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UK Pop Legend Alison Moyet Announces Three New Zealand Tour Dates for October 2017

20 March 2017 - 1 Comment

TEG LIVE in arrangement with Solo is proud to announce UK pop legend and relentless explorer Alison Moyet will be touring Australia and New Zealand in October 2017, as part of her recently announced world tour. This will be her first visit to this region in over 30 years. The BRIT Award Winner and Grammy Nominee will be showcasing her catalogue of big hits from the 80s and new material from her soon to be released album, Other.

‘’I'm beyond delighted to be returning to Australia and New Zealand again after 30 years”,  said Moyet, “Having had some considerable time to practice in the interim, I am glad to declare that gigging is my favourite thing ever. My new album 'Other' which continues the electronic sound-bed I favoured on 'the minutes' allows my live work to also present many of my earlier songs in their intended form, albeit with some jiggery pokery. Songs you know well. Songs to introduce you to. 

Ps. I don't do 'invisible' but will do some Yazoo. It's unarguably a fair exchange. ’’

Alison Moyet is best remembered as the lead vocalist with UK electronic duo Yazoo and her many solo hits that made her one of the UKs top female recording artists of all time. Working with Vince Clarke in the early 1980s, Yazoo released many hits including Only You, Nobody’s Diary and Situation.

Between 1984-1987 Alison was the biggest English female singer songwriter. Her first solo album ALF was a UK #1 and had three big international hit songs – Love Resurrection, All Cried Out and Invisible. She continued to release hit singles and albums into the late 80s and in 1991 received a Grammy nomination for her song It Won’t Be Long.  In 2002 she received a BRIT and Mercury Music Prize nomination for her album Hometime, her first album after an eight year break. Alison continued to write and record into the new century and will release her new album Other (through Cooking Vinyl) on June 16th ahead of her much anticipated world tour. 

“For me, making a record at this age, lyrically, is a different proposition. Observation in most cases replaces emotion. The invisibility of middle/aged woman rather thrills me and instead I watch”, explains Moyet.

“Subject matter covers what you might expect from a pop album. Dyslexia, locked-out syndrome, diversity, Persephone, doggedness and the Internet. Always asked what a song is about, I attempted to cooperate, but in truth though the lyrics incorporated my best attempt to describe what I see and of the meaning that is mine. I want, who chooses to, to find their own landscape or indeed none. Some of us have always felt 'Other'. I no longer wish it were otherwise.”

Despite Alison’s professing of age, the music bursts with clarity, vitality and freshness, whether in the zingy Lover Go, chic laid-back soundtrack-style The English U, Beautiful Gun’s nod to her rock and roll roots, the icy Germanic arpeggios of Reassuring Pinches or ambient, spoken-word poem April 10th.

The hauntingly fragile and sparsely presented title track Other, accompanied by a hypnotic video directed by Steve Gullick, is available as an instant track download when pre-ordering the album.

Other finds Alison at the top of her game - making exactly the adventurous electronic pop music she wants to at this moment in time, with her voice and songwriting both intense, poetic and thought provoking. Other was catalysed by Alison’s fruitful dalliance with producer and song writing collaborator Guy Sigsworth, who (as well as having worked with Björk, Goldie and Madonna), co-created her last album the minutes, which debuted at # 5 in the national charts and won critical acclaim.

In addition to Alison studying sculpture at college whilst also creating this new release, other happenings of note since the minutes include receiving an Icon Award at Nordoff Robbins Silver Clef Awards, a hot ticket performance with a 32 piece orchestra at Burberry’s London Fashion Week womenswear show, and her involvement in the RSC’s celebration of Shakespeare’s 400th anniversary where Alison composed and performed a new arrangement of ‘Sigh No More Ladies’ (from Much Ado About Nothing) in their BBC 2 live special.

NEW ZEALAND TOUR DATES:

Friday 13th October 2017

Wellington

Michael Fowler Centre

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Saturday 14th October 2017

Auckland

ASB Theatre

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Monday 16 October 2017

Christchurch

Isaac Theatre

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TICKETING INFORMATION:

Tickets will be available to the general public from 9am Friday 24 March 2017. For further information, head to http://www.alisonmoyet.com/.


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Comments

Shade 08 Jun 2017 10:44:02
Update: 8/06/17

Hollie Smith, one of New Zealand’s most loved singer-songwriters, will be opening for Alison Moyet on her New Zealand tour this October.

Renowned for her incredible live performances and powerhouse vocals, Hollie Smith is the perfect addition to these shows. “So excited, and looking forward to being back in these amazing theatres sharing the stage with this incredibly iconic artist”.

Kicking off in Wellington’s Michael Fowler Centre on Friday 13th October, the tour then heads to Auckland’s ASB Theatre on Saturday 14th October before finishing at the stunningly refurbished Isaac Theatre Royal in Christchurch on Monday 16th October. This final concert in Christchurch has now sold out.

These concerts will undoubtedly be a remarkable musical experience that fans will remember for years to come. Not to be missed!



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