This has popped into my inbox from The Pete Green Corporate Juggernaut:
“To celebrate our forthcoming appearance at the 2009 Indietracks festival, The Pete Green Corporate Juggernaut have just released our jaunty and highly popular train song ‘Hey Dr Beeching’ as an mp3 download. Woooo-wooooo!
The song features not only yer obligatory train noises and onomatopoeic drums but also samples of the notorious Dr Beeching himself, speaking in 1963 about his disastrous plans to ‘reshape’ Britain’s railway network (which basically meant closing huge sections of it down). The narrator of the song travels back in time on a magic steam train to assassinate Beeching, saving hundreds of stations and thousands of miles of track, for the pleasure and convenience of travellers back in the 21st century.
It’s free to download the song but we’re asking everyone who does to consider making a small donation to the Lincolnshire Wolds Railway – a small heritage line near where Pete grew up, on a section of the former main line closed as a result of the Beeching report.
We all think the song sounds chuffing ace (heh, geddit, chuffing? No? Never mind) so go to sparklemotion.co.uk/beeching to download your copy and donate to help turn back the Beeching Axe!”
All aboard!
