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’s 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 their debut album, The Sleeper. Produced and mixed by Christian and Nick, the record was initially self-released through the collective’s own Willkommen Records. The first couple 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 both were voted ‘record of the week’), Zane Lowe, Marc Riley, Lauren Laverne, Dermot O’Leary, Bob Harris and Elbow’s Guy Garvey.

In April 2009 The Last Of The Melting Snow was nominated for an Ivor Novello award. Guy Garvey named it his favourite song of 2008.

Now signed to Full Time Hobby, they have just re-recorded album track Save it For Someone Who Cares, which will be released as a single and included on a special bonus EP accompanying the re-released album in October.