Which accent is this????

MIKE BURN · Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2004 8:03 pm Post subject: Which accent is this????

HAHA!

I just got a copy of a exotic FM-radio-feature! :eek

The question is, which accent is this?????

Too funny how far things go sometimes! LOL

MIKE

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RonOnGuitar · Joined: 08 Jan 2003 Posts: 1916

You mean the DJ, Mike?

Sounds a little bit Jamaican maybe?

MIKE BURN · Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2004 12:59 am Post subject: Re: Which accent is this????

Oh sh$$, the thread dies soon! LOL

YOU'RE RIGHT!

That's a surprising feature on FM radio in Kingston/Jamaica! LOL

Not in our/my wildest dreams I was thinking about this song being featured on Reggae radio! LOL

Seismic Anamoly · Joined: 22 Aug 2002 Posts: 3039

Very, Very, VERY Cool!!!

RonOnGuitar · Joined: 08 Jan 2003 Posts: 1916

Oooops - Sorry to end the mystery so quick, Mike.

But I think almost anybody would catch that accent anyway

Maybe the station's format includes more than just raggae.

But it must have been surprising for you to hear you and Kate getting FM airplay on a Carribean island!

I'd like to visit there sometime - it seems like a great island & fine people. And now they're playing Burn & Cassidy on their radio, too.

MIKE BURN · Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2004 1:45 am Post subject: Re: Which accent is this????

Seismo

Ron = The Terminator! LOL

And indeed... it's waaaaaaaaaay cool to hear us being

pronounced the Jamaican way! LOL

Seismic Anamoly · Joined: 22 Aug 2002 Posts: 3039

Visit??

Man, I want to LIVE there someday!!!!!!

The Beach, cutoffs, t-shirts, flip-flops, RUUUUUUMMMMMMM, and............................................................................................................................

Any of you other dudes wanna come along??!!!!!!!1

:aw

Edited by: Seismic Anamoly at: 12/19/04 8:19

Rory Kings · The man behind the curtain Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 64

AWESOME is the word,

What surprise to Hear Kate and Mike being played on Jamacain radio.

That is one place where we need to add to our "To Play gigs"

droolymutt · Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2004 3:20 pm Post subject: Re: Which accent is this????

Very cool, indeed....!

How on Earth did a radio station in Jamaica get hold of your song? From the internet?

And how did you find out they were playing it? Did they contact you directly?

I think you and Kate will have to start wearing your hair in dreadlocks now....

hahahaha... - Kudos, guys....

RonOnGuitar · Joined: 08 Jan 2003 Posts: 1916

Quote:
Ron = The Terminator!

"I'll be back", lol.

But you don't have to go very far, Mike, to be on a "tropical island"!

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Germans get taste of tropics an hour's drive from Berlin

Winter-weary Germans basked yesterday in 70F temperatures amid palm trees and sandy beaches - only an hour's drive from Berlin.

At dawn yesterday, thousands of people began flocking to a bulbous former airship hangar transformed into Europe's largest leisure resort.

As the wind howled outside and snow settled on the ground, they pitched their tents and watched a golden sunrise projected on to a 450ft long screen.

Designed by a British engineering company in Brand, south of the German capital, Tropical Islands is the latest brainchild of a Malaysian entrepreneur, Colin Au, 55, who made his money cruises and Asian resorts. He has invested £48 million in the project.

"I've done my research and I know how the Germans tick," said Mr Au, who sought the advice of the creators of the Eden Project in Cornwall.

"My resort means they hardly have to leave home, yet when they're here it's like being on a tropical cruise."

The project is based in a hall of five million cubic metres, the world's largest free-standing building. It is higher than the Statue of Liberty and could fit six football stadiums on two layers. It will be open around the clock.

There are 850 sun-loungers on its two beaches. Behind the beaches, speakers disguised as boulders will broadcast bird song appropriate to the time of year and day in the orchid-thick rainforest and Asian village.

When the sun is shining outside, visitors are promised, they will be able to work on their natural tans, thanks to the effect of the rays penetrating through the transparent roof and into the resort. Visitors, incongruously clad in sheepskin coats and clutching buckets and spades, tumble out of shuttle buses and into the dome.

"It is such a relief from the sad and grey winter weather," said Carmen Habermann, 38, a shopkeeper from Frankfurt an der Oder.

"It has South Pacific flair, yet is only an hour's drive away and at a time of economic uncertainty, it's a good holiday 'ersatz'."

As a welcome sliver of winter sun shone through the textile membrane roof, Helge and Willi Schumacher, 58 and 62, said they were delighted to have left the Christmas markets of Leipzig.

"This is a good chance to warm up our bones," they said, strolling barefoot over the sand.

The retired couple got up at 4.30am to travel to the resort where they paid £14 each for a four-hour stay. It is hoped that Tropical Islands will boost the local economy in the former communist east, where unemployment is around 20 per cent.

Already it has created about 800 jobs. And in Tropical Islands, gloomy thoughts are frowned upon.

The brochure says workers are trained to "use smiles to enthuse stressed and winter-wearied Europeans".

(Telegraph UK)