The Leisure Society Concert History

The Leisure Society is a British folk-pop band formed in Brighton in 2009 by Nick Hemming. Their debut single, "The Last Of The Melting Snow", was honoured with a 2009 Ivor Novello nomination for Best Song Musically & Lyrically. Their single "Save It For Someone Who Cares" was also nominated for the Ivor Novello in the same category in 2010, making the band one of very few consecutive nominees.

Date Concert Venue Location
Apr 20, 2013
The Leisure Society King Tut's Wah Wah Hut Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Apr 18, 2013
The Leisure Society Thekla Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Apr 17, 2013
The Leisure Society Glee Club Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Sep 14, 2012 –
Sep 16, 2012
Ramsbottom Festival 2012
In Fear Of Olive / Rocket / Seth Lakeman / Magic Arm / I Am Kloot / Inspiral Carpets / The Leisure Society / Thea Gilmore / Admiral Fallow / Rachel Sermanni / Liz Green / Jenny Mccormick / Roddy Woomble / Roddy Frame / Kan / Marc O'Reilly / Janice Graham Band / Session A9 / Louis Barabbas & The Bedlam Six / Danny Mahon / Air Cav / Harp and a Monkey / Molly Bloom / Cheap Cuts / John Herring / The Lazy Maybees / Biederbeck / Man Made Sole Show all bands
Ramsbottom Cricket Club Ramsbottom, England, United Kingdom
Aug 25, 2012
"Folkeast" / Bellowhead / The Leisure Society / Lau

