A somewhat highbrow and at times impenetrable intellectualised diatribe from the Star-Times on men in NZ…:
…a modern expression of traditional Kiwi masculine values). The current prevalence of Kiwiana icons in popular culture - T-shirts, and even tattoos, bearing maps of New Zealand, cricket’s moustache-wearing Beige Brigade, and retro advertising campaigns by L&P and Charlie’s - goes beyond ironic nostalgia and goes beyond ironic nostalgia and could be read as a gesture of affection for the stoic, uncomplicated manhood exhibited by that generation’s fathers…
We are definitely not trying to go beyond ironic nostaligia - although Beige is, as we have always said, a lifestyle more than anything else.
Episode 52 of The BYC is alive and kicking, INXS-style - in which we hold Gilly to ransom…the Ruse flashes past…Slayer goes country…we can’t ignore the Test cricket…Off White delivers the Last XI …download the mp3 below…nail the cheeky RSS for your Pod catcher…or visit The BYC page on iTunes. Email all nominations for the Bogan XI to BYC@beigebrigade.co.nz.
Episode 52 of the Beige Brigade podcast: The BYC [32:49m]:
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He will be looking forward to that enormously…
Episode 51 of The BYC in which Telford Vice unleashes…the Ruse sticks out like a dog’s proverbial…Slayer is doing a TV theme…we ignore the Test match at Wanderers…and Off White delivers the McEleven as put together by our regular correspondent.
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The BYC: Episode 51 of the Beige Brigade podcast [29:57m]:
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This face may look slightly familiar - feel free to chip away on the new Stuff blog, Sideline Slogger. All bouquets and brickbats welcomed…
Stuff launches itself into cricket blogging today with a duo of blogs that cover the sport from pitch to sideline.
Hamish McDouall’s blog Googlies and Grass Stains takes on the world of cricket - the tours, the players, the controversies, the memories - with a special slant towards the game as played by Kiwis.
A cricket writer and historian, Hamish is author of the biography Chris Cairns.
The second blog launched today, Paul Holden’s Sideline Slogger, is all about the fun of playing and watching cricket. Paul’s playing won’t stun anyone, but he talks a reasonable game. His blog echoes the spirit of his beloved Beige Brigade, a Kiwi cult of things beige, tongue in cheek and tenuously cricket-related.
Terrific article here from Beige Brigade co-founder Mike Lane on the Tuhoe nation:
Indigenous peoples’ struggle for self-determination and self-government does not sit within the left to right European-derived political spectrum. Our struggle is not about class and smashing capitalism.
Bit crackly this week as Kev returns for The BYC’s raising of the bat for our 50th show…we do some Astle-like peer review…Billy gatecrashes the News or Ruse…Off White Thunder makes a tribute to the fifties…and we read out the names of every single player who has ever scored a Test match half-century for New Zealand.
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Episode 50 of The BYC [35:54m]:
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