Following her Top 30 hit album Posh Pop and Isle of Wight Festival performance Toyah unveils details of the new Rhythm Deluxe Edition of studio album In The Court of The Crimson Queen, presented as a prequel to Posh Pop.
The definitive version of the album now contains Toyah’s unique interpretation of the iconic song Slave To The Rhythm, — out to stream this Friday, 12th August — featuring Robert Fripp on guitar and produced by Simon Darlow, co-writer of the original track.
The album also contains three brand new remakes of Sensational, Heal Ourselves and Latex Messiah featuring the Posh Pop Three of Toyah, Simon Darlow and Robert Fripp. Plus exclusively revised artwork and lyrics for the album.
• Pre-order heavyweight 2-LP Translucent Red Vinyl: or CD now by clicking below.
Toyah’s Sack The Stylist?! Top 30: NOW 80s: Monday 15th August: 9am
Pop legend Toyah brings 30 memorable videos featuring a cavalcade of clothing calamities from superstars including Visage, Five Star, Divine, Cher, The Jam, Bananarama, Dead Or Alive, Bucks Fizz, ABC, Depeche Mode, David Bowie, Madonna, Adam & The Ants, A Flock Of Seagulls, Roxy Music, Kajagoogoo, Duran Duran, Grace Jones, Su Pollard, Toyah herself and more in this crazy countdown! See the full Toyah’s Sack The Stylist?! Top 30playlist here.
• Guitar.Com: Robert Fripp and Toyah Board The Crazy Train With Ozzy Osbourne Cover On This Week’s Sunday Lunch – Continue…
• NME: Watch Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox put their ‘Sunday Lunch’ spin on Ozzy Osbourne’s ‘Crazy Train’: The couple’s new cover sees Willcox nod to Osbourne’s aesthetic with a cross necklace and fringe gloves – Continue…
• Classic Rock/Louder: Toyah and Robert Fripp clamber aboard Ozzy Osbourne’s Crazy Train: Yet another quiet Sunday lunch at Fripp-Willcox Manor – Continue…
• Metal Sucks: King Crimson’s Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox Cover Ozzy’s “Crazy Train” – Continue…
• Consequence: Robert Fripp and Toyah Jump Aboard Ozzy Osbourne’s “Crazy Train”: The frisky couple pay homage to the Prince of Darkness in their latest “Sunday Lunch” performance – Continue…
• Far Out: Watch Robert Fripp and Toyah Wilcox cover Ozzy Osbourne’s ‘Crazy Train’ – Continue…
Toyah’s new single, Slave To The Rhythm, is released digitally on Friday 12th August. Produced by Simon Darlow, who co-write the track originally, it features Robert Fripp on guitar. The video will premiere exclusively during Toyah At Home on Saturday 13th August.
Celebrity Moneybags: Channel 4: Monday 15th August: 5pm Celebrity Moneybags: Channel 4: Tuesday 16th August: 5pm Celebrity Moneybags: Channel 4: Wednesday 17th August: 5pm Celebrity Moneybags: Channel 4: Thursday 18th August: 5pm Celebrity Moneybags: Channel 4: Friday 19th August: 5pm Series 2, Episodes 1-5. Craig Charles hosts the first in a week of celebrity editions of the high-stakes quiz that puts mental speed to the test, with prizes on offer worth £1,000 to £100,000. The celebrities who are hoping that they’ll be randomly selected are actor Catherine Tyldesley, Olympic athlete Greg Rutherford, Steps star Claire Richards, comedian and actor Nina Wadia, Celebs Go Dating’s Tom Read Wilson, actor Kate Robbins, comedian Dane Baptiste, Atomic Kitten singer Natasha Hamilton, original punk wild child Toyah Willcox and fitness legend Mr Motivator.
Give Them Wings review – down but not out in Darlington
Daniel Watson and Toyah Willcox shine as a disabled man and his doughty mam
Give Them Wings is the biopic of Paul Hodgson, who seven months after he was born in 1965 was diagnosed with meningococcal meningitis. If that wasn’t bad enough, he survived his precarious childhood to become a devout fan of Durham’s hapless Darlington FC – it’s criminal that this low-budget British indie wasn’t titled Give Them Wingers.
