The Alison Moyet Podcast

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

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

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

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 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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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!

“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

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...

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

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.

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.

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.

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.