Nick Hemming
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Great Britain
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musician
Musician
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and guitarist
Guitarist
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, formerly of early 1990s indie band She Talks To Angels
She Talks To Angels
She Talks to Angels was a short-lived, early 1990s indie band from Burton upon Trent in East Staffordshire, formed at Burton Technical College....
with actor Paddy Considine
Paddy Considine
Patrick George "Paddy" Considine is an English actor, filmmaker, screenwriter, musician and frequent collaborator with Shane Meadows. Best known to audiences for his portrayals of dark, troubled, morally or mentally ambiguous characters...
, film director Shane Meadows
Shane Meadows
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and bassist Richard Eaton.
Nick wrote and performed music for the films A Room for Romeo Brass
A Room for Romeo Brass
A Room for Romeo Brass is a 1999 comedy drama film directed and written by Shane Meadows. It was co-written by frequent Meadows collaborator Paul Fraser....
and Dead Man's Shoes.
Hemming is a key musician in the Willkommen Collective
Willkommen Collective
The Willkommen Collective is a Brighton based community of musicians, promoters and artists. The collective includes the bands Sons of Noel and Adrian, The Leisure Society, The Climbers, The Miserable Rich, Shoreline and many more. They also run a record label, Willkommen Records, and put on...
, currently the lead singer for The Leisure Society
The Leisure Society
The Leisure Society is a band formed by Nick Hemming, formerly of early 1990s indie band She Talks To Angels which included actor Paddy Considine, film director Shane Meadows and bassist Richard Eaton. Hemming wrote and performed music for the films A Room for Romeo Brass and Dead Man's Shoes...
as well as playing banjo and mandolin with Sons of Noel and Adrian
Sons of Noel and Adrian
Sons of Noel and Adrian is a twelve piece experimental folk band based in Brighton, England. It features Nick Hemming from The Leisure Society, Mike Siddell from Hope of the States and Lightspeed Champion, Will Calderbank from The Miserable Rich and many other musicians from the Willkommen...
and Shoreline.
He penned The Leisure Society's debut single 'The Last Of The Melting Snow', receiving huge critical and public acclaim and extensive radio play on Zane Lowe
Zane Lowe
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's Radio 1 show, Marc Riley
Marc Riley
Marc Riley is a British musician, alternative rock critic and radio DJ on BBC 6 Music. Formerly a member of The Fall, he had his own record label, In-Tape, and also worked as a record plugger...
's BBC 6 Music show, Lauren Laverne
Lauren Laverne
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's 6 Music show and Mark Radcliffe
Mark Radcliffe
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and Stuart Maconie
Stuart Maconie
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's Radio 2 show, where they were voted 'Record of the Week' by listeners with a record 90% of the vote. The track has also been championed by Elbow
Elbow (band)
Elbow are an English rock band. They have played together since 1990 and recorded five studio albums, the most recent of which is Build a Rocket Boys!, released in March 2011...
frontman Guy Garvey
Guy Garvey
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who named it his favourite song of 2008. The song was nominated for an Ivor Novello award.
Hemming also plays with The Climbers
The Climbers
The Climbers is a band formed by Nick Hemming and Christian Hardy of The Leisure Society with their childhood friend, Tim West. West actually introduced Hemming and Hardy to one another and for a period the three lived together in South London....
alongside The Leisure Society's Christian Hardy
Christian Hardy
Christian Hardy is a British singer, multi-instrumentalist and producer. He performs in The Leisure Society and is a member of Brighton's Willkommen Collective...
and their childhood friend Tim West. He co-wrote some songs on their debut album, The Good Ship, which was released in May 2010.