Folkeast

Somerleyton Hall Somerleyton, United Kingdom
Aug 24, 2012
Greenbelt Festival
"Greenbelt Festival" / Bruce Cockburn / The Leisure Society / Peterson Toscano / Stan's Cafe / Shane Claiborne / Tony Campolo / Dave Tomlinson / Phantom Limb
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Cheltenham Racecourse Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Jun 16, 2012
Big Session Festival
"Big Session Festival" / Pete Lawrence / Eddi Reader / The Treacherous Orchestra / Martin Simpson / Dizraeli / Kris Drever / Jonny Kearney & Lucy Farrell / Will Pound & Dan Walsh / Chris Tye / The Leisure Society / Jesca Hoop / Alejandro Toledo & The Magic Tombolinos / Kami Thompson / Sam Brookes / Paper Aeroplanes / Abandoman / ______ / Lisbee Stainton / Blue Rose Code / Dan Whitehouse / Stephen Langstaff / Tyde Show all bands
Catton Park Derbyshire, United Kingdom
Feb 26, 2012
The Leisure Society Glee Club Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Feb 15, 2012
The Leisure Society Norwich Arts Centre Norwich, England, United Kingdom
Dec 08, 2011
The Leisure Society / The Heritage Orchestra / Loney Dear
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Barbican Centre London, England, United Kingdom
Oct 28, 2011
Laura Marling / The Leisure Society
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Liverpool Cathedral Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
Oct 26, 2011
Laura Marling / The Leisure Society Central Hall Westminster London, England, United Kingdom
Oct 18, 2011
Laura Marling / The Leisure Society
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Gloucester Cathedral Gloucester, England, United Kingdom
Sep 09, 2011
Kurt Vile / Man Man / The Leisure Society Le Grand Mix Lille, Hauts-de-France, France
Sep 02, 2011 –
Sep 04, 2011
End of the Road Festival 2011
Lykke Li / Beirut / Best Coast / Mogwai / Laura Marling / M. Ward / Clap Your Hands Say Yeah / Twin Shadow / tUnE-yArDs / Kurt Vile / Wild Nothing / Okkervil River / The Walkmen / Phosphorescent / Wild Beasts / Joanna Newsom / Midlake / Junip / Austra / The Black Angels / White Denim / Zola Jesus / Cass McCombs / Other Lives / Woods / The Fall / Dry the River / Timber Timbre / HEALTH / John Grant / The Secret Sisters / The Growlers / Willy Mason / The Staves / Tinariwen / Dan Mangan / Joan As Police Woman / Emmy the Great / Wooden Shjips / The Fresh & Onlys / Herman Düne / Young Man / Caitlin Rose / Gruff Rhys / Megafaun / The Leisure Society / Jolie Holland / Big Deal / Allo Darlin' / Admiral Fallow / Mountain Man / Sam Amidon / Micah P. Hinson / Lanterns on the Lake / Nathaniel Rateliff / Lightning Dust / James Yorkston / Josh T. Pearson / She Keeps Bees / Diagrams / Daniel Martin Moore / Brakes / The Unthanks / Treefight For Sunlight / Darren Hanlon / Deadly Syndrome / Doug Paisley / Kathryn Calder / Spectrals / Sarabeth Tucek / Rue Royale / Bob Log III / Skinny Lister / Bo Ningen / Beth Jeans Houghton / Colours / Emanuel and the Fear / Steve Smyth / Found / Among Brothers / This Frontier Needs Heroes / The Cambodian Space Project / Jim Bob / Slow Down, Molasses / The Cornshed Sisters / Gavin Osborn / Gordon Gano & The Ryans / Drum Eyes / Daniel Lefkowitz / The Mountaineering Club / The Lazy Susans / Lily and the Hackabouts / Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield / Dan Lefkowitz / The Balconettes / This Is The Kit Show all bands
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Unknown venue Southampton, England, United Kingdom
Aug 19, 2011 –
Aug 21, 2011
Green Man Festival 2011
Iron & Wine / Fleet Foxes / James Blake / Ben Howard / Noah & The Whale / The Avett Brothers / Explosions in the Sky / James Vincent McMorrow / Laura Marling / The Antlers / Michael Kiwanuka / Wild Nothing / Benjamin Francis Leftwich / Villagers / Destroyer / Other Lives / The Cave Singers / The Low Anthem / Squarepusher / Dry the River / Holy Fuck / Clark / Lia Ices / Suuns / Thomas Dybdahl / Matthew and the Atlas / Gruff Rhys / The Leisure Society / Admiral Fallow / Robyn Hitchcock / Marcus Foster / James Yorkston / Josh T. Pearson / She Keeps Bees / 2:54 / Bellowhead / Alessi's Ark / Treefight For Sunlight / We Were Evergreen / Hannah Peel / Sic Alps / Moddi / Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo / Polar Bear / Tweak Bird / The Travelling Band / Joséphine / Our Broken Garden / Younghusband / Ellen and the Escapades / The Burns Unit / Rachael Dadd / Emily Barker / Laura J Martin / Y Niwl / H. Hawkline / The Folks / Driver Drive Faster / Joe Driscoll / The Gentle Good / Bleeding Heart Narrative / Martin Carr / Ute / 9Bach / The Sleeping Years / Duotone / London Afrobeat Collective / Zervas & Pepper / Oh Ruin! / Treecreeper / One Sixth of Tommy / John Mouse / Chailo Sim / Doozer / Under the Driftwood Tree / Cowbois Rhos Botwnnog / Neverest Songs / The Ramshackle Union Band / Zwolf / Meilir Tomos / Feeling Gloomy / The Bleedin' Noses / Mancub Babywoman / No Thee No Ess / Tender Prey / Wibidi / Cover to Cover / Jen Long Show all bands
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Unknown venue Powys
Aug 12, 2011 –
Aug 14, 2011
Summer Sundae Weekender 2011
