AFL Grand Final Entertainment Confirmed

As Tone Deaf reported yesterday, the AFL have now confirmed the three global acts who will headline the 2015 Toyota AFL Grand Final entertainment at the MCG on Saturday, 3rd October – Bryan Adams, Ellie Goulding, and Chris Isaak.

“Bryan Adams’ Summer of 69 is a personal favourite”, he said. And to make the pain worse than seeing your team lose a premiership thanks to a cheap free-kick paid right in front of goal someone has decided that English mope-rock icon James Blunt should perform during the Brownlow medal count as well.

The Change.org petition, entitled “Make the AFL Grand final pre-match entertainment homegrown again”, has garnered over 1,200 signatures since it launched back in April, laying down the gauntlet to the AFL to book local rockers Pond, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard and Bad//Dreems to play at this year’s season-ending match.

“I spoke to my daughters. They chose Ellie Goulding”, McLachlan says of the United Kingdom pop singer whose biggest hit was a song that appeared on the Fifty Shades of Grey soundtrack. “MOR acts Bryan Adams and Chris Isaak and United Kingdom electro/pop Ellie Goulding?” While lobby group Music Victoria has declared that “a national event in a world leading music city such as Melbourne should include at least one upcoming or established Australian artist”. “It’ll be a great day”. “The AFL Grand Final is the pinnacle for fans and players alike and as such the caliber of the global acts performing equates to the stature of the event”, he said.

“I did a tour in Australia with a hemorrhaging vocal cord”.

McLachlan said the artists due to perform on the 2015 Toyota AFL Grand Final had been purposely selected to entertain football fans of all ages.

The sentiment was echoed by footy fans and Australians in general on social media and even by official bodies like Music Victoria, who called this year’s entertainment lineup “disappointing” and criticised the lack of homegrown acts.

“There’s every chance it could be an all-West Australian grand final and there’s no reason why they couldn’t have a Tame Impala or a band like that playing”.