oh, how could I forget trainspotting. :o
Thanks for the movie hint Ride with the devil, is that a good movie? I don't bother with accents anyway, I am not an English native, can't distinguish between differents accents in English.
I am bit wondering about this accents thing, often people mean when they say "this is bad acting", that they had the wrong accent. But this is only a part of the whole acting, isn't it?

I can believe that he sings the song himself. The Irish are so musical. I will never forget that Irish guy, who sang us a song with his squeezebox one morning, just because he heard my other colleagues were from Germany, and all we wanted were to buy postcards. :D John Rhys-myers is Irish, isn't he??

About Velvet Goldmine: I do have some questions: who is
Jack Fairy? His names appeared several times, and I was not sure what role he was playing in the life of Brian. I had other questions, but now I forgot. Why did you like Velvet Goldmine ?