"Northerners and midlanders pronounce cup differently from southerners"

I'll borrow that brush to clean my yard. East midlanders and west midlanders speak differently from one another. Even within the a small area vowel intonation is different, a Birmingham dweller typically has a long 'south eastern' a, down the road in Wolverhampton, a short northern a is the norm.

Universal rock is closer to northern english than southern.