Robbie Williams has been booked to headline the 2022 AFL Grand Last in September.
The official AFL website confirmed the ‘Let Me Entertain You’ singer will carry out in entrance of 1000’s of footy followers because the pre-game leisure.
Williams is ready to open the Grand Last on the Melbourne Cricket Floor and can choose his personal band for the efficiency, which can function Australian musicians.
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“I’m so excited to be performing for all of the followers, on the hallowed turf of the MCG, for the largest recreation of the 12 months,” Williams mentioned in a video assertion.
“I am actually trying ahead to performing with a solid of very gifted native Australian musicians and I can not wait to see you all on that final Saturday in September.
He added: “If it goes nicely, I would even put my hand as much as be the following CEO of the AFL.
Alongside Williams, a lot of Australian acts can even be concerned within the pre-game leisure.
“Robbie Williams is taken into account one of many world’s biggest showmen and to have him carry out within the Telstra pre-game leisure, alongside a with a solid of Australian acts to be introduced shortly, would be the excellent approach to open the 2022 Toyota AFL Grand Last,” the League’s supervisor of economic and buyer Kylie Rogers mentioned.
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The British hitmaker was additionally in Melbourne earlier this 12 months to movie his upcoming biopic, Higher Man.
A number of big-name music acts have headed Down Underneath to carry out in entrance of crowds of footy followers on the AFL Grand Last over time.
On the 2021 occasion, Males At Work’s Colin Hay was the headliner, performing the band’s iconic music ‘Down Underneath’ by way of video hyperlink.
The 2020 Grand Last included a line-up of Australian performers together with the bands Sheppard and Cub Sport.
Among the largest worldwide acts to grace the AFL stage contains Ed Sheeran in 2014, Meat Loaf in 2011 and The Killers, who headlined in 2017.
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