Below is the transciript of Scott's recent radio interview. Don't forgot to join the street team to get the second part of the interview, and the full download. Enjoy! And remember to pre-order your copy of the record at ScottMoffatt.com before the 19th of June to get your hands on the preorder only bonus CD mentioned below.

DJ:	With me on the phone in Bangkok right now I have Scott Moffatt, how are you man?
SCOTT:	I'm doing pretty good, yourself man?
DJ:	Not too bad, not too bad...how are the Bangkok women treating you over there?
SCOTT:	Pretty good... it's a pretty good scene over here.
DJ:	So you've got a new album coming out...?
SCOTT:	Yeah
DJ:	Is it coming out or is it out, what's the deal?
SCOTT:	It's coming out...I think it's gonna be released, ah, June something, like June 19th maybe.
DJ:	Okay fantastic, and it's called the Allegory of the City, is that right?
SCOTT:	The Allegory of the City, yeah
DJ:	The Allegory of the City! Sorry I uh, I fucked that up...
SCOTT:	(laughs) That's alright
DJ:	So tell me a little bit about the record, does it have a theme? What have you done with this record?
SCOTT:	Well, I was living in LA for like, a year I guess. And I was living in two houses, going back and forth, recording using whatever instruments my fans and whoever else who decided to send me instruments sent me. I would record with those, and there were some instruments lying around the house I was living in too so I would use those... it was really cool; it was a cool project actually.
DJ:	So you did everything yourself? Wrote, recorded, mixed, produced, you did the whole thing yourself.
SCOTT:	Everything on this record was done by me, yeah.
DJ:	So how long does it take? I guess there's no actual set in stone type of time, but how long does it take you to finish a song?
SCOTT:	Well it's all over the place. Sometimes it takes two days to get the song finished, sometimes it takes half an hour. So it really just depends on my mood, you know, what I've been doing lately and if I'm thinking too much or not. It's really random.
DJ:	So clearly having creative control of that affects the process, being a solo artist. I mean, do you come up with a whole lot of songs and then go 'that was shit, I need to start again'...
SCOTT:	Oh yeah, I'm always chucking songs. In fact, I had 6 or 7 songs recorded prior to starting this record in LA, and I just decided I wasn't going to use those. But what I'm doing with those is, we did this pre-order thing for the record, and whoever pre-ordered the record would get a CD with these songs on it that I didn't end up using on the record. So I'm gonna use it, but they're not really... they don't fit my style right now.
DJ:	So you've got them in there as kind of a teaser, like a little bonus for the people who really wanna get the record.
SCOTT:	Yeah.
DJ:	Do you prefer... I mean, I know you've been in bands and whatnot... do you prefer being a solo artist?
SCOTT:	Yeah I think so. It's a lot more work but I think I'm happier with what I end up doing, and I don't end up fighting with a whole bunch of people and pissing a bunch of people off, so... it's better this way I think.
DJ:	It's nice and simple, it means if you like it you like it, you don't have to fight with anyone eh.
SCOTT:	Yeah exactly (laughs)
DJ:	So what do you expect from this record? Is it a self affirmation thing, is it a personal thing, what do you want to get out of it?
SCOTT:	Well I think that basically what I wanted to get out of this record was for me to develop some sort of style, and kind of enjoy it again. 'Cause after you do it for 18-19 years, it gets kind of tough to be creative and to keep things fresh, so basically this record was a way for me to reinvent myself and make things exciting again, and really enlighten myself as a musician. And I think I did that, I think I figured out something about myself, and I think I figured out my best ways of doing this, of making music.
DJ:	You're more at peace with yourself now.
SCOTT:	Yeah, I'm gettin' close.
DJ:	Aside from the personal type stuff out of this record, do you think about... do you want fame, do you want money, do you want recognition? Or all of them?
SCOTT:	Ah, I would like a little bit of all of it actually, but they say you can't have your cake and eat it too so I'm just gonna hope people recognise. (laughs) I'd like some recognition basically, is actually all I want. I just want people to listen to it, I don't care if they like it or they... I just want a lot of people to hear it.
DJ:	And let's be honest man, we all want a bit of cash eh.
SCOTT:	We do all want a little cash (both laugh)
DJ:	So as I say, you've been in bands before, you've had kind of a major record label followed by an independent band type of thing. You've seen both sides, what's the major difference for you between having kind of a record deal, and then doing independent stuff?
SCOTT:	Jeez, there's so many differences. Like, I don't have to really deal with anyone but myself, and I don't have to write for anybody but myself. Usually when you have a record label working with you they're kind of pushing you in directions and telling you what you need to do and what you should do... and it's just really stressful because you're trying to please a whole bunch of people. But um...
DJ:	So what you're saying is this record is probably the most 'you' that you've ever done.
SCOTT:	Yeah I think so... but you can't really ever tell. You try and make something honest and real and you know, maybe by you trying to do that, maybe you're not. So it's really just confusing and you just gotta go with it, just write and hope that it's you. Or that it's you at the time.
DJ:	Along those lines, we've got a question someone sent in via the internet, they wanna know which extreme you would pick. You've had a bit of fame, world tours, adoring fans, all that type of stuff. Or do you prefer the... I guess what you've been doing recently, kinda the regular Joe with a day job, making music for yourself?
SCOTT:	Yeah you know I kind of like that, I kind of like living a normal life. I like dealing with normal people. It's nice to write about that stuff, there's something real... it's real. And I guess there's something kind of romantic about writing about something that's a little more glamourised, that's a little more popular and successful, but I don't know, I kind of really like living in the underbelly of LA and whereever I am and just dealing with normal people and real people and just doing real things. It's less stressful.
