INXS to perform AFL GF Pre-Game Entertainment

[Vinnie Vegas]

Children Collide -Theory of Everything
Bliss N Eso - Running On Air
Washington - I Believe You, Liar
Angus & Julia Stone - Down the Way
Birds of Tokyo - Birds of Tokyo
John Butler Trio - April Uprising
Miami Horror - Illumination
Powderfinger - Golden Rule
Pendulum - Immersion
Clare Bowditch - Modern Day Addiction
The Cat Empire - Cinema
The Verses - Seasons
The Temper Trap - Conditions
Tame Impala - Innerspeaker

These are Australian acts that both are currently charting and not completely shithouse... Would the AFL ever consider hiring any of them?

You wouldn't think so.

 

[footyfreak]

JD Fortune apparently. I could've sworn they'd kicked him out.

yea i thought he was broke, on the gear and living in his car

 

[Breeder Reactor]

INXS? I'd be happy with the AFL spending money on having the remaining Pink Floyd members play a part. Yes i am showing my age. Starting with. One of These Days - Pink Floyd - Delicate Sound of Thunder - HD http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eebXq1chA7w It would certainly gather more international attention over and above INXS.

 

[IanfromSA]

Sam Kekovich or TISM ....you know it makes sense

 

[The Falcon Strike]

Best pre-game entertainment would be the colts and vfl grand finals.

Always used to be great warming up the day with some footy on.

Another option would be to have an exhibition game of the best 44 young players in the country - a bit like a public draft camp. We'd get to the see Scully, Trengove, Martin etc before they get selected to each club.

We have a great game - the best way to support it - is with more of our game IMO

 

[Breeder Reactor]

Best pre-game entertainment would be the colts and vfl grand finals.

Always used to be great warming up the day with some footy on.

Another option would be to have an exhibition game of the best 44 young players in the country - a bit like a public draft camp. We'd get to the see Scully, Trengove, Martin etc before they get selected to each club.

We have a great game - the best way to support it - is with more of our game IMO

I'd like to see VFL games played beforehand on Grand Final day. Good call. When it comes to entertainment on Grand Final Day. Especially half time? This! Run Like Hell - Pink Floyd - Delicate Sound of Thunder - HD http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckuc1j63AIU

 

[Daics35Marvel]

Seriously I cringe every time the GF pre-game entertainment comes on. I watch it in a local pub with a bunch of North Americans who are only semi-familiar with the game. Each year, they laugh like crazy at how shit the entertainment is and I shamefully nod in agreeance.

For once I just wish they ditched it all together. It just doesn't work in broad daylight in the middle of a massive stadium. For pre-game entertainment they should just let the tv broadcaster produce a package of the best plays from the year set to some inspiring music. Show it on the big screen and include lots of shots of the two competing teams to rev the crowd up. Then line up the two teams face to face and have a minutes silence to honour the players of yesteryear who had passed away that year while showing their names and faces on the big screen. Then just sing the national anthem and leave it at that.

 

[footyfreak]

wonder what Jackie Love is up to these days.....and i wonder how she looks????

How's the legs

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[MachoRandySavage]

Powderfinger
Eskimo Joe
Birds of Tokyo
Jet
Thirsty Merc
Wolfmother
Silverchair

Plus 1000,000 other acts and or bands that would have been a better choice than these pathetic old washed up has beens, who have showed not an ounce of respect to Hutchence's memory since the day he died. Without Hutchence they would have only ever been a garage band stuck in Claremont. I can't believe the AFL continually get this wrong, year after year. Anderson and Vlad are seriously a pair of gimps. Sleep at night with an 8ball taped inside their mouths. Have NO idea about the fans of the game or what they want or love.

 

[bangko-bangko]

I enjoyed last year, Jimmy had the place rockin with no second prize and then Mark Seymour Holy Grail. Both have been overdone but when your team is playing off and a you have a few beers under your belt they were pretty good. It was overcast and raining which really added to the atmosphere, most people know the lyrics so a lot of the crowd were singing along.

I dont care who plays this year as long as my team don't get second prize!

 

[Timmy from Thomastown]

I'll be in the bar.

No interested in watching those self absorbed egomaniacs trying to flog their dead horse.

NOBODY CARES about INXS and their revolving door of lead singers.

As others have said, there are tons of quality contemporary bands out there. In fact there are alos a lot of older bands out there as well and most are more relevant than INXS. INXS is an unimaginative choice. They are a cover band of themselves.

INXS by name, in excess by nature.

 

[albundysmate]

they are trying to make the gf like the superbowl. if they want to do that. they should scrap the idea of having contestants from some rubbish from the network that is covering game first. what moron at the afl thought this idea would be good again. the first time it was terrible, the second time it was woeful

 

[ollie73]

INXS - Australia's greatest ever band performing at the GF?

Can't see a problem with that! Bring it on!

