Episode 40 - Now and Then
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.
Oct 31, 2024•27 min•Ep. 40
Alison Moyet - 40 Moyet Moments
Alison Moyet
A 40-part podcast featuring Alison Moyet in conversation with Steve Coats-Dennis, exploring the key moments of her 40-year career as a solo artist: the highs, the lows and everything in between. New episodes every Monday and Thursday.
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Episodes
Episode 39 - The Concorde 2 gig
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.
Oct 28, 2024•39 min•Ep. 39
Episode 38 - The album, Other
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.
Oct 24, 2024•20 min•Ep. 38
Episode 37 - Changeling
Episode 37 explores Changeling, a single from the minutes album - its inspiration, how it was created and the song's striking video.
Oct 21, 2024•12 min•Ep. 37
Episode 36 - The album, the minutes
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
Oct 17, 2024•23 min•Ep. 36
Episode 35 - When I Was Your Girl
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.
Oct 14, 2024•13 min•Ep. 35
Episode 34 - Rare and Obscured
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!
Oct 03, 2024•13 min•Ep. 34
Episode 33 - My Robot Friend
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.
Sep 30, 2024•10 min•Ep. 33
Episode 32 - Yazoo Reconnected
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.
Sep 26, 2024•12 min•Ep. 32
Episode 31 - The album, The Turn
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.
Sep 23, 2024•17 min•Ep. 31
Episode 30 - Smaller The Play
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!
Sep 19, 2024•12 min•Ep. 30
Episode 29 - The album, Voice
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.
Sep 16, 2024•14 min•Ep. 29
Episode 28 - The album, Hometime
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.
Sep 12, 2024•12 min•Ep. 28
Episode 27 - Chicago The Musical
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.
Sep 09, 2024•13 min•Ep. 27
Episode 26 - The End of the Sony Era
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.
Sep 05, 2024•9 min•Ep. 26
Episode 25 - Blue
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.
Sep 02, 2024•10 min•Ep. 25
Episode 24 - Whispering Your Name
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!
Aug 29, 2024•18 min•Ep. 24
Episode 23 - Falling
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.
Aug 26, 2024•11 min•Ep. 23
Episode 22 - The album, Essex
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.
Aug 22, 2024•19 min•Ep. 22
Episode 21 - This House
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...
Aug 19, 2024•13 min•Ep. 21
Episode 20 - Wishing You Were Here
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!
Aug 15, 2024•5 min•Ep. 20
Episode 19 - 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.
Aug 12, 2024•11 min•Ep. 19
Episode 18 - It Won't Be Long
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.
Aug 08, 2024•13 min•Ep. 18
Episode 17 - BRIT awards
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.
Aug 05, 2024•10 min•Ep. 17
Episode 16 - The Raindancing tour
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.
Aug 01, 2024•18 min•Ep. 16
Episode 15 - Love Letters
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
Jul 29, 2024•6 min•Ep. 15
Episode 14 - James Brown and other musical collaborations
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...
Jul 25, 2024•28 min•Ep. 14
Episode 13 - Weak in the Presence of Beauty
“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
Jul 22, 2024•7 min•Ep. 13
Episode 12 - Is This Love?
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!
Jul 18, 2024•7 min•Ep. 12
Episode 11 - The album, Raindancing
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!
Jul 15, 2024•15 min•Ep. 11
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