| Year |
Entertainment |
Australian National Anthem "Advance Australia Fair" |
| 1977 |
Barry Crocker |
— |
| 1978 |
Keith Michell |
— |
| 1979 |
Mike Brady and John Farnham |
— |
| 1980 |
Peter Allen |
— |
| 1981 |
Jon English performs Waltzing Matilda |
— |
| 1982 |
Rolf Harris |
— |
| 1983 |
Glenn Shorrock sang "Waltzing Matilda" |
— |
| 1984 |
Slim Dusty sang "Waltzing Matilda" |
Slim Dusty |
| 1985 |
Diana Trask sang "Waltzing Matilda" |
— |
| 1986 |
Olivia Newton-John sang "Waltzing Matilda" |
Olivia Newton-John |
| 1987 |
Daryl Somers sang "Waltzing Matilda" |
Daryl Somers |
| 1988 |
Noel Watson sang "Waltzing Matilda" |
— |
| 1989 |
John Farnham sang "Waltzing Matilda" |
John Farnham |
| 1990 |
Normie Rowe and Lucy Gale |
Normie Rowe |
| 1991 |
Daryl Braithwaite. Angry Anderson performed "Bound for Glory". |
— |
| 1992 |
Joan Carden |
— |
| 1993 |
Maroochy Barambah, Archie Roach and Yothu Yindi |
Maroochy Barambah |
| 1994 |
Debra Byrne. The Seekers performed "I Am Australian", "Georgy Girl" and "Waltzing Matilda". |
The Seekers and the Australian Youth Choir |
| 1995 |
A celebration of Australian films, with John Paul Young performing "Love is in the Air" |
Tina Arena |
| 1996 |
A collection of past singers to celebrate the centenary grand final, including Daryl Somers, Normie Rowe, Venetta Feilds, Slim Dusty, Lindsay Field, Maroochy Barambah, Glenn Shorrock, Diana Trask, Barry Crocker, Lisa Edwards, Noel Watson and John Farnham. They performed "Waltzing Matilda". |
— |
| 1997 |
Marina Prior |
| 1998 |
Muhammad Ali made an appearance. Mark Seymour sang "Holy Grail". Rob Guest sang "This Is The Moment". Jane Scali and Michael Cormick sang "Waltzing Matilda"; Donna Fisk and Michael Cristiano sang "Rock 'N Footy (Rock The G)". |
Rob Guest |
| 1999 |
Human Nature performed "Waltzing Matilda". |
Human Nature |
| 2000 |
The Idea of North, Trish Delaney-Brown, Megan Corson, Andrew Piper and Nick Begie, Mike Brady, Russell Morris and Rick Price. Bachelor Girl performed "Waltzing Matilda". |
Bachelor Girl |
| 2001 |
Vanessa Amorosi and Men at Work |
Julie Anthony |
| 2002 |
Killing Heidi, The Whitlams, Kate Ceberano, The Human Tide. Mark Seymour sang "Holy Grail". |
Kate Ceberano |
| 2003 |
Christine Anu, Gorgi Coghlan, the finalists from the first season of Australian Idol performed "One Day in October". |
Michael Falzon and Katie Hoolihan |
| 2004 |
Guy Sebastian sang "Waltzing Matilda". The Ten Tenors, David Hobson. |
Guy Sebastian |
| 2005 |
Delta Goodrem sang "I Am Australian". Michael Bublé and Dame Edna Everage performed "I Still Call Australia Home". The Whitlams performed "No Aphrodisiac". Kath & Kim performed with the Australian Girls Choir. | Silvie Paladino |
| 2006 |
Brian Mannix, John Paul Young, Sean Kelly, Irene Cara sang "Flashdance (What A Feeling)" with appearances from Brian Mannix, John Paul Young, Sean Kelly, Daryl Braithwaite and Shane Howard performing a medley including "Up There Cazaly", "One Day in September", "Solid Rock", "Yesterday's Hero", "The Horses", "Everybody Wants to Work" and "I Hear Motion". The Young Divas sang "You're the Inspiration". |
Daryl Braithwaite and Shane Howard |
| 2007 |
Jet performed "Are You Gonna Be My Girl" and "Rollover DJ". |
Natalie Bassingthwaighte |
| 2008 |
Powderfinger performed "(Baby I've Got You) On My Mind" and AC/DC's "It's a Long Way to the Top" accompanied by the City of Melbourne Highland Pipe Band, Ian Moss performed electric guitar versions of "Up There Cazaly" and the competing club theme songs. |
Lucy Durack and Amanda Harrison |
| 2009 |
Mark Seymour performed "Holy Grail" on stage, followed by Jimmy Barnes singing "No Second Prize". John Farnham then sang "You're the Voice", joined later by Seymour and Barnes. The QANTAS Choir performed "I Still Call Australia Home". |
The cast of Jersey Boys (performed a cappella) |
| 2010 |
Pre-match entertainment was provided by INXS, who performed "Suicide Blonde", "New Sensation" and "Kick". Followed by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra who performed orchestral arrangements of the Collingwood and St Kilda theme songs. Lyrics for the two songs were performed by Matt Hetherington (for Collingwood) and Paris Wells (for St Kilda). Lionel Richie was the grand final replay and post-match entertainment.[1] |
