He was formerly of the early 1990s indie band She Talks to Angels, is a key musician in the Willkommen Collective, and is currently the lead singer for The Leisure Society.

Hemming also plays banjo and mandolin with Sons of Noel and Adrian and with Shoreline.

Hemming wrote and performed music for the films A Room for Romeo Brass (1999), Dead Man's Shoes (2004), and "Tyrannosaur" (2011).

[4] The track has also been championed by Elbow frontman Guy Garvey, who named it his favourite song of 2008.

Hemming also plays with The Climbers, alongside The Leisure Society's Christian Hardy and their childhood friend Tim West, and co-wrote some songs on their debut album The Good Ship, released in May 2010.