LEVELLERS -15 YEARS/ RIVERFLOW- PINKPOP 1994

[@philkearney0577]

No festival is complete without the levellers 🎉

[@ih8utoob51]

Pinkpop just didnt get the levellers sitting down unacceptable

[@leflyxdvd]

@@ih8utoob51 yup i used to love pinkpop but nah

[@specialse]

This song became reality for a lot of people eventually , time and tide waits for no man , but its never to late , fight the demons .

[@Jaunt1able]

🙌🏻

[@georgeheggie1274]

Amen to that!

[@corinnehansen4316]

The lyrics are insane. Long live the Levellers.

[@Rhebeanna]

Happy People. Positive hearts, Joyful music despite the transience of life

[@NoahBassman]

Seen these guys 7 times and they've been awesome every time

[@OlafMcKrak]

This was my favourite song back then... aaaaaaaaaaaand it still kicks ass imo :)

[@donnabown8086]

I fuckin love the the LEVELLERS

[@hoskinbob]

June 93 , I was a working as an Arborist for Brighton BOROUGH Council based at Stanmer Park, Saw these guys first time that night, .Heineken Music Festival. Seen then more times than i can count now all over London, south west, From the cheese and grain to Bath and DEVON

[@iancarter4999]

I sadly, and stupidly missed the at Sheffield Poly Union in the 80's which I regret. I love 15 years and think I have it on 10 inch

[@cogboy302]

Always fun watching a singer try to remember the words to his own song. Possibly shouldn't have had 15 beers before going on stage. Mostly right, with a few exceptions. - I wrote down the lyrics to Fifteen Years for a presentation at University around 1994, so I had to listen to the song many, many times, because computers then weren't what they are today, plus I was playing the song on a tape deck, which was a bit of a chore.

[@annemeiboom8255]

was a good performance. was there as a 14 year old kid

[@jaford2]

Excellent! Better music than this you are extremely unlikely to find... Love'em!

[@OlafMcKrak]

Cambridge Corn Exchange was the only time i have seen them and that was epic.. around Belarus time

[@marcmacario-yt3td]

High level Levellers ❤

[@thomasquinn9183]

Brilliant thing about the levellers, same line up... same total brilliance ☘️

[@riorio7942]

Oh yeah!

[@Rapeface666]

Saw them recently, they were amazing but I wish I could see them back in the 90's

[@helenbostock2350]

Great to hear

[@anniedonnan8127]

Best band in the world!

[@davebellingham1188]

Annie Donnan great song but manic street preachers are much better

[@adriansnow5087]

Gosh they look so young!

[@HickW]

And Mark so handsome.....

[@jackiegranner]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@scraggy235]

Love Them Seen So Many Times

[@mrigby4301]

YOU BLESSED

[@satyrosphilbrucato9140]

Gods damn, they were good...

[@johnwillie69]

Nice one!

[@helenbostock2350]

We are the uner tones wow that true power of word

[@georgeheggie1274]

The first proper band and gig i went to Aberdeen music hall around that time, awesome the energy was incredible completely bouncing. Wish I still had the energy that young lad had, but still think I'm him! 😂😂😂

[@elliekavanagh6796]

Amazing I absaloutly love the levelers I see them every but not this year its anoying because all my friends dont nkow the levelers but my maths teacher at primary school knows them and ive just moved up into secondary school and I find there music relaxing if I get a bit nervers

[@patkelly3966]

Ellie Kavanagh you must have left school altogether by now! Hope yr still a Levellers fan :-)

[@golf111golf]

Mega band

[@zippythelegend]

wow guys i'm only TEN and I like yous.my dad plays in a band as well

[@graindivision]

Look at them! Great to see this band as younger men.

[@c1tlr340]

Long long before Simon became a paranoid recluse

[@patkelly3966]

Very well written song

[@meganh4011]

This was posted 15 years ago!💫💞

[@BROTHER-52]

It's just done for the pure love of doing it. ....do we all agree ?.( you can just see it)

[@alfydog8079]

great songs music

[@weemitch2275]

In my 👀 best band ever

[@helenbostock2350]

We all made it through. Yes true facts

[@finnanplaysandreacts1896]

I like them

[@elliekavanagh6796]

Great

[@patrickstocks3576]

I never was a violent man 👨 Said the man in the bar with his head in his hands 🙌 He’s trying his best to understand the ‘cause of his dismay 😧 But the years of gin have broken him They’ve left him cold where he’s fitted in But it’s too late now to turn around and find another way And the lights in the late night lock-in Have faded away when he gets in The girl from 15 years ago Has packed and gone away That’s never how it used to be, what happened to all that energy You took one too many liberties, I’m tired of being afraid 😳 So after the fight she took flight ✈️ hiding swollen eyes and a wounded pride The best years of her life denied is sold for liquid shares And the lights in the late night lock-in Have faded away when he gets in The girl from 15 years ago Has packed and gone away And the victims of their world 🗺 Are advertised on posters Just a beach 🏖 and a pretty girl 👧 You just take this potion It’s another week till his check comes through He’s got a fiver left to spend on food 🍱 The doors of the bar are open and he breaks another rule But he sits on the stool that bears his name He’s got a favourite glass an’ is called the same He’s never been kept waiting, ‘cause he pays the landlords wage And the lights in the late night lock-in Have faded away when he gets in The girl from 15 years ago Has packed and gone away The lights in the late night lock-in Have faded away when he gets in The girl from 15 years ago Has packed and gone away

