Matt Finish
| Matt Finish | |
|---|---|
| Also known as | Matt Finnish, Fire Hand Ember |
| Origin | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Genres | rock |
| Years active | 1978–1981, 1983–1985, 1990–2003, 2006–present |
| Labels | Giant, CBS, Sony BMG, Mammal |
| Associated acts | Divinyls, The Blue Max |
| Website | mattfinish |
| Past members | See Members list below |
Matt Finish are an Australian rock band formed in mid-1979 by singer-songwriter and guitarist Matt Moffitt (1956–2003) and drummer, composer and producer John Prior. In 1978 Moffitt had formed a funk band, Matt Finnish, but it disbanded after several months. The 1981 line-up of Moffit, Prior, Richard Grossman on bass guitar and Jeff Clayton on rhythm guitar recorded their debut album, Short Note, which peaked at No. 14 on the Australian Kent Music Report Albums Chart. The title song, "Short Note", peaked at No. 18 on the related Singles Chart and became a standard on Australian radio stations. Grossman was later a member of Divinyls and Hoodoo Gurus. On 13 August 2003 Moffit died in his sleep, aged 46. From 2006 Prior has continued Matt Finish with various line-ups.
In 2004 "Short Note" was covered by Wendy Matthews and appeared on her album Café Naturale. It was listed in Triple M Network's 2005 Best Songs of the Eighties poll, it appeared in the 2007 Australian feature film The Final Winter and on numerous compilation albums including Sony BMG's Essential Australian Rock released in April 2008; and a new recording of the track appears on Matt Finish's 2008 anthology album 1978-2008.
Matt Finish's formation developed from an earlier, similarly spelled group, Matt Finnish. The latter was a briefly existing Australian funk band formed in 1978 in Sydney by singer-songwriter and guitarist Matt Moffitt (1956–2003), bass guitarist Brian Alcorn and drummer Tony Georgeson. They performed for several months, including shows at The Observer Hotel, The Rocks, Sydney, before disbanding in early 1979. In the early 1990s, Georgeson formed The Dukes, with Sean Kelly, before joining Sydney jazz band The Jive Bombers. In July and early August 1979, Moffitt and Alcorn teamed up with drummer, composer and producer John Prior to form Matt Finish as a rock band.
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