aaamusic | On 14, Apr 2011

Follow the recent album announcement, The Leisure Society have revealed that they’re due to play a show at London Aquarium to celebrate the release of ‘Into The Murky Water’

Taking place on the evening on the album release date Monday 2nd May, the band will play in front of the aquarium’s shark tank. HMV are giving away ten pairs of tickets here to fans who pre-order the album here.

‘Into The Murky Water’ will be the second album to be released through Full Time Hobby for the 8-strong London-based symphonic pop band. This is preceded by the first single off the album, the gloriously epic ‘This Phantom Life’ on the 25th April.

Watch the hugely entertaining new video for ‘This Phantom Life’ starring comedy legend Mark Heap of Spaced/Green Wing/Big Train fame as a new age guru:

The Leisure Society will also be off on tour in May following the release of the album.

The full list of dates are as follows:

MAY
2nd Rough Trade East Instore 6pm
2nd London Aquarium
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 for the shows are on sale now via www.alt-tickets.co.uk

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, a loose collection of musicians, 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.