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Levellers live- jaw droppingly brilliant.
I spent most of the early 90s watching them conquer every festival in Europe.
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
It was a monumental performance that night- one that took them to top billings everywhere for a short time - so many little things I can remember- I simply cannot believe it was 29 years ago. I think Beanfield and Another Man's Cause would both be in the first five songs I learned all the way through on a guitar.
They might not be the best musicians, but they were melodic, visceral, genuine, brilliant- they were all of those- and still, to this day, consistently one of the best live bands I've ever seen for those reasons. The Brighton Pier gig almost brought the pier down, and the T&C Gig was one of the best I have ever seen.
I just wiped away a little tear. Where did my life go?
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/apr/22/the-levellers-look-back
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
A song I like a lot is Men-an-Tol off the Zeitgeist album.
Just listening (and strumming along to) Another Man's Cause- the middle eight in that is still one of the most fabulously crafted change ups in a 3 chord song ('now she wonders at it all' etc...). Chadders had a great voice.
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
Thank you.
Friendships - so many of them - came from those days. I guess they (and All About Eve) were the reasons I bought a guitar. I remember buying my first electric (a MIM CAR Strat) and being told by Mark & Simon (at Pinkpop, shitfaced!) to 'fuck that and get a Gibson....'
I also recall well them playing the old NEC smaller venue four nights in a row (92 or 93?)- and our gang got tickets for every night- my pal Paul (still in contact) had a VW Camper split screen- and the entire purpose of him buying the van was to ensure we had a gas stove for 'Hot Knives' which literally happened on the motorway, on A roads, wherever..... I mean, who the hell remembers doing hot knives?!?!?
He had a hash den in Portland St in Cheltenham- literally the seediest place ever, booming trance and drum and bass 24/7.
I actually pity kids missing out on this level of sheer debauchery and hedonism these days.
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
My copy of Leveling the Land is probably in the loft somewhere...I followed other bands at the time, hitching round the country seeing lots of bands, crashing on people's floors, cheap booze before the gigs (Thunderbird wine, Merrydown cider...) .
Great days :-) not sure that sub culture even exists now?
I tried to listen to Levelling The Land recently for nostalgia's sake and found the production kinda tinny.
A bit like Mega City Four. Another brilliant band with huge live energy