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Commoners Choir
@commonerschoir.bsky.social
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An ever changing rabble of ne'erdowells singing about the world around us, with hope and anger in four part harmony.
Based in Leeds, Yorkshire. Will travel. GSOH.
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This Fri @thetradesclub.bsky.social benefit for Palestine Medical Aid with #MaddieMorris.
I hear we may debut 2 new songs- one in Spanish which we'll be singing with Incordis choir in Catalunya (so not written by us).
#HebdenBridge #Yorkshire #LiveMusic
Tix at thetradesclub.com/events/common5
The Union Jill flag - a very colourful version of the Union Jack. Text: COMMONERS CHOIR WITH MADDIE MORRIS HEBDEN BRIDGE TRADES CLUB FRI 17 OCTOBER £8/£10 DOORS 8PM BENEFIT FOR PALESTINE MEDICAL AID TICKETS WWW.THETRADESCLUB.COM
October 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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It's not that well known ... yet.
The Union Jill flag. A very colourful alternative to the Union Jack.
October 9, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Commoners Cake Division is limbering up for our tenth Anniversary at @OldWoollen on 20th July. Come n sing us happy birthday, listen to songs from our 10 years and enter the lip synch competition! Oh and we've got a special new 🎶 usb 🎶
Tix at oldwoollen.seetickets.com/event/common...
Pic of upside down birthday cake. Text: CELEBRATING TEN YEARS OF VOCAL YOBBERY, RABID CAKE-EATING & ASSORTED UN-CHOIR-LIKE ACTIVITIES COMMONERS CHOIR WITH SPECIAL GUEST BECCY OWEN'S LIP SYNC SUNDAY JULY 20. 7PM £15 THE OLD WOOLLEN, FARSLEY TICKETS FROM WWW.OLDWOOLLEN.CO.UK INFO: WWW.COMMONERSCHOIR.COM
July 8, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Smashing photo of us singing to the sunrise crowd at Cow n Calf quarry last weekend.

Photographer: Geoff Chalmers.

#IlkleyMoor
#TheBradfordProgress
@bradford2025.co.uk
Looking down into quarry entrance, steep cliffs to each side, trees and fields in the distance. A semi circle of black clad singers, with lots of other people gathered to make a circle. Lone man in middle conducting the choir (Boff).
May 21, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Boff will be happy.
Striped claret and light blue scarf.
April 21, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Ey up new followers.
Like most people on here, we're unlikely to follow you unless you have a bio and have done some posting. Trying to weed out the bots ;)
Little robot typing on a laptop.
January 28, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Philip K Dick x 1984
Two big eyes. Text: 1984 by George Orwell Part One - Thoughtcrime: Chapter One - Big Brother Is Watching You.
January 22, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Well this is very nice, from RnR magazine :)

#Ramones
#RamonesCovers
#RnRMagazine
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Clip from magazine. Pic of a record cover, text: HEY! HO! COMMONERS CHOIR & WEST YORKSHIRE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PLAY THE HITS OF THE RAMONES. Main text: COMMONERS CHOIR & WEST YORKSHIRE SYMPHONY combine forces on one of the most unlikely, but surprisingly likeable, ten-inch vinyl EPs, Hey! Ho! Play The Hits Of The Ramones. It's a five-track collection that celebrates a half-century since the foundation of the New York punk-rock pioneers. The seventy-five-member Choir and forty-piece Orchestra transform the music of three-chord institution The Ramones via imaginative and inventive arrangements, often monumental, as on 'Blitzkrieg Bop' and 'Rockaway Beach'. The best is left to last, when they gloriously rework 'Sheena Is A Punk Rocker', turning it into something beautifully expansive and rather delightful. www.commonerschoir.com
January 17, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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MARCH FOR PALESTINE
🎶WITH SONGS OF RESISTANCE🎶
Led by Commoners Choir

This SAT 11 JAN
1PM AT MERRION ST GARDENS
#Leeds

Mask wearing encouraged, to keep others safe. Quiet area with seating and access resources. Curb free march, with quieter, slower section at the back.

#PalestineSolidarity
Silhouettes of a crowd of people with banners. Alt text: MARCH FOR PALESTINE 🎶WITH SONGS OF RESISTANCE🎶 LED BY THE COMMONERS CHOIR SATURDAY 11 JANUARY 1PM AT MERRION STREET GARDENS MASK WEARING ENCOURAGED PSC LEEDS logo
January 10, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Cash for cakes!
Cakes for cash!
December 15, 2024 at 10:36 AM
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Welcome back #BandcampFriday. You can buy our albums and zines on @bandcamp.com but if you want a mug you need to befriend a commoner or come to a gig ;)
There are a few tix left for the 15th Dec concert, celebrating the Ramones 50th year.
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#TheRamones
Cover of a 10" vinyl record. Text: Hey! Ho! Commoners Choir and West Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra play the hits of the Ramones. Mug with sketch of a woman swimming along a river. Text: Swim your life.... (Other side says 'against the tide')
December 6, 2024 at 3:00 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 20/20
#Books #BookSky
📚💙 #BookChallenge
A tiny little seedling in the middle of text: ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR THE MINISTRY FOR THE FUTURE KIM STANLEY ROBINSON 'A novel that presents a rousing vision of how we might unite to overcome the greatest challenge of our time' TED.com
November 30, 2024 at 9:29 AM
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Have a nice day.

