TONI COLLETTE AND THE FINISH

Righto – you’ve all continually read so much, and now here’s the moment you’ve long been waiting for. We fondly know and respect this artist for her award winning and International screen success. However, did you know that Oscar nominee Toni Collette has always sung...in fact you may recall her beautiful vocal performances in the films ‘Cosi’ and ‘Connie and Carla’.

Toni has performed in musicals from Sydney to Broadway, receiving a ‘Tony’ nomination for her performance in ‘The Wild Party’ and a Grammy nomination for the cast recording of that same play.

Toni started writing songs and recording about ten years ago, refining her work over sometime as her ‘day job’ kept her quite busy. In 2004, Toni and her husband/drummer Dave Galafassi finished building their recording studio and early last year Toni Collette and her band The Finish started the recording process with Paul Mc Kercher (Augie March; Little Birdy; Eskimo Joe; Spiderbait; The Cruel Sea; You Am I) engineering and mixing.

The end result is a mesmerizing album entitled ‘Beautiful Awkward Pictures’ which will be released towards the third quarter of 2006. All songs on ‘Beautiful Awkward Pictures’ were written by Toni Collette with the album being co-produced by Willy Zygier (Deborah Conway; The ‘Ned’ soundtrack).

Toni Collette and The Finish, featuring Glenn Richards (Augie March) on electric and acoustic guitar, Peter Farley on bass, David Lane on piano and keyboard and Dave Galafassi on drums and percussion will deliver this exquisite album live when they make their debut HOMEBAKE performance this year!