The band have two sold out cathedral dates left in support of Laura Marling before playing at the Barbican with the Heritage Orchestra on December 8th – tickets here.

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Here are further details on the Willkommen Collective tour. The Leisure Society and Sons of Noel and Adrian will play all the dates, and will be supported by a rotating cast of bands from the Collective – to be announced soon.

There is a facebook event for the tour here. Please mark yourself as attending and help to spread the word amongst your friends.

April 2010

Thursday 1st: LONDON – The Tabernacle
—> tickets | last.fm | songkick | map | more info | 0207 221 9700

Saturday 3rd: BRIGHTON – The Corn Exchange
—> tickets | last.fm | songkick | map | more info | 01273 709709

Sunday 4th: BRISTOL – Thekla
—> tickets | last.fm | songkick | map | 08713 100 000

Monday 5th: LEEDS – Brudenell Social Club
—> tickets | last.fm | songkick | map | 0113 2455570

Tuesday 6th: MANCHESTER – Band on the Wall
—> tickets | last.fm | songkick | map | more info | 0845 2 500 500

Wednesday 7th: KENDAL – Brewery Arts Centre
—> tickets | last.fm | songkick | map | more info | 01539 725133

April
1 – London – The Tabernacle
3 – Brighton – Corn Exchange
4 – Bristol – Thekla
5 – Leeds – Brudenell Social Club
6 – Manchester – Band on the Wall
7 – Kendal – Brewery Arts Centre

Further details coming very soon.

The band also play at Resident Records, Kensington Gardens, Brighton, this Wednesday 14th October at 6pm before embarking on a European tour later this month:

The core Climbers: Christian Hardy, Tim West and Nick Hemming

We are incredibly proud to be releasing the debut album from The Climbers early next year. The album, The Good Ship, is a Willkommen studio project featuring members of The Leisure Society, Sons Of Noel & Adrian, The Miserable Rich, Shoreline, Christian Silva, Absentee and many more.

There is a free mp3 available here. Further details and release dates to follow.

Direct trains from London, Brighton and Ashford.

Here are the times:

Marquee

The Leisure Society 11:10pm
Peggy Sue 10:00pm
Sons of Noel and Adrian 8:55pm
Robert Stillman 7:55pm

Inside the house

Alessi’s Ark 10:35pm
Pete Roe 9:30pm
Caroline Weeks 8:25pm

Here’s a link showing the bus route from the Old Steine, you get the number 25 and it takes about 38 minutes including the walk into Stanmer Park. There are regular trains to Falmer from Brighton and it’s about a 10-15 minute walk from there. Sadly the last train back to Brighton from Falmer is at 23:26 but I believe buses run all night, a taxi will cost about £10-12.

Resident is now SOLD OUT but there are currently 16 tickets left on wegottickets.com/willkommen, then we’re totally sold out. I’ll post on here if there are any tickets left on the day but it looks unlikely.

The lineup also includes The Leisure Society, Alessi’s Ark, Peggy Sue, Sons of Noel and Adrian, Laura Marling’s pianist and banjo player Pete Roe and Caroline Weeks of Bat for Lashes. The event takes place in Grade I listed stately home Stanmer House on Sunday July 5th, tickets cost just £12 from wegottickets.com or Resident Records, 28 Kensington Gardens, Brighton, 01273 606312.

He’s an amazing performer and a great addition to the line-up. More information about the event here and tickets available for just £12 here.

Over half the tickets have already flown out of the door so buy quickly. You can get them from wegottickets.com here or from Resident Records in Kensington Gardens, Brighton, 01273 606312.

There is already an audio interview with The Leisure Society’s Nick Hemming plus live mp3s from last time Sons of Noel and Adrian played the Union Chapel a year ago. Plenty more to come from Shoreline, Laish, Kopek and more.

There are a few tickets still available for the Union Chapel show here. Don’t miss out, it’s going to be absolutely extraordinary.

Stanmer House by night

The good news is we’ve found a new venue for our event in July and tickets are on sale here. 

The event features a ridiculously good lineup including The Leisure Society, Alessi’s Ark, Peggy Sue and Sons of Noel and Adrian. Originally at Charleston House, this event has now moved to the even more suitable Stanmer House – with one big benefit. We can now have a second performance area so we’ll be announcing many more acts ASAP.

The house was built in 1722 and is in the middle of a Sussex nature reserve, but also just a 5-10 minute walk from Falmer train station or University of Sussex bus stops.

More details about this exciting event can be found here. Please help support Willkommen by buying tickets as soon as possible, as an event of this size is costing us a lot to run. Thank you so much to everyone who has emailed over the last week voicing their support and suggesting alternative venues.

The capacity is strictly limited and we expect it to sell out very quickly. The event will see bands performing in the beautiful Charleston barns and we should have a few impromptu acoustic solo sets around the gardens.

Charleston House was the artistic hub of the Bloomsbury Group – Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, J.M. Keynes and many more. As the Willkommen Collective is also a group of like-minded creative people centred around the beautiful Sussex downs, we’re very excited and honoured to be playing in the Bloomsbury Group’s uniquely wonderful home.