LEVELLERS FEBRUARY NEWS

LEVELLERS LIVE - LEVELLING THE LAND TOUR WITH THE WONDER STUFF - 7 DATES SOLD OUT, 3 DATES ADDED IN MAY!
LEVELLERS FESTIVAL BEAUTIFUL DAYS 2011 - HEADLINE ACTS TO BE ANNOUNCED ON 01 MARCH
LEVELLERS GET ‘ROOTS AWARD ’ AT 2011 BBC RADIO 2 FOLK AWARDS
LEVELLERS ON THE FIDDLE - FANTASTIC FREEBIE
LEVELLING THE LAND HAND PRINTED SILK SCREEN ARTWORK
NOVEMBER 2010 TOUR VIDEOS
NICK BURBRIDGE - THE UNICYCLE SET
R2 - LEVELLERS ON THE FRONT COVER
MARK ON BBC 6 MUSIC 11.2.11
SAVE OUR FORESTS

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 SOLD OUT

MARCH LEVELLING THE LAND LIVE  
Support on all March dates The Wonder Stuff (except Dublin where Mutefish will support)
3 Thu DUBLIN Academy 00353 1 4858010
4 Fri LIVERPOOL O2 Academy 0844 477 200 SOLD OUT
5 Sat CAMBRIDGE Corn Exchange 01223 357 851 - Last Few Tickets
6 Sun LINCOLN Engine Shed 0844 888 8766
8 Tue BOURNEMOUTH O2 Academy 0844 477 2000
9 Wed BRISTOL O Academy 0844 477 2000 SOLD OUT
10 Thu LEEDS O2 Academy 0844 477 2000 - Last Few Tickets
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 - Last Few Tickets
16 Wed NORWICH UEA 01603 508 050 SOLD OUT
17 Thu BIRMINGHAM O2 Academy 0844 477 2000 SOLD OUT
18 Fri MANCHESTER Academy 0161 832 1111 SOLD OUT
19 Sat LONDON O2 Brixton Academy 0844 477 2000 LONDON SOLD OUT

APRIL
29 FRI BERGENFEST - NORWAY www.bergenfest.no

MAY
Levelling The Land part II plus special guests to be announced
12 Thur LEICESTER O2 Academy 0844 477 2000
13 Fri SHEFFIELD O2 Academy 0844 477 2000
14 Sat LONDON O2 Brixton Academy 0844 477 2000

JUNE
LEVELLING THE LAND LIVE IN EUROPE
1 Wed AMSTERDAM Paradiso – HOLLAND
2 Thu   OSNABRUECK Rosenhof – GERMANY
3 Fri HLINSKO - Czech Republic With DIVOKEJ BILL + POLEMIC
4 Sat OUVALSKEJ BIGBIT Festival - Nr Prague - Czech Republic

17 Fri Carnglaze Caverns - St Neot - Liskeard – Cornwall SOLD OUT

July
3 Sun LOKET NAD OHÃ - Czech Republic With DIVOKEJ BILL + POLEMIC
4 Mon ROCK FOR PEOPLE - CZECH www.rockforpeople.cz
22 Fri TALL SHIPS FESTIVAL - SHETLAND ISLANDS - Tickets on sale 1st March - Details to follow

AUGUST
19-21 Fri–Sun Beautiful Days Festival – ESCOT PARK , Devon www.beautifuldays.org

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 .

Adult ticket prices increased to £110 plus booking fee on 01 January. All children’s ticket prices have remained the same for 2011.

Ticket prices for Beautiful Days 2011 are as follows plus booking fee.
Adult Weekend Camping Ticket £110
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.

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 will be entitled to discount on adult tickets to Beautiful Days Festival 2012 (£5 off on up to two adult tickets per member) the discount time has now finished for the 2011 festival.

You can join OTF for £17 plus p&p on our website. www.levellers.co.uk

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

Mark Chadwick on BBC 6 Music tonight
Mark will be on Tom Robinson’s BBC 6 Music show tonight live from 19:00. The show features specially recorded live tracks from Levelling The Land. BBC 6

Levellers Awarded ‘Roots Award’ at BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2011
On Monday night Levellers were awarded the ‘Roots Award’ at the BBC Radio 2’s annual Folk Awards at The Brewery in East London . Presented by Radio 2’s Jeremy Vine, he stated that the award was for a band who “stays true to folk and where it came from. Taking punk and folk together, brash guitars with the true bite of folk soul. Only the strong survive and The Levellers have done it by staying true to their roots.” The band then went on to prove this by closing the show with a high-energy charge through two of their most popular songs – ‘One Way’ and ‘Riverflow’. You can watch their performance again NOW on digital TV by pressing the Red Button on any BBC channel until Tuesday next week or listen to the awards ceremony here www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/events/folk-awards-2011

NICK BURBRIDGE - THE UNICYCLE SET
McDermott's Two Hours' Nick Burbridge, long-time collaborator with The Levellers, has a new poetry collection on sale, a full length book called The Unicycle Set, published by Waterloo Press, to follow All Kinds Of Disorder, some of which Jon turned into a unique CD of readings, music and effects.
'Poet and pub-magpie of the Brighton-Irish bogs, Nick Bubridge invites us to his bohemian lock-in of the soul. Take a binge on a picaresque kaleidoscope of Burbridgean brio; its wit and linguistic gusto; its lashings of Irish yarn-spinners; at a seamier side of wraps, waifs, rakes, tirades and taboos. You'll not be able to stop for a postcard.'
Formal publication is in February 2011, but inscribed copies of the book - 84pp - shall shortly be available direct from Nick, for £10, from www.burbridgearts.org.  Just use the contact form.

R2
Levellers on the front cover and feature in this month’s R2 magazine (Rock n Reel)Check out this month’s issue of Rock n Reel (R2) with Levellers on the front cover and a full feature and interview with the band inside.  
www.rock-n-reel.co.uk | www.facebook.com/R2magazine

SAVE OUR FORESTS
Please consider signing the petition at www.38degrees.org.uk

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

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