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DECEMBER NEWS 2005

01/12/2005

New Levellers Single - Last Man Alive
New single ‘Last Man Alive’ b/w “When Love Runs Out of Time” out Monday 12 December.
Available at records shops and to download from www.pinnacle-digital.co.uk/levellers/lastmanalive i-tunes, all major download sites.
Pre-order the CD at
www.townsend-records.co.uk/product.php?pType=music&pId=10001678
Only 1,000 of these singles have been manufactured and are available to buy in record shops. "When Love Runs Out Of Time" is sung by Simon and has been played live for the last couple of years. This is the first time that the song has been recorded. The CD is packaged in a cardboard wallet and has the tour dates on the back. You can send an email request for Last Man Alive to be played on your local radio station. Phil l Jupitus has played it on the BBC Radio 6 Breakfast show.
Instant CDs available for all ‘Last Man Alive Tour’ UK dates 
The Levellers ‘Last man Alive’ tour 2005 kicks off in a few days time and for those of you who don’t already know, we will be recording each show and producing special limited edition, double disc CD sets, made available for collection straight after each gig!
Deluxe packaged and strictly limited to 1000 CDs per show, you have the opportunity to pre-order at the Concert Live website www.concertlive.co.uk. For those of you who are not attending, the CDs can be posted out to you straight after the gig!
Don’t miss out, they make great stocking fillers! Visit the concert live site now to avoid disappointment. Enjoy! Concert Live
LEVELLERS SHOWS
LAST MAN ALIVE WINTER TOUR 05
December
UK Tour With support from Mercury Music nominee Seth Lakeman
Tues 6th Keele University 01782 713 145
Wed 7th Nottingham Rock City 0115 941 2544
Thurs 8th Newcastle University 0191 261 2606
Fri 9th Manchester Academy 0161 832 1111
Sat 10th Sheffield Octagon 0114 222 8777

Sun 11th Liverpool Academy 0870 771 2000
Tue 13th Bristol Academy 0870 771 2000
Wed 14th Norwich UEA 01603 508 050
Thurs 15th Exeter University Great Hall 01392 425 309
Fri 16th London Shepherds Bush Empire 0870 771 2000
Sat 17th Birmingham Carling Empire 0870 771 2000
Sun 18th Portsmouth Guildhall 023 9282 4355
24 hotline 0871 2200 260 or buy online www.gigsandtours.com
 
January
12th(Acoustic) Glasgow - Celtic Connections 0141 353 8000 www.celticconnections.com
February 2006
Acoustic tour

Tues 7th Belgium - Leuven - Stadsschouwburg www.leuven.be/showpage.asp?iPageID=315
Wed 8th Belgium - Antwerp
- Arenbergschouwberg www.arenbergschouwburg.be
Thur 9th Belgium - Kortrijk
– Stadsschouwber www.cultuurcentrumkortrijk.be
Fri 10th
Belgium - Turnhout - De Warande www.warande.be/ SOLD OUT
Sat 11th Belgium - Brugge - Stadsschouwberg www.cultuurcentrumbrugge.be/
Sun 12th Belgium - Hasselt
– Cultureelcentrum www.cchasselt.be/new/
22nd Tunbridge Wells - Assembly Hall 01892 530613 www.assemblyhalltheatre.co.uk
23rd Buxton - Opera House 0845 1272190 www.buxton-opera.co.uk
24th Basingstoke – Anvil 01256 844244 www.theanvil.org.uk
25 Corby - Festival Hall Complex 01536 402233 www.willows-arts.org
26th Poole – Lighthouse 01202 685222 www.lighthousepoole.co.uk
Electric 
Tues 28th Denmark - Copenhagen
- Loppen www.billetnet.dk
March
Wed 1st Sweden - Malmö – KB www.ticnet.se
Thur 2nd Sweden – Stockholm – venue tbc - www.ticnet.se
Fri 3rd Norway –  Oslo - John Dee www.ticketmaster.no
Sat 4th Sweden – Göteborg – Stickys www.ticnet.se 
Sun 5th Denmark – Århus – Voxhall www.billetnet.dk
Tues 7th Holland tbc
Wed 8th Holland tbc
Thurs 9th Holland tbc

