More photos from April’s Telling Strange Tales UK tour by The Humans. These are from the final gig at The Britannia. Click below to view larger versions of these at Dreamscape’s Gallery. (Thanks to Angus | Photos © Angus Turner)
A final selection of photos from Toyah & The Humans’ Telling Strange Tales tour. These are from The 100 Club, London last Saturday. Click below to view larger versions of these, and many more, at Dreamscape’s Gallery – scroll down to the fourth set of photos. (Thanks to Mark | Photos © Mark Evans)
More photos from Sunday’s final Telling Strange Tales gig at The Britannia. Toyah & The Humans – They came, they saw, they conquered! Click below to view larger versions of these, and many more, at Dreamscape’s Gallery. (Thanks to Brian | Photos © Brian Marsh)
Photos from Sunday’s Toyah & The Humans gig at The Britannia in Chatham, Kent. Click below to view larger versions of these, and more, at Dreamscape’s Gallery. ( Thanks to Ian [1-5] and Asher [6] | Photos © Ian Davis [1-5] & Asher Meekins [6] )
More of Damon’s photos from Saturday’s Toyah & The Humans gig at The 100 Club, London. Click below to view larger versions of these, and many more, at Dreamscape’s Gallery. (Thanks again to Damon | Photos © Damon King)
The set list for Saturday’s gig. Thanks to Damon. Thanks also to Merx and Ian Davis who sent details about the Gloucester and Chatham set lists. Click below to view a larger version of these, and more, at Dreamscape’s Gallery. (Photos © Damon King)
A great photo of Toyah onstage at The 100 Club at Saturday’s Toyah & The Humans gig. I’ll be adding this and more from The 100 Club as well as photos from Sunday’s gig at The Britannia Chatham, to Dreamscape’s Gallery soon. (Thanks to Damon | Photo © Damon King)
• Watch/Listen to a selection of footage/songs from Saturday’s Telling Strange Tales gig at the Toyah Fan Videos You Tube channel. (Thanks to Lärwi)
The Humans tour ends tonight – Revisit Telling Strange Tales by browsing Dreamscape’s News.
Toyah and Bill Rieflin onstage last night at The 100 Club, London.
Toyah tweeted this great photo below yesterday, in the build up to the penultimate gig: “Back at the @100clubLondon after 35 years! It is chocka full 2nite“.
The Humans will be Telling Strange Tales for the final time on this tour tonight at The Britannia, Chatham. (Photo below © Toyah Willcox)
Toyah & The Humans at Gloucester Guildhall last Tuesday. Click on the photo to view a larger version of this, and more, at the Live 2015 page at Dreamscape’s Gallery. (Thanks to Angus | Photo © Angus Turner)
Things To Do In London This Weekend: 18-19 April 2015
TOYAH WILLCOX: Toyah — yes TOYAH — performs an intimate gig alongside The Humans tonight at the 100 Club on Oxford Street. 18+. £12, 7pm.
• Telling Strange Tales: This weekend sees the final two concerts of The Humans’ Telling Strange Tales tour – The 100 Club, London and The Britannia, Chatham.
• Twitter: Toyah has been tweeting about the gigs: “Southampton Talking Heads was possibly best HUMANS gig ever ….AWESOME“, “THE HUMANS shows r going from strength 2 strength. 2nite swansea. 2morrow LONDON! We will rock u“.
• AGMP Concerts: There’s 2 chances to see Toyah and The Humans this weekend, #london #chatham. Get your tickets now!
• You Tube: The Humans (feat. Toyah) live 11 April 2015 at Trading Boundaries: 1. Get in Your Car (from the album ‘Strange Tales’), 2. Amnesia (from the album ‘Strange Tales’), 3. Smalltown Psychopath (from the album ‘Sugar Rush’), 4. Sea of Size (from the album ‘Sugar Rush’), 5. Put a Woman on the Moon (from the album ‘Sugar Rush’), 6. Demigod (from the album ‘We Are the Humans’) – Watch/Listen here…
Toyah Willcox to play Uplands venue with band The Humans
Homo Sapians began to evolve 200,000 years ago, but The Humans first appeared in Estonia in 2007.
The band is fronted by Toyah Willcox, who first announced herself to British cultural consciousness in the late seventies, first in Jubilee, the seminal piece of punk celluloid, and then forging her own solo musical career with a string of top 40 UK hits during the eighties, an explosion of colour and energy.
• Continue reading at the South Wales Evening Post.
The interview with Toyah and Bill Rieflin, which aired on Monday night on Severn FM’s The Encyclopaedia of Rock, is now available to listen to online.
