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FLIGHT
CASE (12-disc box set) $225 (value $470) 
Albums in Flight Case are also available individually below > |
Flight
Case is one of the most ambitious releases by an Australian
band - a deluxe, limited edition box set with 11 CDs, 1 DVD, 36-page
book and 2 posters in an aluminium-framed flight case.
Includes
dozens of previously unreleased live and studio recordings, many
never before heard compositions from the seventies,
eighties and nineties, a total of 187 tracks. Collated and remastered by multi-award-winning producer
and Matt Finish co-founder John Prior from a variety of analogue and
digital sources. 7 STUDIO CDs
• Music Farm [Music Farm, Governors Pleasure & Studio
221 in 1979]
• Short Note [Recorded in 1980, remastered with 3 bonus
tracks]
• Fade Away Sessions [ PACT Theatre 1981, remastered with
12 bonus tracks]
• Word Of Mouth [Rhinoceros Studios in 1983, remastered
with bonus track]
• Word Of Mouth [Alberts mixes with different vocals and
lyrics from 1983]
• Kite On A Hurricane Day [unheard songs from 1984, 1991
and 1999]
• 1978-2008 [Freshly recorded retrospective tribute from
2008] 4 LIVE CDs
• Civic Hotel [Pre-Short Note repertoire, from 1979]
• Parramatta Park & Melbourne Uni [Acclaimed live
shows from 1981]
• At The Tivoli [Electrifying performance from 1983]
• Truck Surfing [New release, best of 1983 and 1984 live] 1 LIVE DVD
• Live At The Musicians Club [filmed with four cameras
in Sydney, 1981] BOOK AND POSTERS*
Flight Case includes two posters and a full-colour 36-page book with a comprehensive
band history, anecdotes, magazine articles, discography and superb photography
by internationally acclaimed photographers Bob King and Wendy McDougall. Flight
Case reviews |
CIVIC
HOTEL (album) $30
Matt Finish's earliest repertoire recorded
live in 1979.

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Hot Cover (lyrics)
Mandy’s Song
Rocket To Vienna (Plane Terminals)
I’m Alive
Wanna Be Like You
Dream Away
Godzone
I need You Near Me
Hide Yourself Away
Legal Load
Short Note (lyrics)
Time Finds
Indicator
Suds Jerk
Anthem Quest
Let Go |
MUSIC
FARM (album) $30
Unreleased studio recordings from Music Farm and ABC
221 in 1980 plus more unreleased songs live at the
Governor's Pleasure in 1979.

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Let Go
Hide Yourself Away
Indicator
Hot Cover (lyrics)
Suds Jerk
Anthem Quest
I’m Alive
I Need To Know You’re Alright
Rum Song
Private Feelings
Plane Terminals
What You Said
Putting The Candles Out
High Street Fair
Anthem Quest
Godzone
Legal Load
Anthem Quest |
SHORT
NOTE REMASTERED (album) $30
Matt Finish's multi-platinum debut album recorded 1980,
released 1981, remastered 2009 with 3 bonus tracks.

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Look
At Me (lyrics)
Hanging On (lyrics)
Short Note (lyrics)
Layman's Day (lyrics)
Forecast (lyrics)
Hot Cover (lyrics)
Mancini Shuffle (lyrics)
Younger Days (lyrics)
Respectable (lyrics)
You Get So (lyrics)
bonus tracks:
CIA (lyrics)
Mancini Shuffle (2JJ)
Short Note (strings) |
PARRAMATTA
PARK & MELBOURNE UNI (album) $30
Two great live-to-air concerts on one CD – Parramatta
Park
with a live audience of 40,000 and a more intimate affair at
Melbourne University with 2,000.

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Radio Intro
Mancini Shuffle (lyrics)
Layman's Day (lyrics)
Ganmain Brain
Respectable (lyrics)
Short Note (lyrics)
CIA (lyrics)
Anthem Quest
High Times For The Poor (lyrics)
Matt Moffitt interview at Parramatta Park
Fade Away (lyrics)
Forecast (lyrics)
Look At Me (lyrics)
You Get So (lyrics)
Hot Cover (lyrics)
Unfashionable Blues
Ganmain Brain
Mystery
Introductions (lyrics) |
LIVE
AT THE MUSICIANS CLUB 1981 (dvd) $40
The only existing video footage of Matt Finish live in
the
Eighties, great performances and high quality production.

