The Leisure Society, Benedict Benjamin

Saturday 21st September 2019 at 7:30pm

Grayshott Folk Club presents:
The Leisure Society + Benedict Benjamin

Could this be Grayshott Folk Club's finest hour?

Tonight we welcome one of my very favourite Indie Folk/Pop/Rock bands to Grayshott Village Hall. The Leisure Society combine melodic, infectious tunes with intelligent, inventive lyrics. They are a great live band too and eleven years and five albums since they started out in 2008, they sound as fresh and exciting as ever.

Their first single "Last Of The Melting Snow" set the bar high-it won Nick Hemming a nomination for an Ivor Novello Award in 2009. Their first album "The Sleeper" followed, and incredibly another track on that same album ("Save It For Someone Who Cares"), also won a nomination for an Ivor Novello Award.

The quality of their song writing and musicianship has remained just as high for the past 10 years and now their latest album "Arrivals and Departures" (released May 2019), has hit the mark again:
"...one of the best such albums that you're likely to hear this year is by the English group The Leisure Society...Arrivals & Departures is an absorbing work" John Meagher-Independent, Ireland (20/04/19)

Take the best elements of The Feeling, Divine Comedy and Belle & Sebastian then re-arrange them and you have The Leisure Society. You'll love them!

What a way to kick off our new season!

Listen to The Leisure Society here:
www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+leisure+society+the+last+of+the+melting+snow

Then try this for size:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFp1aR2YTAY

+ Benedict Benjamin
Ben is first and foremost a songwriter versed in the classical traditions of the form, capable of crafting both operatic crescendo and lullaby-like stillness shot through with the heartbreaking swoon of Roy Orbison, the soothing harmonies of the Everly Brothers and the honesty of Jeff Tweedy. His songs undercut the dreamlike beauty of early 60s pop music with lyrics both frank and poetic, creating a powerful Lynchian duality that makes the heart swell and the head spin.

Check out "The Way You Talk To Waiters" here
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h5voGgTPaM

Tickets £16 each
Available from Des O'Byrne on 01428 607096

This gig will be taking place at:
Grayshott Village Hall, Headley Road, Grayshott,
Nr. HINDHEAD, Surrey GU26 6TZ