Scottish: other accents

Strongest Scottish accents in pop have to be those of 80s hitmakers The Proclaimers, from Leith, via Auchtermuchty, Edinburgh, Fife and other places. Older readers may remember their hit "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)", famously revived by defunct Spanish phone company Retevisión in the 1990s for an advertising campaign.



Here they are talking about their latest album (at the time).

Another singing Scot from the 80s is Stuart Adamson from Big Country. If you don't remember their hits "Fields of Fire", "In a Big Country" and.. er... they sounded a bit like bagpipes using guitars. Adamson grew up in Fife, though he was actually born a little further south... in Manchester. Which means he's not really Scottish at all.

Although his accent most certainly is.




With him is band-mate Mark Brzezicki who isn't Scottish either, but of Polish extraction and hailing from Slough - home of British Mars bars and comedy series The Office.

His accent isn't Scottish at all.

Not much chance of a Big Country reunion for 2010, sadly.

Scottish, Edinburgh

Author of Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh, is from Edinburgh.
Here he is at a Writers' Festival in Prague.



Another noted Edinburgh homeboy is Sean Connery.
Here he is interviewed on American TV.



Final Edinburgh luminary is former Celtic manager Gordon Strachan.
And here he is, before taking over at Middlesborough.

Scottish, Glasgow

Alan McGee , former boss of Creation records and the man who signed Oasis was born in Glasgow - here he discusses his origins in the music business.
Clip also features Jim Reid (from The Jesus & Mary Chain), another Glaswegian.

If you're interested, the next part of the interview is here.

Here's another Glaswegian mentioned in the last clip...

Yes. it's former JAMC drummer and subsequent Primal Scream frontman Bobby Gillespie, interviewed by a Dutchman.

WARNING: Contains strong language!

Moving away from music and onto football, one of the sport's most famous Glaswegians doesn't even play.

Veteran Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson, no less.
Interviewed by the Portuguese Pedro Pinto.