The Leisure Society

The Leisure Society have announced details of the release of their new album, Into The Murky Water, the bands second album, will be released on Monday May 2nd 2011 through Full Time Hobby.

The band released their debut album, The Sleeper, 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 2 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 Trades Album of the Year 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 Meadowss films A Room For Romeo Brass and Dead Mans 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, a loose collection of musicians, the summer of 2010 saw the band play a number of acclaimed festival performances at Glastonbury, Richard Thompsons Meltdown at the QEH and Port Eliot in Cornwall. The band will be shortly announcing more festival dates for 2011, but already confirmed for End Of The Road, Lamer Tree and Green Man Festivals.

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Guest Tour Support will come from Sarabeth Tucek

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Sarabeth Tucek grew up in New York, the daughter of a psychiatrist and psychologist. Originally her calling was acting, until after a few years in Hollywood her singing and songwriting was encouraged by many in the music scene she fell in with. Her first musical collaboration was with Bill Callahan on Smogs Supper in 2003. She can be seen performing a song she had only just written called Something For You in the film DiG, which went on to win best documentary at Sundance in 2004. The subject of the film, Brian Jonestown Massacre, soon covered the song on their We Are The Radio EP in 2005.

The UK label Sonic Cathedral released her first 45, the definitive recording of Something For You, which became Single of the Week twice on Steve Lamacqs influential BBC Radio Show. Produced by Ethan Johns (Kings Of Leon, Ryan Adams) and Luther Russell (Richmond Fontaine, Noah & The Whale), her eponymous debut record was released in 2007 on Echo to rapturous reviews, leading to shows with artists like Bob Dylan, Jim James of My Morning Jacket and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. Her second single Nobody Cares was named one of the Top songs of 2008 by the London Times and sold-out shows followed for the next few tours. In 2009, after moving from Los Angeles back to her hometown, Sarabeth released an early version of a new song, The Doctor, on the French label Wool and played some select shows in that country. Following a much-needed break, she recorded her follow-up album Get Well Soon outside of Philadelphia, once again with Luther Russell at the helm. Sarabeth has contributed several songs to the soundtrack of the film Shit Year, directed by Cam Archer, which went to Cannes this year. After appearing on tribute records to artists as diverse as The Cure, Cy Coleman and Roky Erickson, all things point to the impending release of new album Get Well Soon which is released in April 2011 on Sonic Cathdral.