Beginning at approximately 43 minutes into the programme. Toyah talks the history of The Humans, and the album Strange Tales – with a play of the wonderful Amnesia – The second part of the interview, which includes Bill Rieflin explaining how he initially became a member of The Humans, begins at approximately 59 minutes in and runs for around 12 minutes.
• Listen here. (Click on 13/04/15 Aerosmith Von Hertzen Toyah and The Humans)
She has been a household name since the eighties, and Toyah Willcox is heading to Gloucester Guildhall tonight (Dreamscape: It’s tomorrow night!) for an intimate gig with her band The Humans.
Toyah isn’t straying far from home when she plays at the Guildhall tonight. The Brummie-born singer lives just over the county border in Worcestershire.
“Looking back on my career I think I’m someone with a good voice who can express themselves,” says Toyah who lives in Pershore with her musician husband Robert Fripp.
“I don’t think you can define it by one subject. I’m a singer and an actress but I’ve also done very well as a businesswoman. But I like to create, I like to sing, I’m very good at that, I’m a good actress but I’m stylised. I can’t lose myself in a role so there’s limitations.”
Outspoken, free-spirited and strong-willed, on the surface Toyah appears to be your typical punk rock star. But she is now known for her smoky, jazz hall vocals.
• Continue reading at the Gloucestershire Echo. Browse Toyah & The Humans’ tour dates.
Another photo of Toyah & The Humans last night at Trading Boundaries. Click on the photo to view a larger version of this, and more, at the Live 2015 page at Dreamscape’s Gallery. The Humans will be Telling Strange Tales next at Gloucester’s Guildhall on Tuesday – View the full tour schedule. (Thanks to Angus | Photo © Angus Turner)
• Proud, Loud & Electric: Angus also sent a couple of photos from Toyah’s gig at The Tivoli Theatre, Wimborne from the end of March – View at Dreamscape’s Gallery. (Thanks again to Angus)
The Humans last night at Trading Boundaries, Uckfield. The first gig of the Telling Strange Tales tour. Click on the photo to view a larger version of this, and more, at the Live 2015 page at Dreamscape’s Gallery. (Thanks to Paul | Photo © Paul Stephens)
The Humans six-date UK Tour, Telling Strange Tales, kicked off last night in Uckfield. Toyah tweeted this great photo yesterday: “Thank u 2 “TRADING BOUNDARIES” for inviting THE HUMANS to open our tour 2nite. Fab venue. Cant wait xxx“. (Photo © Toyah Willcox)
Toyah Willcox has been pushing the boundaries of creativity for over 3 decades. Whether it’s through music or performance, she has never shied away from following her instincts. Her current creative project with The Humans is about experimenting with storytelling through sound. Toyah tells me “sonically it’s like nothing you’ve ever heard before because we’re very bass driven. I absolutely love the bass as an instrument of tonal beauty. With this band I wanted to make sure there
was nothing competing with the frequency but the voice work. So the voice sits upon this very masculine bass.” The juxtaposition of a feminine vocal and dominant percussive instruments gives The Human their unique sound and breaks down musical boundaries.
• Continue reading at Photo Groupie.
• Toyah’s Blog: The Humans on Tour: “We’re going to perform all of STRANGE TALES. It takes such a crazy journey in sound” – Stay updated on Toyah & The Humans direct from Toyah at Twitter… (Photo © Toyah Willcox)
• DGM Live: King Crimson’s Bill Rieflin is working in the UK this month with his other band, The Humans – Continue reading…
• You Tube: Toyah Willcox & The Humans are coming to Trading Boundaries, Uckfield on Saturday 11 April. Watch this video to hear her talking about the gig – Watch here…
• Toyah @ Twitter: A very Humans lunch – View here…
• AGMP Concerts: The Humans: Next Saturday Toyah & The Humans will play a rare show at the beautifully intimate 100 Club, London – Ticket link here…
• Gloucester Guildhall: Not long until we welcome Toyah & The Humans – Ticket link here…
• Telling Strange Tales: Tickets for all dates here…
• Five Live!: The line-up for THE HUMANS: TELLING STRANGE TALES UK Tour which kicks off on Saturday 11 April at Trading Boundaries is Toyah, Bill Rieflin & Chris Wong with guest Humans Igor Abuladaze and Jake Wilson. (Info/Image Source: Official Toyah Facebook)
Toyah’s April blog is now available over at toyahwillcox.com. Toyah talks The Humans: “I hope you can make it to the gigs. The band is very different to when we last toured the UK. It is all very exciting. Don’t forget you can get the STRANGE TALES album CD hard copy at the gigs too“.
