KISS to play at the Grand Final

[The Gulden Child]

So an organisation that just signed a $4.5b broadcast deal couldn't find an artist to perform on its most important day that's got a single song in the Australian charts during the lifetime of any current player.

Remarkable.

Obviously no-one in the AFL has any clue about music. They think everyone still uses a walkman and drinks TAB Cola.

 

[Macca180]

Honestly how can you please everybody.

I hear they put on a good show.

 

[nick1408]

KISS?? Did Guns n' Roses not return the AFL's calls?

Weird choice, but then the AFL did sign off on Meatloaf.

What about a group that has released new stuff this century?

Bomfunk MC?

 

[Toump Ass]

Clearly some of you dipshits haven't seen their show.

Have a cry you old fart.
I'd be surprised if any of the players have even heard of KISS.

 

[Makeshift Park]

Obviously no-one in the AFL has any clue about music. They think everyone still uses a walkman and drinks TAB Cola.

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In all seriousness, I would have preferred getting Warwick Capper and Client Liaison, saving $200k, and giving punters a better show.

 

[Sphynx]

Have a cry you old fart.
I'd be surprised if any of the players have even heard of KISS.

Most of them would have never heard of Lionel Richie either.

 

[Colonial]

A slight drop in quality from Robbie Williams.

 

[ashep]

Hopefully they're as good as the Robbie Williams concert I went to last year!

 

[The Gulden Child]

In all seriousness, I would have preferred getting Warwick Capper and Client Liaison, saving $200k, and giving punters a better show.

Capper could drive the pink car featured in the clip onto the 'G'. Has something cool like that been done before?

 

[projectv]

Most of them would have never heard of Lionel Richie either.

I think Lionel Richie gets a pass because the AFL had to organise it at the last minute.

 

[PerthBoy86]

Don't mind KISS, but never cared much about grand final entertainment.

 

[Orange crush]

The black n white make up will give the pies fans a sense of inclusion watching two other teams play

 

[Makeshift Park]

Capper could drive the pink car featured in the clip onto the 'G'. Has something cool like that been done before?

Hell yeah. If the AFL insist on pushing their bad taste onto the rest of us, they might as well lean into it. Get Baz Luhrmann to choreograph a whole dance sequence with Capper in a pink ferrari cruising around the boundary line as scantily clad men and women wearing sequins in blue, red and white perform feats of acrobats around him.

 

[Rusty Brookes]

This is absolutely smoking - but it's nearly 50 years ago. No lip syncing here.



I love KISS but yeah, they do look a bit tired these days. I sort of hope they do mime the whole thing. Half time entertainment by definition should be rubbish.

 

[GoEaglesGoSGIO]

If Paul Stanley doesnt play Live to Win, we riot

 

[JackFlash]

It makes sense, they will be here anyway, it should be a good 15 minutes if they can pull off the stage show in the middle of the afternoon. People will be excited to see them and they really want to do it.

 

[Taylor]

It's not like the AFL is trying to drum up the eyeballs on that particular part of the broadcast in order to sell the grand final broadcast rights for more - buying a headline act to fly them to Australia for a set and then back they go. It's an exercise of trying to secure a recognizable brand for the cheapest price for the people who are most likely to be watching at home.

 

[ibd77]

This is going to be Meatloaf all over again isn't it?

If they had any sense, they could just dress up some 20 year olds' in their makeup and costumes and get them to mime to the recorded track.

 

[Happy Mastenator]

At this stage just book in Delta, Guy Sebastian, Shannon Knowles, and each year and be done with it. No one gives a shit about the music anyway.

 

[Nostradumbass]

Open with Detroit Rock City into I was made for lovin' you then close with Rock n roll all nite and a smashed guitar.

 

[Happy Mastenator]

This is going to be Meatloaf all over again isn't it?

If they had any sense, they could just dress up some 20 year olds' in their makeup and costumes and get them to mime to the recorded track.

No one is every performing live again after meatloaf.

 

[projectv]

It's not like the AFL is trying to drum up the eyeballs on that particular part of the broadcast in order to sell the grand final broadcast rights for more - buying a headline act to fly them to Australia for a set and then back they go. It's an exercise of trying to secure a recognizable brand for the cheapest price for the people who are most likely to be watching at home.

There are plenty of Aussie bands that could easily fill the slot, be recognisable, and not demand a ridiculous payment to fly out here.

I agree that it does make sense to lean into groups that already happen to be in Australia, but KISS seems like a bad choice given no one under the age of 30 would have heard of them, let alone heard of their music.

 

[Percel]

A desecration to our great game, and our intelligence as people.
This band sucks beyond all possible belief, absolutely ALWAYS has, and needs to be taken out back and shot in the head.Twice.

Wanna help you, want to be there for you....

Do you know what i was made to do on this earth>?

I was made for you lovin you baggy...

 

[jabba5114]

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[Franc de Borges]

I'd prefer to have Jack Riewoldt massacre a few tunes on his own out there