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WIN a 14 disc bundle of Levellers deluxe edition reissues

By Paul Sinclair

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Win a set of Levellers reissues

Edsel Records have been very busy of late delivering reissues from Aztec Camera, Ian McCulloch, Deacon Blue, the Steve Miller Band and Sugar to name but a few. In fact there has been so much product of late, that it’s rather easy to miss certain reissues.

In early October the Demon Music Group label put out comprehensive deluxe editions of  British folk-rock band the Levellers China records output (circa 1991-2000). That’s five studio albums and one live release. Details are as follows

  • • Levelling The Land (1991) is a 2CD+DVD set featuring all the B-sides of the era and for the first time on DVD The Great Video Swindle – a concert filmed at Barrowlands in Glasgow in May 1992.
  • • Levellers (1993) is a 2CD set featuring all the non-album B-sides
  • • Zeitgeist (1995) was a UK number one album and this reissue is a 2CD set that includes eight non-album B-sides and a further eight Zeitgeist outtakes.
  • • Headlights, White Lines, Black Tar Rivers / Best Live (1996) is a CD+DVD set of the original live album. This reissue comes with the Exodus live single bonus tracks and the DVD debut of the VHS video release.
  • • Mouth To Mouth (1997) is a massive 3CD set full of B-sides, remixes and the two track that were unique to the 1998 ‘best of’ album.
  • • Hello Pig (2000) This critically acclaimed final album for China comes with a bonus CD containing Hello Pig – The Offal, originally a fan club-only release of demos, outtakes and rehearsals from the album sessions.

In total 156 audio tracks and two full length concert films on DVD! We have a COMPLETE SET of these reissues to give away to one lucky SuperDeluxeEdition reader.

To be in with a chance of winning this superb prize simply:

  • 1. Subscribe to the weekly SuperDeluxeEdition newsletter – click here.
  • 2. Leave a comment on this post by clicking here – you can say what you want, but why not tell us why you’d like to win?
  • 3. Head over to Edsel’s Facebook page and give them a ‘like’.

If you already ‘like’ Edsel, and/or already subscribe to our newsletter, than it’s even easier, simply leave a comment below. When leaving a comment, please enter the same email address as used to subscribe to the newsletter. This competition is open to all.

GOOD LUCK! A winner will be selected at random on Monday 19 November 2012 and informed via email. The winner will also be announced on this blog.

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  8. This set is worth having just to recall those hazy, lazy days of student life circa ’91 listening to Fifteen Years whilst badly manhandling a boat on the Norfolk broads, destroying all in it’s way !

  9. Been a huge fan for many years, levellers shaped and influenced the way I grew up very important band in 20th century Britain. Would love to win this fab prize for myself and my kids and grandchildren, help spread the love and get the younger generation into enjoying this iconic band!

  12. The first time I saw The Levellers was way back in 1994 at Glastonbury. Their energy and stage presence left such an impression, I have been a fan ever since!

  15. I loved seeing the levellers live many years ago in Brighton. I used to have a walkman and speakers blaring them out in my battered Morris Minor. I saw them again at the Wychwood festival and would love to win this prize.

  21. What an amazing prize, would love to win this…for my kids as they are huge fans too. Lovely to enjoy as a family, plus I can’t see them on this tour so this would make up for that

  22. I deserve to win as I haven’t seen the Levellers since Christmas 2003, Liverpool. I was 8 months pregnant and my daughter honestly kicked and thrashed through the whole thing. Now she’s nearly 9 and a big fan!

  23. love Levellers, had tickets to see them once but then got Shingles and couldn’t go :( – am looking out for when they’re next doing the rounds :)

  25. I’d like to win these coz a few years ago I hit some hard financial times and had to sell on my entire CD (900+) collection. Now I don’t have any Levs in a good hard CD copy, only on my hard drive, and it’s just not the same!

  27. the reason i should win is because a guy from new jersey can take a batch of cds from a band like the levellers and start getting people back into music.
    it might take a week or so…but with enough music and time something big can happen.

  28. I would have a fiddling battle with the Devil if it would mean I could win these reissues, alas I will just write this comment and enter this competition!

