Levellers - Men-an-tol

[@TheUgsmash]

For me, the levelers represent the need to break free of the burden of town and city life, and be in the countryside, and walk among the forests. 'here amongst the city lights the feelings not so good' interprets to me as being bored of city life. This music really just makes me want to run away somewhere in the great outdoors and enjoy the freedom

[@jasonmadelin3633]

Sadly you will still have Tax, Fascist Police and Government and more, the only escape is Change not just you or me but everyone.... Unite....

[@gavhinds8190]

Me too...I get ya..

[@carlharrison5939]

Went to see them at the Halloween Town Festival just over a week ago. Brilliant as ever and made my decision to quit the rat race and become a gardener all the more satisfying. I am now at one with nature and more in tune with the lads as I have ever been.

[@unidentifiedobject2922]

Just do it.its easy

[@andrewwillan3372]

Oh yes! Hiking and being on countryside and coast is my saviour. Whilst lots of things in this country is broken, our landscape is amazing and a spiritual relief. I'll always love it.

[@danielrunte6425]

This song pushed me through real cruel times. One of the best songs of all times

[@jOSullivan3]

This is one of the greatest songs ever written.

[@kevanbrown7620]

Love this track. Reminds me of travelling around the south of England in trailers with my brother and friends in the early '90s. Living on sites with other so called "New age travellers" (which was a terrible name) until you got evicted, living in the woods away from towns and cities was really a good experience. I didn't watch a tv for over 3 years, my mind felt cleansed lol. Probably the best time of my life. The Levellers have made some great music.

[@WatTyler13]

Possibly their greatest moment. Such a fantastic song; the riff, the concept...just sensational.

[@patkelly3966]

Forgotten Ground for me. Same album init

[@rajanvikram7383]

Absolutely :)

[@danielrunte6425]

You're more than right

[@TVzeit-fp5sn]

Something i believe in...!🎵🎵🎵🎵

[@markjv1980]

Visiting men en tol was one of the last trips I had with my late wife love this place such a amazing place

[@lisahendy1685]

Took my kids there years ago, played this song whilst we were there. Excellent.

[@kips1974]

Lisa Hendy my home..

[@paras494]

The greatest band ever❤

[@trudief833]

Love Simons voice..excellent!!!

[@kernowdel]

I only live a couple of miles from Men an tol. Really gives me the tingles a song about my home.

[@paras494]

Followed this Epic Band for years and years seen them tons of times absolutely outstanding band unbelievable live peace love and whatever makes you happy dance smile and party enjoy life people 🥳🍺🍻🙏🏻❤️👌🏻✌🏻✌🏻

[@Closedgroove]

I went to the Men-an-Tol because of this song back in the nineties😁

[@mtr2523]

I visited Men-an-tol last spring because of this song. I love this song.

[@jackiegranner]

One of my all time favorites ❤

[@steenson1]

Love the images of the Giants Causeway... goes really well with this great song and some standing stones from the Fermanagh Lakelands!!

[@elliott1916]

Wow! My favourite band that brings me back to centre when I'm too high and mighty: They remind me of what is important. A wonderful view of the Giant's Causeway: I miss N.Ireland with all my heart. Home.

[@ojwatts]

This band is the Pagan gods gift to man!

[@petekernow1]

The Men an Tol (= holed stone in Cornish) is a prehistoric stone row with a unique annular stone in the centre. It's on the Penwith moors in the extreme SW. There were local superstitions eg passing someone 3 times through the hole in a particular direction would cure rickets. I was there once and found a group of people lying on their backs in a geometric pattern round the stones! Not far away is the ruined engine house of Ding Dong mine, plus a stone circle and Lanyon Quoit. A totally wonderful place.

[@CelticSaint]

Yes, there is a lot of neolithic and industrial history in Cornwall.

[@g.s.1722]

Thanks for the info. I’ve known this song for decades but never knew what the men an tol was..... thought it was the name of a hill.... I even looked at maps of the south western hills. I suppose I could have just googled it!

[@rollerballrico]

this song brings out the celt in you :) great tune xxxxxxxxxxx

[@wornpick1]

Brilliant. the video imagery so fits the band and the song..

[@hammerhead8370]

This song gives me goosebumps and the images really add to the mood of the song. Well done :-)

[@andynicholas1728]

Wonderful song, wonderful images. I feel so lucky to live so close to the Men-An-Tol near Morvah and Zennor. The whole area along that coast from St Ives to St Just is truly awe inspiring in it's natural, rugged beauty. That song justifies it!

[@ojwatts]

Got to be one of the best, most powerful songs ever written. A truely epic band that is still to this day the best festival / live band ever, with a hell of a message to give.

[@dyetat7035]

this song cheers me up when im down i cry listening sometimes outa happy ness

[@sickleclown]

Great song, and some awesome pics, cheers

[@nikludlow2006]

Love both this & Forgotten ground .

[@KernowFishy]

How did I not know the Levellers did this amazing song set in my homeland? Brilliant.

