Why the Moffats miss the ’90s

MANILA, Philippines — There’s something about the ‘90s that millennials will never get to fully understand, especially that they never get to experience growing up in a changing modern world yet without social media and today’s easy access to technology and information.

The Moffats, the Canadian group of four brothers who burst into the scene in the late ‘90s, certainly had the grasp of how that era went about. Besides they were one of the last acts to make it big as that decade and the millennium that was, were coming to an end.

“In the ‘90s, you could really put your hand on things and I miss that. Now everything is online,” expressed Scott Andrew Moffat, the eldest and most vocal among the four, during their meet-and-greet with the media and bloggers last Nov. 26 at the EDSA Shangri-La Hotel.

He and his triplet brothers Clint, Bob and Dave are due for a concert tonight at the New Frontier Theater in Cubao, Quezon City. The show, part of its Reunion Tour 2018 and presented by Midas Promotions, is happening in the midst of their newly-released six-track EP Chapter II put out this same month.

He elaborated, “Things were simpler then. And since we were young, we kind of blindly rushed into doing things unafraid. Yet, we can look back on and be okay with it.”

The foursome, sons of a couple by the names of Frank and Darlana, were behind the hit songs Miss You Like Crazy, I’ll Be There For You and If Life Is So Short, among other fan favorites. They recalled writing together in one room the composition If Life Is So Short — a song so famous after its release that some people falsely claimed their lives also were also cut short and it was a kind of premonition.

The group in its heydays was relatively short-lived anyway as it disbanded in 2001. Yet its impact as a band and boyband hybrid was groundbreaking that it created stir when the members reunited for a one-off online Christmas show in December 2012 and five years later embarked on an extensive promotional tour in Asia for what was dubbed as a farewell tour.

Certainly the clamor for more of them together hasn’t sizzled out.

Around the same time last year, it was announced on the band’s Facebook page that a new single had been recorded called Secrets, which was eventually released January this year.

Two further singles, Like I Love U and So In Love, were also released.

“We feel the different energy and surrounding here and it’s great being greeted by amazing people like you,” echoed the quartet that performed one song live in beautifully raw acoustic delivery right in front of some Filipino entertainment press.

The vocal harmonies were seamless and their voices powerful and endearing as ever.

Asked about the experience of being reunited and going to places they have always been famous, the band noted, “It certainly feels wonderful to be around together and we like each other’s company. We do see each other from time to time.”