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Published: 31 July 2008

Keeping a Level head

REVIEW: THE LEVELLERS
Proud Gallery

THE fashion police were given the night off last week when a crowd of blue-bearded, pink-haired, ageing crusties infiltrated the normally uber-trendy Proud Gallery.
For one night only the venue’s interior – usually populated with hip young things – reflected the more colourful side of Camden as new-age traveller-types rubbed shoulders with loyal thirtysomething professionals for the launch of The Levellers’ new album, Letters from the Underground.
From the second the first string of the folk band’s trademark violin was strummed, the die-hard crowd became a swirling moshpit, forcing Proud’s bemused doormen to use all their strength to keep the barriers standing.
The set was a healthy mix of old and new with classics such as One Way, Carry Me and Liberty raising the loudest roar.
But new songs such as The Cholera Well and Burn America, Burn, lived up to expectations, provoking almost as enthusiastic a response as their hits.
The launch, in aid of The Big Issue, proved The Levellers were back and stronger than ever.
Supporting were smooth trip-hop five-piece Second Person, who have the unusual accolade of being the first British band to have raised the $50,000 target on website Sellaband – which allows fans to invest directly in bands on the site.
Although hardly groundbreaking, their gentle performance was a calming prelude to the high-energy Levellers, subtly winning over the eclectic audience.

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