Accents with extra local flavour.

Juliet Turner is one of my favourite artists. Her enriched-with-extra-local-flavour accent was a bone of contention with my wife who hated her Omagh-tone and banned her from the house. See how that turned out (though obviously it wasn’t because of that). I’ve seen her live once and would do so again. I remember sitting in … Continue reading “Accents with extra local flavour.”

Juliet Turner is one of my favourite artists. Her enriched-with-extra-local-flavour accent was a bone of contention with my wife who hated her Omagh-tone and banned her from the house. See how that turned out (though obviously it wasn’t because of that). I’ve seen her live once and would do so again. I remember sitting in the residents lounge of a hotel after a post-Y2K celebration dinner and singing Juliet Turner songs with a complete stranger. It was like a secret we shared and while we sang, no-one else even spoke (which considering the amount of beer they had consumed that night at the free bar, was extremely surprising). Belfast Central was one of the songs we worked well with, because it’s a duet, another was the Tom Waits classic, “I hope that I don’t fall in love” which she duetted with Brian Kennedy. I think I’d like to hear her sing “She moves thru the fair” which was done really well by All About Eve about a hundred years ago in 1988.

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