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Yeahhhh was gonna make a thread this morning, but I thought I'd show some mercy If you are alright with it, who did you vote for?

Sorry, tho. Srsly

The essex accent is genuinely awful.

This video on English accents nails it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyyT2jmVPAk

Not cringy, and quite helpful. They call your "Oxford", and my "Queen's English" "Received pronunciation" btw

You'd want to go to somewhere within one of the "home counties" - Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Dorset, Essex, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Kent, Middlesex, Oxfordshire, Surrey, or Sussex. Avoid Essex like the plague though...

Sounding good Jim. I can't sing for shit, with my inconsistent teenage vocals chords, so I can't help you there particularly. I saw you reused the lyrics to that song we were trying to write here, but I reckon you should save those for some earnest acoustic thing, and brainstorm some more for this; for me at least, they don't particularly seem to fit.

I'll take a listen to the actual music more in depth later, and see what I have to comment; I've got a few hours to kill.

*Btw in England we'd probably just call it "Proper English", or "The Queen's English", as opposed to "Oxford" - or it might just be "A posh accent".

Okay then, a few areas to note:

*Both EW, and PK grew up in sort of wealthy, middle class families, with well educated parents, doing good jobs.

*PK grew up in Surrey which is one of the most affluent counties in the country, and the sort of area where you would typically find that well spoken southern accent. EW moved to Oxford, also a very affluent area, at the age of five, where she will have, again, been around people with who spoke with that very proper manner. Before living in Oxford EW lived in France where her only English speaking influences would have been her well spoken parents.

*Both went through the private education system (Idk if you know what that is, because it might be different in the US, but in short its just schools you pay money to go to), and will have been continued to dvelop that manner of speaking through mixing with other well spoken children.

Accent isn't necessarily regional, but it location can have a slight effect. I live in the north, and you notice its more about affluence within a certain city that has a larger effect. For example I go to school on a rougher side of town, and the kids there speak with a much heavier accent to, my friends who I hang around with who live closer to me, in a slightly more middle class zone, who have just very regular accents, though none quite like Penelope's. But then you have to look at there background's as well, and the you look at here the parents are from, what school they're at, where they've lived...

There are some places, like maybe Liverpool, or Newcastle, where the accent is often upheld through nearly every class, though it will get deeper as it gets further into the working class areas.

What in the living f*ck is that? Some niche American cartoon?

Just to clarify, can you give an example of a person with the exact accent you like?

Yeah, just to make sure, I don't disclose much if anything online: as far as I'm aware at this point y'all know my name, and maybe the city where I live, but I'm not stressing over that at all really.

Nah, I'm not big on it. There first few albums were good, back when they used to have a lot of clever, and intertwining melodies, and interesting songwriting, now we just have generic post rock songs, with the occasional bit of shitty orchestration, or electronics, and a heavy focus on noise.

I decided just to take it to this guitar shop, in the city, that specialises in fixing technical stuff (Because I don't trust myself not to f*ck everything up), and they worked out what to do pretty quick, and fixed it up. The beauty of guitars is there simplicity, sometimes.

Obviously.

As a matter of fact I'm currently typing this while being held in Hull, in the basement of a 34 yr old bass player, having to listen to St Anger on loop, while he perpetually fills my ears with carrot peelings, and the kinks you cut off when you change a string. Everyday life here in the 'ol UK.

Jokes aside though, it didn't take me long to realise that most likely none of you EB guys are creeps (You can never be 100 percent sure, though ey ; ) ), but sometimes your better safe than sorry.

I don't play video games as such, but people seem to still do it there, however ironically. Also social media account names...

Also I saw Explosions in the sky last night, thought you might be interested. It was a great performance, incredibly atmospheric. They mostly played stuff from "The Wilderness", and I started to get stressed they wouldn't play any stuff from "the earth is not a cold dead place", but they saved those for the last two, which was a brilliant way to end, if not slightly ruined by the yobs yelling there way along to "Your hand in mine". I would genuinely pay to watch just a straight run through of that album, its so good.

The support act was an odd combination of weird, and just a bit shit: he was a guy playing a right handed guitar left handed, so it was all back to front, and all of his songs, bar the final one, sounded exactly the same, just sort of crap, whimsical, faux-poetic protest song, with a vaguely latinesque guitar part in the background, which was essentially the same for every song, with little variation.

Then for his final act, he put down his guitar, asked if anybody knew the city of Baltimore, to which he received only sarcastic comments about if he knew various parts of West Yorkshire, then attached some bells to his wrist, and sang a really f*cking awful song, which was just totally disjointed, and sounded as if it had been written by a four year old, anti-vietnam protester, with the only instrumentation being him shaking his wrist in a violent arrhythmic fashion and stamping his foot a bit.

