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During my more outlandish moments I often think of a project and quickly dismiss it, filing the idea away in a box of notes, drawings and abandoned projects. Occasionally I try and find out what would happen if I pitched one of my silly ideas and some time in the summer I emailed Alison Moyet's management to suggest a collaboration in which she sang while I played kazoo. The project was to contain re-recordings of the songs she sang with Vince Clarke and it was to be called Yazoo on Kazoo. Originally I pitched it as a YouTube series but soon saw the potential for a tour and an album, so I waited for the reply. It never came, so I emailed again and yesterday I received a reply from a representative of Ms Moyet simply stating that 'this will not be possible'. Having dealt with a handful of famous people in the course of what I loosely refer to as my career, I have learned that it is usually the management that puts the block on things rather than the person themselves who are usually willing to participate. With this in mind I decided to give Alison a tagged mention on Twitter.

Just had email from @AlisonMoyet's management regarding my proposed 'Yazoo on Kazoo' collaboration. Guess what the answer was?

— Steve Oliver (@SteveOliver76) November 6, 2015

A response soon followed...

@SteveOliver76 What d'you expect, after the triumph which was 'Moyet In The Foyer' Performed entirely on a Stylophone in C maj? You're shit

— Alison Moyet (@AlisonMoyet) November 6, 2015

I'm glad she had a sense of humour about it but I don't like the fact that she didn't seem to be taking me seriously. To be honest I am just a little bit disappointed by this knock back because this could have been my breakthrough into the mainstream as a kazoo player. Obviously my Christmas album will sell millions of copies and knock all of the other Christmas releases into a cocked hat but I am still pretty much an underground artist. Perhaps long after I'm dead the kazoo will have become a more popular instrument and the most famous players in the world will declare in interviews that I was a major influence and as a result my work will be re-discovered and every bandwagon jumping chancer will pretend that they were fans of mine before it was cool.

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