Levellers News

 
The Independent (blog)
Sepp Blatter: Penalty shoot-outs must remain, they're football's great leveller
The Independent (blog)
To quote one Twitter user: “Penalty Shootouts are football's great levellers. Don't need to fix what's not broken. We need an alternative to Sepp Blatter.” Well, that pretty much sums it up, doesn't it? drogba 300x225 Sepp Blatter : Penalty shoot outs ...

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For Folk's Sake
News | Levellers announce new album
For Folk's Sake
By Ellie Rumbold Levellers have announced the arrival of a new album: “Static on the Airwaves”, due for release on 25th June 2012. I think it would be a slight understatement to say that this has been a hotly anticipated album.


 
The Guardian
Festivals guide 2012 listings: family festivals
The Guardian
... Devon What The Levellers' annual weekend bash celebrates its 10th anniversary this year Who Public Image Limited, Levellers, Richard Thompson How much SOLD OUT When 29 June-1 July Where St Donats Castle, Vale of Glamorgan What Storytelling, music, ...


 
Music News
The Levellers announce new album, download & UK tour
Music News
Folk-rock band Levellers who release their tenth studio album, Static On The Airwaves, on 25 June 2012 have announced an 11 date UK tour in November including a night at London's O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire on Saturday 24 November.


 
Levellers march attracts a big crowd
Oxford Mail
The event celebrates the anniversary of the execution of three leveller soldiers shot in Burford churchyard on May 17, 1649. The Levellers were a soldiers who pressed for civil rights and religious tolerance and rebelled against Oliver Cromwell.

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Levellers set to rock at Avebury gig
This Is Wiltshire
STAR attraction at Avebury Rocks on July 7 will be the Levellers – one of the biggest and best festival draws in the country, holding the record for attendance for a mainstage performance at Glas-tonbury of more than 120000 people.

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As every serious radical knows, it would be mad to give prisoners the right to ...
Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
Consider the Levellers. In their 1648 petition to Parliament, they insisted that government by consent was the "Birth right of all English men", which should be "forth with restored to all". Except prisoners, that is. The Levellers said imprisoned men, ...

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