at The Barbican, touring the UK’s cathedrals with Laura Marling and building our own live following up to a Shepherd’s Bush Empire headline show. We’re currently finishing off our 5th album, the biggest, most ambitious one yet.

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