Matt Moffitt

Who was Matt Moffitt?

Matthew David Moffitt was an Australian singer-songwriter/guitarist, best known as the vocalist with rock band Matt Finish. From the late seventies until the mid-nineties, Matt Finish was one of Australia's most popular live bands.

Moffitt's best known song with Matt Finish, Short Note, peaked at #18 and has become a standard on Australian radio stations. It was featured in Triple M Network’s Best Songs of the Eighties poll in 2005, in the 2007 Australian feature film The Final Winter, appeared on Wendy Matthews' 2004 album Café Naturale, on numerous compilation albums including Sony BMG's The Essential Australian series released in April 2008, and on the Matt Finish albums Short Note and 1978-2008.

Moffitt's funeral was on 20 August 2003, on what would have been his 47th birthday.