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Fade
Away (lyrics)
Hot Cover (lyrics)
You Get So (lyrics)
Younger Days (lyrics)
Hanging On (lyrics)
Layman’s Day (lyrics)
Ganmain Brain
Mancini Shuffle (lyrics)
Look At Me (lyrics)
CIA (lyrics)
Anthem Quest
Short Note (montage)(lyrics)
High Times For The Poor (credits) (lyrics)
Mystery (soundcheck)
Forecast (soundcheck) (lyrics)
Respectable (soundcheck) (lyrics)
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FADE
AWAY SESSIONS (album) $30
Seminal 1981 EP recorded live at PACT Theatre and
remastered 2009 - now album length (74:33) with 12
additional tracks, 5 previously unreleased songs.

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Introductions (lyrics)
Fade Away (lyrics)
It's On My Way (lyrics)
Eat Your Lips Off
Calls
bonus tracks:
High Times For The Poor (lyrics)
Anthem Quest
Bring It On Home
Ganmain Brain
Unfashionable Blues
Mystery
CIA (lyrics)
Introductions (lyrics)
High Times For The Poor (lyrics)
It's On My Way (lyrics)
Calls
Fade Away (lyrics) |
WORD
OF MOUTH (2cd album) $40
Matt Finish's adventurous 2nd studio album is now a
double CD with remastered mixes from Alberts Studio (includes 1983 "Matt
Finish" EP mixes) and Rhinoceros Studios (released 1984 on vinyl).

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Out On Those Moments (lyrics)
Tai Ming Money (lyrics)
Come On Over (lyrics)
Light Up My Days
Always Another (lyrics)
Died In Love
Does It Feel
Words And Wars
Still Roads (I Need It) (lyrics)
Blind And Running
Always Another (live) (lyrics) |
AT
THE TIVOLI (album) $30
Recorded live over two nights at Sydney's Tivoli nightclub
on 6 August 1983 featuring Matt Moffitt, John Prior, Jeff
Clayton, Bertie Dorsett and Anthony Smith (Icehouse).

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Crowd
Light Up My Days
It’s On My Way (lyrics)
Out On Those Moments (lyrics)
Forecast (lyrics)
High Times For The Poor (lyrics)
Dying To Sleep
Blind And Running
Still Roads (lyrics)
Short Note (lyrics)
Mancini Shuffle (lyrics)
Hesitancy
Tai Ming Money (lyrics)
Introductions (lyrics)
Always Another (lyrics)
Fade Away (lyrics) |
TRUCK
SURFING (album) $30
Recorded live on tour in 1983 and 1984 with unreleased
songs, jams and extended arrangements.

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Tai Ming Money (lyrics)
Light Up My Days
Out On Those Moments (lyrics)
Days Away
BB’s (lyrics)
Hesitancy
It’s On My Way (lyrics)
Younger Days (lyrics)
Come On Over (lyrics)
Short Note (lyrics)
Still Roads (lyrics)
Dying To Sleep
Blind And Running
Hot Cover (lyrics)
Fade Away (lyrics)
Always Another (lyrics) |
KITE
ON A HURRICANE DAY (album) $30
Unreleased studio recordings with 11 previously unheard
songs from 1984, 1991 and 1999 featuring Matt Moffitt &
John Prior.
DOWNLOAD > Kite
On A Hurricane Day > new cover with amended tracklist

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Know You Will
BB’s (lyrics)
Get Yourself A Reason
Better Than You Know
Go!
Try
Dream Away
Too Far Gone
Quiet Girl
Cold Wars (lyrics)
Never Say Die
Words Won’t Wait
Laughter In The Sun
ABC
Elemental
River (lyrics) |
1978
- 2008 (album) $30
Retrospective "best of" album produced by John
Prior
featuring vocalist David Adams, released 2008. "A perfect
compliment to the original albums, a fitting tribute to Matt
and the playing and sounds are awesome."

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Dream Away (lyrics)
Cold Wars (lyrics)
Still Roads (lyrics)
Introductions (lyrics)
Short Note (lyrics)
Mancini Shuffle (lyrics)
Layman's Day (lyrics)
Hot Cover (lyrics)
Eat Your Lips Off (lrics)
Don't Fade Away (lyrics)
River (lyrics) |
NEW
FRONTIER (ep) $15
New four-track EP featuring David Adams, Harry Brus, Guy
Le Claire, Dieter Kleemann, John Prior & Victor Rounds.

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Ordinary Song (lyrics)
New Frontier (lyrics)
Deep Blue (lyrics)
Purple Cane Church |
RED
SEA / JOHN PRIOR (album) $30
North African and Arabian themes composed
and performed by John Prior.

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Club Cairo
Morning Prayer
Marketplace
Eritrean Exile
Al Jazeera
Oud To Ney
Bazaar
Red Sea Dance
Desert Song
Lamentable
The Lion
Sticky Sticky
Knock On
Haile Selassie
Skanker
Dub Dis
East End Rub
Ska Staya
Esa Loca
Birds And Bees |
ART
OF SURVIVAL / KEROSENE (album)
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