LEVELLERS END OF YEAR NEWS
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LEVELLERS LIVE - LEVELLING THE LAND TOUR WITH THE WONDER STUFF
NOVEMBER 2010 TOUR VIDEOS
LEVELLERS FESTIVAL BEAUTIFUL DAYS 2011 - DISCOUNT TICKET PRICES TILL THE END OF 2010
LEVELLERS ON THE FIDDLE - FANTASTIC FREEBIE - LAST CHANCE TO GET DISCOUNT FESTIVAL TICKETS FOR 2011
LEVELLING THE LAND HAND PRINTED SILK SCREEN ARTWORK
FESTIVAL BRITANIA FEATURING LEVELLERS On BBC FOUR Friday 17 December 9.00-10.30pm
Huge thanks everyone who has supported us in 2010 and come to see us at a gig or festival, we’ve had an amazing year. We want to wish you all a very merry Xmas and look forward to seeing you in 2011! Mark, Jon, Simon, Jez, Charlie & Matt xx
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| LEVELLERS LIVE November 2010 videos and new shows for 2011 |
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NOVEMBER 2010 TOUR VIDEOS
The blogumentary from the band’s November tour features footage of the band, interviews with local pressure groups, fans, grass roots activists, local characters and location pieces. The band enlisted the help of film-maker and ex-Chumbawamba vocalist Dunstan Bruce to document the tour and some of the people the band met along the way. New videos were uploaded every day during the tour. Here they are!
Levellers - On The Road Again!
Rockin & Reelin & Levelling The Land
Bee-Sides
Movember Levellers
The Boatman In Bridport
Levellers Finding Inspiration In Northampton
When Jeremy Met Sean McGhee
Thomas to the Rescue
Another World Of Jeremy Cunningham
What A Beautiful Day In Bridport
Like To Ride My Bicycle...
Talking Methane
You Dirty Rotter!
Taking Jeremy Up York Minster
Folk Against Fascism
Movember Update
Beautiful Days In Pontardawe
Falmouth Fight The Cuts!
All The Pieces Of Mr Chadwick
Jon And Hawkwind: Do Not Panic!
Question Time With Jez & Jac part 1
The Grilling Of Jeremy Part 2
Charlie And The Permaculture Vulture
Simon's Tales Of The Tavistock Riverbank
The Inspiring Tale Of A One-Man Protest
Movember Spawned A Monster
Helen Hat: A Levellers Folk Hero
Laundering The Land
Many thanks to Dunstan Bruce who agreed to go on tour again for the first time in a few years. Thanks also to all of the wonderful interviewees, the Levellers crew and to Thomas White.
Links & further reading:
http://dandyfilmsltd.moonfruit.com/
http://www.myspace.com/thethomaswhite
http://www.rock-n-reel.co.uk/
http://uk.movember.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expressionism
http://www.stnicksfields.org.uk/york-rotters.php
http://www.folkagainstfascism.com/
http://www.coalitionofresistance.org.uk/
http://www.beautifuldays.org/
http://www.markchadwickofficial.co.uk/
http://www.hawkwind.com/
http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/
http://www.spiralseed.co.uk/
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/westcountry/2005/05/312088.html
http://www.chumba.com/
Dunstan and Thomas join the Levellers for a performance of Chumbawamba's hit "Tubthumping"
All these clips and more can be found at http://www.youtube.com/levellers
DECEMBER 2010
Mark Chadwick solo tour
17 Fri De Piek - Vlissingen – HOLLAND
18 Sat Zaal - Edma – Vorselaar
19 Sun cc de Beuk – Kortemark
The band will be performing Levelling The Land to mark the 20th anniversary of its original release in 1991. Featuring the hit singles One Way, 15 Years and Far From Home plus The Game, Liberty Song, Sell Out, Another Man’s Cause, Riverflow, Boatman and the incendiary Battle Of The Beanfield, the shows will be followed by an extended encore of live favourites. The Wonder Stuff are supporting on all the dates in MARCH (except Dublin ).
