Levellers - probably playing!

[Dark Star]

ive thought all along that the levellers and the waterboys are definately going to be making an appearance at some point next year.

[Neville Street]

Levellers and the Waterboys... that'd be awesome!

[Red Day]

how drunk were they?

I once made the mistake of drinking with them for a few hours while I interviewed them.

I had to go home and have some coffee and something to eat, to try to sober up. I returned to the venue 3 hours later for the gig, and they were still in the pub next door .... they came straight from the pub (with their beers in hand) and onto the stage half an hour later.

I'm amazed that any of them have working livers.

[HurrahBrother]

That could be, err...

Very Alcoholic!

But very good.

[grumpyhack]

The spirit of Glasto. Could we even get a reappearance of The Left Field?

[mikeb]

Oooooooo, I do belive this gives me yet another good excuse to post the bestest ever vid of said band doing their headliner stuff on Ye Olde Pyramid(ish) Stage:

Amazing crowd and I'm defo well up for a repeat of that performance ! Roll on later this month as they're playing just up the road from me as well esp as tix have been lurking in the usual hidey hole all ready and waiting for months now

PS: Flag-bringer types please note the shedloads of peeps bouncing around and generally having a bl**dy good time with just the merest hint of flag for atmosphere purposes only .. AND also note that it's actually being waved around bigtime not just held there being a right old PITA and all that

Edited November 4, 2009 by mikeb

[mazza]

now that is the mutts nuts

[Yokel Again]

This is great news - been a fan since my teenage years and seen them a few times - they were amazing in the afternoon of 07.

Can we have them on about 3 from the top on the pyramid please..? just before the sunset slot. That would be ace.

[5co77ie]

Oooooooo, I do belive this gives me yet another good excuse to post the bestest ever vid of said band doing their headliner stuff on Ye Olde Pyramid(ish) Stage:

Amazing crowd and I'm defo well up for a repeat of that performance ! Roll on later this month as they're playing just up the road from me as well esp as tix have been lurking in the usual hidey hole all ready and waiting for months now

PS: Flag-bringer types please note the shedloads of peeps bouncing around and generally having a bl**dy good time with just the merest hint of flag for atmosphere purposes only .. AND also note that it's actually being waved around bigtime not just held there being a right old PITA and all that

[cejx]

Oooooooo, I do belive this gives me yet another good excuse to post the bestest ever vid of said band doing their headliner stuff on Ye Olde Pyramid(ish) Stage:

Amazing crowd and I'm defo well up for a repeat of that performance ! Roll on later this month as they're playing just up the road from me as well esp as tix have been lurking in the usual hidey hole all ready and waiting for months now

PS: Flag-bringer types please note the shedloads of peeps bouncing around and generally having a bl**dy good time with just the merest hint of flag for atmosphere purposes only .. AND also note that it's actually being waved around bigtime not just held there being a right old PITA and all that

[Pinhead]

I remember reading somewhere the levs got the biggest crowd ever at glastonbury in 94 when headlining the pyramid stage. Mainly to do with the amount of fence jumpers that year and also because they were the festival band of the early 90s. I remember looking behind me and seeing the entire field packed as far as i could see. - great days.

[wiltshireham]

This is great news. Mr Eavis, get your cheque book out now!

[5co77ie]

It was Jazzworld 2005 that when they played, it saw the Jazz Field so full of fans that they had to close the entrances to people coming in.

Before that I remember them playing 2004 I think at Avalon Stage. Also rememebr the 1994 Pyramid appearance. Think they played 2007 Leftfield too.

Have an idea that they played before I started going too - was it '92 as well, Other Stage (NME Stage then)?

[Pinhead]

yup Pyramid 1992 Friday before Carter USM I think although I went to watch The Orb as I'd seen the Levs in the travellers Field previously.

[Ed209]

... which suggests there could be plenty of past headliners on the bill.

[eFestivals]

On the flip side, in an evil universe we could end up with ...

Stereophonics, Rod Stewart, Elvis Costello, Peter Gabriel and Shakespear's Sister(!!)

I reckon we might be safe from Rod, cos the word I heard was that he was a general pain, and Elvis has said he's gonna eat cheese burgers till he explodes that he won't play Glastonbury again.

I saw Gabriel last year. That would be a horror.

It gets worse for the other two.

[CrispyRed]

I agree - this is great news

Hope they get a decent time slot though , not too early

[Red Day]

Oooooooo, I do belive this gives me yet another good excuse to post the bestest ever vid of said band doing their headliner stuff on Ye Olde Pyramid(ish) Stage:

Amazing crowd and I'm defo well up for a repeat of that performance ! Roll on later this month as they're playing just up the road from me as well esp as tix have been lurking in the usual hidey hole all ready and waiting for months now

That is one fantastic clip. Hope they play and it's dark o clock when they take the stage.

Suppose they could headline the Jazz World Stage....Eh Neil ?

[hoils]

yup Pyramid 1992 Friday before Carter USM I think although I went to watch The Orb as I'd seen the Levs in the travellers Field previously.

[Rachie]

fantastic news D would love seeing them on the pyramid.

[Pinhead]

Anyone going to see them at Shepherds Bush Empire on 27th Nov?

[Ringo_Spar]

Literally the worst band on the face of the planet!

[4AssedMonkey]

Just to add some balance here, I wouldn't go as far as worst band on the planet, but I've never really enjoyed anything the Levellers have done.

I got dragged to one of their gigs by a mate in about 1996 and thought it was pretty poor. They were obviously w*nkered and the crowd were split in half - those who were also w*nkered and massive fans so danced to/cheered everything and those who either were fans/weren't leathered or were leathered/weren't fans and we all spent a lot of the gig frowning and looking at each other as if to say "do you believe this crap?"

I left before the end.

[timespeedsup]

Levellers and the Waterboys... that'd be awesome!

[5co77ie]

IIRC the Levs were on 3rd on the bill on the Saturday (before Lou Reed and the very odd choice of Shakespear's Sister as headliner. I was off watching The Shamen on the NME. Now that was a gig.

Before Carter on the Friday was James (replacing Morrissey) and Fishbone. How I remember all this through all the drugs of Glasto in those days I'm not quite sure. Halcyon days for the festival, certainly.