{"product_id":"693912","title":"Commoners Choir - Commoners Choir [CD]","description":"Brand New From Reputable UK Company With 30 Years Experience In Retail, Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.\u003cbr\u003eAll items shipped within 3 working days of payment.\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that all our DVDs are Region 2.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that not all audio CDs are shrink-wrapped fom the factory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCommoners Choir formed in 2015 with a walk up to the summit of Kinder Scout in the Peak District (to commemorate the Mass Trespassers of 1932), and sang their entire repertoire (two songs) to a handful of startled hikers. From such small acorns, mighty oaks have grown.\\r\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003eThis is their debut album which distils all that they are into an hour of marvellous melodies, powerful voices, and passionate ideals. Songs about food riots, inequality, the cultural harrying of the North, Woody Guthrie, the Calder Valley floods, homelessness, refugees, the printed word, and the rhyming possibilities of Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt\\u2026 stitched together with soundbites, found sounds, and words of wisdom. Their songs and arrangements are written by Boff Whalley, songsmith for the likes of Chumbawamba and Red Ladder Theatre, with inspiration, input and interjections from choir members.\\r\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003eAlways quirky, always tuneful, always unexpected, Commoners has gone from strength to strength, refusing to be pigeonholed or boxed or seen as 'just another community choir'. They have performed at festivals (Musicport and Oysterband's Big Session), protests and fundraisers, they have sailed a barge along the Aire and Calder, commemorated food poverty riots, retraced the footsteps of the original Luddites, highlighted homelessness, celebrated the common land up on Ilkley Moor, challenged unfair byelaws by the use of swearing and profanity (with comedian and campaigner Mark Thomas) and celebrated the printed word with songs and cake in libraries across the North. All with a smile and a tune even yer gran could whistle. Commoners Choir, fifty members strong, are sassy, funny, angry, hopeful, rowdy, and sometimes with a poignancy that has moved people to tears.\\r\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003eCommoners Choir is a rag bag assortment of ne'er-do-wells, misfits, and troublemaking cake eaters who have come together from all corners of the globe to sing harmonious insurrection, to rouse the rabble and to raise a smile or two. Their album comes with a guarantee that you will never have heard a choir like it\\u2026\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCommoners Go Trespassing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAngry Song\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Jeremy Hunt Rhyming Song\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCitizen Shanty\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSong For Woody\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobin Hood In Reverse\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHope\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOmnia Sunt Communia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThree Boats\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMechanical Movable Type\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe People's Armada\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSong Made From Placard Slogans\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShelter Song\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGreat Big Hole\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen They Go Low, We Go High\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBread Or Blood (Ely \u0026amp; Littleport Riot)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Have-Nots And The Haves\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoris Johnson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Below\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBread And Beer (Castleford Riots)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGet Off Your Arse!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chalkys.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55156461633921,"sku":"693912","price":14.48,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0056\/8043\/1219\/files\/51WkKj0GmYL._SL1500.jpg?v=1767933645","url":"https:\/\/chalkys.com\/products\/693912","provider":"Chalkys.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}