She will be joined by T’Pau front-woman Carol Decker and Fame Academy runner-up Sinead Quinn.

They will be followed onto the famous Bents Park stage by The Soundpower Orchestra and X Factor star Andy Abrahams, who represented Great Britain at last year’s Eurovision Song Contest, before the open air season closes on Sunday August 2 with a live performance from legendary ABBA tribute act Bjorn Again.

Live music will also be on offer throughout June and July at the Amphitheatre on Sea Road.

Highlights at the amphitheatre include a special appearance by The Original Boomtown Rats, featuring Gary Roberts and Simon Crowe, plus a unique performance by the Bangla Awaz Singing Group on July 16.

The two-part documentary, that aired last month (and repeated on BBC4 tonight), chose to not dedicate any air time atall to Toyah's contribution to music.

But her ever faithful fans have ensured she has been recognised, and included along with some other legendary female singers.

1. Kate Bush
2. Annie Lennox
3. Kim Wilde
4. Kylie Minogue
5. Dusty Springfield
6. Leona Lewis
7. Toyah
8. Geri Halliwell
9. Siouxsie Sioux
10. Kirsty MacColl

It's fitting for this to happen during Toyah's 30th year as a recording artist. Well done everyone! Well done Toyah!!

Unfortunately I don't have these any larger than the pictures I've added, but great photographs from two interesting Toyah eras all the same!

We may cringe at our wardrobes from 1982, a year in which lace gloves, legwarmers, and stonewashed denim featured heavily, but Eighties fashion is back in vogue.

With a new series of Ashes To Ashes back on television, we go back to the Eighties to find out who were those heroes of yesteryear and what they remember about those multicoloured days.

TOYAH WILLCOX

Fashion icon of the time was Toyah Willcox, 50, named Best British Singer at the Rock and Pop Awards (now the Brits). She says:

Back In 1982, I was recognised everywhere I went - I had the big, pink hair, and I dressed the part in black PVC boots and little dresses. My nightmare would have been to have been seen without full make-up.

Post-punk was moving into New Wave and New Romanticism, you lived the dream and wore the uniform every day, that was part of the movement. My schedule was exhausting.

When we shot the award-winning Brave New World video, in which I wore black contact lenses (wearing different coloured contact lenses was very 'in' in 1982) I was up at 2am in make-up, then posing on a freezing beach in Hastings at 4am.

I was then driven into London where I was shot riding a horse at Battersea power station until four in the afternoon. Then we filmed through the night at Wandsworth studio - and I had a concert the next day.

For me, 1982 was a year that empowered women. I loved the fashion - at last British women ditched all those boring Laura Ashley prints.

Huge shoulder pads were in, thanks to Joan Collins in Dynasty, and London was the hippest place to be, thanks to designers such as Vivienne Westwood and Katharine Hamnett.

Perhaps my most spectacular stage outfit was the one I wore to sing Thunder In The Mountains on Top Of The Pops.

I had 2ft-high hair in the shape of a sunflower, thigh-length black PVC boots and a black suede cavewoman dress. For one shoot, when I had almost vertical pink hair, it took me 12 hours to get ready. In that year, you felt you could wear anything, the sky was the limit.

Make-up was also outrageous - I went through a period of wearing cubist designs on my face. Boys and girls dressed alike - men looked like peacocks in their make-up and over-sized shirts.

In terms of politics, Margaret Thatcher typified the 'can-do' role of women, though I didn't agree with her policies. It was an important year for women, as we were starting to be taken seriously in our own right.

Also, just a quick reminder that the second series of Ashes To Ashes begins tonight:

Ashes To Ashes : Monday 20th April - BBC1 : 9.00pm
Police drama. When a man is found dead in a Soho strip club, it looks like a sex game has gone wrong. So when the deceased is discovered to be a police officer, Gene and Alex are ordered to keep the case under wraps. But when the pathologist uncovers signs that the officer was murdered, the team must venture into dangerous territory, and Alex finds herself kidnapped by a man whose words threaten her whole perspective on this world. Is it possible that someone has found her in the future? Director: Catherine Morshead. Starring: Philip Glenister, Keeley Hawes, Dean Andrews, Marshall Lancaster, Montserrat Lombard, and Roger Allam.