I'll see what I can do, when I get home, but being the absolute gangster I am, I have a 20 minute detention after school...

Also my name is Josiah, or Joe/Jos for short. If y'all want to can use that as opposed to my cringy screen name; I've been on EB for ages, and back when I set it up, I actually played ukulele, and ran a youtube channel, and soundcloud of the same name, as well as being afraid of saying my real name -In case I would be "abducted". It's sort of stuck though, and I can only change it once, so I might as well leave it.

Around the start of the summer I decided to go over some of the modern classic math stuff, that everybody raved about, and see if there was some stuff that was new - As in Piglet, Rooftops, Clever Girl, Totorro, Vasudeva, etc. Totorro really stood out to me, they're very recognisable in comparison to other groups of the genre, and I do think they're very good: creative melodies, in interesting time signatures, yet still retaining a bouncy fun sound.

Also if I'm perfectly honest, I cheated on EB while I was gone.....with a number of facebook groups, and the IDMf. I tend to get a bit annoyed with reddit, very little happens (Though it does a bit more on /r/Postrock), and my posts never show up.

Shame. I thought you were in Illinois for some reason, idk why.

Hey boom, There is an array of accents across England, you just sort of pick them up from where you live, and the people you're around, like any accent tbh, you can't teach an accent, or nnot legally in schools anyway. Accents get stronger as you go more into working class areas generally, as they are mostly populated by people who've been there for generations. Personally, I live in South Yorkshire, so I'd be expected to have a strong, quite broad colloquial Sheff. accent, but as it is even though I've lived in rough parts, my parents both speak cleanly (My Dad is from Bristol in the south, but thankfully instead of picking up the awful Bristol/West country accent,which you probably haven't heard of, but is incredibly annoying, just sounds what English people would call "Southern", which is basically just a natural voice. My Mum is from St Helens near Liverpool, and about half an hour away from Liam, but has lost her St Helens accent which is like a more broad Scouse, because of her time at a middle class education system from the age of 13. )

So yeah its regional, and there's a lot more than people think: You have the obvious ones, which break down further into different subvariations.

Scouse: Liverpool basically. Sounds awful. Example could be Steven Gerrard

Geordie: Newcastle. Pretty bad. Cheryl Cole.

Manchester: Fairly nasal. Generally nasty.

Birmingham. Again fairly nasty.

Yorkshire: Broad. Lot of variations. Countless examples

West Country: Tractor speak. Bit like pirate accent. Irritating. Variations

Welsh: Poetic. Bit annoying

Scottish: Obvious. Quite nice

Thats just a very brief list...

Shit, I'm sorry to hear that, I know you didn't exactly hold her in high regards, but it must still've been a shock. Did you find her, or did her fellow junkies pull her out? Must've been a fucker to tell the poor lad, but you seem to have done well.

7.23 now

My jazzmaster is lying in bits on the floor

ahh

I mostly end up using EB at school in the morning before the ruthless torrents of education engulf, but then school broke up for summer so I didn't really use the forum much. I wasn't around PCs a lot either. Then halfway through summer my desktop corrupted itself, so I had to get a mate to fix it, which took a while.

In terms of gear additions, after two months the pedal I won from TC arrived, which is actually a pretty cool little thing, and can shift from incredibly usable to insane, I'll review it at some point. I also got an RG7421 por mi cumpleanos, which is proving very good so far. I'd like to put some of the Dimarzio Ionizers in it, but I don't have £160 to spend on pickups, to replace a decent regular set. I'm digging the 7th string as well, it just opens up a load of possibilities from slap, extended chords, djent (if needed), and more, and its good to have a guitar with a comfortable neck profile (IMO), and humbuckers (They split as well which is cool), for playing a different style of stuff really. I was going to get an 8, but I went on a guitar shop pilgrimage to manchester, and played a lot of guitars, realised I prefered 7s, then went back home and bought one there. I have also been graciously lent a boss me-20b, and a shitty nylon string with 4 strings...

I've listened to so much stuff over the summer I can't describe it really, but in short: I've really got in sort of underground electronic music (I.E IDM, Ambient Techno, Breakcore, Dill n Bass, etc) through artists like Aphex, and boards of canada; I listened to shitloads more math which is always good, particularly nearing the end of the summer Don Cab, Tortoise,etc just for a different cliche free flavour; I also listened to a lot of proggy instrumental metal, mostly animals as leaders, who are my,main extended range influence.

