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ALBUMLive At the Dolce Vita '91The Levellers
Albums by The Levellers
ALBUMThe Lockdown SessionsThe Levellers
ALBUMPeace (Bonus Disc Version)The Levellers
ALBUMGlastonbury '94The Levellers
ALBUMBrixton Live (Brixton Academy 2 / 5 / 97)The Levellers
ALBUMRockpalast Live (Köln Palladium 16 / 12 / 00)The Levellers
ALBUMBesiegedMcDermott's 2 Hours, The Levellers & Oysterband
ALBUMZeitgeist Live (Sheffield Arena 18 / 12 / 95)The Levellers
ALBUMWe The CollectiveThe Levellers
ALBUMStatic on the Airwaves (Special Edition)The Levellers
ALBUMClaws and WingsThe Levellers & McDermott's 2 Hours
The Levellers's Popular Music Videos
Beautiful Day (feat. Imelda May)
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Julie (feat. Frank Turner)
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Hope St. (feat. Billy Bragg)
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Truth Is
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Truth Is
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After the Hurricane
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Alone In This Darkness
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The Recruiting Sergeant
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Just the One (feat. Bellowhead)
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Beautiful Day
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Artist Biography
Aptly named after a 17th-century leftist political movement, The Levellers blend fiddle-swept English and Celtic folk influences with literate, outspoken pub rock. That combustible mixture of folk, punk, and politics situated them squarely in the lineage of Billy Bragg and The Pogues when the band formed in Brighton in 1988. But while The Levellers underscored the importance of lyrics by calling their 1990 debut A Weapon Called the Word, singer/guitarist Mark Chadwick also recognised the limits of what words could do, memorably declaring “And all the problems of the world won’t be solved by this guitar” on 1991’s “One Way.” Yet that hasn’t stopped the band from sticking to its personal ideology across multiple decades, adopting socialism-inspired cover art for 2002’s Green Blade Rising and keeping contemporary greed and hypocrisy very much in their sights on 2021’s Truth & Lies.
Hometown
Brighton, England
Genre
Alternative