Confirmed album track list:

The Humans
We Are The Humans
Cat no: HUMCD01E (Limited Edition)

1. We Are The Humans.
2. Is It Wrong
3. Twisted Soul
4. Telekinesis
5. Quicksilver
6. Labyrinth
7. Icarus
8. Noise In Your Head
9. This Belongs To You
10. Demigod

As well as announcing the above details about 'We Are The Humans', The Humans MySpace also has a competition with prizes of the album and an exclusive poster.

The Official Toyah MySpace and www.toyahwillcox.com have also been updated with news on The Humans long-awaited album.

The Facebook entry reads: We were all excited to see our Power of 3 in full costume and makeup for the publicity shots this morning. Here are a couple of sneaky shots taken by the photographer's assistant while her boss wasn't looking.

The details are as follows:

Copelands Athletic Stadium, Whitehaven, Cumbria:
SATURDAY 15TH AUGUST 2009

Rick Astley
Belinda Carlisle
Midge Ure
Paul Young
Curiosity Killed The Cat
Toyah

Tickets available from: Ticketmaster (0870 534 4444), and at www.thefestival.org.uk

With so many influential female figures in British pop music, it was a difficult task to feature all of them in our documentary. In fact, we only had time for 12, however we've endeavoured to showcase more here on the Queens of British Pop website with classic clips from our archive.

Now we'd like to find out who your favourite Queen of British Pop is.

Please click here to go vote for Toyah.

There is also a clip of Toyah performing 'I Want To Be Free' on Cheggers Plays Pop from 1981 to view.

Queens Of British Pop : BBC1 - Wednesday 8th April : 10.45pm
A celebration of six queens of British pop music, and a look at their impact between 1980 and 2009. This programme profiles Annie Lennox, Alison Moyet, Kylie Minogue, Geri Halliwell, Amy Winehouse and Leona Lewis. These female stars take us from post-punk to The X Factor, with a slice of girl power along the way. Narrated by Lisa Tarbuck, with contributors including Annie Lennox, Dawn French, Dave Stewart, Alison Moyet, Pete Waterman, Alexandra Burke, Leona Lewis, Lily Allen and Adele.

Toyah also talks about The Humans in her April blog.

The Truth About Eternal Youth is now available to watch at the ITV Player for the next month.

The Facebook intro reads: The Power of Three, a low budget feature film begins filming on location in Belsize Park, London on April 4. Due for release this Autumn we invite you to share our film making journey.

Click on the pre-production photographs above to visit The Power Of Three Facebook.

This programme is now available to watch at the BBC iPlayer for the next seven days.

The incredible line-up will feature Eighties legends Belinda Carlisle, Midge Ure, Paul Young and Rick Astley as well as Toyah and Curiosity Killed the Cat.

It will take place at Whitehaven’s sports stadium, Hensingham, on August 15 and tickets are now on sale.

The hugely successful Here And Now shows have sold out big arenas such as Wembley and the likes of Ascot. They bring the best of the stars of the Eighties together for a night of pure, feel-good nostalgia.

It is a massive coup for organisers, Whitehaven Festival Company, who wanted to build on last year’s successful Status Quo gig. Promoter Gerard Richardson said: “It is going to be absolutely incredible, a complete and utter party night.

“We looked at a number of different acts and different styles such as classical or rock and in the process of talking to agents we heard about Here and Now,” he said. “They are selling out stadiums all over the place and we could not resist it. They had one spare date and said they would come up to Whitehaven.”

The main six acts will perform separately between around 7.30pm and 10.30pm, and there may also be some support bands.

Read the full report here.

• Quadrophenia : Sky Movies Indie - Wednesday 8th April : 11.45pm

Bargain Hunt Famous Finds : BBC2 - Wednesday 1st April : 5.15pm
Toyah Willcox v Kiki Dee. Rock chicks Toyah Willcox and Kiki Dee have shared the same bill in the past, but never for bargain hunting. The two women, both queens of the music business for over a quarter of a century, try to prove who has the best talent at spotting bargains. They both search an antique centre in Farnham, Surrey for treasures which will then be sold at an auction in Chiswick.

The Truth About Eternal Youth : ITV1 - Thursday 2nd April : 9.00pm
Teen pop star turned middle-aged TV presenter Coleen Nolan takes a look at the options available to help people look younger. Coleen has chosen to grow old gracefully, and has never used fillers, Botox, surgery, lasers or peels, but now she investigates the way she might look in the future if she takes the 'improvement' path. She meets other women who have had treatment, including her celebrity friends, and a 50-year-old who looks 30. By the end of her journey, will Coleen be tempted?