After their packed performances at The Great Escape and Brighton Festival, The Leisure Society return to Brighton to play Communion. It’s a great club that finds its home at Notting Hill Arts Club but has recently been on a summer holiday by the sea. Also playing are Josh Weller and The Mariner’s Children – who are totally unmissable. Tickets available at Resident or on the door. More details on the Communion II facebook event.

Last night we confirmed the spellbinding Alessi’s Ark for May’s Willkommen night. It’ll take place on May 5th at The Freebutt. She’s a captivating performer in the vein of Joanna Newsom, Laura Marling and Emmy The Great.

Her Mike Mogus produced album is out on Virgin next month and her beautiful songs take mere seconds to permanently implant themselves in your mind. Tickets are available at wegottickets.com now.

Stay posted for exciting news about June’s Willkommen night, too.

At 6pm today The Leisure Society a performing a free set at the beautiful Resident Records, Kensington Gardens, Brighton. Copies of the debut album will be available along with a free Willkommen Records sampler.

After that we’ll all be heading from Resident to The Albert up the road, where Willkommen Records are hosting Eric Chenaux (excellent folk innovator on Constellation Records) with Curly Hair (members of Laish Quartet playing lo-fi perfect pop) and Redwood Red (Cathy Cardin, female vocalist of Sons of Noel and Adrian, plays her solo material live for the first time).

Both shows are set to be fantastic, no tickets required for The Leisure Society, still some e-tickets available for Eric Chenaux here or buy at Resident or on the door.

Don’t forget to come on down to the Sanctuary Café in Hove for the spellbinding Cath & Phil Tyler, the legendary Mary Hampton and the swashbuckling Laish Quartet. There are a very small number of tickets left at wegottickets.com here and there should be a few left at Resident, otherwise arrive early.

Also we have another Willkommen gig next week at the Albert: with the warped country tunes of Constellation’s finest Eric Chenaux all the way from Canada, Curly Hair’s perfect pop songs (catchier than herpes) and the live debut of Cathy from Sons of Noel and Adrian’s beautifully engaging solo project Redwood Red. Tickets still available here.

All the gigs for The Leisure Society’s UK tour are now confirmed. Tickets are on sale and selling very quickly. The tour is in support of their debut album The Sleeper, released this month, and they will be playing lots of material from it along with a few surprises.

March 2009

25th: BRIGHTON – Resident Records instore –  FREE! | LAST.FM
26th: LONDON – Luminaire –  TICKETS SELLING FAST! | LAST.FM
27th: BRISTOL – Louisiana -  TICKETS | LAST.FM

April

3rd: MIDDLESBROUGH – Westgarth Social Club -  TICKETS | LAST.FM
4th: LIVERPOOL – St. Bride’s Church - TICKETS from Probe Records, Slater St., Liverpool, 0151 708 8815 | LAST.FM
5th: LEEDS – Royal Park Cellars -  TICKETS | LAST.FM
9th: BIRMINGHAM – The Glee Club -  TICKETS SELLING FAST! | LAST.FM
10th: MANCHESTER -The Ruby Lounge -  TICKETS | LAST.FM
11th: GLASGOW – The Classic Grand -  TICKETS | LAST.FM
12th: NOTTINGHAM – The Bodega - TICKETS | LAST.FM