Alison Moyet 'Desperate' To Tour Aus

The comeback of former Yazoo singer Alison Moyet is well and truly underway, but she wants to share it with her fanbase here in Australia.

"I'm desperate to come," the singer said in a recent interview with theMusic.com.au when asked about touring Australia.

"For me, touring is my absolute favourite thing to do. I really feel at the top of my game both vocally at the moment and also in terms of my headset. I'm in a far more sociable place than I've ever been. I have no fear. So I really, really wanna come. I'm just waiting for the promoters to say 'come' and I will. But the tour is gonna be interesting 'cause it's all synthesisers and programmes and screens – it's gonna be minimal people on stage and a much bigger beat than I've had. The great thing is that I can then revisit my earlier programmed work, like the Yazoo stuff, with a new verve in a way that I couldn't really do when I'm working with a generic band – because the electronica is equally important as the song and the voice on that stuff. So I'm quite excited to be coming back with a far more energy-charged set."

Moyet is back with her first album in six years and said it is heavy on the electronica but promises the melody of the songs won't get lost in the beats.

"One of the things that disappointed me in the '90s was how it became so much about the beat that the voices were kinda getting crushed in nonchalantly to the point where you'd rather there wasn't a voice in there. In the early '80s' electronica, the songs were still prominent as well as the soundscapes. So I wanted to make an album that was interesting and intelligent and beautiful and filmic."

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