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FREE LEVELLERS ALBUM!
OTF Members - download your FREE Levellers album - Live at Berlin Lido here. It'll only be free until 31st August so get yours now!
Recorded at the Berlin premiere of A Curious Life, Live at Berlin Lido was broadcast on Radio Eins in September 2014 and unavailable elsewhere.
We also have a brand new Members Area which is visible when you are logged in. Keep checking here over the nexct few months for special offers and freebies!.
If you're not a member and want the albums free - join here. There'll be three more free albums to members in July!
Beautiful Nights - Levellers with special guests Dreadzone and Ruts DC
Five UK shows - Levellers with DREADZONE & RUTS DC
We will be playing five ‘BEAUTIFUL NIGHTS’ with special guests in December 2015. Pre-sale starts Weds am and tickets are on general sale from Friday.
Joining us for these special shows in December are electro-dub pioneers Dreadzone. After rising to fame in the early nineties with hits including Little Britain the band, featuring founders Greg Dread and original bassmaster Leo Williams, are still going strong after over 20 years in the game and playing with an energy that many young pretenders find hard to match. They are re-issuing their standout 2001 album 'Sound' this Summer which is perhaps most notable for the first appearance of MC Spee on the opening tune Return of Dread. The current line-up features Greg, Leo, MC Spee and legendary reggae vocalist Earl 16 alongside Chris Compton on guitar and Bazil on technology.
Punk rock band Ruts DC will also support on all five shows. Originally formed in 1980 and one of the best loved bands of the punk rock era, they released two much-acclaimed albums 'The Crack' and 'Grin And Bear It'. The 2 remaining original Ruts members are bassist John 'Segs' Jennings and drummer Dave Ruffy. Segs now handles the lead vocal / frontman duties while Ruffy sings backing vocals as well as holding down the perfect beat with new addition Leigh Heggarty on guitar. The Ruts DC 2015 live show consists of songs representing their many phases including classic versions of Ruts songs Babylons’ Burning, Staring at the Rude Boys, Jah War and others. A book 'Love in Vain' - the story of The Ruts and Ruts DC - is out now.
Beautiful Nights feat Levellers with special guests Dreadzone and Ruts DC
Pre-sale Wed 20 May @ 9am from http://www.alt-tickets.co.uk/levellers-tickets
General sale – Fri 22 May @ 9am
DECEMBER 2015
01 SOUTHEND Cliffs Pavilion
02 READING Rivermead
03 DONCASTER The Dome
04 WOLVERHAMPTON Civic Hall
05 BLACKPOOL Empress Ballroom
www.levellers.co.uk
www.dreadzone.com
www.theruts.co.uk
Six Beautiful Nights in Germany & Holland in November – on sale Friday!
We are also going to be playing 6 six shows in Holland and Germany in November. These are full electric shows (but not with Dreadzone and Ruts DC!). All links and info from www.levellers.co.uk
NOVEMBER 2015
24 DEVENTER Burgerweeshuis
25 HAMBURG Knust
26 KOLN Luxor
27 BENSHEIM Musiktheater Rex
28 DUISBURG Grammatikoff
29 KARLSRUHE Substage
Thank you from The Gambia
Little Trees Skill Centre in The Gambia send a big thank you to The Levellers for their kind donation of four flight cases, a filing cabinet, t-shirts and a laptop. The flight cases and filing cabinet are providing strong and useful storage for students' tools and materials, keeping everything safe from local wildlife! The laptop is being used by teachers for writing exam papers and homework tasks. Students, teachers and other locals were really happy to have a brand new t-shirt. Thank you!
Beautiful Days Tickets Sold Out
Beautiful Days tickets have Sold Out but Car Parking Passes are still available in the shop section
Tickets very close to selling out for the 2015 festival!
Please don’t leave it too late to get yours. No more will be made available in advance or on the gate.
Stream A CURIOUS LIFE Now!
A Curious Life is now available to stream here for only £2.99
The DVD/CD is released on Monday 27th April - if you've pre-ordered it; your package should be with you very soon!.
If not, there's a still a few copies available with a limited edition signed postcard set from OTF or our friends at Townsend
A Curious Life Postcard Set
Set of 10 postcards featuring stills from the Levellers documentary 'A Curious Life'
Each set is housed in a silk art paper 'belly wrap' (pictured) and every card contains a hilarious quote from the relevant scene from the film.
Pre-order here to get them for the special price of only £7.99.
A CURIOUS LIFE DVD+CD Pre-order @ OTF
Beautiful Days Line-up and theme announced!
Headlining Beautiful Days 2015 are Boston celtic-punk powerhouse Dropkick Murphys playing their only UK festival date this year, plus seminal Manchester legends Happy Mondays celebrating the 25th anniversary of their 1990 record 'Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches' and festival founders Levellers who will close the show on the Sunday night followed by a fireworks finale.
Watch the new Interrobang‽ video
Watch the new Interrobang‽ video for 'Are You Ready People?' here. The single is out now on 7" in our shop - Interrobang‽.
You can also download it from iTunes or stream it via spotify
March Newsletter 2015
March News 2015 A Curious Life On DVD A Curious Life Film & European Acoustic Tour Summer 2015 Shows & Festivals Beautiful Days Festival 2015 On The Fiddle Membership Greatest Hits & Just The One Single Levellers Merchandise Sale/Bargain A Curious Life On DVD You can pre-order signed copies of the ‘A Curious Life’ film on DVD now! Out on 27 April, it features a host of extras including previously unseen archive material from 1988-89 and Glastonbury ’92. The limited DVD/CD edition also comes with a live acoustic CD –...
New On The Fiddle 7"Single - Interrobang‽
Former Chumbawamba frontman and director of 'A Curious Life' - Dunstan Bruce - is now fronting a new band; Interrobang‽.
The debut single, Are You Ready People is the first in a 3 part series of 7” singles released via the Levellers' On the Fiddle Recordings label.
Interrobang‽ reject the idea of nostalgia and refuse to live in the past, no looking back; this is all forward, forward motion.
With a vision to create something that speaks to the generation who grew up in the shadow of punk, with hopes and dreams, full of rebellion. How do they express their anger now?
Are You ready People can be awkward, uneasy listening; but it can also shake you, rattle your aging bones and send you helter-skeltering onto the dancefloor with its frantic, skewed staccato pop that buzzes like a fridge.
Buy it here
Interrobang?! are totally wired, can't you see?
'A Curious Life' film on DVD! Out on 27 April
Pre-order signed copies of Levellers ‘A Curious Life’ film on DVD! Out on 27 April, it features a host of extras including previously unseen archive material from 1988-89 and Glastonbury ’92. The limited DVD/CD edition also comes with a live acoustic CD – Live In Dublin - recorded on the recent film tour and 4 exclusive postcards
Original Print of Carry Me 1/1 signed & Framed
FEBRUARY NEWS
February News 2015
BEAUTIFUL DAYS 2015 - ON SALE FRIDAY 06 FEBRUARY @ 10AM
Tickets will be available in the Levellers website shop.
OTF Membership discount price available with your voucher code until 28th February, we'll email the code to you with this months news.