Alison Moyet wrote "Nobody's Diary" at home as a teenager. In Berlin she sang it back.

Alison Moyet took to the stage at Berlin's Tempodrom as one of the most distinctive voices in British pop. Having started writing lyrics at the age of 16, she joined forces with Vince Clarke in 1981 to form Yazoo, creating songs that remain as beloved today as they were over four decades ago: "Don't Go", "Only You" and "Nobody's Diary", to name just a few. Clarke wrote the first two. "Nobody's Diary", their last single, was hers.

Her current tour, Songs of Yazoo, the minutes & Other, brings together more than forty years of music, revisiting the Yazoo catalogue with fresh, contemporary arrangements alongside material from her solo albums 'the minutes' (2013) and 'Other' (2017).

She opened with "Alive", from 'Other', on a night otherwise built around Yazoo. She closed the encore with "Don't Go".

The Yazoo songs

While the audience roared its appreciation for the familiar Yazoo classics, there was a palpable sense of nostalgia in the room. For many, these were the songs that had accompanied their teenage years, transporting them back to their bedrooms, listening to records and discovering music that would stay with them for a lifetime.

The newer ones

The more recent material, however, invited a different kind of attention. As Moyet herself reflected during the evening, her approach to songwriting has changed over the decades. The lyrical promise she showed as a teenager has matured into richly layered, poetic songwriting, shaped by experience, heartbreak, the lessons of life and the passing of time. These are words that reward those who listen closely, revealing more with every listen.

On stage

Throughout the evening, Moyet's unmistakable voice and commanding stage presence remained at the heart of the performance, with Sean McGhee, Brendan Cox and Paul Jones behind her. Accompanied by an extraordinary lighting design that shifted between intimate, atmospheric moments and dramatic bursts of colour, she delivered a show that was as visually captivating as it was musically powerful.