LEVELLERS GREATEST HITS ALBUM + UK TOUR WITH SPECIAL GUESTS THE SELECTER
LEVELLERS GREATEST HITS ALBUM + UK TOUR WITH SPECIAL GUESTS THE SELECTER
Levellers release their ‘Greatest Hits’ on 29 September via their own On The Fiddle Recordings label. Spread over three formats; the 2CD/DVD set includes all the Levellers’ singles and videos – together on one album for the first time, spanning the bands’ 25 year career.
From the folk punk roots of Carry Me, through the anthemic One Way, Fifteen Years and the chart topping Hope Street, Just The One and Beautiful Day – more recent tracks such as Truth Is, Burn America Burn and The Cholera Well show the Levellers’ mix of scathing political comment and positive DIY attitude to life hasn’t dissipated with age.
Most exciting of all, there are 4 brand new recordings of the Levellers collaborating with contemporary artists re-working some of their classic material. Imelda May is the queen of all time on Beautiful Day. While Bellowhead take on Just The One and the legendary Billy Bragg performs Hope Street. Finally, Frank Turner breathes new life into Julie – bringing us back full circle for another generation of the disenfranchised to discover the Levellers for the first time.
In October and November this year, Levellers will embark on a European wide Greatest Hits tour to promote the album; performing some of these songs for the first time in many years with special guests The Selecter on all UK dates plus solo multi-instrumentalist Laura Kidd aka She Makes War.
Influential and platinum-selling 2-Tone veterans The Selecter returned in 2011 fronted by the original singing duo of the female icon of the 2-tone era Pauline Black and Arthur ‘Gaps’ Hendrickson. The dynamic and impeccable duo take centre stage in what is arguably the band’s best line-up since the original one. Their debut album Too Much Pressure, featuring the hit ‘On My Radio’, remains a classic touchstone for a generation of ska lovers and they will perform it in its entirety at the shows.
As well as the Greatest Hits release and huge tour this year for Levellers, a film about their rise to fame in the 1990’s ‘A Curious Life’ had its premiere in June 2014. Told through the unique perspective of Jeremy Cunningham, the band’s bass player and artist, and directed by former Chumbawamba frontman Dunstan Bruce, the film focuses on the Levellers phenomenal success between 1988 and 1998 before they disappeared for a time in a train wreck of drink, drugs and creative drought. However, despite reaching their lowest ebb, the band never split up and after a few years in the wilderness they re-invented themselves as a self-managing collective with their own studio, label and Beautiful Days festival and in the process became unexpected survivors of the UK’s famously fickle music industry.
LEVELLERS – GREATEST HITS UK TOUR 2014
29 Oct FOLKESTONE Leas Cliff Hall
11 Nov NOTTINGHAM Rock City
12 Nov BRISTOL o2 Academy
13 Nov LONDON o2 Shepherds Bush Empire
14 Nov BIRMINGHAM o2 Academy
15 Nov NORWICH UEA
16 Nov PORTSMOUTH Guildhall
18 Nov WREXHAM William Aston Hall
19 Nov NEWCASTLE o2 Academy
20 Nov SHEFFIELD o2 Academy
21 Nov GLASGOW o2 ABC
22 Nov MANCHESTER Academy
On sale Friday 04 July 2014 via gigsandtours.com
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LEVELLERS GREATEST HITS
Release date: 29 September 2014
Cat: OTFCD019X (2CD/DVD)
Label: On the Fiddle Recordings
TRACKLISTING
CD1
Fifteen Years
Hope Street
What a Beautiful Day
Dog Train
Belarus
The Cholera Well
Last Man Alive
Truth Is
Fantasy
Just the One
Burn America Burn
Before the End
Celebrate
Bozos
Too Real
Liberty
Beautiful Day (Feat. Imelda May)
Julie (Feat. Frank Turner)
CD 2
One Way
Make You Happy
This Garden
Julie
Wild As Angels
Come On
The Devil Went Down to Georgia
Far From Home
Together All The Way
Exodus (Live)
Happy Birthday Revolution
Carry Me
Outside/Inside
World Freak Show
The Recruiting Sergeant (War Child Explicit)
Just the One (Feat. Bellowhead)
Hope St (Feat. Billy Bragg)
DVD
One Way
Fifteen Years
Far From Home
Julie
Belarus
This Garden
Hope Street
Fantasy
Just the One
Exodus (live)
What A Beautiful Day
Celebrate
Dog Train
Too Real
Bozos
One Way (1998)
Happy Birthday Revolution
Come On
Wild As Angels
Liberty (Live)
Burn America Burn
Before the End
Truth Is
The Recruiting Sergeant
Julie (Feat. Frank Turner)
Hope St (Feat. Billy Bragg)
Just the One (Feat. Bellowhead)
Beautiful Day (Feat. Imelda May)
Digital (OTF019D)
Same running order as 2CD version followed by these bonus tracks
A Life Less Ordinary Bonus Track – Single Version
We Are All Gunmen Bonus Track – Single Version
After The Hurricane Bonus Track – Single Version
One Way Bonus Track – Original Version
iTunes LP / Digital Box Set (OTF019DI)
Vol 1 – Greatest Hits (Digital Version)
Vol 2 – B-Sides
Vol 3 – Covers, Remixes & Live Versions
Vol 4 – Rarities
Vol 5 – Static On The Airwaves (VIDEO ALBUM) + Bonus videos (Imelda, Frank, Bellowhead & Billy Bragg)