Levellers - The Recruiting Sergeant

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  • New single from Static On The Airwaves
    The Levellers release their new EP The Recruiting Sergeant in support of War Child on 5th May. Four of the band's most poignant anti-war songs are featured including a re-recorded version of The Recruiting Sergeant with special guests The Copper Family, Dan Walsh, Ben Paley and Shona Kipling helping out.
    Pre-order now from iTunes - itunes.apple.co...
    Another Man's Cause, Not In My Name and Barrel of the Gun complement this release along with the original version of The Recruiting Sergeant from the new album Static On The Airwaves'.
    All profits go to War Child - the charity that helps children wherever war affects them.
    itunes.apple.co...
    www.warchild.or...
    A Rich Mulryne Film in association with Dogbite Film Crew
    Written by Jeremy Cunningham and Rich Mulryne
    Cast.
    Simon Friend
    the Levellers
    The Copper Family
    Darcy Vanhinsberg
    Kelly Evans
    Security Guard - Teudor Acton-Page
    The Recruiting Sergeant - John O'Regan
    Soldiers
    Thomas Hare
    Luke Purdy
    Tim Seyfert
    Lew Smart
    Crew
    Director of Photography - Morgan Lowndes
    Camera Assistant - Tim Connell
    Gaffer - John Crookes
    Gaffers Assistant - Tom Hainsworth
    DIT - John O'Regan
    Make Up Artist - Gillian Thomas
    Production Assistant - Dan Ratcliffe
    Production Runner - Fred Bayliss
    Props - Hel Lathem
    Still Photographer - Oana Damir
    Editor - Mark Davies-Tilbey
    Visual Effects - Rich Mulryne
    Administration - Michelle TaylorExecutive Producers
    Denzil Monk
    John Crookes
    Additional band footage by Dunstan Bruce
    Produced and Directed by Rich Mulryne
    Enormous thanks to Emma Birchett and Eliana Mulryne. Stuart Bleazard and all at The Old Inn, Mullion. Father Shane Griffiths. Jill Punter. Mr and Mrs Curtis. Maria Morgana. Mrs Seyfert. Fliss. Trevor Row.

ความคิดเห็น • 122

  • @Wesley-1776
    @Wesley-1776 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Sent here by a comment on a Rimmy down under video.

  • @Conscript_Nerf
    @Conscript_Nerf 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    The war is over, regardless of victory or defeat
    I hope you will rest well, British soldiers
    -2021 August

  • @noddytiddlywinks6873
    @noddytiddlywinks6873 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    as a vet....THANK YOU for caring about the lads n lasses

  • @megankeith2148
    @megankeith2148 9 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    A cheery tune for a song and video that always leaves me feeling absolutely gutted and crying.

    • @jimboc57
      @jimboc57 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Megan Keith this without a tear in the eye .Great tune.

    • @jimboc57
      @jimboc57 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      jim cockram cant listen to

    • @patkelly8309
      @patkelly8309 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I wouldn't keep listening to something that left me feeling gutted and crying. I love this song but not watched this vid before.

  • @aheadjohnofSkaraBrae
    @aheadjohnofSkaraBrae 11 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    Obviously 3 recruiting sergeants did'nt like the tune....
    Great Interpretation of one of my favourite Folksongs.
    Well done Levellers!

  • @tallshort1849
    @tallshort1849 8 ปีที่แล้ว +79

    people would be surprised how well the levellers are liked in the forces...well the army anyway

    • @rileyjenkins3150
      @rileyjenkins3150 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That's ironic considering levellers dont really like them

    • @oakashthorn5714
      @oakashthorn5714 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      riley jenkins how do you know? Maybe it’s the neo liberal governments sending them to pointless wars they don’t like...

    • @Greenkiller100
      @Greenkiller100 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      @@oakashthorn5714 this. I served 22 years...including two Afghanistan tours. Love the levellers and you can tell by the lyrics that it isn't the forces they have a problem with. It's the government's that send them to these places.

    • @oakashthorn5714
      @oakashthorn5714 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@Greenkiller100 absolutely & now Biden has got in I’d expect military will be heading off to bomb the Middle East as the globalist neo liberals always seem to do..

    • @Greenkiller100
      @Greenkiller100 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@oakashthorn5714 they do?? George h bush (republican)sent troops to Iraq. George w Bush sent troops to Afghanistan and Iraq. Tony Blair was more right wing than Thatcher...Trump wanted to nuke Iran recently. Pretty sure wars and who fights them is not limited to either left or right wing politics. Money talks...

