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Australian Voices on Irish Radio

  • 04-07-2017 9:54am
    #1
    zoobizoo
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    Has there been an increase in the number of Aussie voices on Irish radio recently?

    I'm sure I heard an Aussie accent on 2FM as well as on Nova and Spin....


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  • #2
    JoeA3
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    There is (or was) a newsreader on 4FM... possibly the same girl that appears on Nova. Nails on a chalkboard...


  • #3
    Wheety
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    JoeA3 wrote: »
    There is (or was) a newsreader on 4FM... possibly the same girl that appears on Nova. Nails on a chalkboard...

    Siobhan? I like her accent :)


  • #4
    [Deleted User]
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    Wheety wrote: »
    Siobhan? I like her accent :)

    She sounds like she is choke on something


  • #5
    coffeebean22
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    Wheety wrote: »
    Siobhan? I like her accent :)


    I get a lift to work in the mornings, and my God her voice is like nails on a chalkboard. I know you're thinking "just don't listen to Nova then" but it's not my car. Then on the way home she does be on the Rock Report... I can't escape it. I don't know what it is, it's the high pitched squeaky nasal tone.


  • #6
    Max Headroom
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    coffeebean22 wrote: »
    I get a lift to work in the mornings, and my God her voice is like nails on a chalkboard. I know you're thinking "just don't listen to Nova then" but it's not my car. Then on the way home she does be on the Rock Report... I can't escape it. I don't know what it is, it's the high pitched squeaky nasal tone.


    I think in Austrilia its the equivalent of a skanger voice....:P


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  • #7
    mr_edge_to_you
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,189 ✭✭✭mr_edge_to_you


    It's a scourge.

    I've noticed it too and I find it really annoying.


  • #8
    Realbhoy
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    Ive had the misfortune to be in the car the past few saturday mornings when 2fm comes on and this booming aussie accent assails me. Off it goes...Dreadful stuff outside of the accent as well


  • #9
    MikeyTaylor
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    Realbhoy wrote: »
    Ive had the misfortune to be in the car the past few saturday mornings when 2fm comes on and this booming aussie accent assails me. Off it goes...Dreadful stuff outside of the accent as well

    That would be Tara Stewart.


  • #10
    Atlantic Dawn
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    M


    Are they Australians or Irish people that spent a summer over there and their accent changed?


  • #11
    SEPT 23 1989
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    Like nails down a blackboard

    That accent does not suit the weather


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  • #12
    SEPT 23 1989
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    ,


  • #13
    Max Headroom
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    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    Are they Australians or Irish people that spent a summer over there and their accent changed?


    Like Carol Dooley you mean.....watched the Sex in the city box set and suddenly developed a yank accent....


  • #14
    colinod0806
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    MikeyTaylor wrote: »
    That would be Tara Stewart.

    I like Tara's accent , and her filthy laugh.


  • #15
    ford fiesta
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    there's an australian presenter on Spin1038 too


  • #16
    spoonerhead
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    The last few years I have noticed a few Aussies on radio stations the last few years!

    But who really cares?


  • #17
    yohan the great
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    spoonerhead wrote: »
    The last few years I have noticed a few Aussies on radio stations the last few years!

    But who really cares?

    When was it you started noticing this?


  • #18
    spoonerhead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 314 ✭✭spoonerhead


    yohan the great wrote: »
    When was it you started noticing this?

    The last few years!


  • #19
    Max Headroom
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    spoonerhead wrote: »
    The last few years I have noticed a few Aussies on radio stations the last few years!

    But who really cares?


    Probably the guys who cant get a job on radio because they dont have an aussie accent....


  • #20
    seachto7
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    How many Irish voices on Aussie radio?


  • #21
    MikeyTaylor
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    seachto7 wrote: »
    How many Irish voices on Aussie radio?

    Sorry I misread!

    There used to be a guy called Mark Taaffe on Radio Metro 1057 on the Gold Coast, he is from Dublin. He has also, back home, been on NRG, Radio Nova and, most recently, SPIN 1038 where he recently provided a 20 minute guest mix for Martin Guilfoyle's House Party.

    Irish comedian Dave Callan can regularly be heard on Triple J.


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  • #22
    Max Headroom
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    seachto7 wrote: »
    How many Irish voices on Aussie radio?


    Not as many as on Irish TV............:P


  • #23
    MikeyTaylor
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    There's also Mark who does the events guide on East Coast.


  • #24
    ButtersSuki
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    Commented on this in work recently. There's at least 1 male and 1 female presenter with Aussie accents on Spin; the newsreader on one other station (Nova I think), and at least 1 female on 2fm with an Aussie accent.

    I personally find it the most irritating accent in the world so find it really annoying. Not sure what's driving this shift either, it's not like they're better than the incumbents.


  • #25
    nice_guy80
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    seachto7 wrote: »
    How many Irish voices on Aussie radio?

    none

    they all failed the English language test needed for a visa


  • #26
    RayM
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    I find that a lot of Australians just can't say "no". At least not without including all the other vowels too.


  • #27
    MikeyTaylor
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    ButtersSuki wrote: »
    Commented on this in work recently. There's at least 1 male and 1 female presenter with Aussie accents on Spin; the newsreader on one other station (Nova I think), and at least 1 female on 2fm with an Aussie accent.

    I personally find it the most irritating accent in the world so find it really annoying. Not sure what's driving this shift either, it's not like they're better than the incumbents.
    Nick Karkazis, Sarina Bellissimo, Siobhain McDonnell and Tara Stewart respectively, if anyone''s interested.


  • #28
    Kori Calm Mutant
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    They cant be worse than Alison "I sound like Janice from Friends" Curtis now can they


  • #29
    stampydmonkey
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    Jason Better Barbell wrote: »
    They cant be worse than Alison "I sound like Janice from Friends" Curtis now can they

    Alison is lovely though. The Aussies are garish sh1te spewers, talking non stop trash in their horrible overbearing accents. Needless to say they get turned off.


  • #30
    Kori Calm Mutant
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    stampydmonkey wrote: »
    Alison is lovely though. The Aussies are garish sh1te spewers, talking non stop trash in their horrible overbearing accents. Needless to say they get turned off.

    She's a pain, with her seemingly only able to say that "I have a Child/Twitter account/53102"


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  • #31
    TallGlass
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    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    Are they Australians or Irish people that spent a summer over there and their accent changed?

    Summer of 69 from the sounds of it !


  • #32
    MikeyTaylor
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    MikeyTaylor wrote: »
    Sorry I misread!

    There used to be a guy called Mark Taaffe on Radio Metro 1057 on the Gold Coast, he is from Dublin. He has also, back home, been on NRG, Radio Nova and, most recently, SPIN 1038 where he recently provided a 20 minute guest mix for Martin Guilfoyle's House Party.

    Irish comedian Dave Callan can regularly be heard on Triple J.

    Ciaran Lyons is on Triple J as well, born in Dublin in 1996.


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