DJ:	It's all about the real people man.
SCOTT:	Yeah it is.
DJ:	So you've got your record coming out very very soon... what's your favourite song on this record?
SCOTT:	Ah, I think it's 'And the Body Crawls Back to the Warm Ranch'... I think, I don't really know though. It changes all the time.
DJ:	So when people hear this record they're like, 'yeah this is his favourite... hey this is my favourite too'.
SCOTT:	(laughs) I think so, maybe. I know a lot of people that like it, so.
DJ:	Excellent. So it might be the same, but what is the song that you're most proud of - you feel like you really accomplished something with that song?
SCOTT:	I think the first song on the record, The City's Teeth. It kind of... I think it's the mark of a transition for me and I really am fond of it I guess.
DJ:	This might tie in with that as well, but we want to know what song was the biggest bitch to write and record?
SCOTT:	On this record?
DJ:	Yeah on this one.
SCOTT:	Uh, Perilously Here was the hardest to record I think...I went through several different takes of that, it was a tough song to record actually.
DJ:	Okay, we might have covered this but you may want to add to it. Clearly your style's changed over the years, 'cause you've been doing it for fuckin' ages, to be honest, but what changes have you made for this record and what has inspired you to make those changes?
SCOTT:	Right.
DJ:	Maybe give us a little timeline of what's inspired you to make the changes for this.
SCOTT:	Well I don't know, I think it was just the circumstance that made me change, and the people I was hanging out with. I think that I kind of write odes to all my friends and to people I know and I think it's just where I was living and the circumstances I was living in, just forced me to write a record like this. And I was being inspired by a lot of things around me that just reminded me of what this record sounds like... I think LA sounds like this to me.
DJ:	Do you find that writing a song or writing a record is a sense of closure as well? You say that you write an ode to your friends and stuff like that, you write it and you record it and you...
SCOTT:	No I would agree, I would agree that finishing a record is definitely a form of closure. You're moving on, you can put that behind you now. And you've documented it so it's a bit of history now. So you can leave it, and you can grow from it, and you can take what you've learned from it... Yeah that's exactly it actually.
DJ:	There's almost a song right there.
SCOTT:	(laughs)Yeah.
DJ:	You know, you've done it before, it's pretty fickle out there right now, in the music industry and market, what's popular one day isn't the next. If you were to name maybe a couple of things about your music that is possibly different, or why people would be listening to your music in years to come.
SCOTT:	Well, I think... I was talking the other day about this... I think that something that sticks with people is honesty. And talking about yourself, I think people like to hear about other people's lives. And they like to kind of vicariously live someone else's life. So I think that by me writing songs about myself, and about my friends, I think that it's kind of... I think people will like to listen to it because of those reasons. And there is a kind of classic feeling about it. I've been reading a lot of literature lately and I think that there's something about books like The Great Gatsby and Moveable Feast and all these great classic books that is similar to this album because it talks about someone's life, and it's very personal so it's real and it's convincing, and it's believable. I think those are the things that will last.
DJ:	So this is why we should buy your record, because it's real basically?
SCOTT:	I think so (laughs)
DJ:	So um...
SCOTT:	...and it's good.
DJ:	I bet! (laughs) although you would say that wouldn't you?
SCOTT:	Yeah I have to... nobody else is.
DJ:	(laughs) Well not yet mate, it hasn't come out.
SCOTT:	Exactly.
DJ:	So hey, what is your definition of success? Like personal success for you?
SCOTT:	I think just being happy with what you've done is success. You can't base it on any monetary value, it's just about how you feel about it. I think.
DJ:	Okay, what do you think is the biggest struggle of your career? If you think back over your career, it might be now, it might be something in the past...
SCOTT:	I think maybe, letting go of the fact that working with my brothers on an even scale is just not possible. I love my brothers to death and I love working with them, I think it's a really creative process but working with them on an even scale... you know what, I think that was hard to get over because I wanted that. I wanted to be able to do that but it just doesn't work.
DJ:	So what is your biggest struggle currently?
SCOTT:	Uh, to make money. (laughs) I'm having a hard time making money.
DJ:	I hear you, bro. I hear you (laughs)
SCOTT:	Yeah (laughs)
DJ:	So there'll be a lot of people listening via internet and via radio right now, and there's a lot of budding musicians out there. Playing guitar in their room and thinking, I could do something with this. What kind of advice would you give people trying to, inverted commas, 'make it'?
SCOTT:	I'd say just keep doing what you're doing. Always look to be inspired and don't worry about being inspired 'cause it's gonna happen. And you know, if you've got it you've got it, just believe in yourself. I don't think that you should second guess yourself, just keep doin' it.
DJ:	Here's a question, I want you to go nuts on this question alright. If you could go back and start this year again and you had one million dollars in your pocket, what would you change?
SCOTT:	I don't think I'd change anything.
DJ:	Nothing whatsoever?
SCOTT:	I wouldn't change anything. I'd spend the million dollars though. (laughs) I'd buy a studio, or a little hut on the beach.
DJ:	And some very, very loud nights out on the piss?
SCOTT:	Yes. Every night.
DJ:	(both laugh) Every night until it's fuckin' gone.
SCOTT:	(laughs) Yeah.
DJ:	Hey man it's been an absolute pleasure chatting with you Scott.
SCOTT:	You too man.
DJ:	Good luck with your new album The Allegory of the City, hope it goes really well for you. And if you're listening out there make sure you go out and buy a copy because word has it, it's fuckin' good.
SCOTT:	Thanks a lot.

