The Levellers News

BEING a first-timer going to see Frank Turner is like going to a meeting of a club where everyone else has been a member for ages.

There's only one day to go before The 2009 Manson's Guitar Show opens its doors at the Riverside Leisure Centre, Exeter.

The album will be available from all major download stores. The 10 track live recording has been taken from the band's unique performance last year at London's Royal Albert Hall .

Not only can you listen to music a ' signed and unsigned a ' from throughout the South West on Radio Free South West , but you can also vote on the tunes for the people's chart.

Short of sashaying over the waves, or flying Harry Potter's Nimbus 2000 into the Labour Party conference here yesterday, there wasn't much Gordon Brown could do to keep the British press from writing his political obituary.

From Fairground Attraction to the Levellers to Boo Hewerdine, Eddi Reader has a knack for picking good partners.

LOCAL unsigned Welsh band, The Last Republic, has made it through to the final stage of Virgin Media's Road to V competition.

"We are Motorhead and we play rock and roll," announced Lemmy Kilmister as he took to the Main Stage for Friday nighta s headline slot.

Guilfest is upon us soon with a smashing line-up of bands performing on no less than seven stages next weekend.

A music festival being held in a south of Scotland forest has pledged to calculate its carbon emissions and compensate by planting trees.

A festival featuring live bands and a motorbike show will be held next month on the Draycott House Estate.

CHILDREN from Woodcraft Folk in Stroud found out about some of Englanda s earliest radicals at a special memorial day recently.

Folk-rock legends The Levellers are to perform at Fontwell Park's Irish Race Day this October.

AN ARRAY of top music names have boosted environmental projects at a North Yorkshire forest to the tune of A 150,000. New figures released by the Forestry Commission have revealed how a string of open-air concerts staged at Dalby Forest, near Pickering, over the last eight years have benefited schemes aimed at making the area even greener.

The Frome Festival 2009 brochure hits the street this week listing more events than ever before.

WITH anti-corporate, anti-government demonstrations in London making prime-time news, it should feel like the world has come full circle for the Levellers, who came to prominence in the days of anti-Criminal Justice Act campaigns.

THE 35th annual Levellers Day will take place between 10.30am and 6pm on Saturday, May 16.

Brighton-based folk/punk band The Levellers released Letters from the Underground a ' their most politically resonant album in a decade - last year.

MANSFIELD folk heroes The Beetroot Kings will be taking to the stage next month alongside punk-folkers The Levellers.

THE North East's biggest two-day music festival has announced that festival heroes The Levellers will be headlining the main stage, the Voodoo stage, on Friday, August 28.