This where I live now, Firhill in Glasgow. The home of Partick Thistle football club. The club is based just to the left of that shot at the end of the street in the foreground (my street) The view is across Glasgow’s west end area, in the distance on the right you can see the “armadillo” shaped hulk of the Glasgow Clyde Auditorium, part of the SECC complex.

Here’s mine, Paisley near Glasgow. This is the centre of the town known as Paisley Cross. From Paisley Cross you can catch a bus to Glasgow Airport in around 8 mins. You could walk to Glasgow Airport in about 20 mins. Needless to say Glasgow Airport is really Paisley Airport (lol)

Ah.. now I’ve seen it on the news it makes more sennse.

He was a policeman, killed in duty, she was going to marry him anyway. They have a child on the way. Legally it benefits the child to have access to his father’s estate. She wants to legally bear his surname etc. Her mother was in tears of grief and the woman became a widow the moment the ceremony was performed.

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Originally posted by Flood
I bow to your knowledge…I watched the show on and off many years ago and just recall the apparent irony of a man with an Irish surname (Doolan or something?) playing a man with a Scottish accent and being imitated incessently by stupid English imitators (“Its the ingins, cap’in, they can no tek it…”), badly. That and something I saw, maybe in the eighties, which was about Irish Whiskey (Bushmills?) and showed him, amongst others, doing stuff (drinking it, looking at the history of it, comparisons with Scotch, that sort of thing – I think).
Anyway, his isn’t a Canadian accent!

I shall stop digging now.

Flood.

If you think that was bad, cast your mind back to the film Highlander. Christopher Lambert, a Frenchman played a Scottish highlander, along side Sean Connery, a Scot who played a Portuguese fellow using precisley the same accent he tried to pass off as New York/Irish in The Untouchables !

Originally posted by Flood
Well, contrary to what some of you might think, I live here…

– That blue and white thing in the distance…
What about you?

Flood.

What… Burbank Studios LA ?

Originally posted by Sauron
It seems to me that, some quite strong U.K.accents almost disappear when people sing. There are exceptions to be sure.

That’s a very valid and interesting point. People over here in Scotland are often accused of mimicking an American style of accent when they sing. I don’t know if it’s actually mimickery or by default. If you look at the influence that Scottish/Irish folk music had on the formative years of US folk music, and by that I mean the rootsy bluegrass, appallachian, country style stuff, then it’s easy to see a connection.

I often wonder if our vocal similarities are more connected musically than verbally ? It’s bound to be the case and I think it’s probably been proven. Go back to the days of the Highland clearances in Scotland, go back to the days of mass famine in Ireland. You are looking at era’s in the respective histories of these cultures when song was not just a form of entertaiment, but a form of vital social and emotional expression.

When the Scots were forced onto boats to the “new world” as were the Irish, they took those vocal tendencies with them and intoduced them to Canada and America. So when I find myself in the situation of being at the same time amongst Irish, Scots, Canadians and Americans (which does happen) I often find myself wondering who exactly comes from where ?

My personal family experience is of one that’s part Irish and part Scottish. As a child, I used to be packed off to Donegal with my brother during the school holidays to spend the summer with the grandparents. After a week or so running round with my cousins, we’d adopt Irish accents and on the alternative summers where my cousins would come to Scotland a similar thing happened.

It’s a funny old game.

:rolleyes: