On May 16, 2025, Tenderfoot Corps released Una Rapida Mossa, Finistère Live, a raw, thirty-five-minute live set recorded in 2013 at The Exhibition Night festival in Bergamo. That night, Finistère had opened for Mark Gardener of Ride—an unforgettable moment that, as it turns out, was quietly recorded without their knowledge.
The tape sat for years on an abandoned hard drive until, over a decade later, it surfaced like a time capsule from a band already fading into memory. Now, twelve years after that performance and nine after their breakup, the recording is available on all streaming platforms.
At the time of the concert, Finistère had only just begun making their mark. They’d released a single album on Costello’s Records, but the band split in 2016, before any real momentum could form. Listening now, the live recording sounds like a band mid-ascent—full of unfiltered energy, unaware they were about to fall apart.
“I’ll be completely honest—my emotions are mixed, but mostly negative,” one of the members shares. “Let me explain: the evening itself, the songs, our friendship, and the audience’s response are all wonderful, unforgettable memories. But the bitter aftertaste of what we could have been—but weren’t—sadly hangs over every chord and word. The beauty of the songs goes hand in hand with regret.”
The concert captured something the studio recordings never quite did. “One of the best aspects of that show was seeing the songs in their original versions, before they were changed during studio recordings—especially Guai a te and Angela,” they note. “Not to mention the psychedelic finale of Pronti Alla Rivolta!”
That night also marked a turning point in how the band saw themselves—and how others saw them. “It really felt like we had found a special formula, unique even if not revolutionary,” they say. “And it showed in the audience, which included friends who saw that gig as the real debut of the band after a few low-profile appearances.”
Beyond the music, other memories still linger. “What I remember from that night are, of course, the interactions with Mark Gardener—a wonderful, down-to-earth person with very few pretenses.”
The idea of a reunion has been hanging in the air for years. “It will happen sooner or later—even if just for one concert, I’m sure of it,” they say. “At the moment, nothing is planned, but we’re friends, we care about each other, and now we live quite close again, between Bergamo and Milan—so who knows!”
In the years since the split, the members have drifted into different lives. Gianni opened La Fiaschetteria, a restaurant that’s now a cult favorite in Bergamo. He’s also taken up cheese aging. Matteo Griziotti recently returned from New York City and is adjusting to life as a new dad.
Matteo Greco, also a father, is focused on bikes and reviving another cult Bergamo band, the Cheap Mondays. Carlo, a father of two, is the only one who’s continued to play music regularly. He performs with his band Lowinsky and as a solo artist—mostly acoustic—and keeps the Finistère spirit alive by occasionally performing Oh Oh and Pronti Alla Rivolta.
Una Rapida Mossa doesn’t reframe Finistère as something they never were—it just shows them clearly, as they were, for one night: loud, wired, on the verge of something they’d never fully reach. A moment captured just before the collapse. A quick move.
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