Borne out of the anarcho-squatting free-festival scene of the eighties the Levellers have survived over 25 years of musi | dG1fdDFWRGhlNzNRaTg
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00:00 I couldn't go to see my doctor like I normally do.
00:04 There was just too many mad people coming through to surgery.
00:07 And I'd frequently arrive and there'd be people banging their heads against the wall and stuff like that.
00:13 I'm a little bit more restrained than that.
00:20 There's only one way of life
00:24 And that's your own, your own, your own
00:31 I get a bit of cheek pat.
00:34 I've got one up there and I've sling food up that way to that one.
00:37 And that way to that one.
00:39 I'm quite good at locating the whiskey but the shot is a different matter.
00:44 I think it's up round here.
00:47 It goes away.
00:49 We were too in the moment to really appreciate at the time just how much of a big deal it was really.
00:57 This is describing our lives and how we see our world.
01:01 People identify with that really quickly, surprisingly quickly.
01:05 The Levellers, they sell a lot of records. They are also shy.
01:10 They didn't like us and we didn't like them.
01:13 And it was down to a case I think of them being annoyed.
01:17 You don't have no responsibility to ask them something.
01:20 We were saying something, a political thing that we wanted a lot of people to hear.
01:26 We got an album together where every single song makes a statement about a time and a situation.
01:32 Suddenly everybody was wearing a Levellers t-shirt and everybody was talking about us.
01:36 And we were like, what happened?
01:38 My member of the union box.
01:41 Oh yeah, there you go.
01:42 No wonder you sell out wherever you go without doing anything.
01:45 Yeah, yeah, it's their number one album behind it.
01:49 I think the band were really like, bloody hell it's Joe's brother.
01:52 And I think he was like, what the fuck am I doing here?
01:54 I learnt what a democracy the Levellers are.
01:58 Someone's got to have to do his part.
02:01 And on that date it was me.
02:03 These are my home grown radishes, these are.
02:06 I'll just make a suggestion.
02:08 You can just forget it. I'm with you.
02:11 People come and go and I'm still here.
02:13 And people always say, you're still there.
02:15 And I'm like, yeah I am still here.
02:17 So did you just find out you could destroy this?
02:21 Um, no.
02:23 Yeah.
02:24 I suppose we're lucky in that we have this music thing that we can go back to.
02:32 And at the end of it, the band's always been the most important thing.
02:36 But it took us a while to realise it.
02:41 # Welcome to the band camp town. #
02:43 Looking back on it, it's quite funny.
02:48 [LAUGHTER]