  • @luxford60
    @luxford60 11 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    The problem with this video is that I can't watch the end bit without bursting into tears.
    And then of course I listen to the album version, and I think about the final scene of the video, and I burst into tears again.
    And then I see them playing it live, and I still think about that scene where she puts the scan on the war memorial, and I burst into tears again.

  • @MidnightBlue766
    @MidnightBlue766 10 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    With a few tweaks, this could easily be about the Anglo-Afghan Wars in the 19th century instead of the current War on Terror.

    • @pixelsthered
      @pixelsthered 9 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Midnight Blue The original (Twa' Recruitin' Sergeants) was actually about the Napoleonic Wars. The lyrics can be updated to fit any war since they're really all just as pointless

    • @EzekielDeLaCroix
      @EzekielDeLaCroix 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      Pixels Mossman It was more related to the '45 than to the Napoleonic Wars. Twa Recruiting Sergeants was a satirical song of Highland soldiers joining up for the British Army.

    • @robertwrightson6455
      @robertwrightson6455 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@pixelsthered Pointless? tell that to the school children in Afghan who are regularly murdered by the Taliban for just going to school.. Or for that matter the Jews who's relations died in concentration camps.. I don't think they will say it was pointless...

    • @Conscript_Nerf
      @Conscript_Nerf 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@pixelsthered War is pointless to all of us until we open our front door and see it in our city or town
      T. Balkan wars

  • @megankeith2148
    @megankeith2148 9 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    It's over the mountains, and over the main. Through Gibraltar to France and Spain, get a feather tae your bonnet, and a kilt abeen your knee. An'list bonnie laddie an' come awa wi me.

    • @TheTorlay
      @TheTorlay 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      correct, but this is clearly thier version of the song

    • @chronometrics
      @chronometrics 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      For it's over the mountain and over the sea, come brave Newfoundlanders and join the Blue Putees! We'll fight the Hun in Flanders and at Gallipoli, enlist you Newfoundlanders and come follow me!

  • @ChrisTomlinson-ih9vx
    @ChrisTomlinson-ih9vx 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Dave Tommo The Patriots Prayer is a must listen!!. Levellers grew out of Dave's band The Jam Jah Tree. x

  • @ZX81v2
    @ZX81v2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    One of the best tunes ever and the lyrics are incredible, think this is my second comment, seems to happen everytime I listen to this tune :)

  • @hansgetzeflammenwerfer8090
    @hansgetzeflammenwerfer8090 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    One of my new favorite songs

  • @bluerizlagirl
    @bluerizlagirl 11 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Come on, I quite like the clean version.
    The song is really no less powerful for it; and if it means it gets played on the wireless before nine, that's got to be a good thing, surely:

    • @seannot-telling9806
      @seannot-telling9806 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Any chance you have a link to the not so clean version you care to share. I don't know what I would be looking for to find it. I got this as a recommended link while watching "TWA RECRUITING SERGEANTS" By The Corries. EDIT: Just found it. Thanks.

    • @PS-nf3xw
      @PS-nf3xw 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The two are not different, just a couple of words changed

  • @jaidengabriel1675
    @jaidengabriel1675 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Sent by rimmy

    • @spookigreyman3757
      @spookigreyman3757 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      same

    • @Conscript_Nerf
      @Conscript_Nerf 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Which video did he use this in ?

    • @spookigreyman3757
      @spookigreyman3757 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@Conscript_Nerf he didn't use it, someone reccomended it on "the soundtrack wasn't as good this time"

  • @ZX81v2
    @ZX81v2 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    That video is one of the best I have ever seen. You guys are amazing, emotional as.......
    Hope to see you guys live again soon :)
    All the Best

  • @helenbostock2350
    @helenbostock2350 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    We need home boy that fight for the family kids community. Hum

  • @mooseven
    @mooseven 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Divokej Bill are a folk-rock band from the Czech Republic who toured with the Levellers a couple of years ago and did additional instruments and vocals on the Levellers' original recording of this song.

  • @martynburrows7867
    @martynburrows7867 11 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Hugely poinient and a well-crafted song.
    I think the lyrics were changed and the "contraband" obscured to make the song/vid more mainstream and suitable for all. But none the less, a great song.
    Congrats lads - very well done.

    • @stirlingarcher9572
      @stirlingarcher9572 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      yeah the album version has drug references...

  • @paulcave2
    @paulcave2 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    love this song

  • @DogmaDraz
    @DogmaDraz 11 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Love you Levellers!! Chills and goosebumps. Peace to all!

  • @Rorywilton
    @Rorywilton 11 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    three of my mates in one video! nice work everyone! Rx

  • @elainerose1334
    @elainerose1334 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What can I say....wonderful song! So emotive.

  • @timostoneage
    @timostoneage 11 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Love this track, just a shame they had change so many of the original lyrics for the sensors!! Buy the album and listen to it as it was recorded. Brilliant album!!

