It’s not the Super Bowl but it’s still chastening that the best we can get is often the most washed-up, least imaginative choices
s it turns out, Ben Henry got it bang on. A couple of years back the comedian posted
In 2023, the answer is yes. There’s a sigh of relief that accompanies writing that sentence. Mark Seymour, a safe pair of Aus-rock hands to competently handle the weird music-football combination that only occurs on the game’s sacred day, and so rarely fits it well. This will bedecider number five for Mark. In 2013 the gig was potent enough to reunite Hunters and Collectors. This time it will be with his other band The Undertow and some help from Kate Miller-Heidke. Whatever.
Grand final acts have a few genres. Gold tier, where popularity endures and critical approval follows suit, all bound together in threads of nostalgia. Mark Seymour the market leader, Jimmy Barnes, John Farnham, Paul Kelly, Christine Anu. The two leagues have swapped most of them back and forth for years. Icehouse got monopolised by cricket, presumably because Great Southern Land sound very much like they’re singing “James Sutherland”.
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