Ride On

Hop on for the ride of your life with pop's
newest brothers - The Moffatts. We caught up with the boys everyone's talking about to discover what their life's really like...

BIG! February 1999

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SINGING
Clint - The very first time we sang together was when we went to a shopping mall in North America. There was a studio in the mall where you could record your own song. We recorded a song called Grandpa as a Christmas present for our granddads. As we recorded it all these people started to crowd around just to listen to us singing.

TOURING THE WORLD
Scott - It's great because we get to see all these places in the world. When we started out we never expected to go to places like South East Asia and Portugal.
Bob - I really like France (especially the food) and Paris, of course.
Clint - I really like Portugal but I also like the UK because you have all these cool groups like...
Scott - (interrupts) ...The Verve and Oasis!
Clint - Everywhere we go we have to have a translator, but we don't need one here.

THE FANS
Dave - In the US we have fans that follow us everywhere!
Scott - Tell them about Spain.
Clint - Ok, my dad was cutting our hair for us and we were in our hotel room, just in our boxer shorts, and the door was open. We never thought anyone would come in butthen this fan just walked in! She was thrilled but when we told her she couldn't stay she started crying.
Dave - I really don't know how she got in.
Clint - I think she must have snuck in the fire exit or something.
Dave - In nearly every hotel we stay in at least one fan will try to sneak in - but they're not always sucessful. Once a fan phoned our room and got through to Scott by pretending to be our mum!
Bob - We have to check into our hotels under different names now.

SCHOOL
Clint - Our dad and stepmother tutor us and we bring our homework with us on the road. We have to do tests for each subject and each one we do has a limit of about two hours.
Dave - We actually did a maths test last night and it took an hour and a half.
Bob - I think my favourite subject is social, which is kinda like history. You know, learning about the explorers and things.
Dave - I like science because it's easier than the other subjects that we do, and I also like Spanish.
Clint - This year I think my favourite subject is social, but you need to have a really good memory span. I also like literature because I find it really easy.
Dave - Mind you, English was really hard last year.

BROTHERLY LOVE
Clint - Dave snores! I have to share a room with him when we're on tour so if I don't get to sleep before him there's trouble. How do I stop him snoring? I push him off the bed!
Scott - About two years ago Clint and I were doing kung-fu and I ended up hitting Clint in the face. Then he came charging at me and ended up nailing me, and our teacher had to try and pull us apart.
Who won?
Clint and Scott at the same time - I did!
Bob - We don't really fight that much. It's nor mally just arguing. We never fight before a show though because we think the people who come to watch us don't want to see a face that's all smashed in!

GIRLS
Scott - We're all single. That's the reason we're here!
Dave - Girls with English accents rule.
Clint - Yeah, we like English accents.
Dave - It's very posh!
Scott - I also like girls who dress well.
Bob - Me too.
Dave - And girls with a good sense of humour.

FAMOUS GIRLS
Bob - I like Courtney Cox.
Clint - Scott likes Neve Campbell, Dave likes Sandra Bullock and I like Drew Barrymore.
Bob - I used to like Sandra Bullock too.
Clint - We've never met any of them but it's funny when you think about it as Scott's only 15, so Neve Campbell will be in her 30s when Scott's in his 20s!
Dave - But then Sandra Bullock's pretty old too, isn't she?
Bob - If I met them I'd just be myself - that's the best way.
Scott - If we did meet them we wouldn't hit on them or anything. Could you imagine that? It would be ridiculous, like, "Hey, do you wanna dance? I'm 15 and I'm your man." (laughs)
Clint - I don't think we'd be embarrassed to meet them though, as we get to meet a lot of people in this business. We met Billie the other day. She opened for usat a concert in Canada.
Dave - Billie Piper, yeah she's very nice.
Scott - Mind you, if we were in the same roomas Neve Campbell I'd hope one of my brothers would go over and say to her, "Scott really likes you!"
Dave - If Neve Campbell was in a room and Drew Barrymore wasn't there, I'd want her for myself! I wouldn't be helping Scott out - that's only human.

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