Alison Moyet - 40 Moyet Moments

In the last of the 40 Moyet Moments, Alison Moyet and Steve Coats-Dennis take an overview of the last forty years of Alison's solo career from the vantage point of the present. 

In 2022, Alison Moyet played a relatively impromtu gig at the Concorde 2 in Brighton. For Moyet Moment #39, Steve Coats-Dennis asks about how that particular gig came into being and explores in general how touring has changed for Alison over the decades. 

Moyet Moment #38 sees Alison Moyet discussing her ninth solo album, Other, the times she has felt other and advice to anyone struggling with their own sense of otherness.

Episode 37 explores Changeling, a single from the minutes album - its inspiration, how it was created and the song's striking video.

Moyet Moment 36 explores Alison's 2013 album, the minutes: her first collaboration with producer Guy Sigsworth, how a record deal was forfeited and the joy of the record's success

Moyet Moment #35 explores the minutes' first single When I Was Your Girl as well as diversions into radio playlisting, Top of The Pops, Neil Tennant and social media.

Moyet Moment #34 explores the three-show run which Alison played in October 2012 at Ronnie Scott's in London - where she explored the less-examined parts of her back catalogue. A hits-free show!

Alison Moyet discusses the song Waiting, her 2010 single with electronic musician My Robot Friend - as well as chatting about how musical collaborations with her can happen. 

It was the reunion that no-one saw coming - Alison Moyet reveals how she and Vince Clarke reformed as Yazoo for the 2008 Reconnected tour, her memories of the tour and answers the question could it ever happen again.

Alison Moyet chats with Steve Coats-Dennis about her seventh solo studio album, The Turn - the "album that got away". She explores how an album full of good songs can fail to make its mark. 

Alison Moyet chats to Steve Coats-Dennis about her return to the West End stage with Smaller: from working with Dawn French and being directed by Kathy Burke to writing songs from her character and performing a Robbie Williams medley!

Bruised from the effort to get her Hometime album released, Alison wants a moment just to sing. Moyet Moment 29 explores Alison Moyet's sixth solo album, Voice. 

In Moyet Moment 28, Alison's impasse with her then-record label is broken and finally there is an opportunity to release her fifth solo studio album, Hometime. 

Unable to record because of the impasse with her label, Alison Moyet finds work in the unlikeliest of places - the West End stage. In one of the first examples of so-called "stunt casting", Alison takes on the role of Matron Mama Morton in Chicago The Musical.

Having released four solo albums with them, Alison Moyet's relationship with her record label reach an all-time low as they stop taking her calls. 

In the twenty-fifth Moyet Moment, Alison Moyet discusses her song Blue, a track that became the theme tune to the BBC TV series 'Playing The Field', and her love for Southend United F.C. 

Chatting to Steve Coats-Dennis about Whispering Your Name, Alison Moyet discusses why she loves the song, what she thinks of the remixes of the 1990s and reveals some Top of The Pops behind-the-scenes secrets!

In Episode 23 of Moyet Moments, Alison reveals the unusual motivation to the song Falling - as well as explaining what it's like to forget her words onstage. 

Alison Moyet chats about the challenges to release her fourth solo album Essex. With her trademark brutal honesty, Alison discusses being friendless at Sony, recording the album twice and her view of the album in retrospect. 

Alison Moyet discusses a song that has become a real fan favourite over the years - This House! And responds to the rumour that has surrounded the song...

It's the halfway point of the 40 Moyet Moments. Steve Coats-Dennis asks Alison Moyet for the inspiration behind the song Wishing You Were Here, the second single from the album Hoodoo!

Grittier and darker than what came before, the album Hoodoo begins a divide between Alison Moyet and her then record company. Episode 19 explores Alison's third solo album, Hoodoo. 

It's all change with Moyet Moment 18 and a song with which Alison Moyet firmly intended to reset people's perceptions of her as an artist: It Won't Be Long - the first single from the album, Hoodoo. 

In the seventeenth Moyet Moment, host Steve Coats-Dennis quizzes Alison Moyet about winning BRIT awards and what these and other awards mean to her. 

For this Moyet Moment, we return to 1987 and Alison's first solo world tour. Taking in six continents and lasting almost a year, she discusses the ups and the downs of life on the road back then. 

The fifteenth Moment explores how Alison Moyet first heard Ketty Lester's Love Letters, why she covered it and how she's changed it in her more recent live performances

From co-writing and singing on James Brown's Let's Get Personal, Alison Moyet chats to Steve Coats-Dennis about her various musical collaborations across the years – from the Lightning Seeds to Tricky, from Dusty Springfield to Beth Ditto...

“It's one of the two times in my career, I made a cynical move”. In the thirteenth Moyet Moment, Alison explains how she came to cover Floy Joy's Weak In The Presence of Beauty

In the twelfth Moyet Moment, Alison discusses all things ‘Is This Love?' including her mystery co-writer who was not such a mystery after all!

Raindancing was the eagerly-anticipated follow-up album to the mega-successful Alf. Alison explains to Steve Coats-Dennis how recording the album in the United States affected the end product... And perhaps not for the better!

The biggest gig of her career – Alison Moyet looks back at the highs and lows of her experience at Live Aid

The ninth Moyet Moyet explores Alison's biggest selling single, That Ole Devil Called Love, how it came about and how it unintentionally changed people's perception of her

After 10 weeks in the album charts, her first solo album, Alf, reaches Number One on the 13th January 1985. Alison chats to Steve Coats-Dennis whether on chart positions mattered to her then and whether they still do now

40 Moyet Moments returns to November 1984 and Alison's first ever solo tour. Alison discusses how performing live has changed for her over the years and which songs are the trickiest to sing

It's the single in Alison Moyet's forty year back catalogue that seems to generate most discussion. In this episode, Alison gives her definitive take on the song, Invisible

In the fifth Moyet Moment, Alison discusses why All Cried Out has endured for 40 years, the changing importance of lyrics and how she found her way back to appreciating it as a song

In the fourth Moyet Moment, Alison looks back at her first solo single, remembers making the video and addresses the notion that the song's lyrics were a little bit saucy!

Alf, Alison's first solo album, goes to No.1 in the album chart and is certified quadruple platinum. In the third Moyet Moment, Alison talks about writing and recording the album with Steve Jolley and Tony Swain and reveals the strange method that created that iconic album cover.

In the second Moyet Moment, Alison finds herself in a bidding war between record companies but also traumatised by fame. Expecting her to be “the next Barbra Streisand”, she realises that a level of conformity is not on the cards

In the first of a 40-part podcast series, Alison Moyet chats with Steve Coats-Dennis, discussing the awkwardness between her and her Yazoo bandmate, Vince Clarke, and explains her reluctance to become a solo artist

A flavour of what's to come in 40 Moyet Moments