  31. My wife is a long-term fan, owning all your cd back catalogue as well as most vinyl and tape versions. She’s seen you at venues around the country over the years and will include Lincoln again tomorrow. This would be an amazing push-present to give to her as she is currently pregnant – we’ll be the ones at the back tomorrow trying not to get squashed!

  41. i’ve seen them in Hengelo, The Netherlands after a period of almost 20 years.
    After a period of taken care of my children it’s “my (woman’s ) time” instead of being a mama.
    I’ve asked Mark if I could take a picture of both of us, and that picture I posted on my FB account. It’s a lovely picture, Mark’s belly near to mine, awesome. Both older and wiser?!

  47. Like so many others I have been listening to The Levellers for too many years to count! And now I get to bring my children up all wrong too! So my daughter and I (and not for the first time I hasten to add!) are celebrating my birthday by going to see the band play in London. Winning this collection would make a fabulous Christmas present for her.

  50. I would love to win the competition, I collect everything levellers and every time you tour I try to go to at least 4 venues and I’m looking forward to seeing you in soton in 2 weeks!! This would complete my collection :)

  53. I would like to win these as I love the guys, they are amazingly talented musicians as well as beautiful people. At 34 I have listened and followed them since the age of 14 they have helped shaped my views and political standing in life.

  54. I am a long time fan from America, and have had a hard time tracking down all the b-sides over the years. Remastered and all in a complete package would be magical! Crossing fingers and toes I am the lucky one out of all the many, many devoted fans here.
    Cheers and good luck to all Levellers fans!

  62. I’d like to review the whole lot of these great re-issues for the website I write for, yet I can’t afford to buy them. To win them would be fine ;)

  67. I’d like to win this because I still cannot forgive myself for not going to their concert when they were in my country a couple of years ago.

  82. I would like to win the Levellers reissues because the since the 90’s I have loved the band and collected as much of their stuff as I can get hold of!

  83. I’ve continued to follow the levs since 1992, even when most people have said they sold out. This includes secret gigs like elmswell in suffolk and countless london calling trips to europe. I’m still spreading the word! If it wasent for the Levs I would not have met girlfreind and had our children etc! Please help me compliment my collection.Ps looking forward London gig. Now our children are older we can now go to more gigs!

  85. My Daughter from 3 years old and I we love the Levellers. She is to young to meet the levellers, but she is not to young to listen to the mucic!

  86. I absolutely love the fantastic reissues Edsel is doing with some of my all-time favourite artists (Suede, Aztec Camera, JAMC, Sugar…). And Levellers are the best of them! So please, let me believe in Santa again and put this gift on my door! ;)

  87. I’m Levellers fan for 20 years but first time a month ago saw their concert. It was in Berlin because they’re not coming to our country. Some great tracks (Dance Before the Storm, Lowlands of Holland, Miles Away, Searchlights, Bar room Jury etc) and rare DVD’s are only available on deluxe editions. Therefore I would like to win the collection and recommend it to my friends and music fans!

  88. I love the Levellers but embarrasingly don’t have all of these albums (lived abroad when Hello Pig came out and had Levelling the Land and Levellers on cassette tape!) Winning this amazing collection would restore my reputation as a proper Levs fan! Thanks!

  90. Let my On The Fiddle membership slip after following them from the start and only recently reconnected after catching them live, they have it and these releases will prove it.

  91. Winning the Levellers discs would make the ideal birthday gift for this month and help keep my spirits up while I look for a job after becoming a member of the unemployed . Not the best birthday present to get from your work.

  93. Always a great live band, and unfairly maligned in the music press. I lost touch with their recorded output in the mid-90s so this set would be a great way to catch up.

  96. Ahhh these albums were amazing first time round, so many happy memories! unfortunately my CDs are scratched with broken cases from being played at a million parties, so a new ‘good’ set for the older more mature me would be great!

