The Leisure Society
have announced details of their forthcoming second album Into the Murky Water
which will be released through Full Time Hobby on 2nd May. It’s arrival will be also summon the start of a UK headline tour. But it doesn’t stop there:
In addition, The Leisure Society have made a wonderfully entertaining video for ‘This Phantom Life’ starring cult comedy actor Mark Heap and directed by Tom Haines (previous credits include Tunng, Paul Smith, Wild Beasts, + Phosphorescent). Watch this amusing clip here with Mark as a new age guru attempting to induct the band into his countryside retreat:
‘Into The Murky Water’, will be preceded by the first single off the album, the gloriously epic ‘This Phantom Life’ on the 25th April.
The band released their debut album, ‘The Sleeper’, originally through the Willkommen label in March 2009. It was later picked up and re-issued with a limited edition EP through Full Time Hobby in the autumn of the same year.
The album resulted in two Ivor Novello nominations for the tracks ‘Last Of The Melting Snow’ in 2009 and ‘Save It For Someone Who Cares’ in 2010 and scooped Rough Trade’s Album of the Year as well as iTunes best Singer/Songwriter album in 2009.
The Leisure Society came together when fellow Burton-Upon-Trent exiles Nick Hemming and Christian Hardy found themselves sharing a flat in London. Nick had previously played in bands in Burton with Paddy Considine and Shane Meadows and would later contribute scores for Meadows’s films ‘A Room For Romeo Brass’ and ‘Dead Man’s Shoes’ under the Leisure Society moniker.
With a permanent line-up – Mike Siddell, Will Calderbank, Helen Whitaker, Amy May, Bas Hankins & Darren Bonehill – drawn from The Wilkommen Collective, the summer of 2010 saw the band play a number of acclaimed festival performances at Glastonbury, Richard Thompson’s Meltdown at the QEH and Port Eliot in Cornwall. The band will be shortly announcing festival dates for 2011.
UK Tour Dates
May
3rd Brighton Komedia
4th Bristol Thekla
5th Nottingham Rescue Rooms
7th Leeds Brudenell Social Club
8th Glasgow King Tuts
9th Manchester Band on the Wall
10th London Union Chapel
Tickets: www.alt-tickets.co.uk
Buy Link
Order from Amazon UK: Into the Murky Water