Chartattack.com has an article up on their front page about The Allegory of the City, go check it out!

There is also an article up on Soul Shine Magazine's site, check that out too.

For those who haven't heard, a small piece on Scott was featured on Canada's CTV e-Talk tonight.

We've also heard some rumours of newspapers catching wind of the record release; we hope to have more info to post here soon. If anyone sees any press on Scott in your daily travels, please email us at streetteam@scottmoffatt.net with full details (scans/links/transcripts appreciated). Include your street team username and we'll award you points for your finds!

Lastly, on Thursday night Scott was also interviewed for New Zealand radio. The full interview was 27 minutes long and consisted of some in depth insight into the recording of the album, followed by a silly question and answer session added especially for street team members as the DJ owed one of our team a favour ;) A transcript of the main interview will be up soon; make sure you're registered for the street team to get your hands on the full download.

Twenty-three years old and hailing from Alberta, Canada, Scott Andrew Moffatt found fame in the 90's within the four-part brother group, The Moffatts. Racking up a notable amount of success, with over 4 million record sales in over 30 countries, completing hundreds of tours around the world and attracting the attention of over a billion fans in 7 continents, it would be a difficult vision to leave in the past. Looking back, Scott recalls with vague humour, "I can remember sitting backstage, givin'er on a smoke and hauling back a Bruski with the press clinging to my leather pants. That's all I remember."

Taking time out in the years directly after The Moffatts disbanded, Scott explored various genres of music. His next project, The Boston Post (alongside band members Shawn Everett and Jon Gant) enjoyed comfortable local success and played some 80 shows ("about 80 too many," Scott remarks dryly) across Canada, over the four years that they hit the road. The band produced the independent EP It's 99PM, sold exclusively at their live shows, as well as an award winning full length LP and an unreleased 6-song sophomore EP, recorded shortly before the band went their separate ways.

It was a relative freedom that Scott savoured and used to further his love for the music business. "Things change, people change, you change..." Scott shrugs as he ponders his striving for new musical direction. "...Wait, things change... oh right. Our music was amazing, though."

