Stigweard - Further to my last post, "I have Mire ri Moir, BBC Gaelic radio, on - it's mostly unaccompanied singing, some instrumentals, and the occasional combination of the two, and the quality is as good as anything I've heard. This is how I'd like folk radio to be in our country; and we should remember that at some folk clubs and festivals in England it is indeed like this - i.e., singing sessions, instrumental sessions (mostly folks playing just the tune), and occasionally combinging them"...one problem is that so many English folkies now prefer to perform other nations songs and tunes, at such events.
"Not so much of the Aussie accent, Woody - I've spent hours listening to Brendan Foster and Steve Cram calling athletics" (me)..."WAV, trust me - you sound as Australian now as you ever have." (IB)...I was being somewhat lighthearted there, but to be precise, I think I now have the mixed accent of an English repat; we seem to agree on Dick Van Dyke's "Cockney"; however, some American actors can do an English accent well, and vice verse...ever been to the Peoples' Theatre in Newcastle?
The rest of what you said is false and defamatory, again - you are confusing the questioning of immigration with racism; and I must therefore repeat that I do love the world being multicultural. Further, your constant insistence that I am Australian rather than English borders on the very thing you accuse me of...as well as being born here, I have lived here a total of 15 years now.
And to Volgadon as well - as suggested, I accept that some are better at accents than I, but it's good that, as a repatriate rather than a visitor, I've made an effort. Also, it's a fact that I started life with a northern English accent, having learnt to walk and talk in Manchester - see here if you wish.