  97. many years ago in my first job after leaving school i met a lad working for the same company in his home town of Sheffield, we are still very good friends to this day, on my first visit to his home he took me to a club called The Leadmill where i first experienced the band known as The Levellers….i still have a few of their albums on vinyl now nicely stored away and would love to get my hands on these re-issues to rediscover and rekindle memories of those long gone days :-)

  100. I really really want them !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Because the levellers are just fantstique, and beacause i come from from belguim :-)

  112. I need these. As the only dreadlocked hippy chick in the whole of Jakarta, I am very lonely! Vast quantities of joyful fiddley-rockety joyfulness is the only solution I can think of to fill this void in my strange little existence. Besides, I see it as my purpose in life to educate the good people of Jakarta into the marvellousness that is The Levellers. And also, my psychotic kitten will bite you if I don’t win.

  113. I need this to complete my collection & to continue introducing my children to one of the most underrated UK bands. Since having children my gig going has been severely curtailed and owning this would go someway towards relieving my pain

  114. Well followed the Lev’s years ! and my old cd’s of one of the most underated bands of there all time are a bit scratched and skip so thease would be of great use to me hearing old classics as they should be heard LOUD AND CLEAR !

  115. One of the greatest bands ever to come out the uk .. Iv seem them live 61 times and still counting i also go to marks and Simons solo gigs and drunk in public many times I still think the are a very underrated band . But to true fans like myself we know what all the hype is about . And I would love the CDs ;)

  117. Why would I want to get this set? Because I’d like to show my friends what they’re missing out on by not listening to The Levellers.

  125. I started collecting Edsel records with the Elvis Costello deluxe editions a decade ago. These CD’s will definitely be added to my collection. Looks very nice!

  126. when I heard the remastered version of ‘Levelling The Land’ I was absolutely satisfied. Sound is amazing. I’d like to hear all tracks!

  130. Its my birthday in november so to win would make me smile…. ive been a levs fan for ages now, but dont have all the tunes. A perfect ending to the year!

  132. I saw first them at WOMAD on Long Island, New York, USA. They blew me away. I have followed them ever since. Reliving The Levellers for the Win!

  134. Best band of the 90s by far. Would love to win these, if only to stick them on the office stereo and show the young un’s what proper music sounds like!

  139. Please may I win a deluxe re-issue of The Levellers albums? I am a big fan of The Levellers have been to their concerts since I was 13 years old (far too long ago as I am now 35!) Their music has shaped my life and having copies of all the back catalogue would bring back some amazing memories and remind me of some special people who are no longer in my life. All too often we rely on downloading files from the Internet. Having the actual albums on CD means so much more, especially these deluxe editions. They say that music can touch your heart and it is 100% true to say that The Levellers have certainly touched mine. Thank you for your time.

  148. I have all of these apart from “Hello Pig” and would love the reissues! My wife and I walk out of the church when we got married with “Celebrate” playing!

  155. I had the most difficult time finding some of these albums in the States. When i went to the record shop, the person behind the counter looked at me like i was a fire spitting hydra escaped from the asylum when i asked for the new CD by “The Levellers”

  159. Well what a great prize, i am off to see them next saturday, would be nice to win this stuff as no way will the missus let me spend all that money at once

  160. It would make my year to win the Levellers album reissues from Edsel as I am wanting to update from the originals I bought when these albums were first released (fingers crossed).

  162. My life is the levellers, i just got my first son, i am proud and i would be great to add the Levellersspecial edition discs in his cd collection.later i can teach him to listen to real music…

  165. I mean, guys, let’s be honest, that is a real treasure and needs to be explored right now, here we go. Hand this stuff over to a good home, fingers crossed.

  166. Music by the Levellers got me through the hard time at the revalidation centre after becoming paralysed by an accident. There’s only one way of life … and that’s your own !!! Greets from Belgium !

  168. Hi there!! I am a Leveller fan since I was 19 year…I am 42 now..
    Got lost all my cd’s and dvd ‘s when I left my ex- husband! please…give me this great super Deluxe!! Thank you!!! Greets from Belgium! xxx

  169. I’d love to win a set of these. Hope street was such an iconic single and I’m scratching my head as to why I didn’t go on to explore the band in more detail. Now, thanks to Edsel and SDE, I might finally get the chance to do just that! fingers crossed.

