Levellers Add Four New Shows To 'Levelling The Land' UK Tour & Tickets
Tuesday, 09 November 2010
Written by Jon Stickler
The latest trend of bands revisiting their glory days shows no signs of fading as Levellers announce dates to perform their era-defining album 'Levelling The Land' live in its entirety for the very first time next March. Due to popular demand the band have announced four further shows to their tour.
Levellers have been called a lot of things over their 23-year history. However, the closest thing to a consensus surrounding the seminal British folk-punk band is that their platinum-selling 1991 album 'Levelling The Land' is an absolute classic. In one fell swoop it propelled a group of disenfranchised misfits from playing pubs in Brighton to headlining Glastonbury Festival, and in the process becoming, what some have said, “The most popular band in Britain”.
During the summer of 1991 'Levelling The Land' redefined the UK’s musical landscape. Counter-culture became culture, the disenfranchised found a voice, and not a single pub, club, students’ union, campfire or festival anywhere in Europe failed to reverberate with the refrains of this iconic album. Levellers provided the soundtrack for a society fed up with the twin evils of Thatcherite politics, and the post-80’s, pre-grunge musical wasteland.
Then as now, Levellers may have been hated, but they were also adored. More importantly, this album caused a reaction in everyone who heard it. Musically and lyrically it absolutely forbade ambivalence. It is exactly this quality which explains that why, 2 decades later, when all but the era’s very best music has faded from memory, each and every track has stood the test of time.
Levellers present ‘Levelling The Land Live’ with special guests on all dates The Wonder Stuff. Levellers will also play an extended encores of live favourites from their extensive back catalogue. Full details of the tour are below:
March 2011
4th O2 Academy, Liverpool – NEW DATE
5th Corn Exchange, Cambridge – NEW DATE
6th Engine Shed, Lincoln – NEW DATE
8th O2 Academy, Bournemouth – NEW DATE
9th O2 Academy, Bristol
10th O2 Academy, Leeds
11th Barrowland, Glasgow
12th Rock City, Nottingham
13th O2 Academy, Newcastle
15th Guildhall, Southampton
16th UEA, Norwich
17th O2 Academy, Birmingham
18th Academy, Manchester
19th O2 Brixton Academy, London
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