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December 30th
Common Rotation will be performing on David Garland's Spinning On Air
Spinning On Air is heard Sundays, 7-8 pm on WNYC-FM 93.9 in the NYC area, and world-wide on wnyc.org. After broadcast, the show can be heard anytime in the Spinning On Air archive at wnyc.org. http://www.wnyc.org/shows/spinning/episodes/

Spinning On Air can be heard live anywhere, through wnyc.org. All the pages on the website (including the show page when it's active) have a column on the left titled "Listen Live," with various connection options including a good quality 32k mp3 stream, and during music hours (which should include Sunday, 7 pm) an even higher quality 96k mp3 stream. Enjoy ya'll.


Seems like a nice way to end the year: )

News letter behind the cut.
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Why I Love Being An American In Four Hundred Words or How I Learned To Stop Hating And Love Kanye's Mom
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Common Rotation Returns to New York City

Friday, November 30 2007
Crash Mansion
199 Bowery (at Spring St.)
NY, New York 10002
All Ages & 7:30pm Sharp!!!
(212)-982-0740

Sunday, December 2 2007
Emerson College
Boston, Massachusetts
All Ages & 9:00pm
WECB Radio Concert

Saturday, December 8 2007,
M Ba r
1253 Vine St.,
Hollywood, California 90028
Evening begins at 8:00pm
The Thrilling Adventure and Supernatural Suspense Hour, Common Rotation and The Dust Bowl Cavaliers
Dinner reservations
are the only way to be assured of seating.


For a free song every day check The Union Maid at
Common Rotation

As well as on MySpace
If you prefer to pay for your music we refer you to
our page at Itunes .

David Berkeley/Common Rotation To Tour Europe In November

David Berkeley and Common Rotation to embark on The Brawl To Settle It All/He Ain't Heavy He's My Brother/I Forgot The Piano Tour

All dates with David Berkeley of the newly enhanced davidberkeley.com and the personally customized myspace.com/davidberkeley.

Look for Jordan Katz out with David Berkeley and Billy Bragg on the Getting To Know You/Democracy Then! Tour coming to you this October. The previous will be briefly interrupted October 7th with a performance for The Best Cause Ever! with SpongeBob Squarepants and The High Seas at Safari Sam's in Hollywood, California. That will be brought to you by The Nicktropolis Late Late Jilly and Gracie Get To Work Blue Show. http://myspace.com/spongebobandthehiseas. Also look for Jordan out with Ghostface Killah, Rakim, Brand Nubian and Brother Ali throughout October and November on The Hot Shwartz Mess Tour. Please check the obsessively and compulsively updated and maintained myspace.com/rhythmrootsallstars for all of Jordan's Katz's happenings.


Sunday November 4th
Au Cafe Du Paris
158 Rue Oberkampf 75011
Paris, France
tel: 01 43 57 34 67
http://www.aucafedeparis.com/


Wednesday November 7th
Electroacoustic Lounge
@ The Slaughtered Lamb
34-35 Great Sutton St
London, England ECLV0DX
http://www.electroacousticclub.com/lambdirections.htm


Thursday November 8th
The Jug and Jester
in Leamington Spa
1-13 Bath St, Leamington Spa,
Warwickshire,England CV31 3AF
Tel: 01926 425727




Friday November 9, 7:00pm
Brel
Ashton Lane
Glasgow, G12, UK
+44 141 342 4966
www.brelbarrestaurant.com
http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_scotland&query=detail&event=239470

Hello: )

In the spirit of all things shiny *Jules poked me ouch!* and because I compulsively transcribe songs badly, much to the amusement of who ever has written it I am sure, but it’s a thing that I do and I enjoy it: )

Here are the last three Union maids for your perusal, they probably have errors all over the place and all and any help or discussion would be gladly received: )
Cheers
Christy
Lyrics behind the cut
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edited to add..
Eric performing for the ‘Big Eye’ see the others at http://www.youtube.com/unionmaid1

Hi! This is my first time posting in the community. I never really had much to contribute until now but I've been following it for a while.

I hope gig show review type posts are allowed here. If not I'll delete this entry...

I was at the Philly show last week. It was awesome by the way! I had a lot of fun. It was the first time I had seen the guys live in almost too years. I thought the show was fantastic and a lot of fun. I forgotten how much I missed seeing CoRo perform. There didn't seem to be a large crowd at the show which I kind of enjoyed.

I took a few pictures and even a couple video clips. I also wrote a fairly long and geeky review concerning the show in my livejournal in case anyone is interested in reading. I posted a somewhat detailed recount of the set list and a few more pictures if that entices you any! :)

( A few pictures + copy of set list )

I don't mind sharing my photos if people wish to make artwork. I encourage it! Although I do wish some credit to be given. I have some more pictures of the show and a couple other odds and ends relating to the show in my photobucket account here. :)

( Video Clips )

Enjoy!!

x-posted to commonrotation and the forum. :)

Is anyone at all remotely interested in the site stats for the Archive? If so, you can check them at http://theunionmaid.com/stats/ with the login/password of unionmember/dues. I thought it'd be neat to see what the stats looked like for the month of October since that includes a month of streaming music (added on 9/27).

Total transfer: 7.66 gigabytes
Busiest week: Oct/22/06
Busiest day: Oct/27/06
Top search term: union maid
Number of DLs: 4256
Number of streamed: 651

I also added a favicon, though IE is being picky about showing it.

