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[Music] Favourite political song!
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Heard this again today for the first time for a while.
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The story behind the song: Battle Of The Beanfield by The Levellers
Fired by social injustice, this “good, shouty” gypsified protest song remains one of the most enduring tunes in the band’s catalogue.
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Heard this again today for the first time for a while.
The story behind the song: Battle Of The Beanfield by The Levellers
Fired by social injustice, this “good, shouty” gypsified protest song remains one of the most enduring tunes in the band’s catalogue.
The Levellers sat in O'Reilly's loudly bemoaned the lack of a support band for one of their gigs while looking over at my band and smirking as they didn't ask us.
They may not have wanted us to support them, even in the pinch they were in. There was no need to be such arrogant pricks about it though.
I never liked em after this
That's a shame - and behaviour that doesn't really fit their public image either does it!The Levellers sat in O'Reilly's loudly bemoaned the lack of a support band for one of their gigs while looking over at my band and smirking as they didn't ask us.
They may not have wanted us to support them, even in the pinch they were in. There was no need to be such arrogant pricks about it though.
I never liked em after this
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I was surprised at the time and continue to be so. As far as I know we didn't do anything to upset them, although to be fair our singer did have some skills in this area so who knows
He weirdly had some beef with Cornershop while at Leicester Uni.
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Great thread - not sure how I missed this.
I first came across this song in the early 80s when I got to know some Irish lads over from Dublin working in Brighton who were big on Irish protest songs. Written by Eric Bogle as a "subtle reminder" to British people that thousands of Irishmen had died in the first World War in the service of the British Empire. Written a year after the Birmigham and Guilford bombings when anti-Irish sentiment was rife.
This was an anthem for the time - an anti-sectarian song by SLT one of my favourite irish bands written at the height of the Troubles in Belfast and Derry:
I first came across this song in the early 80s when I got to know some Irish lads over from Dublin working in Brighton who were big on Irish protest songs. Written by Eric Bogle as a "subtle reminder" to British people that thousands of Irishmen had died in the first World War in the service of the British Empire. Written a year after the Birmigham and Guilford bombings when anti-Irish sentiment was rife.
This was an anthem for the time - an anti-sectarian song by SLT one of my favourite irish bands written at the height of the Troubles in Belfast and Derry:
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Different era but still relevant today.
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A socialist militant,[13] Eccles was appointed as an adviser on the music industry to Michael Manley's People's National Party (PNP) and took part in Jamaica's 1972 prime ministerial elections by organising a "Bandwagon" featuring musicians such as Bob Marley & the Wailers, Dennis Brown, Max Romeo, Delroy Wilson and Inner Circle, performing around the island in support of Manley's campaign.[6] Throughout the 1970s, he remained close to Manley and wrote several songs in praise of the PNP program, including his hits "Power for the People", "Rod of Correction"