[@galenmarick8850]

Sooooo cool! Brightons best at their finest 😊😊😊😊😊😊

[@lasombrahautae8718]

I have lived before this life...this song conjures memories of my past...serving on board a ship with sails and rigging, fighting a storm with rain and wind on my face. I believe it was Nelson's Navy? A past Life???

[@jacquiKn]

One of my fav Levellers song, and your Vid is just perfect for it..... brill vid. xx

[@PEC99]

Great song and some excellent photos there as well.

[@LeeReed1002]

I will make it my mission to learn this on guitar. Its just the best piece of music even written!

[@markappleton4955]

Liam Reed mess around with g and a. Chorus has a b I think

[@kevanbrown7620]

@@markappleton4955 Thanks for the tip 👍

[@WatTyler13]

Just one of the greatest Levs tunes. Up there with my favourite two or three. Massive.

[@lladur50]

What a beautiful country we live in.

[@kevingrey6932]

Superb track love the levellers

[@patkelly3966]

Really great video thanks.

[@birchward]

a wonderfull , video , with , thought / feel , to a great song !

[@jimmyska4]

the levellers have pretty much summed up how i wana sound with music. so innspiring. hoping to go to bd in 2010. :)

[@ellieunicorley4639]

Hi did you make it ? 🎉BD

[@2painfull]

thanks for making this. one of their best songs.

[@solarRaven71]

same as that want to get on me bike an just dissapear west coast Eire,great song great visuals

[@patkelly8309]

Some great pictures

[@Bobbo293]

Superb video and a fitting accompaniment to a great song. Well done!

[@joolz989]

Have you ever been to the brave south western hills?

[@archaeoroutes1074]

I have liked the Levellers since uni. Ever since hearing this I wanted to visit the Men-an-Tol.

[@kazyboo5774]

Ah such fond memories this timeless classic rekindles...I lived in Cornwall for several years and visited this stone row among many others. Just the sheer primitiveness of being at a stone circle, it's like nothing else. I still remember stripping off and dancing naked around the Nine Ladies stone circle, until some German tourists descended from a coach!! lol Good times. Now I'm an expat abroad and no idea if or when I'll ever get home to England, what with the current tyrannical restrictions which impact expats hugely, among everybody else of course. The Levellers are my nostalgic TARDIS to happier times, free of concerns and all the stresses we face today...when life was more years ahead of you than behind and optimism, not fear, uncertainty and depression, was the norm. I feel like all I have is my memories, as to look forward with any positivity whatsoever is impossible. Wish I was 20yrs old again, back then...youth is wasted on the young. :-(

[@helenbostock2350]

Beautiful picture

[@martincaulfield4864]

Love this song

[@williamfuller7093]

Simply brilliance !!!

[@ilesmark]

Am from West Penwith AND a Levellers lover - but it's interesting to see Stonehenge, Giant's Causeway (and other sundry places in Ireland) featured in a video titled 'Men-An-Tol'!

[@jimmoun]

i love this.

[@kernowdel]

The Radjel in Pendeen. A true locals pub. Gurnards Head. A bit Posh these days. Miners in Zennor. Nice but can be taken over in the summer.. North inn Pendeen, another local Pub St just has the Star in the square. 5pubs all within 150 yards. But the star is the best. Try the white hart at Ludgvan. My local about 4 miles from Men an tol.

[@joni9780]

one option is to try going in spring or end of summer, or get a advance train ticket with a bike, to get down those country roads, its a vpopular area in summer.

[@carlosvizapte1834]

Excelente hit!!!

[@emmaleec08]

another great track xxx

[@srgberian]

Love this song such a classic

[@sguk6673]

Glstinbury main stage .. changed my life

[@wildfiresoup]

fast becoming my favourite song. amazing.

[@helenbostock2350]

Beautiful country

[@CiaranMurphyMusic]

The compulsory commercial advertising for tumble driers and IKEA landscape gardening takes from the vibes a wee bit.

[@helenbostock2350]

It's not just the energy I feel in the air. It's the ground energy I feel rising to.

[@williamfuller7093]

Simply brilliance

[@gunthervatero]

good effort, good song

[@pwalker1989]

where about is the the stone with a hole in it ? i remember visiting it from seeing the Eclipse in cornwall but i was only nine at the time

[@paulrockyallen]

It's between Penzance and St Ives. More precisely it's about a mile walk along a path off the country road between Madron and Morvah. It's a beautiful place and I played this song on my headphones when I was last there. Very spiritual. "I get the strangest feeling".

[@francisterlin8086]

Great song...

[@glitterfaerie08]

I wasnt born to live within 4 walls with a tv... Whos feeling me? Lets knock it off and take to the road 😉

[@VeteranHedonist]

+glitterfaerie08 I'm with you.....

[@modette69er]

I'm with you as well.....

[@patkelly3966]

you'll love it til yr socks rot of yr feet and you ain't eaten in a week

[@henrychaplin646]

It was good back in the day.. Until the old bill came and beat everyone and smashed the dream.

[@ex-parrot9335]

glitterfaerie08 very f@kin true! Modern life isn't for me. As I write this on my iPhone! Funny that!!!! Sound vibration and resonance. It's always been there. It's past present and future ✌️

[@andyowens2441]

Truly epic

[@louchy]

Always reminds me of summer days in the country

[@jd3248]

Its there to find if you have mind...... Very true

[@jamescooper5523]

my dad is obsessed with this!

