Alison Moyet - 40 Moyet Moments

40 Moyet Moments: A Taster Jun 04, 2024

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

Episode 1 - Becoming A Solo Artist Jun 10, 2024

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

Episode 2 - Signing To CBS Jun 10, 2024

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

Episode 3 - The album Alf Jun 17, 2024

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.

Episode 4 - Love Resurrection Jun 19, 2024

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!

Episode 5 - All Cried Out Jun 23, 2024

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

Episode 6 - Invisible Jun 27, 2024

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

Episode 7 - Alison Moyet's First Tour Jul 01, 2024

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

Episode 8 - Alf Goes to Number 1 Jul 04, 2024

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

Episode 9 - That Ole Devil Called Love Jul 08, 2024

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

Episode 10 - Live Aid Jul 11, 2024

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

Episode 11 - The album, Raindancing Jul 14, 2024

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!

Episode 12 - Is This Love? Jul 17, 2024

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!

Episode 13 - Weak in the Presence of Beauty Jul 21, 2024

“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

Episode 14 - James Brown and other musical collaborations Jul 24, 2024

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...

Episode 15 - Love Letters Jul 28, 2024

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

Episode 16 - The Raindancing tour Jul 31, 2024

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.

Episode 17 - BRIT awards Aug 04, 2024

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.

Episode 18 - It Won't Be Long Aug 07, 2024

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.

Episode 19 - The album, Hoodoo Aug 11, 2024

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.

Episode 20 - Wishing You Were Here Aug 14, 2024

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!

Episode 21 - This House Aug 18, 2024

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...

Episode 22 - The album, Essex Aug 21, 2024

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.

Episode 23 - Falling Aug 25, 2024

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.

Episode 24 - Whispering Your Name Aug 28, 2024

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!

Episode 25 - Blue Sep 01, 2024

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.

Episode 26 - The End of the Sony Era Sep 04, 2024

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.

Episode 27 - Chicago The Musical Sep 08, 2024

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.

Episode 28 - The album, Hometime Sep 11, 2024

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.

Episode 29 - The album, Voice Sep 15, 2024

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.

Episode 30 - Smaller The Play Sep 18, 2024

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!

Episode 31 - The album, The Turn Sep 22, 2024

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.

Episode 32 - Yazoo Reconnected Sep 25, 2024

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.

Episode 33 - My Robot Friend Sep 29, 2024

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.

Episode 34 - Rare and Obscured Oct 02, 2024

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!

Episode 35 - When I Was Your Girl Oct 13, 2024

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.

Episode 36 - The album, the minutes Oct 16, 2024

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

Episode 37 - Changeling Oct 20, 2024

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

Episode 38 - The album, Other Oct 23, 2024

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 39 - The Concorde 2 gig Oct 27, 2024

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.

Episode 40 - Now and Then Oct 31, 2024

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.

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