I'll Never Be An All Black

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Award Winning Animators Craft Video for Rugby Anthem

The Miramar's Chess Club's new release I'll Never Be An All Black is for everyone who will never play rugby for New Zealand. That's nearly all of us! And here’s what they’re saying about it:

“the unofficial World Cup anthem ... perfect for all the couch potatoes and rugby journalists out there who will never be All Blacks”
Melodie Robinson on SKY TV’s RugbyCentre

“a welcome respite from the recent chest-swelling and cliched nationalism”
Graham Reid on elsewhere.co.nz

I'll Never Be An All Black features Keith Quinn, John McBeth, Grant Nisbett, Graeme Moody and Winston McCarthy and includes Jonah Lomu's sensational try against England in the 1995 World Cup and Quinny's equally sensational commentary.

"There hasn't been a day since Jonah bulldozed through Englishman Mike Catt that I haven't been asked about that commentary", says Quinn "and it's been great recapturing the moment in the song and seeing it animated."

Grant Nisbett says he knew he'd never be an All Black when he missed the 1970 trials because he had to work. And John McBeth thinks he missed out on a black shirt because television hadn't come to Invercargill so the selectors never saw his superb back play!

And now award-winning animators the Simmonds Brothers have created a video for the song. The animation is on YouTube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqB-qFwGcTw and the complete song of I'll Never Be An All Black can be heard on Bandcamp, http://miramarchessclub.bandcamp.com/track/ill-never-be-an-all-black

The Miramar Chess Club features former Bulldog's AllStar Goodtime Band singer Neil Worboys and musicians from The Mockers, Let's Planet, Brainchilds, Dunstan Rangers, King Skinny and Sven Olsen's Brutal Canadian Love Saga. These would-be Grandmasters love rugby but sometimes find it hard to follow. "No one seems to be sure when a ruck becomes a maul", says the song's writer and producer Murray Costello. "And don't even mention the tackled ball rule."

And as we discover in the song and the video, even the commentators get confused!

What would Winston McCarthy say? Maybe "Listen... it's a hit!"

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