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Moffatts Making a Move to Bruce Allen Management
February 15, 2001
Vancouver Province

It seems the Moffatts have ditched their Nashville-based management firm in favour of local legend Bruce Allen.

Robert Williams, whose Williams-Bell agency has managed the group since the mid-1990s, confirmed to The Province that his company's contract with the young Victoria-raised brothers is up in June and that the band has served notice it will not be renewed.

"It's my understanding they're going with Bruce Allen," said Williams, who added it appeared the boys father, Frank Moffatt, had made the decision.

Calls to Bruce Allen to confirm the deal were not returned. Allen also manages Bryan Adams, Anne Murray, Martina McBride and Econoline Crush.

The Moffatts -- 16-year-old triplets Clint, Bob and Dave and their 17-year-old brother Scott -- recorded their latest album with Bruce Allen-managed producer Bob Rock in Hawaii last year, an obvious effort to lose the inevitable boy-band tag.

Rock's production background includes Metallica, Motley Crue and The Cult.

The resulting album, Submodalities, has been ringing up platinum sales in their home and native land since late October but the CD has still not been released in the U.S.

Last week, a Williams-Bell spokesperson choked up the delay to label politics. "There've been personnel changes at our label, Capitol," said Glenn Blackman, "so everything's up in the air."

This week, a source at the label confirmed that personnel changes have indeed happened and that Submodalities would likely be out in the U.S. by summer.

Although a common strategy with teen bands is to move quickly, using their tender ages as a marketing hook, the Moffatts are in no such hurry. If anything, it would be helpful to wait until the triplets, who will be 17 next month, turn 18 and have an easier time performing for the more rock-oriented bar crowd.

The Moffatts, who wrapped up a Canadian tour here last weekend, will next appear at the Juno Awards on March 4. They will otherwise be on hiatus.

Submodalities garnered Juno nominations for best group, album, producer and engineer.