  • @Audunforgard
    @Audunforgard 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Strong message!

  • @31wozza
    @31wozza 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    wow so glad i got in to the levellers

  • @thebattleroyale
    @thebattleroyale 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    Awesome, as usual with the Levellers!

  • @James-pw7fx
    @James-pw7fx 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    best song I've heard in a LONG timexxxxxxxx

  • @greatzarkwon
    @greatzarkwon 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    Excellent video!

  • @Waverathon
    @Waverathon 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great stuff Rich...

  • @the_lonely_smoker
    @the_lonely_smoker 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    great

  • @killermouse00
    @killermouse00 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Mint!

  • @IndiaMediaGroup
    @IndiaMediaGroup 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    great stuff guys

  • @StokieDave
    @StokieDave ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What changed? I lost good friends and for what. 2 Iraq wars and 1 Afghan involving us when they pulled out it just went back to being the same old.
    Pointless waste of lives over oil and religion.

  • @kathrynwynne-thomas4580
    @kathrynwynne-thomas4580 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    well done lads

  • @aheadjohnofSkaraBrae
    @aheadjohnofSkaraBrae 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Aaaaaaaaand.... I like the dog walking into scene at 2:25 :-)

  • @richmulryne9433
    @richmulryne9433 11 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Her name is Kelly Evans.

  • @4ndrewparker
    @4ndrewparker 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Over the mountains and over the sea...

  • @peterjonesz
    @peterjonesz 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Makes a point in an unusual way but love the song despite the sentiment 😔

  • @helenbostock5096
    @helenbostock5096 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    i like song that make you think

  • @speleokeir
    @speleokeir 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    First time I heard this I thought it was the Pogues.

  • @elizabethtyrrell7398
    @elizabethtyrrell7398 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    i have mate twice this song stiks the hairs up on the back of neck

  • @shaebryant1916
    @shaebryant1916 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Is this not taken from twa recruiting sergeant? About 300 years old

  • @thenameplus431
    @thenameplus431 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    it’s almost as if it was for nothing!

    • @Pumpeduse
      @Pumpeduse ปีที่แล้ว

      It wàs for nothing! Herds of r*gheads are stil flocking to Western Europe !!!!!!

  • @mooseven
    @mooseven 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Also, when did Willie Nelson join the Levellers? :-)

  • @misss3320
    @misss3320 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I imagined my bf to come back from Iraq thrilled to see me, but it changed him. That and the death dart.

  • @Birgit010666
    @Birgit010666 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    ich finds klasse

    • @FSBNOA
      @FSBNOA ปีที่แล้ว

      Ja!

  • @burzug
    @burzug 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    why was the blunt blurd at 2:09 ?

  • @zenontecza752
    @zenontecza752 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    P
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  • @joebuskerb5941
    @joebuskerb5941 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    my family have been in the forces too war is wrong the lyrics are about the way the underprivileged r recruited

  • @ariadnebec8179
    @ariadnebec8179 11 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Nice one. I am not sure... but if they really mean fight the Afghani (which is the Afghan currency, NOT the people) then great double meaning, because that war is all about the money (pipeline, resources and the geographic strategical position of Afghanistan).
    If you want to know more about Afghanistan, the people, the culture and music check out: www.afghanvoice.org.uk
    Afghan community media project run by volunteers, a safe space for freedom of expression, creating a network of friendship between communities. Trilingual: English, Pashto and Dari.
    Thank you Levelllers!

    • @cmur078
      @cmur078 11 ปีที่แล้ว

      could be that, I'd say it's more likely that they're just using the singular to mean the plural, a figure of speech that's fairly common in the kind of ballads they're trying to sound like ('fight the Turk' is the other phrase that I could think of)

  • @TheAngryNerd100
    @TheAngryNerd100 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    but I keep getting the words wrong!

  • @patkelly3966
    @patkelly3966 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    What's new?

  • @EzekielDeLaCroix
    @EzekielDeLaCroix 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Boris Johnson providing the British Armed Forces with manpower in his youth.

  • @patkelly3966
    @patkelly3966 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Grange Hill

  • @garymcmanus9946
    @garymcmanus9946 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Trust me the army lov the levellers alright!

  • @stepanromanovicdidyczmoroz664
    @stepanromanovicdidyczmoroz664 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Anybody able to send this to Tony Blair? In fairness though, he’ll be too busy on his Vaccine agenda to watch. God bless everyone who’s died or been injured (physically/mentally) fighting in any corporate war x

  • @garchoom
    @garchoom 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    SHARE THIS VIDEO ON FACEBOOK and everywhere else , for your friends ! OK ? GO NOW ! ;D And become FANS on " THE LEVELLERS " FACEBOOK page ! COME ON !

