Matt Finish are an Australian rock band formed by singer-songwriter/guitarist Matt Moffitt (1956–2003) and drummer/composer/producer John Prior in mid 1979.
The band's debut album, Short Note, from 1981 peaked at #14 in the Australian albums charts. The title song, Short Note peaked at #18 and went on to become a standard on Australian radio stations. It was recorded by Wendy Matthews and appeared on her 2004 album Café Naturale, featured in Triple M Network’s "Best Songs of the Eighties" poll in 2005, in the 2007 Australian feature film The Final Winter, on numerous compilation albums including Sony BMG's The Essential Australian series released in April 2008; and a new recording of the song appears on Matt Finish's 2008 anthology album 1978-2008.
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... Two title in 1924–25 and recorded their highest ever league finish in 1928–29 as runners-up by a single point to Sheffield Wednesday ... in 1936–37, another relegation in 1938–39 would see them finish the decade in Division Two ... Under the management of Matt Gillies and his assistant Bert Johnson, Leicester reached the FA Cup final on another two occasions, but lost in both 1961 and 1963 ...
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... List of compilation albums featuring Matt Finish. 1981 Storm Riders LP (Peak Records) 1981 Storm Riders DVD (Mutiny Media) 198? We’ve Got The Rock http//www.australiancollector.com/aus/var.htm 1995 Classic Rare Hits Of The 80's (CEL Entertainment) 1995 From The Vaults (CEL Entertainment) 2001 Australian Made Volume 2 (Rajon) 2002 Australian Made Volume 3 (Rajon) 2002 Real Aussies (Sony) 2002 Real Ballads (Sony) 2003 Elite Eighties (Sony) 2003 Box Of Love (Rajon) 2004 Three Decades Of Aussies (Sony) 2004 Running In The Shadows (Screensound) 2006 For Pete's Sake (Sony) 2008 Essential Australian Rock (Sony) ...
... While working as A R Manager at CBS in 1980, Dawkins discovered the band Matt Finish and left CBS to start his first label, The Giant Recording Label, and ... a compilation album of Dawkins' recordings - For Pete's Sake, which included the Matt Finish hit Short Note and a new song "Understand", written by Dawkins' son ...
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