CLUNKS FOR THE MEMORIES

The Grand Final "entertainment": keeping you regular since 1977.

• 1977: Barry Crocker.
• 1978: Keith Michell.
• 1979: Mike Brady & John Farnham.
• 1980: Peter Allen.
• 1981: Jon English.
• 1982: Rolf Harris.
• 1983: Glenn Shorrock.
• 1984: Slim Dusty.
• 1985: Diana Trask.
• 1986: Olivia Newton-John.
• 1987: Daryl Somers.
• 1988: Noel Watson.
• 1989: John Farnham.
• 1990: Normie Rowe.
• 1991: Daryl Braithwaite and Angry Anderson.
• 1992: Joan Carden.
• 1993: Maroochy Barambah, Archie Roach & Yothu Yindi.
• 1994: The Seekers & Debra Byrne.
• 1995: Tina Arena.
• 1996; A collection of past singers.
• 1997: Scott Robert Little.
• 1998: Mark Seymour, Rob Guest, Jane Scali and Michael Cormick.
• 1999: Human Nature.
• 2000: The Idea of North, Trish Delaney-Brown, Megan Corson, Andrew Piper and Nick Begie, Mike Brady, Russell Morris and Rick Price.
• 2001: Vanessa Amorosi.
• 2002: Killing Heidi, The Whitlams, Kate Ceberano, The Human Tide and Mark Seymour.
• 2003: Christine Anu, Gorgi Quill, the Australian idols. 2004: Guy Sebastian, The Ten Tenors and Davis Hobson.
• 2005: Silvie Paladino, Delta Goodrem, Michael Buble and Dame Edna Everage.
• 2006: Brian Mannix, John Paul Young, Sean Kelly, Daryl Braithwaite, Shane Howard, Irene Cara and Young Divas.
• 2007: Natalie Bassingthwaighte and Jet.
• 2008: Powderfinger, Ian Moss, Lucy Durack and Amanda Harrison.
• 2009: Jimmy Barnes, Mark Seymour, The Jersey Boys.

Comments

[Tony]

Four letters only: A, C, D, C.

[m0nty]

It's a crime against football that Mark Seymour appears more often in that list than Mike Brady.

[Meckiff]

WFT? No Kevin Bloody Wilson?

[fxh]

I'd pay for 1980 and 1984 - all downhill from there altho I'd take a freebee for 1993.

All assuming I didn't have to watch any football before or after

[Marshall Stacks]

excepting Slim Dusty and Peter Allen, none of them are in my record collection.

Nick Cave at the 2010 final, the way he's going.

[Marshall Stacks]

OMG I SNAP!PED with FXH

... and now that I'm here, I would ask Why a sport event has to be turned into a Variety Show?
also: Recently organisers of ANZAC Day commems on Gallipoli Beach tried to include a rock concert for 'waiting' visitors fer chrissakes, and even at funerals one must endure folksingers and powerpoint projections. World is weirder than I need it to be thanks.

[Big Ramifications]

Four letters only: A, C, D, C.

According to Andrew Demetriou at the North Melbourne breakfast, the band is called ACD.

... and now that I'm here, I would ask Why a sport event has to be turned into a Variety Show?

My theory has always been that's it's for the non sporting fans. There's plenty of them that attend sports events, unfortunately.

[Tony]

1993 was freebee-worthy mostly because Maroochy Barambah memorable. She didn't know the words, which made it "memorable" like Angry Anderson and the Batmobile was memorable.

[RT]

Have you got the Rugby League list Tone? Notable was the cast of 42nd Street doing a big show number. One problem, sound wasn't working. Looked brilliant. Ditto Billy Idol. Also a big floating TV that became a dangerous missile ala that elephant at Arden St.

Darrell Baldock on Ch 10.......mixture of sadness and......sadness. Wrong move Ch 10. Cowboy Neale and Barry Breen look younger than Max Hudghson.

[TKYCraig]

You missed the entertainment that this fluff superceeded... reserves GF and U19's GF!

Bring em back!

[Tony]

RT: My favourite NRL opening ceremony fiasco is the one where a giant TV strung above the pitch fell apart allowing a shower of Winfield packets to cover the ground. Although, I may be confusing two fiascos into one.

TK: The AFL think that people who go to the football want to watch something other than football. The early years had the three matches and a guest to sing the anthem, which seemed to work fine. But naturally the AFL, in their infinite wisdom as showbizness gurus, felt pushed to spice up proceedings. It's all a trial run for when the grand final is at night and they can have a fireworks spectacular.

[Adsy]

The AFL had to add the "entertainment" to the, er, entertainment so they could charge "entertainment" style entrance bucks. Who would go to the footy to watch 3 games of footy and pay a couple of hundred bucks I can hear the marketing guru's say to themselves. Lets get Angry Anderson, and put him in a Batmobile... magic! Bet no one has ever thought of that before at the footy

[Adsy]

By the way, shattered about the result on the weekend. It's the curse of Ian Stewart coming back to haunt us.

Storm were good though.

[Tony]

Quite a few people in the media - naturally; never get between a media outlet and a free ticket - and on the rayjo station broadcast outlets saying that the "entertainment" was pretty good, ok, not bad Aussie Farnsey, Barnsey, Grailey, Boy Bandey, yay. All I will say is that the bloke what rang up SEN to reveal that the Double Secret Special Act was going to be Pearl Jam, would have been surprised to discover it was actually Pearl John Farnam instead.

No doubt you'd be cut, but I'm tipping you can also reduce the result the the AGB's core philosophy. No, not virutally, nor fvck nut loose bustard (LOL optional), but NGASAEB.

[os]

I thought the Jersey Boys were absolute crap with AAF. Why can't they keep it simple and get a bloke to just sing the bloody thing? I saw a rugby union game a few years ago, the Bliks had a baritone doing there thing straight, we had some tremulous teenage chick who would have been voted out of the first round of Idol.

[Tony]

The NZ/Aus netball once had a girl who forgot the words to AAF and instead went "Naa, naa, laa, dee, hmmm." It was hilarious.