  • @ACat-pm8kx
    @ACat-pm8kx 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    If you see a recruiting sergeant boys , run , run away ! 👌🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼✌🏼❤️🎶

  • @brothervssistervideos-vlog3126
    @brothervssistervideos-vlog3126 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    the leverlers ROCK IM UR NO.1 FAN. UR EEEEEEEEPPPPPPPPIIIIIIIIKKKKKKKKKK

  • @mywishLE
    @mywishLE 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    You're special! that's for sure!

  • @bobnice3044
    @bobnice3044 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "To set the Afghan free" jesus to think young guys died having bought that utter shit.

    • @daniels_0399
      @daniels_0399 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It's "To fight the Afghanee"

  • @MrPaul79z
    @MrPaul79z 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    sounds like a pogues tune

  • @paulhadfield7909
    @paulhadfield7909 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    i like it, we need more anti war songs

  • @mr_dillus
    @mr_dillus 11 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    0:27 he remembers his copy of Game of Thrones

  • @neilgriffiths8385
    @neilgriffiths8385 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Naa meen😂

  • @gilbertthebushwacker8704
    @gilbertthebushwacker8704 ปีที่แล้ว

    Now Ukraine?

  • @americangirlnoobxx5548
    @americangirlnoobxx5548 9 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    If you like this check out ferocious dog 😀

  • @SadieMichaelaHarris
    @SadieMichaelaHarris 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    :o)

  • @jeaton2012uk
    @jeaton2012uk 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I know this is meant to be a song against war but jesus I want to sign up when listening to this....

    • @grantgauthier-parker7266
      @grantgauthier-parker7266 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      yeah, it gave me the same urge like "yeah, America, time to go blow up some tarorists" and then someone told me it was an anti war song and I was like "can we still blow up some Tarorists?"

  • @samrajbuttar6469
    @samrajbuttar6469 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Your soldiers behave like teenage girls on combat breaks😂😂😂

  • @mooseven
    @mooseven 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great song, but can you really not say "bloody Kandahar" in a music video? Oh, and Divokej Bill were definitely better backing vocalists.

  • @luxford60
    @luxford60 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Blimey that's a bit poignant.

  • @fray008
    @fray008 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    fix your in ???? bollox, censorship, no swearing, bollox

  • @harryb8945
    @harryb8945 10 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I like your songs let I do not agree with there message. I agree with the afghan war and hope one day like my father to join up and serve my country.

    • @septegram
      @septegram 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Lad, you wrote this three years ago; I hope you've gained a bit of wisdom. I have nothing against serving your country, but killing Afghans isn't protecting your country. As Fred Small says, wars nowadays mostly benefit "Armchair heroes / Set to settle some old score / ... profiteers and pushers / Primed to send young men once more / To blow themselves to glory / On some godforsaken shore."

    • @harryb8945
      @harryb8945 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Rob Berra Afghanistan was a country controlled by a brutal Islamic extremist group the taliban. Not only where they horrifically brutal to the afghan people, they allowed terriost groups such as alqieda to safely train there. The invasion was completely justified.

    • @glynrhys68
      @glynrhys68 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@harryb8945 "a brutal Islamic extremist group" yes, and one created and funded by the Yanks. And the Taliban are still there, still undefeated.

    • @harryb8945
      @harryb8945 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@glynrhys68 yes it was founded bu the yanks because, they where blinded by the cold war and couldn't understand the concept that just because someone is the enemy of your enemy. It doesn't make them a friend. Also the talbian is in control because, once again America. Because, they kept bombing the shit out of every nock and crany in the county. Instead of actually trying to win over the locals as we did.

    • @harryb8945
      @harryb8945 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Hackney Glyn I said I agreed with the war. Not necessarily how it started and how it was fought by some.

  • @jessjc2005
    @jessjc2005 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This is so wrong. I love you Levellers but.......the British army were not fighting the Afghans. We were sent in to defeat the Taliban which is not the same. The Afghan nation was taken over by the USSR then liberated by the Taliban who the people at the time thought were their religious saviours. Until recently there was a very western culture but the Taliban stopped this. I have many friends who are Afghan and who have fled the wars.

    • @ryanlaird6447
      @ryanlaird6447 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Alice Smart the Afghany is Afghanistan currency

    • @Bruh-hq1hx
      @Bruh-hq1hx 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      The mujahadeen and Taliban are slightly different i think im not sure how excactly though

  • @joebuskerb5941
    @joebuskerb5941 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    my family have been in the forces too war is wrong the lyrics are about the way the underprivileged r recruited