We’re very pleased to announce that The Leisure Society’s debut album The Sleeper is in Rough Trade’s top ten albums of 2009.

To celebrate, the Willkommen Collective re-recorded the whole album and Rough Trade are giving away this CD for free with copies of the new 2CD version of The Sleeper released by Full Time Hobby. Track listing is as follows:

1. A Fighting Chance (Kristin McClement)
2. The Sleeper (Laish Quartet)
3. The Last of the Melting Snow (Curly Hair)
4. A Short Weekend Begins With Longing (Christian Silva)
5. We Were Wasted (Kopek)
6. Save It For Someone Who Cares (Sons of Noel and Adrian)
7. The Darkest Place I Know (Shoreline)
8. Are We Happy? (Gambol)
9. Come To Your Senses (The Miserable Rich)
10. A Matter of Time (The Climbers)
11. Love’s Enormous Wings (Stray Airmail)
12. Bona Fide (Atlas Crease)

If you join the mailing list (see the bar to the right of this page) then you can get a free mp3 of ‘Blow The House Down’ by the wonderful Curly Hair.

Also the free mp3 from The Climbers is still available here. Thanks to Marc Riley for playing it on BBC 6 Music yesterday.

Curly Hair play the following dates supporting Malcolm Middleton (of Arab Strap):

Following that the band play St. George’s Church with The Miserable Rich on 10th December for the Melting Vinyl Christmas party. Melting Vinyl are calling it “a three stage Jools holland style stage affair with Melodica Melody and Me, Curly Hair, The Miserable Rich on the ground floor stages  and Jo Burke + friends in the balcony, finally and a Santas Grotto provided by The Half Sisters all at the glorious St George’s Church.”

I’ve just ended online sales so I can head to the venue, but you can still buy tickets from Resident or on the door at the Komedia. See you there!