The Alison Moyet Podcast

Alison Moyet

A podcast featuring Alison Moyet in conversation with Steve Coats-Dennis, exploring her career as a singer and songwriter: the highs, the lows and everything in between.

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20 episodes
Updated Oct 31, 2024
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Oct 31, 2024 · 26 min
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 28, 2024 · 38 min
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 24, 2024 · 19 min
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 21, 2024 · 12 min
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 17, 2024 · 23 min
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 14, 2024 · 13 min
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 3, 2024 · 13 min
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!
Sep 30, 2024 · 9 min
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 26, 2024 · 12 min
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 23, 2024 · 16 min
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 19, 2024 · 11 min
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 16, 2024 · 14 min
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 12, 2024 · 11 min
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 9, 2024 · 12 min
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 5, 2024 · 8 min
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 2, 2024 · 9 min
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.
Aug 29, 2024 · 18 min
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 26, 2024 · 10 min
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 22, 2024 · 18 min
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 19, 2024 · 13 min
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...