Steve Coats-Dennis
Alison Moyet's Media Manager since 2007. Cannot pronounce "Moyet" properly
Appears in 41 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 ...
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...
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 recordin...
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 sa...
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 appreciatin...
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, Invi...
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 ar...
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 positio...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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 – f...
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...
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...
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 a...