FEBRUARY 2011 LEVELLING THE LAND LIVE WARM-UPS
18 Fri SCARBOROUGH Spa Ocean Room - North Yorkshire
19 Sat BEDFORD The Corn Exchange - Bedfordshire
MARCH LEVELLING THE LAND LIVE
Support on all March dates The Wonder Stuff (except Dublin )
3 Thu DUBLIN Academy 00353 1 4858010
4 Fri LIVERPOOL o2 Academy 0844 477 200
5 Sat CAMBRIDGE Corn Exchange 01223 357 851
6 Sun LINCOLN Engine Shed 0844 888 8766
8 Tue BOURNEMOUTH o2 Academy 0844 477 2000
9 Wed BRISTOL o2 Academy 0844 477 2000 SOLD OUT
10 Thu LEEDS o2 Academy 0844 477 2000
11 Fri GLASGOW Barrowland 0844 499 9990
12 Sat NOTTINGHAM Rock City 0845 413 4444 SOLD OUT
13 Sun NEWCASTLE o2 Academy 0844 477 2000
15 Tue SOUTHAMPTON Guildhall 023 8063 2601
16 Wed NORWICH UEA 01603 508 050
17 Thu BIRMINGHAM o2 Academy 0844 477 2000
18 Fri MANCHESTER Academy 0161 832 1111 SOLD OUT
19 Sat LONDON o2 Brixton Academy 0844 477 2000 LONDON LAST FEW TICKETS
JUNE LEVELLING THE LAND LIVE IN EUROPE
01 Wed AMSTERDAM Paradiso – HOLLAND
02 Thu OSNABRUECK Rosenhof – GERMANY
3 Fri HLINSKO - Czech Republic With DIVOKEJ BILL + POLEMIC
4 Sat OUVALSKEJ BIGBIT Festival - Nr Prague - Czech Republic
July
4 Sun LOKET NAD OHÃ - Czech Republic With DIVOKEJ BILL + POLEMIC
AUGUST
19-21 Fri–Sun Beautiful Days Festival – ESCOT PARK , Devon www.beautifuldays.org
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| BEAUTIFUL DAYS 2011 |
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Tickets are on sale NOW at last year’s prices but they will go up in price on the 01 January 2011 – mainly due to the increase in VAT. Adult weekend camping tickets will increase to £110 plus booking fee from 01 January. All children’s ticket prices will remain the same for 2011. On The Fiddle members are currently entitled to £5 discount on adult tickets to Beautiful Days Festival 2011 (maximum two per member) up until 31 December subject to availability from www.levellers.co.uk. Beautiful Days is a family music festival with five stages, site art, a huge children's area in the centre of the festival, comedy, theatre, family camping, licensed real ale bars from Otter Brewery & carefully selected food and craft stalls. We have no sponsorship and no branding. The festival will take place next year on 19 – 21 August 2011 at Escot Park in Devon .
Ticket prices for Beautiful Days 2011 (until 31 December 2010 subject to availability) are:
Adult Weekend Camping Ticket £100 – £95 WITH DISCOUNT FOR OTF MEMBERS -
JOIN NOW TO GET YOUR DISCOUNT - AND MORE : )
10 to Under 16’s Weekend Camping Ticket £60
5 to Under 10’s Weekend Camping Ticket £30
Under 5’s Weekend Camping Ticket £5
Car routing/parking ticket £15.00
Campervan ticket £35.00
ALL TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE TO BUY FROM WWW.LEVELLERS.CO.UK
www.seetickets.com & www.artistticket.com
PLEASE NOTE: All tickets are subject to booking fee. There are no day tickets available. The festival will not be held responsible for purchases from unofficial ticket outlets. Please read the terms and conditions of sale before purchasing tickets. Please make sure you buy children’s tickets for the age they will be at the time of the festival and not the age they are at the time of purchase. Children of ALL AGES count as part of the festivals capacity and must have a ticket. Under 16's must be accompanied by a ticket holding adults. VEHICLES: If you are planning to travel to the festival in a car then please purchase a car routing/parking ticket which will help us guide you on to the site and parked for the weekend. If you are travelling to the festival on a motorbike then you will need to also purchase a car parking ticket. Campervan tickets are for live-in vehicles only - we cannot accommodate caravans. The campervan field is a separate area with toilets and showers for live-in vehicles only.
Please look at the FAQs and Travel pages for more information about camping, travel and other general queries. Disabled access information is available www.beautifuldays.org/access - the festival has disabled camping, viewing platforms, disabled toilets and we offer free tickets for carers. Disabled festival goers can purchase parking and campervan tickets the same way as everyone else through official ticket outlets and then apply for access to the disabled parking and campervan areas.
