![]() How do you balance the natural desire to fit in with the innate imperative to stand out? Finding freedom in metamorphosis is one thing, but the album also simultaneously admits to still wanting to understand the structures that everyone else lives by – I’m thinking particularly of “The English U”. I was not a young person many people wanted to live aside.Īge makes you grateful for the pitfalls. ![]() I was unable to focus at school or to follow the path prescribed us. ![]() I was assumed unapproachable and taciturn. I was physical and argumentative and I rucked. Later I was considered a dyke before I knew what a dyke was. Someone born to French peasant sensibilities in an English new town, I found myself more aggressive and hardier than many of my peers. Initially it was that as a child I was raised to pull a cart. There are more ways that I discover every day. Your new album is called “Other”. In its titular track you sing, “I don’t know precisely which day/ Coloured me Other/ Perchance it might have been a slow bleed.” Could you first of all talk us through how it is that you identify, or have been identified, as Other? Here, we talk with Alison about what it is that makes her Other, her career-long LGBTI fan-base, and the experience of being a middle aged woman in the world. She’s always been a fantastic LGBTI ally, and just today publicly denounced Margaret Court’s homophobia, ahead of her scheduled concert in Melbourne at the arena named after Court. In June 2017 she released her newest album, “Other,” to absolute rave reviews. She then launched a solo career, with chart topping albums including “Alf” and “Hoodoo”.Īfter years of difficulties with Sony and artistic control, Moyet moved to Sanctuary Records, where her career began to experience a renaissance – her album “Hometime” went certified Gold in the UK. Singer-songwriter Alison Moyet first found fame in the 1980s as one half of electronic duo Yaz (known in other parts of the world as Yazoo), with hits like “Only You” and “Don’t Go”. The legendary British singer Alison Moyet on otherness, her LGBTI fans, and being a middle-aged woman
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