Friday, 30 July, 1999
By KAREN BLISS -- Jam! Music
TORONTO -- The single and video for "Misery"
will have to tide Canadian Moffatts fans over for the rest of the
year. The Victoria, BC-born teen-pop sensations don't believe
they'll tour again in this country until a new album is released.
"We've done so much that we feel like we could possibly over
saturate the market and that's something we don't want to do
because out of any country in the world, this is where we spend
most of our time," 15-year-old bassist/vocalist Clint
Moffatt said yesterday from a hotel room in Toronto following the
video shoot for "Misery."
After the interview, he and his brothers -- Bob and Dave, also 15,
and Clint, 16 -- were off to a screening of the new thriller The
Blair Witch Project, a welcome break from all the work they've
been doing.
The band recently rereleased its debut pop album, Chapter 1: A
New Beginning, in the U.S. with four new songs and an enhanced CD
portion. "We're going to be spending the next month in the U.S.
doing radio shows with different pop rock bands," said
keyboardist/vocalist Dave. "In September, we go to the U.K.
and spend two weeks there and then come back to the U.S., then
after about a month in the U.S. again, we go over to Europe and
Asia in the fall."
The Moffatts have marked January through March, 2000, to make the
follow-up to their million-plus worldwide seller. Los Angeles-based
producer Glen Ballard (Alanis Morissette's collaborator), who
produced the four new additions to Chapter 1: A New Beginning,
and co-wrote "Raining In My Mind", is slated to produce.
"We're going to spend a lot of time writing with a lot of
really popular and crafted songwriters in the U.S. We don't know
who yet, but we're in discussions with people right now,"
said Dave. "It's still going to be a pop rock album, but
it's going to have rock sounds in it, alternative sounds.
Whatever sound we want to put in there, I'm sure our producer
Glen Ballard will be open to it and we'll be open to his ideas as
well."
Meanwhile, "Misery" has also been confirmed to appear
on the Teaching Mrs. Tingle soundtrack.
(Original text: http://www.canoe.ca/AllPop-Moffatts/990730_break.html )