[@cogboy302]

Where were you when I was sat at a mate's computer in 1994, playing this song on a tape deck , pressing pause/stop/rewind and trying to type out the lyrics? And then print them out on a dot matrix printer. All for a presentation to my peers (who were probably all pissed) at a lecture in University about the effects of drinking to excess.

[@deb5882]

Sooo gooood!!!

[@patrickstocks3576]

I met you in 8 2, over a crate of beer and not a few I cracked a can and so did you, we’re going to change the world The ghetto kings of down side town-the estates and parks of our hallowed ground Doing anything that we found, and on the river flowed You’d take a drink from Rev. Jimmy Jones You’d cross the street on the path the gunman roams Thrown aside and left to waste, that was you, you knew your place Wander round, get off your face, and on the river flowed On and on the river flow, we are the undertow On and on the river flow, we are the undertow I don’t know how you made it through all the smoke and brew you do It sure has left it’s mark on you but tires still with us today Life goes on and round we go and words can kill these things I know Sometimes you cut deeply so, but on the river flows You’d set the table for barber Sweeney Todd You’d clip the wings of any rising god But man can’t live on hope alone, it can be but all that is grown Broke your spirit but not your bones and on the river flows On and on the river flow, we are the undertow On and on the river flow, we are the undertow You’re working now, forced to the race I know it left a bitter taste But the rising tide had covered your face Nothing you could do But I still remember the day you said That the river flowing through my head Would take me far or leave me dead And all you said was true

[@kmc2090]

saw em at Lincoln 3 years ago, doing the Leveling the Land Tour 20th Anniversary. 8 quid for a mug, 20 quid a T-shirt! had my camera confiscated by security! The band played perfect but no interaction with the crowd WHATSOEVER! So much for the sentiment but real life and mortgages must have got in the way eh lads! Dead Kennedys did a song which summed up my feelings after seeing them "Anarchy for Sale"!

[@patkelly3966]

k mc i was seriously underwhelmed last couple of times I saw em (2000 and 2005) but maybe just bad nights? To be honest they havn't done themselves any favours by relying mainly on the old standards so much. Variety is the spice of life and as Artist's especially you always want to be doing new things otherwise it just gets stale doesn't it?!

[@revol148]

@k mc I know mate.....you type this rant under most Levellers videos here! Did you get round to buying an eight pound mug in the end?

[@revol148]

@@patkelly3966 they really haven't released a decent album since Zeitgeist - a full quarter of a century ago ! They are probably all too aware that their audience isn't there to hear songs from their mouth-to-mouth album nor obscure b-sides !

[@patkelly3966]

@@revol148 To be honest I thought Static on the Airwaves was a cracking album, certainly the best since Levelling the Land and I'm a fan of Mouth to Mouth too but I get your point entirely. After Zeitgeist came out I watched the audience change quite a lot. No more students or crusties but rather youngs kids and their middle-aged parents. Not necessarily a bad thing but certainly different from when I first saw em. They should've never re-toured Levelling...it seemed like pure money grabbing to me. What do you think to their newest stuff? I'm not really feeling it much.

[@revol148]

@@patkelly3966 The last time I saw them live was at the Kendal calling festival back in 2015 - they were good but not a patch on their Glastonbury headlining show from 21 years earlier! I have no knowledge of what they have done since mouth to mouth album - I guess they are now just a band now living on their past times and if they get the urge to release disappointing, under-heard albums then fair enough to them.

[@booteybufont1]

I always thought there was a bank of tarts playing the violins....saw them live and I saw a six footer blonde.....blew my mind!

[@grahamsimmons1137]

One for jed not with any more bless you

[@Fbrunof1]

RIP

[@helenbostock2350]

That long ago.

[@16spinz]

The Levellers always spell Rivaflow on the setlist instead of Riverflow....... Dutch CAN spell....

[@thefestivalkid]

Most bands shorten the set list to they can read it quick....

[@lizzyscorner]

Waren ze er ook in ‘94? Ik dacht alleen ‘95..??

[@-Pol-]

I miss seeing crusties

[@helenbostock2350]

It's true if you understand pub life

[@julieabbott1]

so what! haha... listen to the song.!! nowt 2 do wi the spelling...you plonker!!

[@Diggnuts]

If only they had a proper bass player...

[@patkelly3966]

Diggnuts he may not be the best player in the world but he's written the majority of the band's songs.

[@robertmason6366]

And the Art on the Covers

[@DanCohoon]

oh ninth grade....