The Beeching Report

Played At These Gigs:

Gig Date	Gig Venue	Position	Extra
3 May 2006	Barfly (Cardiff, Wales)	8	1st Encore, 1st Encore Opener, 1st Encore Closer
3 June 2006	Le Cafe de la Danse (Paris, France)	9	With Redjetson, 1st Encore, 1st Encore Opener, 1st Encore Closer
27 September 2006	Rotown (Rotterdam, Holland)	9	1st Encore, 1st Encore Opener, 1st Encore Closer
3 October 2006	Unknown radio station (Brussels, Belgium)	2	--
5 October 2006	B72 (Vienna, Austria)	9	--
12 October 2006	Le Glaz'Art (Paris, France)	9	1st Encore, 1st Encore Opener, 1st Encore Closer
14 October 2006	Junktion 7 (Nottingham, England)	9	1st Encore, 1st Encore Opener, 1st Encore Closer
15 October 2006	Fibbers (York, England)	8	1st Encore, 1st Encore Opener, 1st Encore Closer
19 October 2006	Barfly (Birmingham, England)	8	1st Encore, 1st Encore Opener, 1st Encore Closer
20 October 2006	Barfly (Glasgow, Scotland)	8	With The Early Years, 1st Encore, 1st Encore Opener, 1st Encore Closer
22 October 2006	Brudenell Social Club (Leeds, England)	8	With Choir, 1st Encore, 1st Encore Opener, 1st Encore Closer
29 October 2006	Night and Day (Manchester, England)	8	1st Encore, 1st Encore Opener, 1st Encore Closer
28 March 2007	Cockpit (Leeds, England)	10	1st Encore, 1st Encore Closer
29 March 2007	Dingwalls (Camden, England)	10	1st Encore, 1st Encore Closer

Appears on these Releases:

Release Date	Release Name	Version	Position	Extra
17 October 2005	A Rook House for Bobby	British, Single, Limited, 7"	2	With The iLiKETRAiNS Choir
01 January 2006	The Indictment	British, Collection, Special, MP3	7	--
27 February 2006	Dance To The Radio - What We All Want	British, Compilation, Regular, CD	14	--
26 June 2006	Progress Reform	British, EP, Regular, CD	7	--

Song Stats:

Appears on	4 releases
Played at	14 gigs
Opened the set	0 times
Earliest set appearance	2
Latest set appearance	10
Average set appearance	8
Most common set appearance	8
Chance of being played live	9.46%

Appeared in the 1st encore	12 times
Opened the 1st encore	10 times
Closed the 1st encore	12 times
Appeared in the 2nd encore	0 times
Opened the 2nd encore	0 times
Closed the 2nd encore	0 times
Appeared in the 3rd encore	0 times
Opened the 3rd encore	0 times
Closed the 3rd encore	0 times

Lyrics:

is this the price we pay for progress?
Taking 1 step forward, for every 6 we take back
Does your dirty oil stained money make you happy?
Do you just want to be remembered
Book your place in history
you will be

Reform Reform
Oh you are taking apart, what we made with our hands and our hearts
our hands and our hearts are not just tools to ply your trade
there ours to live our life and you're taking them away
so feel free to wrap your hands around my neck
feel free to do the same
feel free to wrap your hands around our necks
feel free to do the same

REFORM REFORM
OH YOU ARE TAKING APART
WHAT WE MADE WITH OUR HANDS AND OUR HEARTS

Mr Beeching i put it to you
You're driving a stake straight through
The heart of this green and pleasant land
Further to this
There's nothing we'd rather do
than to run said stake into your chest

REFORM REFORM
OH YOU ARE TAKING APART
WHAT WE MADE WITH OUT HANDS AND OUR HEARTS

Information:

"THE BEECHiNG REPORT is a song with themes centred around the reform's of the British transport network by one Dr Richard Beeching. Beeching's 1962 paper "The Reshaping of British Railways" concluded that the railways were "being used in ways which emphasise their disadvantages and fail to exploit their advantages".
He proposed a 15 step plan to better exploit the railways and elminate the railway deficit by 1970.
The effect of Beeching's report cost 200,000 jobs and saw the amount of train miles around the country reduced from 335,000,000 to 250,000,000

For more information and a online copy of his controversial paper visit: www.beechingreport.info