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Matt Ford (writer)

Matt Ford, who sometimes uses the stage name Pinky Beecroft, is an Australian screenwriter, singer-songwriter, and performer.

From 1997 to 2005 he was the lead singer and keyboardist for alternative rockers Machine Gun Fellatio. His group Pinky Beecroft and the White Russians released an album, Somethin' Somewhere Better, in August 2008. As a songwriter he co-wrote "No Aphrodisiac" with bandmate Chit Chat Von Loopin Stab and The Whitlams' Tim Freedman.

He has written scripts for a number of television series, most recently Underbelly: Vanishing Act (2022) and Warnie (2023), and has also worked as a producer.

He was the lead singer and songwriter of Australian band Machine Gun Fellatio. He quit the band in 2005, at which point the group split up. He became the lead singer of Pinky Beecroft and The White Russians and released a self-titled EP and a full-length album entitled Somethin' Somewhere better and Pretty Black.

He made a number of appearances on the ABC television series The Glass House.

Ford co-wrote the song "No Aphrodisiac". The song was recorded by The Whitlams and went on to win an ARIA Award for Song of the Year.

Under his birthname, Matt Ford, he has written for a number of TV series, including Farscape, a popular US-Australian TV series broadcast on the Sci-Fi channel, and Sweat, which starred Heath Ledger.

His writing credits also include the long-running Australian series Stingers, Love Is a Four Letter Word, Medivac, Wildside, G.P., and Lochie Leonard.

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