The Levellers hit the stage to a great burst of lights and a supersonic noise level that instantly energised the audience into a great bouncing mass!! This was Folk/Punk about as far removed from finger-in-the-ear Folk as you could get. They rocked!!
With a faldy daldy diddle di po!!!
Here’s some photos:
The Levellers lead by John Lilburn, Richard Overton and William Walwyn, were a political group who grew out of a faction within the New Model Army during the Civil War in 1647.
They stood for all men to have the right to vote, equality before the law and freedom to choose one’s religion.
Some were imprisoned in the Tower others were shot.
It is worth noting that we lived in a theocracy where there was no freedom to dissent from belief. The reward for not believing was death.
It is also worth noting that the establishment held the wealth and power. The ordinary people were exploited. The establishment were and still are against democracy. They believed that if ordinary people had the vote they would vote themselves a bigger share of the wealth and power. If so many people took more then there would be less for those at the top.
Nowadays we do not yet have democracy. The establishment owns the media and controls the news. As Goebbels said – The people will believe what they are told. He who controls the information controls the minds of the people.
All our power comes from blood, passion and hard fought sacrifice.