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27/04/2010

Levellers Live

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Cambridge Junction 23 April 2010

Following on from the Levellers being our guest editors in April we went to see them play at the Junction in Cambridge. Their first tour of 2010 is in smaller club venues, the Cambdidge Junction is a venue they have played many times in the past twenty years, and it's a fair bet that many in the sell out crowd have been to all of the gigs.

Despite only getting one days rehearsal for the tour and Jeremy suffering from an agonising neck and back problem they blow the place apart with a set list that picks songs from their whole career.

100 Years Of Solitude is one of the first songs and sums up everything that this band is about; light, shade, energy, anger and compassion allied to their simply unique sound. Despite it being four months since their last tour they are as tight as a ducks proverbial and make it very hot in here. The first time they played the Junction it was brand new and sat on a piece of waste land by the railway line, the car park looked like it had been bombed and the lights were too bright in the bar. Today the venue sits in an anonymous leisure and retail park, but the bar is much better...

World Freak Show is a song that was achingly relevant when written twenty years ago, hearing it now makes you realise the world hasn't changed one bit, the players are different but the stakes are the same.

The crowd laps up Dirty Davey, Man An Tol, Burn America Burn, Too Real and Exodus. Drinks fly into the air (water actually), but no one minds, they all have a smile on their face.

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