Maybe she felt such a blunt explanation was necessary after some disgruntled fans walked out of concerts earlier in the tour. So no Love Letters or That Old Devil Called Love. Right from the start Moyet made her apologies by explaining : “This is The Minutes tour with songs from The Minutes album and some songs from the last 30 years which have been rearranged to fit in with The Minutes tour. It begs the question: “Has Alison ever been approached to write a Bond theme?” Of course she has.Anyone going to along to Alison Moyet’s The Minutes tour expecting a full-blown trip through ‘80s and ‘90s nostalgia, when she was Britain’s biggest-selling female artist, might have left disappointed.īut for those people who accept that Moyet is still an artist creating music as commercial and relevant as she did in her 20s, were rewarded with this performance. Alison’s vocal delivery is effortlessly controlled and the tumbling arpeggios will leave you woozy and breathless.
‘Reassuring Pinches’, the first single choice, is the instant standout for me. Opening the album is the brilliantly brooding, ‘I Germinate’, where Alison’s poetic storytelling gets the wholly sufficient and thrilling soundtrack that it deserves. ‘Lover, Go’ drops the pace for something more chilled and spirited its graceful and sweeping chorus melodies will have you swooning. ‘Beautiful Gun’ salutes her rock roots with a fiery punk blues quality that may remind you of Alison’s 1991 album Hoodoo and revive those Depeche Mode connections (Moyet shared the same label, Mute, back in the early 80s with bandmate Vince Clarke, who also played keyboards in the band). These are tracks here that slowly creep under the skin. Whilst Other most certainly has some of the sounds of its predecessor, it’s quite a different collection of songs. There’s a whole language that we both know.” Moyet and Sigsworth united is like an update of the Yazoo days – a familiar-but-fresh tech touch to this Billericay girl’s modern day lyrical prose. It perhaps isn’t surprising to hear that Alison and Guy’s working relationship is something that feels completely natural and relaxed for them both. Following its release in 2013, I decided that The Minutes was her most realised album to date, and certainly my favourite in a long list of triumphs for the singer-songwriter.
The answer was a direct response to the prospect of revisiting the success of her theatre work, after shows such as the musical Chicago and comedy-drama Smaller, where she co-starred with her good mate Dawn French. On evidence of her latest music, you could say both careers still overlap.ĭuring our chat, I wasn’t shy in admitting that as soon as I discovered Alison was once again teaming up with producer Guy Sigsworth, I let out an audible squeal of elation.
Here’s the thing: she never stopped doing it. When I met Alison Moyet recently to discuss Other, her first album for four years, she told me she would be very keen to get back into producing more drama.
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