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IVOR NOMINEE: Nick Hemming of The Leisure Society.
The Last Of The Melting Snow
Nick Hemming, the lead songwriter with indie band The Leisure Society, was last week nominated for best song musically and lyrically at the Ivor Novellos for his The Last Of The Melting Snow.
Why do you think the song was nominated for an Ivor?
It's a totally honest song, written from a really low point in my life. I moved down to London in 2006 from Burton-on-Trent because I split up with my ex-partner of eight or nine years. I just wanted to make a new start. We played a gig back in Burton-on-Trent and she came along. I got it into my head that we were going to get back together again, but she invited me over to her house to tell me about the new love in her life.
I went back down to London and found that everybody had gone home for Christmas and New Year. I spent New Year's Eve in my bedroom drinking a bottle of vodka and writing that song. When we started playing it live I realised there was something special about it - people would come up to me and say it brought them ...
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