Glen Moffatt

Infobox musical artist 2
Name = Glen Moffatt


Img_capt = Glen Moffatt at the Norfolk Island Festival, 1997.
Background = solo_singer
Birth_name = Glen Stephen Moffatt
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Born = birth date and age|1971|1|20
Died =
Origin = Napier, New Zealand
Instrument = Vocals, Guitar
Genre = Country
Occupation = Singer, Songwriter
Years_active = 1992-present
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Associated_acts = The Smokin' Crawdads
URL = http://www.glenmoffatt.com
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Past_members =

Glen Moffatt is a New Zealand country music singer-songwriter who relocated to Brisbane, Australia, in 2002.

Moffatt was born in Hastings and raised in Napier. He was a newspaper journalist before moving to Auckland at the end of 1991.

New Zealand music historian John Dix wrote of New Zealand music in the 1990s, "It wasn't all alt.rock, hip hop and hard rock in the '90s. Country rock survived with recording acts like the Coalrangers (from the wild West Coast), Glen Moffatt, Ritchie Pickett, the Renderers and the Waltons. The most successful were the Warratahs, signed to Pagan." [John Dix, "Stranded in Paradise: New Zealand Rock and Roll, 1955 to the Modern Era", Penguin Books, 2005, ISBN 0-14-301953-8]

Moffatt's 1995 debut album "Somewhere in New Zealand Tonight" was described by "New Zealand Herald" music critic Graham Reid as the "birth of a Kiwi classic". It was a finalist in country album of the year at the 1996 New Zealand recording industry awards. Moffatt was also a finalist in the rising star and songwriter of the year categories.

In 1998 he released follow-up "A Place to Play", of which Reid wrote, "Moffatt has written his name large again and is, after two strong showings, a talent too big to ignore". [Graham Reid, [http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/6/story.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=417 "Elsewhere - Firing on all four in history of hip-hop"] , "New Zealand Herald", 19 December 1998] In 2001, as Glen Moffatt Band, came his final New Zealand album "If That's What You Want".

Moffatt moved to Queensland in 2002, forming a band called Glen Moffatt & the Tallboys, and in 2007 he began working with long-time Brisbane band The Smokin' Crawdads.

His songs have appeared on albums by Bill Chambers, Ritchie Pickett and Dennis Marsh.

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