Talking Footy

Slash from Guns N’ Roses’ will headline NRL grand final day entertainment with popular US band Train

David Riccio and Naomi White
The Daily Telegraph
September 14, 2014 12:00AM

ROCK ‘n’ roll and rugby league are back with this year’s NRL grand final day set to be headlined by a Hall of Fame guitarist and a Grammy award winning band.

The Sunday Telegraph can reveal the NRL are planning to announce popular US band Train and Slash, the former lead guitarist of Guns N’ Roses, as the pre-game entertainment for the October 5 decider at ANZ Stadium.

Train, whose hits include Drops of Jupiter and Hey Soul Sister scored the US rock act three Grammy awards, will also release their seventh album next week.

The announcement of Slash to the grand final day entertainment is an obvious fit with his sizzling solo work providing the theme music for Nine’s NRL finals coverage.

The arrival of both rock acts underlines a week-long celebration ahead of the grand final, with details for fans set to be announced by the NRL in coming days.

Slash vs tom jones! It's a no contest folks, rl wins again!

But but but but Dumbo stated that it would be an act from Ch9

I cant believe(LOL,LOL,LOL) he is wrong again.

Slash ..... And train ..... Lol .... A one hit wonder band from several years ago and slash ... Great guitarist ... If it were guns and roses ... That would be great. But slash ?

Don't get me wrong ... Tom jones is nothing great but leaves both those artists in his wake.

Let's hope the power is working this time and the Optus ball stays together.

Oh, for what it is worth, up until last few years have always liked nrl entertainment better. Remember the matching bands and such the AFL used to have lol.... Cringe worthy. And yes meat loaf was the worst.

AFLcrap1 wrote:

But but but but Dumbo stated that it would be an act from Ch9

I cant believe(LOL,LOL,LOL) he is wrong again.

what does the back ground say

Fred wrote:

Slash ..... And train ..... Lol .... A one hit wonder band from several years ago and slash ... Great guitarist ... If it were guns and roses ... That would be great. But slash ?

Don't get me wrong ... Tom jones is nothing great but leaves both those artists in his wake.

Let's hope the power is working this time and the Optus ball stays together.

Oh, for what it is worth, up until last few years have always liked nrl entertainment better. Remember the matching bands and such the AFL used to have lol.... Cringe worthy. And yes meat loaf was the worst.

wonder what songs they are going to play
train only ever had 2 songs
as for slash sweet child of mine, if he has some time left over, November rain with his G&R cover band Velvet Revolver!


oh well the NRL need to appeal to their small bogan audience some how

Thought they'd have jimmy Barnes at least and a couple of v8 drivers doing laps lol

Fred wrote:

Thought they'd have jimmy Barnes at least and a couple of v8 drivers doing laps lol

lol

he may have been already booked out by the AFL
he is doing some promo stuff in Melbourne for some media out let for the AFL grand final.

so they get the next best thing.
slash standing on the back of a commodore ute with holden , with VB & wild turkey advertising logos pasted every where, playing "sweet child of mine"
all of those companies mentioned are major sponsors of the NRL
http://www.nrl.com/About/AustralianRugb ... fault.aspx

leagueiscrap wrote:

Fred wrote:

Slash ..... And train ..... Lol .... A one hit wonder band from several years ago and slash ... Great guitarist ... If it were guns and roses ... That would be great. But slash ?

Don't get me wrong ... Tom jones is nothing great but leaves both those artists in his wake.

Let's hope the power is working this time and the Optus ball stays together.

Oh, for what it is worth, up until last few years have always liked nrl entertainment better. Remember the matching bands and such the AFL used to have lol.... Cringe worthy. And yes meat loaf was the worst.

wonder what songs they are going to play
train only ever had 2 songs
as for slash sweet child of mine, if he has some time left over, November rain with his G&R cover band Velvet Revolver!


oh well the NRL need to appeal to their small bogan audience some how

Well you seem pretty up to date with what's going on, btw, loved Velvet Revolvers sound.

King-Eliagh wrote:

Slash vs tom jones! It's a no contest folks, rl wins again!

we also have ed sheeran, who is actually a relevant artist

Slash will shred it up, tom jones will croak it out to audiences for three mins before walking away with the dosh

I think it probably does reflect the target audience base for each.

Fred wrote:

Thought they'd have jimmy Barnes at least and a couple of v8 drivers doing laps lol

Thought youd honour hour bet you welching *****

Yeah we had Tom Jones doing RL years ago, no need to go back in time.

Tom Jones wikipedia image...looks like he's close to bein 6 feet under...as meatloaf did shortly prior to his AFL gf debacle



Slash wiki image, shedding it and only a mere 25 years younger than the 74 year old Tom





Folks if the swans make it to GF I've got tickets and I'm really excited about the prospect of Tom Jones not carking it on stage but giving the audience a comedy show of meatloaf proportions. My fingers and toes are crossed but if this was on sportingbet I reckon you'd only get odds of 3-1 or sometin.