In the summer of 2005, Scott relocated to Los Angeles to further experience the music scene, dissolving himself into a new venture; a solo record that would be completely written, performed, recorded and produced by Scott himself. It became a labour of love that would take 12 months to reach completion, but the result would be a collection of Scott's most personal, expressive and creative work. It would also catapult him in a completely new musical direction, away from the sound of The Moffatts, The Boston Post or anything he may have written before. And this time around, he turned to his fans to help him. In a unique twist, Scott posted online on his weblog, inviting fans to donate the instruments and sound effects he used in recording the album.

"Basically," explains Scott, sparking at the opportunity to provide insight into the ingenuity of the project, "I wanted to record a record that not only reminded me of L.A, but sonically sounded the way I heard the songs in my head. It took me three or four months to develop the personality and topical direction and once those were discovered, songs actually started oozing out of me, like the sweating done whilst on my Saturday night romps around Hollywood. Cocaine induced hallucinations and sexual cravings were met and dissolved into my early morning dreams and I took those to work. Worked over them day in and day out, with my frying pans and olive oil, salt and pepper, wetbacks and stiff backs. A bartending bloozerkoozer bothered by bold women and my infinite youth, flirty females with no conclusions, me and my iPod, brandy on the shelf, Diet Coke to my left and of course my Canadian buddies by my side all the live long day." It's a move which has sparked interest from his legions of fans, but there's no doubt that they're in for a surprise with the new sound.

Scott Moffatt has matured on this record in every sense, however he prefers the idea of self-realisation and the re-discovery of self-belief over this record being a learning curve. "I actually haven't learnt anything from making this record. I know what I knew, I just reminded myself of what I could do. I simplified the idea and just gave 'er hell." The CD is indeed accomplished.

To the ear, each song is a complete package of musical exploration, using various instruments and sound effects, all manually created and recorded inside a quaint Beach House and a run down 1920's Apartment in West Hollywood. There's a certain warmth and integrity to the sound, an organic imperfection to the layers of melodies and sound effects blended seamlessly into each track; the style is effortless and the lyrics quirky, yet picturesque and imaginative. Complex, unusual and melodic, The Allegory of the City is adventurous and fresh, and different to anything he's worked with before.

"This is my greatest work," he says, then grins. "...Until the next record".

By Donna Taylor, for scottmoffatt.com and myspace.com/scottmoffattmusic exclusively.

Yesterday we think we cracked why the MP3's were loading slowly or not at all, so fingers crossed anyone experiencing problems can now enjoy the music. Play totals only look reset, but we've made a note of them - we thought it was better to get the new files up so everyone could hear them. This means if you had a song added to your profile, you'll have to re-add the new version to hear it.

We've also now got some banners you guys can use to pimp the shit out of the "Scospace" (like that? We do.) so pick your favourite and copy and paste the code below into the 'about me' or 'who I'd like to meet' section of your profile, as well as message boards, websites, your fridge, the kitchen at work and anywhere else you happen to be that accepts HTML.

As we get the pre-order happening, we're looking for ways to get the fans more involved. This entire project has been fan driven, with the record being made with instruments you guys supplied, and we want to keep that theme running. We're thinking revolution, from the ground up. In the next few weeks, some really cool preliminary Street Team plans will be unveiled which will tie in with pre-orders; more details on that once we have them. With your help, it's gonna be huge.

The record was written, performed, mixed and produced entirely by Scott at home in LA, on instruments sent to him by fans all around the world. He launched the project late last year on his personal myspace, asking fans to send in instruments they found around the house, sound effects they recorded and household objects he could use in the recording process. Beyond an acoustic guitar, the entire record is composed from instruments those fans all over the world contributed. The sound is accomplished and intense; different than anything he's done before, and the concept is pretty fuckin' cool too.

Pre-Order Details

Yes, it's going up soon. The price will be $10 plus postage & packaging worldwide. If you order during the pre-order period, you'll receive an exclusive, limited edition mini-EP with songs not available on the regular CD of The Allegory of the City. Once the pre-order period is over, these will not be available for purchase. Ever. Ever. Again. And if it sounds dramatic, it's because it is. Buy it for the good of the planet. And for the good of your soul.

And here's the tracklisting for The Allegory of the City:

1) The City's Teeth
2) HAHAHA
3) The Way It Rains On Your Home
4) Three Songs To Explain:
Part One: Making You Appreciate
Part Two: Loaded Questions
Part Three: and the Body Crawls Back to the Warm Ranch
5) What Were They Looking For?
6) These Walls
7) Perilously Here
8) Sorry Elly, I'm a Line Kook
9) Adios

Let us know what else you want to know; full information and the order form will be up ASAP.