Levellers have announced an exclusive hometown open air show at Hove Park, Brighton on Saturday September 5, 2026, celebrating 35 years of the landmark album Levelling The Land.
Not your usual RAMzine fare, perhaps, but when an album as important as Levelling The Land hits its 35th anniversary with a hometown outdoor show, it deserves a mention. Released in 1991, the album went platinum and featured tracks including ‘One Way’, ’15 Years’, ‘Far From Home’, ‘The Game’ and ‘Battle Of The Beanfield’.
Mark Chadwick and Jeremy ‘Jez’ Cunningham of The Levellers said: “It’s going to be great to celebrate the 35th anniversary of Levelling The Land in Brighton. It’s a Brighton album, 90% of it was written in Brighton, a lot of the songs are about Brighton and its environs, so we are just made up to be playing in our home town. Hove Park has an original standing stone in it, The Goldstone, which is good for us because we are hippies!”
Emerging from Brighton in the late 1980s, Levellers combined folk, punk and political energy with an enduring connection to their audience, going on to achieve a Number One album with Zeitgeist in 1995. Their influence has extended beyond recordings, shaping festival culture, grassroots movements and generations of independent artists.
There will be an optional charity donation to Sussex Homeless upon ticket purchase. The band said: “We’ve been working with Sussex Homeless for 5 years. It’s front line work. We’ve all been homeless back in the day, and we just used to squat, but you can’t do that anymore, that’s criminal now, so it’s an issue close to our hearts.”
Pre-sale sign-up is live now at levellersbrighton.com, with pre-sale tickets from Thursday May 7 at 10am and general on-sale Friday May 8 at 10am. Special guests to be announced.