Example / Warpaint / The Maccabees / Benjamin Francis Leftwich / McFly / The Antlers / Caravan Palace / Toots & The Maytals / Newton Faulkner / Born Ruffians / Other Lives / Little Comets / Blood Red Shoes / Kyla La Grange / Givers / Dry the River / Reef / Graham Coxon / Liam Bailey / I Am Kloot / Kitty, Daisy & Lewis / Pete and The Pirates / John Cooper Clarke / Young Knives / Teddy Thompson / The Leisure Society / Dutch Uncles / Chapel Club / C.W. Stoneking / Admiral Fallow / Factory Floor / Dionne Bromfield / Wolf People / Shonen Knife / Tom Baxter / Bellowhead / Showaddywaddy / The Black Atlantic / 2:54 / Skinny Lister / The Phantom Band / Wilko Johnson / The Daydream Club / The Jim Jones Revue / The Heartbreaks / Raghu Dixit / The Bees (UK) / Flashguns / Tom Williams / The Cuban Brothers / Beth Jeans Houghton / By the Rivers / Mama Rosin / The Agitator / My First Tooth / Dizraeli and the Small Gods / I Am in Love / Delta Maid / Elliott Morris / Martha Bean / Gallery 47 / Dark Dark Horse / Uncle Frank / Hhymn / Whybirds / The Lysergic Suite / Yaaks / We Three and the Death Rattle / Silent Devices / The Rassoodocks Show all bands
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De Montfort Hall Leicester, England, United Kingdom
Jul 17, 2011
Latitude Festival
"Latitude Festival" / London Suede / Hurts / Glasvegas / Iron & Wine / The Waterboys / Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros / Eels / Lykke Li / O.M.D. / Os Mutantes / Carl Barat / Anna Calvi / Foster The People / Gold Panda / Kele / The Leisure Society / The Naked and Famous / Marques Toliver / Mazes (UK) / When Saints Go Machine Show all bands
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Henham Park Suffolk, United Kingdom
Jul 15, 2011 –
Jul 17, 2011
Latitude Festival
Grouplove / Caribou / Oh Land / Villagers / Foals / The Naked and Famous / Crocodiles / They Might Be Giants / Fool's Gold / Adam Ant / The Duke & The King / Cloud Control / Lykke Li / Caitlin Rose / Dog Is Dead / Os Mutantes / Glasser / Suede / Chapel Club / Jenny and Johnny / The Waterboys / Trophy Wife / Edwyn Collins / I Am Kloot / Bellowhead / The Leisure Society / Treefight For Sunlight / Scala & Kolacny Brothers / Dionne Bromfield / Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark / Cat's Eyes / When The Saints Go Machine / Echo and the Bunnymen Show all bands
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Henham Park Southwold, England, United Kingdom
Jul 14, 2011 –
Jul 17, 2011
Latitude Festival 2011
Ed Sheeran / Foster The People / The National / Iron & Wine / Grouplove / James Blake / Foals / Lykke Li / The Naked and Famous / Ben Howard / Paolo Nutini / Bombay Bicycle Club / Bright Eyes / The Vaccines / My Morning Jacket / Caribou / James Vincent McMorrow / Imogen Heap / Eels / KT Tunstall / Deerhunter / Echo & the Bunnymen / Paloma Faith / Yann Tiersen / Crystal Fighters / Hurts / Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) / Gold Panda / Everything Everything / Suede / They Might Be Giants / Villagers / Glasvegas / The Cribs / Oh Land / The Waterboys / The Walkmen / Seasick Steve / Lyle lovett / Johnny Flynn / British Sea Power / Adam Ant / Graffiti6 / Kele Okereke / Guillemots / Glasser / Cloud Control / Anna Calvi / Edwyn Collins / Wanda Jackson / Ghostpoet / Still Corners / Avi Buffalo / Rumer / Braids / Os Mutantes / I Am Kloot / Crocodiles / Hypnotic Brass Ensemble / Alabama 3 / Fool's Gold / Submotion Orchestra / Tribes / Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan / When Saints Go Machine / Lloyd Cole / Scala & Kolacny Brothers / D.I.D / Caitlin Rose / Dutch Uncles / The Leisure Society / Chapel Club / Steve Mason / Jenny and Johnny / Admiral Fallow / Linton Kwesi Johnson / Clock Opera / Esben and the Witch / Dionne Bromfield / Cat's Eyes / C.W. Stoneking / Dels / The Hidden Cameras / Violens / Thea Gilmore / Bellowhead / Phildel / Carl Barât / Various Cruelties / Trophy Wife / The Phantom Band / Sea of Bees / Fight Like Apes / Mazes / Treefight For Sunlight / Cerebral Ballzy / Fixers / The Duke and the King / Fiction / Marques Toliver / The Heartbreaks / Ska Cubano / The Bees (UK) / Cocknbullkid / Ryoji Ikeda / Blue Roses / Raghu Dixit / Yes Sir Boss / Peter Gregson / London Contemporary Orchestra / Friends Electric / Dylan Moran / The Gentle Good / Gary Nock / Tripwires / Y Niwl / East Park Reggae Collective / Adam Buxton / Gabriel Prokofiev / Annie Nightingale / Barrence Whitfield / Aaron Wright / Brown Brogues / Rob Brydon / James Spankie / Are Friends Electric / Aaron Wright & The Aprils / Reverend Billy & the Stop Shopping Gospel Choir / These Are End Times / Cyrus Gabrysch / Kalakuta Millionaires / Seaming / Yellow Wire / The B.goodes / Goldierocks / The Zizaniques / Never Mind the Buzzcocks / The B Goodes / Gaffiti 6 / Safari Show all bands
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Henham Park Southwold, England, United Kingdom
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Glastonbury Festival 2010
Jun 23 - 27, 2010
 Pilton, England, United Kingdom
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Aug 5 - 8, 2010
 Malden Hills, Herefordshire
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The Leisure Society on May 19, 2019 [382-small]