  172. the levellers are my fave group in the whole world though i would have a crack of winning this superb prize have never ever won anything like this before and this would be heaven in fact no words could describe

  174. Fifteen years has been continuously in my top ten playlist from tape to CD to iPod over the last twenty years or so and shall firmly remain there. I don’t need an excuse to listen to the Levellers but winning would be the icing on the cake .

  181. would love to win these first saw them when i was 18 the wedgewood rooms Porstmouth,and remember sitting down after the gig to have a drink with the band.

  182. I’d love to win this set. My nasty old ex-Wife has my originals & won’t let me have them back!
    Been Following the Levs from day 1 & can’t count the amount of times I’ve seen them, off to Lincoln next week..Woo Hoo!

  183. I like this band a lot and have seen them live some times. I would very much like to win this great set of cd and dvd as i really only own one of the cd’s levelling the land and a bootleg concert cd from Amsterdam. And of course their Irish…

  185. I have all the albums but this would be an amazing opportunity to get some of the tracks I’m missing. Also, to get a copy of The Great Video Swindle on DVD would be brilliant… although surely it’ll need to be renamed The Great DVD Swindle!

  190. I have 6 kids , 5 of whom are levellers fans too and they keep borrowing my cd’s ….so when I want to listen to a particular album ….I can never find them …..It would just be nice to have my own collection to lock in a little safe , and they can use the others with no pain to me anymore :'(

  191. Thanks for the opportunity to win! I first heard the Levellers when living in the UK. Practically no one in the US has heard of them – a shame! But 20 years later I still regularly listen to their albums & keep doing my best to spread the word stateside. Thanks for putting these re-issues together. They look great!

  194. The levellers were my favourite band growing up and they still are some 20 years later. I have memories of listening them on long summer days drinking cider and everything was great. They are one of the best live bands ever and I love the fact they are still going and producing such great records. I would love to own these deluxe editions as they not only look and sound amazing but there is so much extra stuff on there I can’t wait to hear.

  201. I would love to win these levellers CDs as I am a massive levellers fan and they would be a welcome addition to the collection, plus the money I save can be used to get other stuff from your selection!!!!

  203. Ask anyone who knows me, what is Clare’s favourite band? The answer is always The Levellers. I have seen them live almost 200 times, and we go to Beautiful Days every year. I would love to win these, as I am due to have a Baby in April, and would love to start my Baby’s Levellers collection off properly! So far I have a Levellers Babygrow for my baby. I definately have the next generation of Levellers fan growing in my belly!

  206. as a levellers fan, I need to complete my back catalogue. The b-sides and new outtakes will be a new hearing-experience. I must win this set of CD’s and DVD’s. Cheers!

  211. I wan’t it because all the originals I have don’t have I guess a really great remastered sound, and of course the extra tracks/videos…
    Please let a French “old” fan (nearly 20 years since I have listened to them for the first time) keep listening to the Levs stuff in upgraded quality!
    Long live great record labels!

  217. I need to win these as I started having children in 2006 and ever since they seem to have been engaged in a campaign to destroy every CD I own.

  219. I have been following the Levellers since 1990. To own this collection would be a right result as my son (Who is eight) has started to listen to the levellers, and i only own three albums, so would like him to listen to much more…….

  224. I totally adore the levellers, have seen them twice this tour and will again on the 22nd. I would die for these but my brother also loves them and he needs cheering up so this opportunity is for my big bro’ John Shaw. Fingers crossed. Love to my boys themselves.. See you soon xxxx

  227. I need to have these albums!!! As a student I can hardly afford to buy them, and I’ve been a life-long fan of the band having to put up with 4 of the above CD’s in appaling condition from my mum and dad’s music collection, which are all scratched to hell!

  229. I’d love to win this: I saw them for the first time when I was a young girl with a love for music and a lack of confidence. Life has changed so much since then: I experienced love, success, became a mother, lost loved ones… But when I saw them playing two weeks ago I felt 16 again. Only with a bit more confidence :)

  230. The Levellers were never what they have been accused of crusty folk Clash wannabes, they consummate musicians creating brilliant politically charged folk/rock/pop music that have made us jump up and down for joy for over 20 years, I would love to win this amazing set of music.