In terms of live music, I think I managed 16 bands in 15 days over 3 events: I GOT TO ARCTANGENT, which was really, really, really sick, and I saw a tonne of amazing bands, then I saw Vasudeva, Totorro, and Alright the captain out in Nottingham, which was pretty mind blowing, and then I went to a really underground gig back home, in a tiny record label, with Alpha Male Tea Party headlining, and 5 other bands playing as well.

I wrote a fair deal of bits of songs, full songs, and riffs, and licks over the summer as well, though I've only released electronic stuff as per usual, coz I always feel self conscious about other stuff, and I don't want to release it til I'm fully satisfied.

Gtg and have tea. Write more later

Update: I found a loose connection, but I have no idea where to resolder, so I'll put up a pic on my gear porn and see if somebody can guide me, or I'll take it in to school tomorrow, and get some advice there.

Yeah sorry, I've not been around the forum for ages, partially because my PC committed suicide and was dead for a month. I'll do a big update thread, or whatever in a bit. But I'mm thinking I'll come back.

Obviously Liam had a kid, so he's probably doing his bit in raising her. How's Lucian btw?

Narcy said you had an England querie?

Is the forum literally just you three, and me however intermittently? It was hotting up for a while then it sot of died down

In my Jazzmaster, the bridge pickup has recently dropped in output by a large amount. I don't have any idea why, but I know the problem is with the guitar as opposed to cables, etc.

Any ideas?

Okay, I'm gonna redo this. Sorry to np, but since I listened to a tonne of electronic stuff this summer I thought I should.

Boards of Canda - Music has the right to children

Boards of Canda - Geogaddi

Aphex Twin - Drukqs

Aphex Twin - Both the SAWs

Three trapped tigers - route one or die

Mogwai - Rave Tapes

Brian Eno - Music for airports

Daft Punk- RAM

Kraftwerk - Autobahn

Squarepusher - Hello everything

Autechre -

Such a sick group. It took me a while to join the dots with Ben, and I admit I'm pretty envious that he can make such awesome music, and guitar amps. I think I heard of them through Russian Circles, both the amps, and the group themselves.

I agree, but she also mentioned that she ate nachos, with broccoli, which is just about the most depressing topping I can think of.

There's a band on in about 1hr 15mins, who I haven't heard of, but I'll probably stick it on. The comments were nothing inspirational, we discussed Russian Circles, how shit 2016 has been apart from Music, and watched it dawn on everybody who Ben Verellen was.

Well I'm watching Helms Alee right now, since its being streamed on YT

Entered a competition in a guitar magazine, and won the star letter. "Toneprint Range" is a bit vague, it might just b standard, and mini pedals, as opposed to x4 size bits, but I'm probably gonna go for the T2 reverb. Or depending on when my offer or whatever runs out I may wait until they release the mystic HOF X4

I just started getting into Aphex Twin, Drukqs is a masterpiece.

Ac30

I sold it

Well since I bought the machine, I was wondering if there was a way I could run it through my tube amp, for the simplicity of it. I take it the machine would not be too nice to my speaker though, and would wear down my tubes quicker than usual?

Well whaddaya know, after spending weeks nervously hovering over EB deciding on whether to buy a 2nd hand potentially faulted sr16, me and my family were round at a friends house (He himself has some nice stuff, a rare Gibson ES he bought for £4k, a Gibson acoustic he just bought last week for £7k, and a 1974 goldtop, he bought in 1974. Damn rich people), and I saw on the side an sr16, he was going to list, and asked if he'd sell it to me, and so I think my quest is over.

I'm not necessarily meaning competition ti would just be cool to see what people produce

I thought it might be interesting to see how everyone plays/writes, if we recorded, or videoed a riff, posted at somewhere, and put a link here, just to see what people come up with. I know some of us have soundcloud, or youtube. Any thoughts?

I don't have immediate plans, but I've settled on when I do get another 6 string it'll be this: http://www.dawsons.co.uk/farida-ct-36-electric-guitar-see-through-red

I played one in a store, and it seemed to live up to its alleged versatility, and playability. Having two coil taps really means that you can get pretty much anything, bar some strat stuff, namely middle pup Clapton tones. The neck's pretty nice, yeah its bolt on, but I don't quite have the funds for a GOOD guitar, with a set neck, and it wasn't bad anyway. Plus its aestheticaly pleasing, and the guy from ASIWYFA uses it here, so it must be okay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTl3QJun2TE

Is this my news feed, or EB?

Anytime

Poor woman

I don't want to say to much, but at this point it must be little more than a raisin

I haven't heard of him, was he in slayer, or anthrax ,or something. He seems a bit crap...

My favourite Monty Python excerpt, the Holy Grail is amazing!

Now I'm off to conquer the smallest guitar forum on the internet with a herring

Sure I'll give them an email,thanks