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Levellers Extend 'Levelling The Land' UK Tour & Tickets
Wednesday, 19 January 2011 Written by Jon Stickler
Levellers Extend 'Levelling The Land' UK Tour & Tickets

The era-defining album performed in its entirety for the very first time, followed by an extended encore of live favourites from the Levellers extensive back catalogue.

Due to huge demand for tickets for this tour, 3 further dates have been added. The new venues are: Leicester O2 Academy, Sheffield O2 Academy and another date at the iconic Brixton Academy in London.

Anarchists; Sell-Outs; Hippies; Folkies; Punks; Fashionable; Unfashionable; Squatters; Travellers; Crusties; Musical Geniuses; F**king Terrible; A Great British Institution……Levellers have been called a lot conflicting 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 one of the most favoured bands in the UK.

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, 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.' Special guests on all March dates (except Dublin): The Wonder Stuff

March 2011

Thu 03 – Dublin Academy
Fri 04 – Liverpool O2 Academy
Sat 05 - Cambridge Corn Exchange
Sun 06 - Lincoln Engine Shed
Tues 08 – Bournemouth O2 Academy
Wednesday 9 - Bristol O2 Academy
Thursday 10 - Leeds O2 Academy
Friday 11 - Glasgow Barrowland
Saturday 12 - Nottingham Rock City
Sunday 13 - Newcastle O2 Academy
Tuesday 15 - Southampton Guildhall
Wednesday 16 - Norwich UEA
Thursday 17 - Birmingham O2 Academy
Friday 18 - Manchester Academy
Saturday 19 - London O2 Brixton Academy

May 2011 – New Dates Added

THURSDAY 12- Leicester O2 Academy - NEW DATE
FRIDAY 13 – Sheffield O2 Academy - NEW DATE
SATURDAY 14 - London O2 Brixton Academy - NEW DATE

Tickets For Levellers' New UK Dates are onsale from 9am on Friday 21st January.

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