  231. There is only one way of life and that is the life of a Levellers fan. I have been a fan for over “15 Years” and if I won, I would listen to the whole collection “In this Garden” with my wife “Julie”. (she really is called Julie and she loves this track) Aslo living near a river and use a ferry every day, I am a true”Boatman”.

    So if I win “What a Beautiful Day” it would be, it would be”Too Real” so “Come on” and lets “Celebrate” on the “Dog Train” and “Make U Happy”

  237. I would be so happy if I won these!! Love the Levellers so much – my favourite band. Have seen them over 50 times and I’m only 20! x

  240. I would like to win because i am a very big fan of the levellers and i always miss rheir livconcerts in denmark of different reasons. Therefore i hav had to travel abroad to see thm and it ha been fantastic. This autumn i got ill on the day of their concert in dnmark and i am sure my disappointment will be easier to handle if i win…

  241. pleasssse – i have a fair few of the albums and cd singles, but there are a few i’m missing out on – oh, and i have the opening 8 bars of ‘one way’ tattooed on my arm :) (i’ll send a photo if i win!)

  242. been a huge Levellers fan since the early 90’s and spent many a day trawling around after them to all their gigs in the early days. Last week my lovely teen dropped 2 of my original levellers albums and chunked them. Gutted – they are older than he is! This is a cracking collection and I would love to win it so I can safely continue his musical education without risking my precious vinyl!………that and cos this is a totally cracking collection!

  243. The Levellers were the 1st band I ever saw live. It was back in 1991 at Nottingham Rock City & it was an amazing experience. They are a massively under rated band & I’d love to win this prize!

  244. Would be so good to replace my much loved battered discs which’ve kept me and my tribe bouncing thru the adversities of life for so many years – big ups for release :) xxx

  246. howdy,,ive been in 2 the levellers since they started many many moons ago,,ive seen them loads of times,when their on tour,seen them a few times at motorbike shows where they know how 2 get hundreds of bikers dancing about like young fans,,they were at the barrowlands last yr,best place in the world for a gig & the band love the scottish fans & the scottish pater,,love to get this price,it would go 2 a good scottish home :)

  251. I’ve been a Levellers fan for all the years they’ve been going! The fiddling gives me goosebumps, the tunes make me wanna dance till the sun comes up and the messages in the songs speak to my heart and soul….pleeeeeeease I wanna win this!

  252. I think this is a great prize – I’ve grown up listening to the Levellers, as they are my dad’s favorite band, as well as mine. I think these special editions would make a wonderful addition to my Dad’s Levellers collection.

    My Dad, my younger brother and I are going to see them next week – It will be my 4th time, my brother’s second, and god knows how many times my dad has seen them!!

    It would be fantastic to be the owner of these.

  254. Well, it’s The Levellers back-catalog… Remastered… and I am currently on the Dole waiting for my Lottery Ticket to come, in the meantime, I need something other than Jeremy Kyle to pass my day!

  255. I’m a big fan of the Levellers but still haven’t got round to replacing all my vinyl with cds so this would be perfect. Off to see them next week , so a win would mean I could relive the moment by playing the songs all over again at home.

  256. Saw The Levellers at their Beautiful Days Festival in the Summer and absolutely love them. This would be an amazing addition to my one and only album!!

  260. Why do I want to win these? ‘Great Video Swindle’ finally on DVD! I nearly wore out my CD of ‘Levelling The Land’ between 1993-96. ‘Zeitgeist’ is full of tunes that never get old. Various reasons for wanting these.

    If I won, I’d make my year…

  263. I want to win these, I NEED to win these, so I can relive my school days when not only was it acceptable to like the Levellers (and not wash your hair) but actually fashionable for a time.

  270. I buy already many records (and re-releases) and I have still many to buy. the levellers are not on my priority list, so it would be so great to win these reissues !

    1. i love the levellers and would love to win the competition as i am to ill to go to see them live anymore (i have lost count how many times i saw them previously)

    3. If I can’t get the Levellers to come to the United States, I will accept the next best thing. 14 Cd’s that I can play and pretend it’s my own private show! Fingers crossed.

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