Ex-AFL star Barry Hall stars in music video for Melbourne band Playlunch

Herald Sun

19 hours ago

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Former footy hard man Barry Hall has flexed his acting muscles to play a grumpy neighbour with an unhealthy sense of ownership over a parking bay in a music video for a Melbourne 'bogan funk' band.
Hall plays the titular character in the wild music clip for the song 'Keith' by the band Playlunch.
The song is inspired by an angry neighbour and the name 'Keith' is bestowed on the cranky resident in a nod to him being a male version of the dreaded 'Karen'.
The track captures the moment battlelines are drawn in Aussie streets and a stand-off escalates over who parks where.
It is the suburban territorial showdown over car spots outside homes that are free, but over which ownership is often assumed.
Known as an AFL premiership player and a boxer, Hall shapes up well as an actor.
His Keith character has a short fuse that is lit every time someone innocently parks in the car spot on the street outside his house.
The inconvenience of not being able to park at will his white Volkswagen Amarok and steel two-wheel trailer in the public parking space, sends Keith into regular meltdowns, told in the lyrics of the song.
Hall, in a blue singlet, black shorts and black wrap around shades, turns up Keith's tantrums to 11.
Lyrically the song is a riot with the parking dispute described as starting 'World War III', Keith's chorus warning that he was 'about to lose the plot' and demands to 'move your sh-t heap of a car to the other f---ing side.'
The song even namechecks Tracy Grimshaw and A Current Affair.
Keith is the latest offering from Playlunch with some of their other songs being Station Rat, Boys and Foxtel Girl.
Hall, who these days describes himself as a lover not a fighter, is married to former Hi-5 star Lauren Brant.
The couple has four sons, Miller, Houston, Samson and Clay.