I have some live shows streaming at the Archive (http://www.theunionmaid.com/) now, thanks to Julia. I hope you will stop by, check them out, and leave some comments. =)

There is NO reason to go visit the site right now. Nope, nothing NEW or anything like that.






Please let me know if this nothing new thing is buggy for anyone.



;-)

P.S. Posts like this with multiple songs will stream more of the songs. The ones that don't sound like chipmunks.

The Archive has been updated to a WordPress blog. This means other fans can help maintain the Archive more easily now. If you are interested in helping out, leave me a comment with a valid email address.

Thanks!

Check out the new look: The Union Maid Archive

Hey all, in case you didn't know, CoRo are on MySpace now as well. Here's a link to their profile *crosses fingers hugely and hopes that works*.

They have "The New Union Maid" up there as one of the profile song feeds too, so I can surmise that if you throw that on as your profile song (or go to their profile, whichever), you'll always get your latest Union Maid fix! Sweet. :)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to theunionmaid!!! ;)

If you hadn't seen it at the forum, Darrell Wright had posted a video of photos from a show where his camera was on auto. It looks pretty cool, and I am putting it on the Archive so more people can see it. I added two songs to it so far because it is silent originally. Take a look and tell me what you think!

http://theunionmaid.com/

Still nameless ..so I had a go at getting the words down... because it deserves a title! Any gap-fillers/correcters/title choosers about? ;)


Kicking down the block
Singing with the smokes
It's only rock 'n' roll
But I love you so
Recognise the wind and the burning (end)
Heading in the back
for some showers again


Passing the fence
where the hole comes through
Our ... used it
to sneak out on the golf course
Abused all the same historical roles
and locked them in a tin
to save the total ...

The (grass) will mellow out to the human (core)
Scraping our (will) never gotten ...
The rain coming down
for the rest of the month
Keeping our noses
touching that (guitar)

Next year we'd all need new pairs
We'll sing you a mix
and how, depends on the stares
And all of the dances will be so different
but right then the beat was fully realised

ETA: I already changed my mind and edited the last verse!


based on that .....suppose can stop at the first line and save me the rest of the transcript just title it "Kicking Down The Block" ?
I also like "Different Dances" but then I'm slightly odd.

... seemed to be the thing to do, for a self confessed and incurable Union Maid ADDICT! So I will now be co-modding the community with roniabirk from here on in: Thanks for having me on board!

No! #416 still untitled? I have a compulsion to name - but this one has me stumped too .. I feel a few dozen listens coming up.. unless.....has anyone tagged it for their own records yet and can help me write something more appropriate, meaningful and worthy than "unionmaid290106" on my file?! *G*

Hey you guys! I am getting ready to take some time off from various LJ communities, and I think this one in particular could benefit from someone with more time to dedicate to it. With that in mind, would anyone care to join me as a Mod here? I'm looking for probably two people who are still active on the CR forum and going to shows, etc. Just leave a comment. They are screened, and hopefully I can let everyone know by the end of tomorrow, if not today.

THANKS!

P.S. A number of new songs have been posted this week. Be sure to check them out. =)

Common Rotation has some new show listings on their site for 2006 - even some not in CA or NY! *gasp*

Here you go:

Friday, January 27 2006
Ginkgo's Coffeehouse
21 N. Snelling Ave
St. Paul , MN 55104
All Ages


Sunday, January 29 2006
Uncommon Ground
3800 North Clark Street
Chicago, IL 60613
8:00PM
All Ages

Wednesday, February 1 2006
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
Phoneix Club on Campus
Green Bay, WI
8:00PM
18+

Friday, February 3 2006
The Rudyard Kipling
422 W. OakStreet
Louisville KY 40203
10:00PM
21+
With John Mann

Sunday, February 5 2006
359 Brevard Road
Asheville, NC 28896
Free
All Ages
5:00PM

Monday, February 6 2006
Eddie's Attic
515-B North McDonough St. (upstairs)
Decatur, GA 30030
404.377.4976
18+
8:00PM
W/ Fred Eaglesmith

Thursday, February 16 2006
Acoustic Cafe
2926 Fairfield Avenue
Bridgeport, CT
203.335.3655
All Ages
9:00PM
W/ Charlotte Kendrick, Red Rooster

Sunday, February 19 2006
Club Passim
47 Palmer St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
Winter Campfire Fundraiser
6:00PM

Friday, March 3 2006
The Hotel Cafe
1623 1/2 N. Cahuenga Blvd
Hollywood, CA 90028
10:00PM
21+
W/ Corn Mo

Just a note to share some statistics. Since moving the Union Maid Archive to a new host, this is the traffic the site has done:

Mar 08, 2005 to Oct 18, 2005 (223.40 days)

Successful requests: 181,915
Average successful requests per day: 814
Data transferred: 41.75 gigabytes
Average data transferred per day: 191.37 megabytes

From the old site:
Apr 21, 2004 to Mar 8, 2005 (~323 days)

Successful requests: 220,024
Average successful requests per day: 682 (rough estimate)
Data transferred: 30.91 gigabytes (rough estimate)
Average data transferred per day: 98.01 megabytes (rough estimate)

So it's safe to say the traffic isn't dying down. ;-)

Here is the last one:



=)

Not necessarily a Union Maid icon, but CR all the same. I will try to get Eric ones (1 down) made of his little goofs from the DVD trailer, too. It takes a little time to get them to fit LJ size. =)

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