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[MIKE BURN]

Monstrous and cool article!



Hey.... $ 80 for the Fringe Club (non-members)?????

Wahhhhh.... that's a lot of money!



I think I go gigging in Hongkong!

MIKE


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[RonOnGuitar]

About English singers sounding American, Debbie; I've always thought, with some exceptions (e.g. Peter Noone, John Lennon) that it's odd how most Brits' accents "drop off" when they sing.

[HKRockChick]

Mike, nice try, but artists don't earn a pittance here. Unfortunately the F. Club is a charity, and pay their artists standard rates (you really dont want to hear what that is!!!) - no bar cut or take from the door. . We play there cause its a nice venue and has really great sound. Plus its a charity promoting the arts, so its a good cause! Plus of course, I like the folk there



Only the corporate/events/hotel gigs pay. I once did a gig bringing in the millenium and got nearly US$1.5k for the 3 hrs work ahahaha, but that was with the 9 piece dance band. Now I don't do events much cause I prefer the exposure of a public gig. We do some, but its a bit too intense - you have to show up hours before and hang around till the sound has been set up and do sound checks etc; basically you hang around for hours before you actually perform, and its a bit tiring when you're coming from work, or have work the next day. One time we did a gig in the children's swimming pool... yes, IN the pool ahahahaha

[RonOnGuitar]

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Hey.... $ 80 for the Fringe Club (non-members)?????

Wahhhhh.... that's a lot of money!

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I'm guessing that's HK$ (?) Mike, not USD.

[HKRockChick]

Funny things, accents. I have quite a recognisable indian accent, but it's not so obvious when I sing. And I speak with brit pronounciation, but when I sing, I use the american light "a" for words like "pass", "chance", "can't" etc.





Yet when I do choral stuff I use straight up brit pronounciation. I think the american style is more suited for casual pop/rock styles, and the brit is more "propah" and polite! I'd sound really prissy with my normal pronounciation doing rock ahahahahaha

[MIKE BURN]

Still $ 10 U.S.

[RonOnGuitar]

Also, Debbie, I think folks who are exposed more to a certain language can dedect the subtle and regional quirks "outsiders" would miss. Most Americans likely couldn't make much of a distinction between Cockney and BBC-proper. It's all British. Like Midwest Amer-English is different sounding from say, NY or Massachussett Amer-English, but non-Americans might not catch the distinction.



But the cool thing for Brits is that Americans usually think all Brit accents sound upperclass and sophisticated, hahahaha!!

[Rev9Volts]

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But the cool thing for Brits is that Americans usually think all Brit accents sound upperclass and sophisticated,

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with all due respect no one i know thinks a british accent is sophisticated once you get past the 16 year old school girls.



most think if the british really would pronouce their words peoperly they would sound like an american....

[Rev9Volts]

oh big congratulations hk that was very good!!!

[HKRockChick]

Thank you Rev, you , who is always innocent as a







I love accents of all kinds, it's quite fascinating to watch mouth movements. Its so funny, when Alan calls me I say his name like "Aah-lun" and he always asks, "debbie, why do you always say my name with that thick indian accent..."

[Rev9Volts]

haha! YOU SHOULD HEAR MINe oops dang caps key...



i am from mississippi but 1st through 11th grade we lived in north carolina so i sound like andy barny opie aunt bee gomer goober and otis. for those who never saw "the andy griffith show" think grand ole opry in nashville... my accent is more twangy than a telecaster through a silver face vintage delux reverb amp.

[HKRockChick]

Well, do you have a slow drawl??? How long would you take to say



"I'm a "







I speak very fast, but not as fast as most other Indians - have learned to slow down from living in HK. I knew someone who was from Atlanta (well, at least he worked in Atlanta!). I never knew WHEN he was going to finish anything, everytime I thought he was ending a sentence he would say another word - it took that long between words ahahahaha

[Rev9Volts]

atleast 5 seconds..



eye-yum a lee-yah-tul aye-yun-jul.



i know what you mean. my wife and i went to an indian restaurant saturday for luncf. the owner told us about the election in india. he had to repeat it about 6 times before i figured out what he was saying.



he had a good american vocabulary but a thick accent...although up here in washington area these yankees act like i have a foreign accent also...

[RonOnGuitar]

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with all due respect no one i know thinks a british accent is sophisticated

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Well, Rev, with all due respect backatcha, I think you may have made my point for me!

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i am from mississippi but 1st through 11th grade we lived in north carolina so i sound like andy barny opie aunt bee gomer goober and otis

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When folks hear someone talk real south, images of "Deliverance" and the sounds of "Dueling Banjos" often come to mind. It's the opposite of the "Brit sophistication effect".



Of course there are regional southern accents; Deep South, Appalachian and Texas are all distinctive to the ear.



The Carter Family, with Mother Maybelle, sounds quite Appalachian to me - perhaps because they were originally from Virginia. Mother Maybelle was one of my first guitar heroes. Link to low quality wav of her & the family doing their classic version of Wildwood Flower circa 1930.

[Rev9Volts]

no doubt i have heard my share of squeel like a pig jokes just pretty much everyone i know who met a brit thought they were a bunch of snobs who thought they were better and smarter than americans.



well except for mick and keef...



if there is one family americans disdain is the royal family... a bunch of freeloaders sucking tax dollars off the british people... who do nothing except be a tourist attraction.