The Leisure Society and Ivor Novello: An overnight non-sensation

Experience of Nick Hemming suggests the profile that follows an award or nomination isn't all that great for giving a new act a head start on long slog to the topSix months ago, a warehouseman got the break of his life. That, at least, is the way Nick Hemming's nomination for an Ivor Novello songwriting award was reported in the newspapers. Hemming had no publishing deal; his band, the Leisure Society, were unsigned; and now his gorgeously delicate folk-pop song The Last of the Melting Snow was ...

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