#BlackFriday
Large Forbidden sign. Text: DRAW SOMETHING SEW SOMETHING COOK SOMETHING SING SOMETHING BUILD SOMETHING MAKE SOMETHING BUY NOTHING
November 29, 2024 at 10:09 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 19/20
#Books #BookSky
📚💙 #BookChallenge
Drawing of a woman in leotard with huge wings flying upwards. Text: Nights of the Circus Angela Carter Author of Wise Children 'An ebullient till tale... spellbinding... entrancing' Los Angeles Times Book Review
November 29, 2024 at 9:42 AM
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One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 17/20
#Books #BookSky
📚💙 #BookChallenge
Glimpse of sky through a narrow path in a pine forest. Text: The Overstory Richard Powers Winner of the National Book Award
November 28, 2024 at 9:30 AM
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One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 18/20
#Books #BookSky
📚💙 #BookChallenge
The back of a person silhouetted against an orange sky, looking up at a huge orange planet, standing on a inside a caldera. Text: Panther Science Fiction Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author URSULA LE GUIN The Dispossessed 'Certain to become a classic' SCIENCE FICTION MONTHLY
November 27, 2024 at 8:29 AM
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Hey! Ho! Let's go.
Last call for the toilet queue at CBGBs, beer n whisky at the bar, don't get stuck to the sticky floor, here we go, 1, 2, 3, 4!
40 tickets left for the launch concert and pre-orders for the 10" vinyl at
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November 26, 2024 at 5:07 PM
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One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 16/20
#Books #BookSky
📚💙 #BookChallenge

#cycling #DervlaMurphy
Photo of a track winding through mountains. Text: ELAND Full Tilt Ireland to India with a Bicycle DERVLA MURPHY
November 26, 2024 at 9:42 AM
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One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 15/20
#Books #BookSky
📚💙 #BookChallenge
Picture of a black woman in a red hat and long red dress with yellow leaf fronds. Red, yellow, orange leaves fall across the cover. Text: Copyrighted Material "Brilliant, endlessly rich... pairs well with 1984 or The Handmaid's Tale." JOHN GREEN, New York Times Parable of the Sower With a new foreword from award-winning author N.K. JEMISIN OCTAVIA E. BUTLER WINNER OF A MACARTHUR "GENIUS" GRANT
November 25, 2024 at 11:28 AM
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One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 13/20
#Books #BookSky
📚💙 #BookChallenge
A.raised bed with plants in the foreground, with small.terraces of houses and trees behind. Text: PERMACULTURE A Beginner's Guide Graham Burnett second edition foreword by Brigit Strawbridge
November 24, 2024 at 9:48 AM
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One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 14/20
#Books #BookSky
📚💙 #BookChallenge

#Trumpet
Picture of a trumpet next to text: Introduced by Ali Smith trumpet jackie kay PICADOR CLASSIC
November 23, 2024 at 7:45 AM
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One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 12/20
#Books #BookSky
📚💙 #BookChallenge
Picture of bird head with strong beak. Text: THE NEW PREMIERS YEAR BOOK OF 2016 VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARD FOR INDIGENOUS WRITING 2014 BRUCE PASCOE Dark Emu BLACK SEEDS: agriculture or accident?
November 22, 2024 at 8:30 AM
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The Commoners Cake division are back!
We'll be serving tea n cake at our Ramones concert with West Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra Dec 15th.
More on that later, but tickets are selling like hot cakes.
Cup cakes with commoners choir logo on top. Text: Liberty and cake for all!
November 21, 2024 at 11:27 AM
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One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 11/20
#Books #BookSky
📚💙 #BookChallenge
Sketch of a shed between two trees, small hills behind, river in front. Text: "You will marvel at the beauty of this book, and rage at the injustice it reveals George Mornbiot' HOMESICK Why I Live in a Shed CATRINA DAVIES "Incredibly moving and truly inspirational' Raynor Winn 'Superb: a compelling reflection on what it means to be alive' Charles Foster
November 21, 2024 at 9:33 AM
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One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 11/20
#Books #BookSky
📚💙 #BookChallenge

#NickHayes
A winter woodland at night, full moon, stag. 2 lines of barbed wire across in front. Text: THE BOOK OF TRESPASS. CROSSING THE LINES THAT DIVIDE US NICK HAYES
November 20, 2024 at 9:05 AM