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Beth in bars/TV/radio
Topic Started: May 25 2006, 09:00 PM (3,540 Views)
Drew
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(She might have started off in rural Norfolk, but she's really become a Londoner


NO! She's a Norfolk girl through and through. As are her brother's. One of which I know very well.

Well, quite well anyway

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I stand corrected! I thought I could hear London all over that 'fucking jukebox' riposte. But what do I know? I might have grown up in London, but I left before Beth was even born!

(When I come up to London these days I feel like a country bumpkin from Devon - for a day or two - but I soon start to feel like a Londoner again. Then I come back home & I'm the city slicker & it's all the rest who are soporific Devon dumplings!)


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Drew
Jun 5 2006, 01:11 AM
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(She might have started off in rural Norfolk, but she's really become a Londoner


NO! She's a Norfolk girl through and through. As are her brother's. One of which I know very well.

Well, quite well anyway

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A or R? ;)
Went to the JobCentre today, and the Army were there going "Be the Best" ... now T-Mobile just told me I didn't have the qualifications to sell phones, Microsoft said I didn't have the qualifications to answer the phones, and the Army want to let me loose with a machine gun?
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Ali
Jun 5 2006, 01:25 AM
I stand corrected! I thought I could hear London all over that 'fucking jukebox' riposte. But what do I know? I might have grown up in London, but I left before Beth was even born!

(When I come up to London these days I feel like a country bumpkin from Devon - for a day or two - but I soon start to feel like a Londoner again. Then I come back home & I'm the city slicker & it's all the rest who are soporific Devon dumplings!)

It's your accent, I have to hear :P Devon & London, and the Scottish surname, and the other blood (was it Maltese, or Portuegese, or something) .... interesting stuff!

Mine is fairly fucked up through being Welsh, then living with posh people from all over the place (and too much beer, mmm gravelly), then Mancs (r'kid), and then back to Wales.

fecking mongrel language, I talk.
Went to the JobCentre today, and the Army were there going "Be the Best" ... now T-Mobile just told me I didn't have the qualifications to sell phones, Microsoft said I didn't have the qualifications to answer the phones, and the Army want to let me loose with a machine gun?
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It's your accent, I have to hear  Devon & London, and the Scottish surname, and the other blood (was it Maltese, or Portuegese, or something) .... interesting stuff!


My mum was Austrian, and my dad half Scottish / half English . . . not unlike Bert Jansch, with his Austrian father and Scottish mother. You might detect those heritages in my sensibilities and character, but you won't hear any of it in my accent - which is gentle / polite / English public school.

But after more than thirty years in Devon now, it becomes second nature to slip into the local dialect, which is very attractive and expressive!

Proper job!!


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I swear you said Portuguese :P I'm gonna hunt down my emails now :P

The Bristol/ South West accent grates on me like a chill through the spine. G/f in uni had one, and I hated it, and my Grandfather had a mashed up Cornish/South Wales accent .... eurgh!

This is now so far off topic ... we already have a thread about this, I'll try to find them and merge them. It was the one where Rob wanted to record our voices and pass them around on cassette :P
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I swear you said Portuguese  I'm gonna hunt down my emails now


I think I'd probably remember if I was a Portugeezer! :D


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Bugger, I can't find it now ... but it turned up some interesting things I had forgotten about the Manics (for some reason), and MacOS9 :P

Ade

Sure you just hadn't forgotten?

I am sure your nationality was down into 16th's at one point :P
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Present day Austria was part of the much larger Austro-Hungarian Empire in the time of my grandparents, so I may have mentioned Hungary and/or Czechoslovakia. Also, my mum's family were 100% Jewish. But no Portugal or Malta that I'm aware of! My dad's mum's family came from Lancashire, and the Scots 25% is the extreme northern Highlands, which were colonised big-time by the Vikings. So that's probably where the horns come from! :horny:

But just to really confuse you . . . I think of all human beings as more-or-less-lost Africans, 'cos that's where we all came from originally, and indeed, from about the age of fourteen (psychologically speaking) I have felt like a black man in a white skin.

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Ahh, now I found it ... nothing to do with you, you just happened to mention the headline/sub-headline act of Cambridge 2004 were Mariza, from PORTUGAL :D



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Ah yes!

Mariza is of course a portu-gal, and not a portu-geezer! :P

(Although, she was actually born in Mozambique in south-east Africa, previously a Portuguese colony.)

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I know a guy who is a hillbilly from Tennessee. His two daughters married Polish fellas, and now his grandkids are a bunch of Polebillies. :D
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this thread is insane :D i work in a biker bar i put all sorts of wierd shit on the jukebox and punters don't mind. mazzy star, nick cave, pj harvey and so on it's a really good jukebox it needs some beth and jeff buckley though
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You've got the pulling power
Walk my little doggy
Walk my little sex dwarf
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Congrats, good doctor, for getting us back on track!
I'd completely forgotten what the thread was! :D

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We're not actually on topic though (blame Sugarboy, cos it's easy :P)....

the question is, strange places where you have heard Beth
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