Cameron and Taylor Henderson
Julie Anthony (replay) |
| 2011 |
Meat Loaf performed a twelve-and-a-half minute medley of his best-known songs. |
Vanessa Amorosi |
| 2012 |
Pre-match entertainment was Tim Rogers and Paul Kelly. Half-time entertainment was provided by The Temper Trap.[2][3] |
Marina Prior |
| 2013 |
Birds of Tokyo performed "Lanterns". Mike Brady performed "Up There Cazaly". Hunters & Collectors performed "Do You See What I See" and "Holy Grail". |
Tina Arena |
| 2014 |
Ed Sheeran performed "Sing" and "The A Team" and was then joined by Sir Tom Jones where they sang "Kiss", "Mama Told Me Not to Come", "Delilah" and "If I Only Knew".[4] Mike Brady performed Up There Cazaly. [5] |
Olivia Newton-John |
| 2015 |
Chris Isaak performed "Great Balls of Fire", "Wicked Game" and "Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing". He was then followed by Ellie Goulding who sang "Love Me Like You Do" and "Burn". Bryan Adams sang "Run to You", "Summer of '69" and "Can't Stop This Thing We Started". Mike Brady performed "Up There Cazaly". |
Kate Ceberano |
| 2016 |
The pre-match entertainment started with Mike Brady performing "One Day In October", followed by Vance Joy who sang "Fire and the Flood" and "Riptide", thenThe Living End performed "Keep on Running", "Prisoner of Society". Sting performed "I Cant' Stop Thinking About You", "Message in a Bottle". With his appearance, Sting became the first artist to perform at both the NFL Super Bowl (in 2003) and the AFL Grand Final. |
Vika and Linda |
| 2017 |
The Killers performed "When You Were Young", "Somebody Told Me", "The Man", "Forgotten Years" (a Midnight Oil cover), "Read My Mind" and "Mr Brightside". Mike Brady then performed "Up There Cazaly". |
Dami Im |
| 2018 |
Jimmy Barnes and Black Eyed Peas |
Mahalia Barnes |
| 2019 |
Tones and I performed "The Kids Are Coming" and "Dance Monkey", followed by Dean Lewis, who performed "Be Alright" and "Waves". John Williamson performed Waltzing Matilda, followed by Paul Kelly who performed "Leaps and Bounds" and "Dumb Things".[6] Mike Brady also performed "Up There Cazaly". |
Conrad Sewell |
| 2020 |
Electric Fields, Thelma Plum, Busby Marou and Queensland Symphony Orchestra opened the pre-match entertainment with a cover of Paul Kelly's "From Little Things Big Things Grow". Cub Sport performed a cover of Powderfinger's "These Days". The DMA's performed their Like a Version cover of Cher's "Believe" and their song "Criminals", Wolfmother's Andrew Stockdale performed Joker & the Thief, and Mike Brady performed "Up There Cazaly" from the MCG. Sheppard performed their songs "Geronimo" and "Coming Home" at half-time.[7] |
Tim McCallum |
| 2021 |
Abbe May performed "Thunderstruck", Baker Boy performed a cover of "Can't Get You Out of My Head and "Meditjin", John Butler performed "Ocean" before being joined by Stella Donnelly, Vicki Thorn, Donna Simpson, Gina Williams and Guy Ghouse for a cover of Icehouse's "Great Southern Land". Eskimo Joe performed "Black Fingernails, Red Wine" and then a cover of "Kick" by INXS. Colin Hay performed a version of "Down Under" via video from the USA.[8] |
Amy Manford (performed a cappella)[9] |
| 2022 |
For the first act, Mike Brady performed his iconic song "Up There Cazaly". Then, Robbie Williams performed a few of his hits, including "Let Me Entertain You", "Angels" and "Rock DJ" as well as "You're the Voice" to pay tribute to John Farnham, who was suffering from cancer. A tribute was also paid to the late Shane Warne. This was then followed up with Delta Goodrem joining Williams on stage to sing "Kids".[10] |
Katie Noonan[11] |
| 2023 |
Mike Brady performed "Up There Cazaly", and then Kiss performed I Was Made for Lovin' You, Shout It Out Loud and Rock and Roll All Nite as the main act.[12][13] Mark Seymour & The Undertow with Kate Miller-Heidke provided half-time entertainment. |
Kate Miller-Heidke |