C4, Monday 6 July, 8:30pm - Beige Brigade + a whole lot more in the Top 100 NZ Pop Culture Moments
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June 30, 2009
June 29, 2009
BYC Episode 94: The Caramel Brownie Caps Episode
Episode 94 (28 June 2009) is the “Caramel Brownie Caps Episode” in which Reg excels with his subcontinental knowledge, a listener enters the umpiring fray, there is talk of Tufnell and turtles in News no Ruse, a Kiwi sports administration and a former producer of The BYC are lambasted as the Exchange4Free sell-out of the week, and the Woman Slayer celebrates MJ’s death with a spectacular Shane Bond tribute…listen in to the streaming version just below…nail the RSS feed for your Pod catcher…or visit The BYC page on iTunes. The BYC archive of every episode is here.
Sideline Slogger: Best of the T20, more imports and State’s mistake
The next time Andrew Eade, David Cooper, Blair Furlong, Gavin Larsen, Lee Germon and Ross Dykes get together for a chinwag about the state of domestic cricket, one of the items on the unofficial agenda may well be: “What the hell are we going to call the domestic cricket competitions?” The Championship, The Shield and The Twenty20 are all we have at the moment after State pulled the pin this month or as it was put officially:
“New Zealand Cricket has confirmed it is exploring new sponsorship opportunities for its domestic cricket programmes next summer…”
But another more interesting conversation for the CEOs of the provincial branch offices of NZC would be around whether New Zealand should relax its rules around the use of offshore players in our domestic cricket competitions.
June 21, 2009
BYC Episode 93: The Rheineck Lager Episode
Episode 93 (21 June 2009) is the “Rheineck Lager Episode” in which we find out about Arnie, Reg is outraged at The Rus, News or Ruse celebrates Father’s Day, the NZC contracted 20 is speculated upon, a member of The BYC is labelled the Exchange4Free sell-out of the week, and the Woman Slayer drafts in Tuffers for a criminal Ashes song…listen in to the streaming version just below…nail the RSS feed for your Pod catcher…or visit The BYC page on iTunes. The BYC archive of every episode is here.
June 18, 2009
Stuff blog: “Mendis, Murali, Milo & Mandarins “
It certainly was more than a little bit disappointing donning the beige shirt and a dressing gown before grinding through to 3.30am yesterday fuelled by Milo, mandarins and cashew nuts, only to witness the Black Caps capitulating and losing five for nine from 17 balls at the arms of the Sri Lankan spinners and slingers.
In reality, it was bizarre that wins over Scotland and Ireland alone had put NZ this close to making the semifinals. Their opposition was unbeaten: Sangakkara’s men in blue have been in great nick throughout the tournament, and deserve to make the final against South Africa. They will too, unless Chris Gayle gets out on the dangerous, belligerent side of the bed the morning of the semifinal…
Great tribute to Harry at Deadball
“As the World Twenty20 runs on without The Black Caps, the time feels right for a reappraisal of the career of a man who might once have saved our blushes: Chris Harris, New Zealand’s pre-eminent cricketer of the post-Hadlee era.
Belying his thinning hair and hedonistic reputation, he pounced on seemingly impossible catches like a balding cat, regularly threw down the stumps from square leg with a grace that made grown men weep, unilaterally conjured up miraculous batting recoveries, and bowled dot balls when we needed them most. He was New Zealand’s face saver, a legendarily down-to-earth everyman who commanded respect when the rest of our team inspired ridicule.
A contemporary of the teary-eyed Wellington tradesman, Gavin Larsen, he took that same role of the mid-late order batsman/second change dibbly-dobbly swing bowler, but owned it with such effortless flair and jouissance that he transformed the very landscape of New Zealand cricket. From Harry onwards, the role of the seemingly unthreatening all-rounder became not a mere afterthought, but the essence of New Zealand’s one day approach.
He is the blueprint and spiritual guide for all our middle order all-rounders, who just about every match are expected to compensate for the under-performance of our top order batsmen, and wayward or injured frontline pacemen. Daniel Vettori is the most obvious proponent of the Harry Way, having trained under Harry, partnering him in many heart-warming, tail-wagging, respectability-saving stands. Jesse Ryder bowls dibbly-dobblies and has taken Harry’s booze-and-durries reputation and developed it. Scott Styris, unassuming, roguishly handsome, aged before his time, but heroically consistent, is probably the closest a modern NZ cricketer has come to capturing the soul or mystical aura of CZ Harris in his prime.”
June 16, 2009
New Sideline Slogger post: “Umar Gul, Ball scratcher at The Oval?”
Umar Gul’s extraordinary bowling performance on Saturday morning was singlehandedly responsible for seeing New Zealand’s tenuous position of 73-4 escalate into a full-blown catastrophe and 99 all out. That is not to say we weren’t outplayed elsewhere, of course, but the mincing of our last six wickets for not many ended up killing the game.
The aftermath of Gul’s 5/6 has been intriguing with allegations of nefarious ball-tampering deeds swirling around the Pakistan team. For the record, on the TV I saw nothing untoward except a lot of red cordial being imbibed by men in green whilst in the field - and I think cordial remains off the banned substance list for now.
June 14, 2009
BYC Episode 92: The Miley Styris Episode
Episode 92 (14 June 2009) is the “Miley Styris Episode” in which we dine out on a smorgasbord of emails and Australian abuse from Mark I, Mark II, Muzz, Hamish, Connor, Dan and Reg, The Woman Slayer ponders Scott Styris and his new self-imposed nickname of Miley, and we allude to allegations of ball tampering by a Pakistani with a spelling mistake on his back plus a subtle sponsorship mention for Exchange4Free.com …listen in to the streaming version just below…nail the RSS feed for your Pod catcher…or visit The BYC page on iTunes. The BYC archive of every episode is here.
June 12, 2009
June 9, 2009
Get tickets to this weekends World T20 double banger at the OVAL
This Saturday the Kiwi’s are playing Pakistan at the OVAL in London…..and since the Aussies are gooooooooooone - there is a chance to pick up loads of tickets from disgruntled Aussies…as they were supposed to be playing South Africa that day…how sad never mind. (Symonds is now our favourite non NZ cricket player)
If you are keen to buy, sell or trade tickets then head to the Facebook event below and post your details….and what you are looking to buy or sell. Most Aussie fan allocated tickets are right next to us…so happy days!
Click HERE to start trading!
June 7, 2009
The Hot Chocolate Remix: “The Netherlands are winners baby”
The BYC is the Beige Brigade podcast, and features The Woman Slayer and the BYC Orchestra.
This one, to the tune of Hot Chocolate hit Everyone’s A Winner Baby, celebrates the extraordinary win by The Netherlands over England (and Wales) in the T20 World Championships opener on Saturday morning (NZ time).
And it is a ripper!
BYC Episode 91: The Netherlands Are Winners Baby Episode
Episode 91 (7 June 2009) is the “Netherlands Are Winners Baby Episode” in which we abuse Michael Clarke, get too Australian with Dean Jones, enjoy emos from Reg, Danny, Northern California and Grey Lynn, Kev acknowledges a major incident in NZ life, Off White Thunder stumbles at the first hurdle of his county round-up, and the Woman Slayer finds a lot of love for the Netherlands after they dicked the Poms, plus we find a sponsorship opening for Exchange4Free.com on the NZ domestic scene…listen in to the streaming version just below…nail the RSS feed for your Pod catcher…or visit The BYC page on iTunes. The BYC archive of every episode is here. [Not safe for work link of Warnie’s new box here.]
