Larsen B

Why are those turning up at midnight idiots? Because they miss the live music?

In my experience it just encourages a more anglified pronounciation of words in order to speak "proper english", and doric was also out of bounds for me at least. Also I think middle class areas tend to have a higher concentration of people from different areas of the UK and so you don't pick up the local accent so well and instead develop a more non-descript accent (as opposed to, in my case, a cross-breed of weegie and Norfolk).

Also, is there a certain time by which I have to buy ticket on ticketweb?

I didn't mean literally all! Nor is it a massive problem for me, I'm just summing up one of the main thrusts of argument in this thread.

The danger in Scotland seems to be that everyone does sound the same, because there's a tendency for all "Scottish" accents to sound Glaswegian when sung.

The Stornoway Way is good, although I had to swallow my pride in taking a book recommendation from the sister in reading it. Funnily enough when I read it it reminded me strongly of Morvern Callar.

He's right you know. I'd say myself and the majority of my close friends are lacking in an accent that can readily be identified with the north-east because our middle-class upbringing discourages it. I don't think there's any kind of singing equivalent of it, so whether I was to sing in a stronger regional accent or one of these more "generic" voices it makes little difference to the authenticity of the voice.

OK, if I come I'll get my ticket from ticketweb. Thanks for the other offer though, very kind. Do I get a refund if you don't smile though?

I'm in the same boat, but going into town to get an advanced ticket would set me back about a fiver in bus fares.

Robson and Jerome - Up On the Roof

Best of album of the year? Clue: the correct answer is "yes!"

I used to be a stickler for people singing in their own accent a few years back, mostly due to disgust at the typical american accent used by so many, but now I don't think there's any such thing as a "natural singing voice". Not by the time anyone has reached adolescence anyway.

What hell counts as regular!? We almost certainly need more people like Spit Dis: YouTube - Spit Dis - Morgue City Edit: wait there's more http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHhSFlucWrw&feature=related

My favourite Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds album.

1. Andreas Johnson 9. Shampoo 13. The Mavericks

Cast - Mother Nature Calls Doesn't even have comic value!

Get them added then!

Ambitious idea, Word Magazine: Album Covers Map I believe our nearest one is Universal Hall by the Waterboys, being uppit road in Findhorn.

In order of preference: 1. Wild Beasts - Limbo, Panto 2. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig Lazarus, Dig! 3. M83 - Saturdays=Youth 4. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes 5. Beach House - Devotion Biggest disappointments have been British Sea Power and Magnetic Fields, but they were both ok at least.

If they're the banding I'm thinking of I'm at least intrigued.

Foul language is also prohibited.

You dah man!! Now you can call them Australian Hall of Fame inductees The Triffids though.

No, single word answers ye prat! There's also no point in replying to a song which you yourself put in.

Matt Berringer is sounding very croaky from the evidence.

Yes, if you want to tally up all your points (and everyone else's) feel free. That's me being self-appointed Gamesmaster again. The Triffids - Hometown Farewell Kiss