Peaky Blinders

[beesonthewhatnow]

A Brummie Broadwalk Empire

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peaky_Blinders

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/tv/peaky-blinders-tells-story-birmingham-5860846



Starts this Thursday and looks great

 

[mr steev]

I was going to say 'queue loads of terrible cliched accents', but after reading that mail article hopefully that won't be the case

 

[PandaCola]

Scarface meets When the Boat Comes in at the Crossroads motel

 

[Casually Red]

it sounds promising...brum crims, a massive shipload of arms being nicked in 1919, IRA and British communists vying with each other to get their hands on it, Winston Churchill sending in hardcore evangelical protestant and loyal Belfast cops with a license to kill to make sure neither do .
Sounds well good .

 

[Dr Nookie]

Dad bought me a book about the Peaky Blinders and loads of other Brum gangs for Christmas. Better get reading it I reckon! This does look really good, and while Cillian's accent doesn't sound quite right, it's a darn sight better than the abomination that was Barraaay from Auf Wiedersehen Pet!! Really looking forward to this and hoping it may bring about some Brum envy. Well, you never know!!

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

looks ace

 

[Maurice Picarda]

Steven "Dirty Pretty Things" Knight - good pedigree.

 

[Glitter]

My cousin's an extra in this!

 

[Limerick Red]

I very rarely watch tele, but the sister in law had east enders on last night, and the ad for this came on, it looks ace, deffo goin ta give it a gawk

 

[blossie33]

Dad bought me a book about the Peaky Blinders and loads of other Brum gangs for Christmas. Better get reading it I reckon! This does look really good, and while Cillian's accent doesn't sound quite right, it's a darn sight better than the abomination that was Barraaay from Auf Wiedersehen Pet!! Really looking forward to this and hoping it may bring about some Brum envy. Well, you never know!!

I got the Gangs of Birmingham book from the library to read - my goodness I never realised how lawless it was in the late 1800's I had heard of the Peaky Blinders before as my parents have mentioned hearing about them from their parents.

 

[kittyP]

That looks pretty good actually.
When does it start?

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

That looks pretty good actually.
When does it start?

Tonight

 

[kittyP]

Tonight

Will watch tomorrow on iplayer

 

[Onket]

Looking forward to this one.

 

[Spymaster]

There's a right old mish-mash of accents going on here.

 

[Onket]

Not much else to it at the moment. Quite disappointing.

 

[Part 2]

Missed the start, fella from our local has a reasonably big part I believe

The Brummie gangs book was written after the success of the Manchester book which is really good, incredibly well researched. It's a wonder someone hasn't done a Manchester guided tour in fact.

 

[aqua]

There's a right old mish-mash of accents going on here.

Isn't that the point though? Not only is it over 100 years ago but the accent people associate with birmingham doesn't actually exist. Also this period had massive increases in the Irish community of Birmingham

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Isn't that the point though? Not only is it over 100 years ago but the accent people associate with birmingham doesn't actually exist. Also this period had massive increases in the Irish community of Birmingham

This. Anyone surprised by the Irish tones in the show needs to hang around Digbeth or Erdington for 5 minutes

I enjoyed it, it looked fantastic and has setup a couple of plot lines that should keep things going

 

[Chick Webb]

What's not to like? It's pretty. There's commies and Brum accents. Good enough for me, says I.

 

[Plumdaff]

I enjoyed it. Helen Macrory is a bit too posh but otherwise they're doing far better approximations of genuine Brummie than you usually get, Sam O Neill's Ulster I think is excellent, the plots are intriguing and it looks amazing.

 

[Onket]

Lots of them sound almost scouse!

Anyway, will watch next week and see. Could be much better and I hope it picks up.

 

[Plumdaff]

Lots of them sound almost scouse!

Anyway, will watch next week and see. Could be much better and I hope it picks up.

Almost scouse is much closer to genuine Brummie than the usual comedy Slade imho.

 

[Espresso]

I enjoyed it. Helen Macrory is a bit too posh but otherwise they're doing far better approximations of genuine Brummie than you usually get, Sam O Neill's Ulster I think is excellent, the plots are intriguing and it looks amazing.

He was born in Northern Ireland. Though I see on Wiki that he left there when he was seven. So while he won't have a Northern Ireland accent in real life now, of course, it would be rather odd if he couldn't do a pretty passable one.

Edit - Now as I've said that, I'm doubting myself. His Dad was in the army, so he probably lived all over the place and might not have been in Northern Ireland for all of that time. Bugger. Disagreeing with my own point.
Bugger.

 

[Plumdaff]

He was born in Northern Ireland. Though I see on Wiki that he left there when he was seven. So while he won't have a Northern Ireland accent in real life now, of course, it would be rather odd if he couldn't do a pretty passable one.

I didn't know that. Still thought it was very good.

 

[Onket]

Almost scouse is much closer to genuine Brummie than the usual comedy Slade imho.

Sounds like they've not quite got the accents right and because not much happened it's easier to focus on that.

As I said- hope it picks up.

 

[discokermit]

apparently it was filmed on location. they spent millions improving the place.

 

[bi0boy]

apparently it was filmed on location. they spent millions improving the place.

Really? Most of the way through I kept thinking "this feels like actors in a studio".

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

apparently it was filmed on location. they spent millions improving the place.

Nice try, but most of the location stuff was shot in Liverpool.

 

[discokermit]