[@geoffbarr7559]

my all time fave levs song

[@vartino]

Effing excellent tune.:)

[@bignosedyoungy]

nice video matey

[@johnsell1556]

What is the final image on this video does anyone know?

[@ZZKe7]

@NeverSayNeverToAlway a lot of them are from ireland!

[@helenbostock2350]

No fear good advice.

[@finnhawker8173]

The stones pictured at 1:43 , my mum and i stumbled upon them on a misty rainy day and it was somehow even more beautiful! Can anyone tell me the name of these stones if they have one?

[@henrychaplin646]

Bob, Becky and Steve.. I am not sure of their last names.. ;)

[@patkelly3966]

Nice one

[@patkelly3966]

Standing....stones.

[@patkelly3966]

Seriously tho Finn Hawker I don't know if these are completely unique or a part of many other stone designs. Where did you find them?

[@alfredo1013]

the men-an-tol is so strange, no one really knows why its there or what it's for, its the source of all magic in Cornwall

[@Wilde-Runner]

Amazing

[@fenthedog]

Its a sprirtual thing! not meant to be taken too litrally! Its a song about the spiritual things of britain! We was the center for druidism once! britain! A spiritual center! hahaha! we lost that a LONG time ago!

[@theegyptianfringe8074]

Perfect

[@helenbostock2350]

Years of question knowledge was sort. Me too.

[@ex-parrot9335]

STOP THE MONSTERS AND........ BRING THE PEACE BACK.

[@patkelly3966]

Nice one Thanx for sharing

[@patkelly3966]

Such a good vid

[@woodcut33]

What are the pictures at 1:26 and 1:30?

[@ECOMAN303]

BACK IN THE DAY WHEN IT WAS REAL

[@al9rupture]

goosebumps.

[@mrjscam]

nice video. where did u get them pictures from?

[@dragonfitter]

@FrankyHaemmer but is this art ?

[@crapintheattic]

Are all of these images from cornwall?

[@spinglethorpe]

Not all. There are a few of the Giants Causeway, Whitepark Bay and Dunluce Castle on the north antrim coast, Northern Ireland!

[@georgejacob3162]

Avebury stone circle, Silbury Hill (near Avebury) and Stonehenge are in this video and they are all in Wiltshire.

[@lewistricker8058]

all from UK and Ireland...

[@odinsoath973]

i fuckin love the deep seated message in this song lol. pull the earplugs of conditioning out and hear the earth-song under your feet, hailsa!

[@patkelly3966]

Odin's Raven. Are you Manx by any chance?

[@joda6466]

Sure i saw the island of "iona" there??

[@brikbatwarrior]

Tuuuune!!!

[@tootynooty]

Kernow my home! Kernewek an prout!

[@dragonfitter]

@DarthCoors did the same about 10 years ago

[@dragonfitter]

i always hum this tune when i sleep outside and i dont know why

[@karlkribs4270]

remember the bean battle Stonehenge polaris' we were there mucka' tridant' see ya

[@helenp.hudson2560]

Battle of the Beanfield. 1984? Yes!! Shocking. Painful. Disgraceful treatment of folk just wanting to be by the stones at solstice! :/

[@oscarmanser2693]

but even worse, the police weren't arrested and barely any compensation was given back for the destruction of peoples homes, my uncle was lucky enough to get away from it before it was too dangerous...

[@kevanbrown7620]

Those geniune people who went to the solstice and were all one, enjoying the free festival with the likes of the great Roy Harper, then waiting for sun together, are the people who inspired so many to break free of the shackles of 4 walls. I was too young in the '80s, but i hitchicked from Tyneside (near Newcastle) in 1991, pretty fuckin far ha, for the solstice. It wasn't like back in the day, but i was standing on the old A303, had taken 2 proper E's, and i met a lot of good people from all over this island. I had some sort of epiphany after experiencing the solstice and talking to these good people, some had come from teepee valley, others were traveling. I knew i couldn't go back to the bullshit from where i had came, so i started hitchicking around, found a farm i could live and work on, and soon met people who were living on sites, so i ended up in a trailer and that was it. Getting evicted from site to site. Spiral Tribe turned up and stayed for a few weeks on one site. We got escorted out of Kent into Sussex, that was fun. I just want thank all of the people who showed me a different way of living, a better way, a true way. I've seen the clips of what the law done to those people who were just living in their homes. The bastards came heavy handed and had hard ons when they battered people in front of their children. All the best to everyone 🙏✌️

[@danielgreen3715]

Its a Fact!

[@patkelly3966]

" I find myself amazed again, a most pathetic score.." Sad but true.

[@mutanderyt9811]

"man's pathetic score" innit?

[@ex-parrot9335]

Yep!!

[@patkelly3966]

Probly

[@lewistricker8058]

jonney block got it right

[@lewistricker8058]

i didn't get his name right tho...

[@helenbostock2350]

No fear yep

[@CelticSaint]

Kernow bys vyken.