As we calm down from the World Cup final hype, and International French Appreciation Week, it is time to look at the other big part of Sunday’s final – the Pussy Riot World Cup Pitch Invasion.
If you didn’t see it, you’re not alone, we can barely remember it happening either at whatever O’Clock it was in Australia.
If you saw the Pussy Riot World Cup Pitch Invasion live, or found out about it the next day, you may ask who the hell is Pussy Riot?
Well, like Delta Goodrem, they are best known for anything other than music these days. Which is probably a good thing because both of their music is awful.
While one of the artists attempts to create a persona so unlikable that potential dating targets are limited to the like Kyrgios or Tomic, the other – Pussy Riot – don’t care as they are all about making a statement. Which is what the Pussy Riot World Cup Pitch Invasion was all about.
Who could argue with them, we don’t live in Russia, and stories from there, glad we don’t. They got 15 days jail for the effort, and one could imagine that a Russian jail could be one of the least friendliest places on earth. Much like a country town when a bunch of city slickers come to play in their sporting tournament.
But enough of the Pussy Riot World Cup Pitch Invasion, it is time to wheel out our Six Pack article again, for a list of six alternatives to something or other. This time it is six other bands we would like to have seen invade during the World Cup final. Please note our list involves a time machine that transports bands back to their prime or alive condition.
ONE DIRECTION
Perhaps the biggest boy band of this decade could have got back together to run onto the Luzhniki. One can only imagine how the players would have reacted. Given the players looked very unhappy at the Russian band interrupting their game, you could imagine a few dropped shoulders into the pretty boys of One Direction.
HERB ALPERT & THE TIJUANA BRASS
Nothing funnier than to see Herb Alpert and his Tijuana Brass invading the World Cup final, all while holding their shiny instruments.
Hopefully as they ran around the players, the could have whipped up a quick Zorba the Greek or Spanish Flea.
Better still, a cover of the Benny Hill theme music as the security circle in.
A HOLOGRAM OF MICHAEL JACKSON
Maybe the players would have appreciated being interrupted by a hologram of Michael Jackson from the prime of his career. Complete with Moonwalks, that thing he does with leaning without falling over, and something with a hat.
He certainly would have been hard to catch by security.
THE SEX PISTOLS
We’ve had Pussy Riot, why not have another punk band, and so get one of the best of all time.
The Sex Pistols in their prime probably would have scared off the players, causing an even bigger delay and certainly lot more violence.
KANYE WEST
If there was an artist who likes to interrupt a big stage it is Kanye West, and there aren’t much bigger than a World Cup final.
It is not actually that hard to imagine Kanye West grabbing an announcers mic, running onto the field and ranting about something.
And few would dare to argue.
ACDC & THE FLATBED TRUCK WITH BAGPIPES FROM IT’S A LONG WAY FILM CLIP
Surely Russia are big on their ACDC, and what better way to ruin a few minutes of a game of football than to have the Australian Band reprise one of their most famous songs on one of sport’s biggest nights.
Workplace health and safety could be an issue with the flatbed truck, but if done right could be very funny, and a little hard core.
