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HarperPR

12-02-2008, 02:48 PM

Below, if you care to peruse, is my interview with Mark Chadwick from the Levellers.

If you read the whole thing, yes, you will come upon a certain reference to a certain event in September. This I shall start the 'Nick at RAH' thread for in the 'On Tour' forum - just to keep it simple.:)

http://www.altnation.com/forums/punk-related-articles/131930-mark-chadwick-comes-up-from-underground.html

just jane

14-02-2008, 07:04 PM

Great interview Linn, it was a nice read

HarperPR

14-02-2008, 07:14 PM

Ah, thanks, Jane. Had nice comments on the Levs board too - and 357 views of the actual piece; only 350 have been mine, ha! That man so owes me for his image makeover!

just jane

14-02-2008, 07:25 PM

He did need it with some of the stalkers the Levs have, Ive always thought he was ok myself, just misunderstood:rofl:

15-02-2008, 07:31 AM

I finally just got round to reading the interview - wonderful job! Just goes to show what a pro can achieve :)

critch

15-02-2008, 07:58 AM

HarperPR

15-02-2008, 01:59 PM

Ha - well i never realised how much work went into it. 2 nights and a morning at mine MsPR spent typing at mine and she'd already done loads by then! Not like i do a review - an hour and i'm bored. Might just about proof read it!

Took longer than that! It was a labour of love though!:biggrin: But I look at it now and all I can see are the flaws; where I should have pushed, what I should have left out and what I should have put in.

Embarking on the second one now (sort of a re-issue with a few bonus tracks:)) - and repeating last weekend: travelling to Harpic and writing about Levs. Such a hard job I have!:biggrin:

HarperPR

03-03-2008, 12:07 AM

The Levellers two downloads now available FREE for one month: A Life Less Ordinary / The Cholera Well.

Pass on the download link. Burn a CD. Play on your MP3 player. Spread the word.

http://www.lettersfromtheunderground.com

HarperPR

03-03-2008, 01:23 PM

Nice song here from Mark - about a dog!:biggrin: See the last - Galahad

http://faceculture.ad2stream.com/index.php?cnti_key=11734825

just jane

03-03-2008, 07:51 PM

HarperPR

03-03-2008, 11:32 PM

Good, good! Promise you'll post a Manc review, Jane, just for me?! I have been told there are 'surprises' in store, at least on the last night (and no, I don't know what!), and that they'll be sober - ha, yeah right. Not at 1am Sunday morning, I'm sure of that!

just jane

04-03-2008, 01:39 PM

we'll see about a review, Im not good at remembering these things the next day:rofl:

All of them being sober would be a miracle not just a surprise, Im only doing Manc not the last night though.

Mia

04-03-2008, 02:06 PM

Nice song here from Mark - about a dog!:biggrin: See the last - Galahad

http://faceculture.ad2stream.com/index.php?cnti_key=11734825

That is such a beautiful song - I love it.:) I wonder if it will be on the new record. But being about a fox hound......I wonder;)

See you on Saturday, Linn.

HarperPR

04-03-2008, 03:34 PM

Jane, I'll tell you why in a PM apropos review. No, I know you'll not be at the third. Shame, didn't have much chance to chat at the Tunnels. But you'll still see them before me!

Mia, I think (?) Galahad is already on an album...

HarperPR

06-03-2008, 11:55 AM

I love it too! How do I get that vid off the link above and onto my MySpace? Critch?

HarperPR

07-03-2008, 01:26 AM

As tickets are on sale from the 10th and it's out:

Levellers
Royal Albert Hall
September 27

HarperPR

07-03-2008, 05:06 PM

Read this (not mine!):

http://www.livemusicreview.co.uk/reviews/20080306%20Levellers.htm

Don't you wish you were there.:)

I had my AllGigs man there to do a review, and tonight our intrepid Simon Foster will be capturing all on camera in Manc.

HarperPR

08-03-2008, 01:43 AM

Simon, was all 'okay'?

How was show? I hear it was another blinder. Did you get lots of pics - and my 'special' ones!:biggrin:

SimonF

08-03-2008, 09:07 AM

Simon, was all 'okay'?

