By Heart (Matt Finish album)
By Heart is the third studio album by Australian band Matt Finish.
The album produced the singles" Blue" and" Earthbound( Do n't Sing for Me)".
Paralamas e Titãs Juntos e Ao Vivo
Paralamas e Titãs Juntos e Ao Vivo is a live album by Brazilian rock bands Paralamas do Sucesso and Titãs in 2008.
It is the second live album recorded by both bands together, and it has been released as a DVD as well.
The album is part of the bands' 25 years of career celebration, and several other shows took place in the beginning of 2008, with both bands sharing stage.
Some well- known Brazilian artists made guest appearances during the show, like Andreas Kisser( from Sepultura), Samuel Rosa( from Skank), and Arnaldo Antunes( former Titãs member).
For the live performances, both bands were nominated for" Best Live Act" at the 2008 MTV Video Music Brazil awards
Fade Away (Matt Finish EP)
Fade Away is an EP by Matt Finish.
It was recorded live during two sessions at Sydney's PACT theatre in July 1981.
" Fade Away" captured the rawness and power of the live performances for which Matt Finish was renowned.
Richard Grossman (bassist)
Richard Grossman( born 1959) is an Australian rock musician who has played bass guitar for two iconic bands:
Divinyls and Hoodoo Gurus.
Hoodoo Gurus' status on the Australian rock scene was acknowledged when they were inducted into the 2007 ARIA Hall of Fame.
For Grossman, this was his second Hall of Fame induction in a row; the 2006 award was for his stint with Divinyls.
Often referred to as Rick Grossman, he has also performed with other Australian bands: Matt Finish, Ghostwriters, Persian Rugs, The Kelly Gang and Men At Work.
Across the Great Divide tour
The Across the Great Divide tour was a concert tour by Australian alternative rock bands Powderfinger and Silverchair in 2007.
The tour featured concerts in 26 towns across Australia and multiple shows in New Zealand.
According to Powderfinger frontman Bernard Fanning, the aim of the tour was to" show[ that] both bands are behind the idea of reconciliation."
Both bands aimed to increase awareness of the efforts of Reconciliation Australia to reduce the current 17- year gap in life expectancy between the average Australian life and that of Indigenous Australians.
A triple DVD set was released with the same title as the tour on 1 December 2007 with the Melbourne performances for both bands and backstage occurrences from the tour.
Matt Finish
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 early 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. 33 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".
Johnny Foreigner / Stagecoach
Johnny Foreigner/ Stagecoach is a split EP between Johnny Foreigner and Stagecoach.
Released on November 15, 2010 through Alcopop!
Records it features an original track from both bands as well as another track in which both bands perform a cover song of each other's songs and was limited to 500 copies.
Matt Moffitt
Matthew David Moffitt( 20 August 195612 August 2003) was an Australian singer- songwriter and guitarist.
He fronted the rock band, Matt Finish( 1978 – 81, 1983 – 85, 1990 – 2003), and worked as a solo artist.
Matt Finish were a popular live band, which had a top 20 hit on the Kent Music Report Singles Chart with" Short Note"( 1981).
It was written by Moffitt and became a standard on Australian radio.
It was covered by Wendy Matthews on her album," Café Naturale"( 2004), listed on Triple M Network's" Best Songs of the Eighties" poll in 2005, and used in the 2007 Australian feature film," The Final Winter".
It is compiled on numerous albums including Sony BMG's" The Essential Australian"( April 2008), and on the Matt Finish albums," Short Note"( 1981) and" 1978 – 2008"( 2008).
Moffit's solo album was" As Little as a Look"( 1986), it provided the single," Miss This Tonight", which reached the top 30 in June 1986.
Matt Moffitt died" in his sleep, apparently from a stroke"; his funeral was held on 20 August 2003, on what would have been his 47th birthday.
Maxophone
Maxophone are an Italian progressive rock band formed in Milan in 1973.
They released one self- titled album in 1975.
The group was one of the few rock artists signed by the Produttori Associati record label, which focused mostly on film soundtracks and jazz.
Maxophone have since acquired a minor cult following that has endured for over three decades, long after their short career had ended.
Among fans of the Italian progressive rock genre Maxophone is today widely regarded as one of the top groups, along with PFM, Le Orme, and Banco del Mutuo Soccorso.
The group and their record label thought they had tremendous potential for success.
They were one of only a handful of such groups to have the opportunity to record an English language version of their album.
The music of Maxophone has features typical of the best Symphonic rock, including a very high level of musical skill, shifting time signatures, and highly complex arrangements inspired by both Classical and Jazz.
Half the members were classically trained, the rest had years of experience in other rock bands.
Their music has a wide variety of textures, often in the same song.
Horns and flute are equally balanced with piano, organs, synthesizers, and electric and acoustic guitars.
They also include choral arrangements and instruments rarely heard in rock, such as clarinet, vibraphone and even harp.
The first version was an Italian language album, released in Italy.
Produttori Associati also released an English language version of the album in Germany and on their Pausa Records division in the U.S.A. and Canada.
The English version has the songs in a different order and they have been re-mixed, revealing some different musical details.
The band hoped the English version would open themselves up to a wider audience, but this was not the case.
However they were invited to perform at the prestigious Montreux Jazz Festival in 1976.
The group followed up the album with a somewhat more pop- oriented single in 1977, sung in Italian only, titled" Il Fischio del Vapore"( Steam Whistle) b/w" Cono di Gelato"( Ice Cream Cone.)
The 2 single tracks have since been added to some versions of the CD re-issues of the album.
Maxophone disbanded soon after the single release, and despite the album becoming an artistic and critical success, they did not reform for many years.
Short Note (album)
" Short Note" is the debut album and title track by Australian band Matt Finish, released in January 1981.
The album" Short Note" peaked at# 14 in the Australian albums charts.
The title song peaked at# 18.
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", and on numerous compilation albums including Rajon Music Group's" Australian Made Volume 2"( 2001), ScreenSound's" Running In The Shadows"( 2004) and Sony BMG's" The Essential Australian" series( 2008).
A new version of" Short Note" appears on Matt Finish's 2008 anthology album" 1978- 2008".
The cover was designed by Eric Gradman.

Question: Are both bands, Matt Finish and Maxophone, from the same country?
Answer: no