The Leisure Society
May 19, 2019
 Bristol, England, United Kingdom
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The Leisure Society on Nov 24, 2023 [678-small]

The Leisure Society
Nov 24, 2023
 Bristol, England, United Kingdom
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Latitude Festival 2011 on Jul 14, 2011 [584-small]

Latitude Festival 2011
Jul 14 - 17, 2011
 Southwold, England, United Kingdom
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Latitude Festival 2013
Jul 19 - 21, 2013
 Southwold, England, United Kingdom
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Latitude Festival 2013
Jul 19 - 21, 2013
 Southwold, England, United Kingdom
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Latitude Festival 2013
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 Southwold, England, United Kingdom
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Latitude Festival 2013
Jul 19 - 21, 2013
 Southwold, England, United Kingdom
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2023 3 concerts
2021 1 concert
2019 11 concerts
2018 1 concert
2016 5 concerts
2015 7 concerts
2013 14 concerts
2012 6 concerts
2011 16 concerts
2010 11 concerts
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Grant Mc Intosh Nov 26, 2023

12th November 2021 The Leisure Society played at the Union Chapel Islington.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)


How many concerts has The Leisure Society had?

The Leisure Society has had 88 concerts.

What genre is The Leisure Society?

The Leisure Society is most often considered to be Indie, Folk, British, Indie Pop, and Chamber Pop.

When was the last The Leisure Society concert?

The last The Leisure Society concert was on April 19, 2024 at The Cluny in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom.

What setlist does The Leisure Society play live?

The songs that The Leisure Society performs live vary, but here's the latest setlist that we have from the November 25, 2023 concert at Lafayette in London, England, United Kingdom:

  1. The Sleeper
  2. Save It for Someone Who Cares
  3. A Bird, A Bee, Humanity
  4. A Short Weekend Begins With Longing
  5. The Last of the Melting Snow
  6. Tall Black Cabins
  7. Another Sunday Psalm
  8. God Has Taken a Vacation
  9. Mistakes on the Field, Pt. I
  10. Mistakes on the Field, Pt. II
  11. The Darkest Place I Know
  12. Given Up Love
  13. Brave Are The Waves
  14. Better Written Off (Than Written Down)
  15. The World From A Window
  16. We Were Wasted
  17. Dust on the Dancefloor
  18. A Matter of Time
  19. I'll Pay For It Now
  20. Fight for Everyone
  21. Bona Fide

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