How was show? I hear it was another blinder. Did you get lots of pics - and my 'special' ones!:biggrin:

Well. I got in OK, Ta. Loads and LOADS of photo's to sort through, but here's a samplette

http://www.stormcock.net/files/image/SimonF/marckchad080.JPG

HarperPR

08-03-2008, 09:36 AM

just jane

08-03-2008, 11:25 AM

You were up close!:biggrin: Lucky you. Did you enjoy it - and did you manage a live review too?:D

I bet he took one look at you and thought, 'Bloody 'ell! It's him again! He's stalking me from Brighton!'

Did you have ear protection as well? I gather they are loud this time!

He was close up, I was upstairs and could see him I think right of the stage aiming mostly at mark :biggrin:

yes they were loud even from up there.

I will try to put some kind of review together with my other half over the weekend, but Ive only just got back from a mercy dash to lancaster to bring an ill daughter back from Uni and need to do other stuff first.

HarperPR

08-03-2008, 11:38 AM

He was close up, I was upstairs and could see him I think right of the stage aiming mostly at mark :biggrin:

yes they were loud even from up there.

I will try to put some kind of review together with my other half over the weekend, but Ive only just got back from a mercy dash to lancaster to bring an ill daughter back from Uni and need to do other stuff first.

Oh, hope ill daughter soon becomes well daughter and she's not too bad. Good mum to the rescue, eh!

Yeah, Simon would aim at him.:biggrin: I could tell you a funny story about the two of them, but I don't think I better!:rofl:

I am so not looking forward to 3 supports tonight - me who barely manages one! I shall do a bit of 3DM, a bit of Alabama - just to see if they're as bad as people are saying - and then...home!:biggrin: I only have to get a bit of everything bar the Levs as I am officially reviewing (yeah, me for a change!) for Music-News. The smoking will be the other thing. I shall probably miss half the night anyway through quick dashes for the exit.

scotpaulabear

08-03-2008, 02:46 PM

HarperPR

08-03-2008, 03:27 PM

Alabama 3 are GENIUS, you might actually like them!

And if you have a press pass, then you might get a smoke, but the Academy venues are now notorious for telling people they need to buy a new ticket to leave for a cig...

Oh, I know they are - done them with Nick and The Twang. I usually manage ;) although still not able to sneak drink out to go with! I was told it was okay in the dressing rooms here, but I doubt it. Could be a few smoke alarms going off tonight!

Well, from what I have heard A3 haven't been that hot these nights...?

HarperPR

09-03-2008, 04:26 AM

Brilliant show and visuals.
A3 - too country for me, wasn't impressed.
3DM - a bit disappointed; expected more, although they did only have a quarter of the audience in at the time they were on.
Dreadzone - fantastic! Stars of the night. A worthy opener to the Levs in their own right. That's my kind of music. To be honest, if an announcement had been made that the Levs weren't appearing and Dreadzone were doing another 2 hours, there'd have been no complaints from me!
Levellers? They were okay.:biggrin: No, they were much more than that: brilliant. A stunning finale to the 3 nights.
Good to briefly meet Mia at the bar. And Linda, of course, for fun company! Even if she had been chatting up Levs' fiddler Jon Sevink's (and it's not pronounced SEV-ink either I learnt tonight, but SAY-vink; it's Dutch! Thanks Pete) cousin.;), who I just elbowed out of the way (well he was in my spot) and Charlie's brother- ha!

And everyone was smoking in the bar afterwards and running the gauntlet of the staff, which was quite funny! Most of whom were smoking nefarious substances - shocking!

Dim - were you here? Only there was a guy at stage door beforehand I just for some reason thought might have been you, but I couldn't remember your real name, and I thought saying to some stranger 'Are you dim?' might not have been considered polite.:D

HarperPR

10-03-2008, 11:21 PM

The Levellers rock against racism, April 30, London.

http://www.xfm.co.uk/news/2008/the-levellers-join-rock-against-racism-bill

HarperPR

11-03-2008, 05:08 PM

The first (of a few!) of my reviews of the Levs at Brixton. With live image courtesy of Simon Foster.

http://livemusic.fm/node/17975

SimonF

11-03-2008, 09:29 PM

Yeah, Simon would aim at him.:biggrin: I could tell you a funny story about the two of them, but I don't think I better!:rofl:

Eh? I must have missed that! :confused1:

[thinks]

Oh, I know what you mean. If ever there was a case of making something out of nothing, that's it!

