It's not just in cricket and Rugby Union that the Kiwis dominated Oz this year, it is also in Rugby League where typically the Aussies are winners.
I meant to watch the Anzac Test match at the pub after dancing last night, but all the better that I missed this great defeat of the Kangaroos. Funnily I had witnessed in Auckland on my first visit to NZ in 2006, another royal fight where the Kiwis beat the Kangaroos by one point on the bell. But last night they won by the proverbial mile. As I said, sport is the Kiwi religion.
Smashed by tough Kiwis....
Quiet at the Memphis
An uncrushed, newly-shorn, Aussie!
On Saturday night I caught another Kiwi documentary film on the Kiwi Metallica rock group called 'Shihad', which had a great following and near-world success in the nineties. Their career was in reality cut short by the events of 9.11 as they were in NYC at that time cutting a new record. Their name 'Shihad' did not resonate well with the US public after the disaster, so they changed their name to the 'Pacifiers', which unfortunately did not at all help their rise.
The film was an excellent and true rendtion of the toughness of the record industry, and highlighted the naivete of the Kwi music industry in comparison. The group was indeed talented, but they were intensely naive and not able to cut it with the big world in the US. They limped to a final concert back in Auckland but never really had the success their talent deserved. That is, if you like metallica music, which is not my cup of tea I'm afraid.
At BP we are now on countdown to The Candlelight Memorial in ten days at the Te Papa Marae. So there is lots to do there to ensure a success with the visit of Michael Kirby being my responsibility.
On with the job.
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