 

[Powerade 08]

Powderfinger
Eskimo Joe
Birds of Tokyo
Jet
Thirsty Merc
Wolfmother
Silverchair

Plus 1000,000 other acts and or bands that would have been a better choice than these pathetic old washed up has beens, who have showed not an ounce of respect to Hutchence's memory since the day he died. Without Hutchence they would have only ever been a garage band stuck in Claremont. I can't believe the AFL continually get this wrong, year after year. Anderson and Vlad are seriously a pair of gimps. Sleep at night with an 8ball taped inside their mouths. Have NO idea about the fans of the game or what they want or love.

You realise Jet and Wolfmother steal all their s^&t from the Beatles and Led Zep, right? Why are those jokers on your list of ideal acts? Thirsty Merc at the GF? Aren't they chick music?

Australia doesn't have any good mainstream acts, INXS is fine. No worse than anyone else mentioned ITT.

Actually, Tame Impala is a good suggestion. I don't listen to them but I know they released an album recently, new/young band, and have a bit of a following overseas, Play old school rock. Would be a good fit for the GF.

 

[glenn_ox]

Pendulum

They put on an awesome live show. Would be very fitting IMO.

 

[Alfonz]

Re: INXS playing at the Grand Final

You Am I have an album due in the next month.

Good footy (and North) man, Timmy Rogers.

Could do 'Heavy Heart' which is, deep down, a footy song

Couldn't agree more, IF they must have a band play.

You Am I are hands down the greatest live rock n roll band this country has ever produced, and deserve more recognition. They are still putting out cracking albums and live shows. They should get them to play every year, and get Rogers to toss the coin while he's at it.

 

[BACCS]

Surely the AFL can throw big dollars and attract bands like Coldplay? I still don't mind the new INXS though, so I'll have it on full blast as always as I get tanked.

 

[db swannie]

Getting as bad as the rugby league GF b grade entertainment. INXS ceased being a band years ago...having to watch those old farts getting up there and making an arse of themselves will be embarrassing. channel 7 though, what would you expect?

 

[Vader]

wonder what Jackie Love is up to these days.....and i wonder how she looks????

Had the misfortune to catch her show on a boat cruise in 2008. She's a bit older, obviously, but hasn't changed all that much.

These days she's still singing drippy love songs, wherever she can get a gig, which make you want to throw up. Not going to appeal to anyone much under the age of 70.

Back on topic.. INXS are now just a parody of themselves. At least JD Fortune sounds very similar to Hutchence, so they can still get away with performing all their old songs.

Please, no Coldplay. If I hear "Clocks" ever again I think I'll go insane. So horrible & almost syruppy in sound. I'll echo those calling for the banishing of Idle Australians and all other failed (and that includes the winners) talent show contestants.

Love the idea of getting Pink Floyd to do the gig, but I think they'd be a bit beyond the AFL's budget. Silverchair or Powderfinger would probably be the best of the Australian acts.

 

[Cthublhu]

Re: INXS playing at the Grand Final

As long as they don't have Kath and Kim there again I'm happy.

They should reform Slade for the occasion. They could perform "Gudbuy t'Gary", "Cum on Feel the Fev", and Andrew Lovett's theme "Thanks for the Memory (Wham Bam Thank You Mam)".

 

[MC Extra Dollop]

Is Carl Barron still going around?

Another idea would be that for too long we have neglected the public demand for beatboxing. Get Joel Turner and the Modern Day Poets on the line! I'm pretty confident they won't already be booked.

If the GF entertainment has always been an elaborate p*sstake (let's face it, how would we know?), we should go the whole hog and lock in someone like BABBA.

VFL Grand Final would be awesome...for the players and the fans.

Eskimo Joe or the Presets would be good.

 

[SaintsSeptember]

I guess they are trying to appeal to all generations and want something Australian, but as someone approaching 50 I think INXS were overrated at the time, and are now completely irellevent, and way behind Barnes ( who always seems to have a lot of presence about him when he plays live - young musicians, make sure you never perform at the same gig as Barnes he will make you sound thin and weedy ).
I'd prefer the Jet or Wolfmother options ( though I havent heard Wolfmothers latest and I've heard they are crap now ). Anyone ask ACDC if they are interested?

 

[MC Extra Dollop]

Richard Champion could do Flame Trees.

 

[rossi]

Re: INXS playing at the Grand Final

INXS are a relic from the past and should've disbanded when Hutchence died. Why can't they get a very good local band like Jet back to perform like they did in 2007.

If this was 1996 and INXS were playing it would be awesome... but it's not. Although it's still better than Guy Sebastian or something like that.
Anyway, what were Michael Hutchence's two favourite albums???











Kick and Swing

 

[albundysmate]

Is Carl Barron still going around?

Another idea would be that for too long we have neglected the public demand for beatboxing. Get Joel Turner and the Modern Day Poets on the line! I'm pretty confident they won't already be booked.

If the GF entertainment has always been an elaborate p*sstake (let's face it, how would we know?), we should go the whole hog and lock in someone like BABBA.

VFL Grand Final would be awesome...for the players and the fans.

Eskimo Joe or the Presets would be good.

of course he is. he is still the best comedian in australia by a country mile