Typical 'PR', never let the truth get in the way of a good rumour!

And, when in doubt, exaggerate :D

Simon

HarperPR

11-03-2008, 09:39 PM

Eh? I must have missed that! :confused1:

[thinks]

Oh, I know what you mean. If ever there was a case of making something out of nothing, that's it!

Typical 'PR', never let the truth get in the way of a good rumour!

And, when in doubt, exaggerate :D

Simon

Bloody made me laugh.:rofl:

I can see the comedic value in it! And it was the way you told it.

wessexy witch

14-03-2008, 05:51 PM

I was there on saturday night !
brilliant!

:party:

HarperPR

15-03-2008, 02:28 PM

I was there on saturday night !
brilliant!

:party:

I didn't see you!:rofl:

Were you in the bar upstairs afterwards or at Jamm?

Just as an adjunct to, er, nothing in particular, but related to the Levs and other artists of that ilk (ie 3DM): why do they keep going 'hey!' every so often in their songs? Mark does it in A Life Less... and then when I saw the Monkeys they do the same and Neck did.:confused: Is this some folk/punk thing that I am not aware of?

wessexy witch

16-03-2008, 11:37 PM

I didn't see you!:rofl:

Were you in the bar upstairs afterwards or at Jamm?

Just as an adjunct to, er, nothing in particular, but related to the Levs and other artists of that ilk (ie 3DM): why do they keep going 'hey!' every so often in their songs? Mark does it in A Life Less... and then when I saw the Monkeys they do the same and Neck did.:confused: Is this some folk/punk thing that I am not aware of?

I was downstairs near the front to the right for the gig.:thumbup:
Outside walking back to the hotel in the rain after the gig !:thumbdown:

HarperPR

24-03-2008, 01:11 AM

I was downstairs near the front to the right for the gig.:thumbup:
Outside walking back to the hotel in the rain after the gig !:thumbdown:

We were behind you then! Same side, half way back.

Are you there on 30th?

And for all the girls, Simon will be posting some more gorgeous shots of the guys SOON I hope!

wessexy witch

26-03-2008, 01:11 AM

We were behind you then! Same side, half way back.

Are you there on 30th?

And for all the girls, Simon will be posting some more gorgeous shots of the guys SOON I hope!

We only went on the saturday night.
:thumbup1:

HarperPR

26-03-2008, 01:24 AM

We only went on the saturday night.
:thumbup1:

I meant APRIL 30!:closedeyes:

HarperPR

30-03-2008, 04:59 AM

Lots of lovely Levs dates added to 2008 - if you're in Scotland or Scandinavia.:(

http://www.levellers.co.uk

scotpaulabear

01-04-2008, 05:10 AM

Great name for a festy, Big in Falkirk... well that's not difficult :p It's like being big in Japan except being a lot smaller LOL.

Now, Connect, that's supposed to be a kickass festival - was sorry I missed the Beasties and the Mary Chain there last year...

HarperPR

01-04-2008, 10:31 AM

The Levs are headlining Glastonbury Left Field on the Thursday.:)

wow wow wow:w00t:

HarperPR

05-04-2008, 08:43 PM

Well. I got in OK, Ta. Loads and LOADS of photo's to sort through, but here's a samplette

http://www.stormcock.net/files/image/SimonF/marckchad080.JPG

Can we have some more samplettes, please. It's been a month now...:(

HarperPR

05-04-2008, 08:48 PM

The Levellers rock against racism, April 30, London.

http://www.xfm.co.uk/news/2008/the-levellers-join-rock-against-racism-bill

Anyone along for this from here? Or just me - again.:biggrin:

Good cause. And Tony Benn - Katrina, still think LHS should get him involved with something. He's certainly been an inspiration to me with how he's coped with CLL - and a few more surprises.

fickle_Witch

05-04-2008, 09:43 PM

tony benn rocks!! he did a demo in bournemouth once that i was stewarding and he walked around with me arm in arm, he is soooo lovely!!