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| Andrew Dunford... |
 Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 6:03 pm |
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I have seen and heard a lot of anthems sung or played prior to sporting
contests. Good, bad and indifferent, or even just plain wrong as in the
case of Australian officials playing the wrong anthem for Spain at the start
of the 2003 Davis Cup Final.
However I have never heard anything to touch the anthem singing at the No
Champions Trophy. The various renditions of the New Zealand anthem (a dull
dirge, but not difficult to sing) have been notable mostly for the singers
getting half the English words wrong, but reached a new low before the
semi-final when the lady with the microphone got completely lost and sang
only intermittently, coming in for a single line here or there and then
stopping again.
It's embarrassing - please just play a recording!
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| CDK... |
| Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 6:40 pm |
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Andrew Dunford wrote:
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I have seen and heard a lot of anthems sung or played prior to sporting
contests. Good, bad and indifferent, or even just plain wrong as in the
case of Australian officials playing the wrong anthem for Spain at the
start of the 2003 Davis Cup Final.
However I have never heard anything to touch the anthem singing at the
No Champions Trophy. The various renditions of the New Zealand anthem
(a dull dirge, but not difficult to sing) have been notable mostly for
the singers getting half the English words wrong, but reached a new low
before the semi-final when the lady with the microphone got completely
lost and sang only intermittently, coming in for a single line here or
there and then stopping again.
It's embarrassing - please just play a recording!
China once played the Aeroplane Jelly jingle for the Australian National
Anthem.
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| Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 11:18 pm |
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"CDK" <Michelangelo at (no spam) SistineChapel.com> wrote in message
news:_fbym.45377$ze1.39722 at (no spam) news-server.bigpond.net.au...
Quote: Andrew Dunford wrote:
I have seen and heard a lot of anthems sung or played prior to sporting
contests. Good, bad and indifferent, or even just plain wrong as in the
case of Australian officials playing the wrong anthem for Spain at the
start of the 2003 Davis Cup Final.
However I have never heard anything to touch the anthem singing at the No
Champions Trophy. The various renditions of the New Zealand anthem (a
dull dirge, but not difficult to sing) have been notable mostly for the
singers getting half the English words wrong, but reached a new low
before the semi-final when the lady with the microphone got completely
lost and sang only intermittently, coming in for a single line here or
there and then stopping again.
It's embarrassing - please just play a recording!
China once played the Aeroplane Jelly jingle for the Australian National
Anthem.
CDK
I like aeroplane jelly
I like it for Breakfast
I like it for Tea
anytime ( well something along them lines )
actually it sounds better then Australia Fair which is racist |
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| Mohan... |
| Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 5:45 pm |
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On Oct 5, 5:03 am, "Andrew Dunford" <adunf... at (no spam) artifax.net> wrote:
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Quote: It's embarrassing - please just play a recording!
Or better still, scrap that whole silly routine. It is sickening the
way ICC has been flogging the only asset international cricket has got
in comparison with IPL - so-called national teams. It is as if they
are shouting to the viewers - "Look, these are national teams playing!
NATIONAL! Did you hear that national anthem? Oh look at that! There
are only twenty people in the ground, but look at the way every one
of them is waving their NATIONAL flags (that we have supplied)!". Give
me DLF Maxima over this any day.
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| Andrew Dunford... |
| Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 11:13 pm |
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"Mohan" <dpusenet at (no spam) yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Quote: On Oct 5, 5:03 am, "Andrew Dunford" <adunf... at (no spam) artifax.net> wrote:
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It's embarrassing - please just play a recording!
Or better still, scrap that whole silly routine. It is sickening the
way ICC has been flogging the only asset international cricket has got
in comparison with IPL - so-called national teams. It is as if they
are shouting to the viewers - "Look, these are national teams playing!
NATIONAL! Did you hear that national anthem? Oh look at that! There
are only twenty people in the ground, but look at the way every one
of them is waving their NATIONAL flags (that we have supplied)!". Give
me DLF Maxima over this any day.
You seem to have added two and two and got ten.
National anthems have crept into cricket from other sports - their existence
pre-dates the IPL although I can't fault your enterprise in trying to link
the two. I do agree they seem incongruous in cricket and I am usually lucky
enough to miss them, although not on this one occasion.
Yeah, the NCT organisers did a good number with those flags. It's
incredibly obvious the spectators waving them don't actually support the
teams but it's very easy to exploit the sad, pathetic way that people want
to be seen by the cameras. The only time this ever happened to me at a
match I made an obscene gesture at the camera and it moved away rather
quickly.
Interesting to note some of the ideas shamelessly stolen from the IPL,
namely the golden bat and golden ball awards, or whatever they were called.
However at least the coverage is watchable, which couldn't be said of much
of the IPL TV work. Half the point being that when you have already paid a
subscription to a sports channel you don't expect to have commercial
opportunities rammed down your throat during the coverage.
Andrew |
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| Mohan... |
| Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 2:55 pm |
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On Oct 7, 3:32 pm, "Andrew Dunford" <adunf... at (no spam) artifax.net> wrote:
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Thanks. Didn't know that.
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