The Levellers Announce New Album
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The Levellers have released the brand new single ‘Food Roof Family’, the first track to be taken from their forthcoming new studio album Peace, which will be released on the August 14 via On The Fiddle Recordings. Whilst the video confronts the misleading and deceptive tactics used by the media to marginalise the vulnerable, the track blazes with anger and urgency and its lyrical concerns are unvarnished and unambiguous.
“Everybody needs those three things, it doesn’t matter where you’re from,” says singer / guitarist Mark Chadwick. “It’s something that we all crave. Why does anybody want more roof than anybody else, or more food than anybody else, or want to kill anybody else’s family. It doesn’t make any sense.”
Peace arrives almost eight years since the Brighton band’s last album of original material, 2012’s Static On The Airwaves, though the band – completed by Simon Friend (guitar/vocals), Jon Sevink (fiddle), Charlie Heather (drums) and Matt Savage (keyboards) – have been far from idle.
During that time, they’ve toured the world multiple times and released 2018’s acclaimed We The Collective, which featured acoustic versions of several classic Levellers songs and was their highest charting album in more than two decades.
Now on the upcoming tour the band are partnering with local homeless charities in each town and encouraging fans to bring items along to donate whether it be a hat, coat or toiletries and more. The Facebook events page for each gig will have a list of anything specifically needed. This has stemmed from Charlie and Matt working with the group, Sussex Homeless Support. This has included raising at their Beautiful Days Festival last year as well as continued support throughout the year, from taking part in the World’s Big Sleep Out in Brighton to helping at a local Street Kitchen, making a massive donation from their concert at The Brighton Dome and producing badges to raise funds for SHS. This sense of positivity that the band possess is brought to life by the album’s striking artwork of a vivid phoenix painted, like all of the band’s covers, by Jeremy Cunningham.
LEVELLERS 2020 UK TOUR
FEBRUARY
12 Bury St Edmunds, The Apex SOLD OUT
13 Bury St Edmunds, The Apex SOLD OUT
14 Falmouth, Princess Pavilion SOLD OUT
15 Falmouth, Princess Pavillion SOLD OUT
16 Falmouth, Princess Pavillion SOLD OUT
26 Brecon, Theatre Brycheiniog SOLD OUT
27 Port Talbot, Princess Theatre SOLD OUT
28 Blackwood, Miners Institute SOLD OUT
29 Llandudno, Venue Cymru
MARCH
01 Liverpool, Grand Central
19 Guildford, G Live
20 Norwich, Uea
21 Margate, Dreamland
APRIL
29 Sheffield, Leadmill SOLD OUT
30 Coventry, Empire
MAY
01 Holmfirth, Picturedrome SOLD OUT
02 Holmfirth, Picturedrome SOLD OUT
13 Hastings, White Rock Theatre
14 Frome, Cheese & Grain SOLD OUT
15 Aylesbury, Waterside Theatre
16 Southampton, O2 Guildhall
JUNE
20 Birmingham, Digbeth Arena - A Beautiful Day Out with guests
27 Bristol, Harbourside - A Beautiful Day Out with guests
AUGUST
21-23 Devon, Beautiful Days Festival
OCTOBER
07 Eindhoven, Effenaar (Nl)
08 Amsterdam, Paradiso (Nl)
09 Koln Gloria, (De)
10 St Niklaas, Casino (Be) SOLD OUT
11 Depot, Leuven (Be)
NOVEMBER
04 York, Barbican
05 Dundee, Fat Sams
06 Stirling, Albert Halls
07 Edinburgh, Liquid Rooms
08 Aberdeen, Lemon Tree
18 St Albans, Arena
19 Scunthorpe, The Baths Hall
20 Manchester, Albert Hall
21 Manchester, Albert Hall
DECEMBER
03 Lancaster, Town Hall
04 Nottingham, Rock City
05 Nottingham, Rock City SOLD OUT