"I dont think its a case of being better at an accent, or indeed being better at performing your national culture. Maybe you are being over-competitive in this area, part of the Australian in you, perhaps?" (Joseph)...who?...I just said: "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". And, as said here, while some Scots and Irish are, of course, performing the music of other nations, the percentages are nowhere near that of English folkies - whether or not you think that's a bad thing.
Stigweard - what I've heard from Bellowhead on radio is too heavy for me: I prefer the accompaniment of English folk songs to be light or non-existent; thus, I have, rather, enjoyed some of the "Songs" and "Tunes" of Spiers and Boden - despite having had cyber-arguments with one of them, also, on some of the above matters.