Fri 10th (Acoustic) Luxembourg – Zeltik Festival www.e-ticket.lu
Sat 11th France (nr. Paris) - Bobigny Musiques www.canal93.net 
Tues 21st Frome – Cheese and Grain 01373 455420 www.cheeseandgrain.co.uk
Wed 22nd Beachcomber – Cleethorpes 01472 349222 www.solidentertainments.com
Thur 23rd Leeds The Met 0113 2444600 www.leedsmetevents.co.uk
Fri 24th Wolverhampton – Wulfrun 0101902 552121 www.wolvescivic.co.uk
Sat 25th Preston – 53 Degrees 01772 893000 www.53degrees.net
Sun 26th Cambridge – The Junction 01223 511511 www.junction.co.uk
Tues 28th Ipswich – Corn Exchange 01473 433100 www.ipswichcornexchange.com

Wed 29th Cardiff – Coal Exchange 02920 230130 www.coalexchange.co.uk
Thur 30th Dorking – Dorking Halls 01306 881717 www.dorkinghalls.co.uk
Fri 31st Reading – Hexagon 0118 9606060 www.readingarts.com
April
Sat 1st Sunderland – Manor Quay 0191 3830745 www.gigbox.co.uk
Sun 2nd Cheltenham – Town Hall 01242 227979 www.cheltenhamtownhall.org.uk
27th (Acoustic) Dublin - Whelans +353(0)14780766 www.ticketmaster.ie 
28th Belfast - Spring & Airbrake +353(0)14780766  www.ticketmaster.ie
29th Dublin - Temple Bar Music Centre +353(0)14780766 www.ticketmaster.ie
May
Sat 13th Ten Vrede Festival Diksmuide www.tenvrede.be  
June
Fri 16th (Acoustic) Leicestershire - Big Session Festival www.bigsessionfestival.com
August
Fri 18th – Sun 20th Devon - Beautiful Days Festival www.beautifuldays.org www.levellers.co.uk
New Merchandise
Look out for lots of new merchandise on the website over the next few weeks. We will have a new merchandise leaflet around 10th December, please post in a stamped addressed envelope if you would like one.
Beautiful Days
Thank you everyone who came to Beautiful Days and helped make it so special, we hope you had a fantastic weekend with your friends and family. To those who didn’t make it, here is your chance to book time off for 2006 and mark in your diary the dates for Beautiful Days 2006. Next year’s festival dates: 18 – 20 August 2006.
Tickets for On The Fiddle members may go on sale as early as 1st February. We will write to members to let them know the date.
Truth & Lies The latest studio album is out now. You can hear sound clips of all the tracks on our website. The tracks are Last Man Alive, Make U Happy, Confess, For Us All, Knot Around The World, Steel Knife, Wheels, Said And Done, The Damned, Who’s The Daddy’ and Sleeping, enjoy! You can hear sound clips of all the albums on our website shop now.
Review the Levellers
If you have time please add reviews for the Levellers on Amazon http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0008FHPCS/qid=1131979901/sr=8-2/ref=pd_ka_2/026-8856400-1640461 itunes if you use it and anywhere else you fancy.
Levellers on Myspace
Visit www.myspace.com/levellers
The band have received over 20,000 plays for the four tracks on Myspace. Keep posting your comments!
Get Truth & Lies played in your local pub or club
If you know a pub or bar where the owners would play Truth & Lies for their customers, email us their name and the venue name & address then we’ll send them a promo copy of the new album.
On The Fiddle
Guarantee your ticket for next year at Beautiful Days
Join On The Fiddle to receive the
Levellers DVD State Of The Union. It includes interviews with the band, footage from The Wickerman festival 2004, the Bluebell Railway 2004 show and a short film of walk-about and live footage from Beautiful Days 2004.  As a member you can gain access to the member’s only area of the website, which has e-zines, audio and video downloads chords and lyrics, the area is continually updated and expanded. You will also receive a membership card and approximately 15% discount on Levellers merchandise. All membership numbers will be entered in a draw to win 2 weekend tickets to Beautiful Days festival. The draw will be made on 1st July each year. Members will be entitled to discounted Beautiful Days festival tickets for a limited priority period.
You can join OTF for the princely sum of £14 plus p&p (10% UK, 25% Western Europe, 30% rest of World,) by visiting our website shop above or by post at the address below - cheques and postal orders from the UK payable to Levellers .
Contact
Levellers PO Box 2600, Brighton, BN2 0DX
PHONE 01273 608887 EMAIL: otf@levellers.co.uk WEB www.levellers.co.uk