The Levellers interview 2020 : the band talk to John Robb about their defining new album

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Mark Chadwick and Jeremy Cunningham talk to John Robb about the new Levellers album Peace, which is coming out on August 14th, almost eight years since the Brighton band’s last album of original material, 2012’s Static On The Airwaves.

0:11 new album IS all anthems
2:10 coming back to what they do the best ‘the punky record we wanted to make’
3:55 who writes lyrics and in which styles
8:20 album fits into Covid times
9:30 Crass
10:00 music is upbeat lyrics downbeat
11:45 'the stage is our platform and that has been denied so we need to be connected with fans
12:50 what is the role of a musician in these Covid times
16:00 existing outside the business
19:40 surviving personal crisis - Mark near drowning and Jeremy own problems all sorted creating a sharp focus that affects creativity...
25:00 longevity suits the Levellers
28:00 songs reflect the anxiety of the world and the existential fear of the modern world
32:00 Boris Johnson's favourite band is The Clash...what would Joe think of these times
35:00 The eighties traveller scene predicted the future
40:00 whatever happened to Swampy!
41:00 Extinction Rebellion
42:00 Greta Thunberg
43:00 'Four Boys Lost' new song about drowning is this about your recent experiences
45:00 the calmness of drowning
48:00 the community around music
51:00 Beautiful Days
54:00 Holly Willoughby is our unlikely superfan!

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