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.