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| ON THE FIDDLE - LEVELLERS FAN CLUB - BRILLIANT HAND PRINTED SILK SCREEN OF LEVELLING THE LAND |
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 On The Fiddle members receive our fantastic new Levellers freebie - limited edition hand printed silk screen artwork of the Levelling The Land LP cover, numbered and signed by the artist, Levellers bass player Jeremy Cunningham.
Members also get discount on Levellers merchandise in our website shop, a membership card and, if we have your email, monthly newsletters.
On The Fiddle members are entitled to discount on adult tickets to Beautiful Days Festival 2011 (£5 off on up to two adult tickets per member) by purchasing tickets during 2010.
You can join OTF for £15 plus p&p on our website. www.levellers.co.uk
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| MERCHANDISE |
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  Visit the shop section of our website for loads of Levellers music, clothing & more. A Weapon Called A Word re-issue CD, BABY GROW VESTS kids and adut T-shirts with the same celtic A design, work shirts in thick soft cotton fabric, window stickers, patches, Weapon_Called_A_Word_badge, peace plane long sleeved T-shirts for men and women in black and red, Chaos Theory Live CD, a wallet, a Zip-Up Hoodie, a hat and a bag large enough for a big laptop, Levellers football scarf, fingerless gloves, Levellers leather belts with a solid silver chaos symbol clasp, also lots of older stuff.
www.levellers.co.uk
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| FESTIVALS BRITANNIA |
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Festivals Britannia
Friday 17 December
9.00-10.30pm BBC FOUR
Continuing the highly successful and critically acclaimed Britannia series for BBC Four, Festivals Britannia tells the story of the emergence and evolution of the British music festival through the mavericks, dreamers and dropouts who have produced and experienced them.
This 90-minute documentary traces the ebb and flow of British festival culture over the past 50 years and explores the central tension between people's desire to come together, dance to the music and build temporary communities; and the desire of the state, councils and locals to police these often unruly gatherings. At the heart of the documentary is an ongoing argument about British freedoms set to a wonderful soundtrack of 50 years of great popular music.
The programme tells the festival story in three parts, Something In The Air; Ramble On; and A Rush And A Push And The Land Is Ours. Firstly, it looks at how a heady mix of youth-music festivals and politics combined in the early Sixties to create the rumblings of Britain's first counter-cultures. Exploring events such as the early jazz festivals at Beauliue and the National Jazz and Blues festivals, the free Hyde Park concerts and the first Isle of Wight festival, the film traces the evolution of music and festival culture through the Sixties and explores the gathering arguments about whether rock 'n' roll and festivals should be free.
Ramble On charts the reaction against commercialism and the golden era of the free festival movement in the Seventies. When an aristocratic hippie called Andrew Kerr teamed up with Somerset dairy farmer Michael Eavis to put on Glastonbury Fayre in 1971, it unwittingly became the spiritual birthplace of the free festival movement. This section explores the notion of festivals becoming more about an alternative, nomadic way of life. The Sixties hippie ideal of a new society was becoming an alternative reality for a growing number of people but the advent of Conservative rule in 1979 would change British festival culture for ever.
A Rush And A Push And The Land Is Ours looks at how festival counter-culture came head to head with the establishment and how it was eventually co-opted by mainstream society. At the dawn of the Eighties, unemployment and strikes were rife, with new sub-cultures emerging, such as punk and the new wave of heavy metal, as festivals such as Donington and Reading became society's pressure-release valves. The original hippie idealists were being joined by the post-punk urban squatters and this collective, known as the "Peace Convoy", would change the face of the free festival movement beyond recognition by 1984's Stonehenge Festival.
The programme investigates the emergence of rave culture in the late Eighties and explores the changes forced by stricter controls and tighter legislation in the Nineties and beyond. With big business and TV broadcasting moving in, the ideological battle for the heart of Britain has faded away, as music and big name acts have returned to the forefront of the festival stage.
Produced and directed by Sam Bridger, the programme features contributions from Michael Eavis, Richard Thompson, Acker Bilk, Terry Reid, The Levellers, Billy Bragg, John Giddings, Melvin Benn, Sandy Sanderson.
SG
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