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Toni has always sung. She realised she could
sing well when she was a 14 year old teenager at school. She
performed in school musicals & was encouraged to audition
for an australian theatre for a young people bicentennial
musical production along with thousands of other kids from
nsw. She got the lead & got attention for her performance.
She sang jingles for triple j & on several television
shows as a 16 year old.
She has performed in musicals from Sydney to Broadway, receiving
a tony nomination for her performance in “The Wild Party’
& a grammy nomination for the cast recording.
toni started writing songs worth recording about ten years
ago.
She has a day job which had kept her quite busy.
In 2004 she & her husband/drummer (Dave Galafassi) finished
building their recording studio. Time opened up & the
perfect band fell into place.
On January 2nd, 2005 toni & the finish made their lazy
way down the coast in a convoy where they would live together
& record music for a few weeks.
The band: toni collette & the
finish
The album: beautiful awkward pictures
All songs written by: toni collette
All songs arranged by: toni collette & the finish
Engineered & mixed by: Paul McKercher (Augie
March/The Cruel Sea/You Am I)
Mastered by: Joe Gastwirt: (Jimi Hendrix/The
Beach Boys/Daniel Lanois/Emmylou Harris/Neil Young/The Grateful
Dead/Talking Heads)
Produced by: Willy Zygier & Toni Collette
the finish consists of:
electric & acoustic guitar: Glenn Richards
(Augie March)
bass guitar: Peter Farley
piano/keyboard: David Lane
drums & percussion: Dave Galafassi
they all did a bit of singing too…
Some of the guys had never met before but within days they
were like one big happy family.
They rehearsed for a week.
Willy zygier popped in from time to time to see how the sound
was evolving & utter some words of wisdom.
At the beginning of the second week Paul McKercher arrived
on his steel steed & he began to record them.
The weeks that followed were filled with spouts of genius,
joy, pain, great food, great vino, great trampolining &
great heat followed by great storms.
They left surprised by how much they had achieved.
2 weeks later they reconvened at Melbourne’s sing sing
studios (minus some girlfriends) to do overdubs, Toni’s
vocals & backing vocals. They finished recording &
Paul began mixing immediately….god bless him.
A couple of weeks later they were all very happy & very
tired.
toni sat with the album for a few months to make sure this
was the record she wanted to put into the world before approaching
mastering engineer, joe gastwirt.
She & Dave met Joe at his home in California & sat
on the carpet talking about music, road trips & hangovers.
Joe was very excited that the band had recorded to tape &
they decided he was definitely the man for the job. They left
their precious tapes & joe went about doing his thing.
Finally the record was complete.
Now they are eager to get it into the world.
With words in this bio beautifully
expressed direct from the band, we here at IMC are bloody
excited and very honoured to be representing the forthcoming
live career of toni collette & the finish.
Having heard the completed album and having witnessed toni
collette & the finish in action, we can honestly state
that the ‘world’ will love this most amazing album
and band.
Stay tuned for announcements of live dates.
Tourdates
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