Midnight Oil won’t be playing at the 2018 AFL Grand Final, but Jimmy Barnes, Gang of Youths could
THE AFL Grand Final is only weeks away and we’re no closer to knowing who’ll headline the entertainment. Page 13 has an idea of who may be in the running, but it won’t be this band.
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WHO will play this year’s AFL Grand Final?
The clock is ticking, and fast.
Last year’s international entertainment, US band the Killers, leaked their role themselves months before the big game.
So far this year we’re still none the wiser.
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Beds were burning again about Midnight Oil, but wishful thinking we are told.
Sorry to hose down the power and passion, but the Oils won’t be firing up for that one day in September.
The band are back on hiatus. After cleaning up from last year’s reunion tour Page 13 has been told playing a Grand Final “wasn’t their thing” and it looks like they just Don’t Wanna Be The One.
Cold water was also thrown on another yearly favourite Cold Chisel belting out some hits.
However frontman Jimmy Barnes could be a contender, with a new documentary based on the Working Class Man’s hit book to promote.
AFL songman Paul Kelly has a new album, Nature, out two weeks after the big game and would be a crowd favourite.
Fantasies of Kylie Minogue playing are ruined by the fact she’ll be mid way through a UK tour, and another Aussie female icon, Tina Arena, will be in Sydney for Evita.
Maybe someone could talk Pink into staying in Australia for 10 days after her tour ends to play a few tunes?
Or superstar Cher could fly down to Melbourne during the arvo and then back to Brisbane for her show that night?
Insiders say the line-up is taking longer to lock down than usual, but should surface in the next week. Maybe.
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