As we recently noted, multi-platinum ARIA Award winner Alex Lloyd never really went away, but saying he’s ‘back’ still seems fitting, as it’s been a long time between drinks and his new album, Acoustica, feels like a comeback.

Lloyd is currently on the campaign trail promoting the album, which recently involved an appearance on the Fox Sports program AFL 360, which not to give anything away, is about AFL. The only problem? Lloyd doesn’t really know much about AFL.

Nor does he really care. He grew up in the Sydney suburb of Balmain and is more an NRL kind of guy. Except for the years he spent living in London, during which he supported QPR, the English Premier League soccer team.

As the YouTuber who in a stroke of genius uploaded the clip put it, “What happens when you put a musician that knows nothing about footy on a show about footy with presenters that know nothing about music?” The answer: television brilliance.

In addition to having to (awkwardly) explain what an acoustic album is to two hosts, who seem as disinterested in music as Lloyd is in AFL, and assuring them that the album does have “words” on it, Lloyd lets slip a swear word on live TV when one host tries to take his scarf off him.

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