The Alison Moyet Podcast
Alison Moyet, one of the UK's most distinctive voices, opens up in conversation with Steve Coats-Dennis about her life in music. Together they revisit the milestones of her career, from the early days of Yazoo to her successful solo work, covering both the creative and personal sides of her journey. The podcast offers an intimate, candid look at the realities of being a singer-songwriter, with all the triumphs and challenges that come along. It's a warm and revealing series for anyone wanting to understand the person behind classics like "Love Resurrection."
Episodes
40 Moyet Moments: A Taster
A flavour of what's to come in 40 Moyet Moments
Episode 1 - Becoming A Solo Artist
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
Hometime Reissues Special Part 1
The Alison Moyet Podcast returns! Host Steve Coats-Dennis chats to Alison Moyet and co-writer and long-time collaborator Pete Glenister about the album, Hometime, which will be reissued on 25 September 2026.Pre-order now: https://am.lnk.to/Hometime26
Hometime Reissues Special Part 2
In the second part of the Hometime reissues special, Alison Moyet and co-writer Pete Glenister discuss the remaining tracks on the album. And host Steve Coats-Dennis chats to the album's producers, The Insects.Hometime will be reissued on 25 September 2026.Pre-order now: https://am.lnk.to/Hometime26
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