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.