An ex-civil servant and now a screenwriter and producer, Hodgson has spent his life confined to a wheelchair and hampered by a speech impediment. Directed by onetime Bond heavy Sean Cronin (who cast himself as a football thug), the film version of Hodgson’s 2021 memoir isn’t a world-beater, but it is a crowd-pleasing underdog with guts, grit and an admirable streak of unsentimental humour.
Set in the late 1980s, Hodgson’s story of striving unfolds in the drab Northern terrain familiar from early ‘60s realist films, the so-called British New Wave.
A very rare performance of I Want To Be Free for last week’s Toyah Tuesday/Anthem Deluxe countdown. NB. Go here for a preview of the upcoming Toyah Tuesday premiere.
Toyah’s Sack The Stylist?! Top 30: NOW 80s: Monday 8th August: 9pm
Pop legend Toyah brings 30 memorable videos featuring a cavalcade of clothing calamities from superstars including Visage, Five Star, Divine, Cher, The Jam, Bananarama, Dead Or Alive, Bucks Fizz, ABC, Depeche Mode, David Bowie, Madonna, Adam & The Ants, A Flock Of Seagulls, Roxy Music, Kajagoogoo, Duran Duran, Grace Jones, Su Pollard, Toyah herself and more in this crazy countdown! See the full Toyah’s Sack The Stylist?! Top 30playlist here.
It’s Tuesday, and that means Official Toyah continue the countdown to the Remastered and Expanded editions of Toyah’s Gold-selling album Anthem – released by @Cherry Red Records on 9 September. Pre-order Gold coloured Vinyl, 2CD+DVD or Super Deluxe Box Set now at Cherry Red.
Next up, it’s a very rare performance of the iconic I Want To Be Free. So rare in fact you may never have seen Toyah in this particular outfit.
• Toyah At Home: Reaction to We Are – Watch… • Toyah & Robert’s Objects Of Desire – Watch… • Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch – Are You Gonna Go My Way? – Watch…
• Guitar.Com: Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox Take On Lenny Kravit’s Are You Gonna Go My Way: Serving flying tortilla shells and killer guitar for lunch – Continue…
• NME: Watch Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox cover Lenny Kravitz’s ‘Are You Gonna Go My Way’: Another Sunday Lunch is served – Continue…
• Classic Rock/Louder: Meet Robert Fripp and Toyah and their magic disappearing pancakes: Oh no! Robert Fripp has a tortilla on his head! – Continue…
• Brooklyn Vegan: Watch Toyah & Robert cover Lenny Kravit’s “Are You Gonna Go My Way” – Continue…
• Metal Sucks: King Crimson’s Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox Cover Lenny Kravitz’s “Are You Gonna Go My Way?” – Continue…
• Melody Maker Magazine: King Crimson’s Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox Cover Lenny Kravitz’s “Are You Gonna Go My Way?” – Continue…
• Brave Words: Robert Fripp & Toyah Perform Lenny Kravitz Classic “Are You Gonna Go My Way” – Continue…
Season 1, Episode 15: This week we’re joined by teenage rebel, Toyah Willcox. The ever-regenerating actress and musician has topped YouTube charts for her Sunday Lunch series with husband Robert, and Kaye & Karen talk to Toyah about her upbringing, finding humour in everything she does, and much more.
You can join Kaye and Karen at the Edinburgh Fringe on 23rd & 24th August at the Gilded Balloon, with lots of special guests. Get your tickets here.
• Listen to Toyah’s interview, on How To be 60 – With Kaye Adams podcast, here.
As well as Warboys – Live at Paris Theatre being made available today, there’s also a concert video premiere of War Boys – Live in Germany at Toyah’s You Tube channel. Click below to watch.
Toyah heading for Ipswich with Let’s Rock at Trinity Park
A host of 80s stars will turn the clock back 40 years when a major music event comes to Trinity Park near Ipswich in September to round off the Festival of Suffolk.
Among the bill-toppers at “Let’s Rock – Ipswich” will be UK entertainment icon Toyah who is paying a return visit to an area she has played several times during her career.
She will share the stage with Adam Ant, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, ABC, and Ipswich’s own Nik Kershaw among other massive names from a great era in music.
Toyah spoke to us about her visit – and the importance of 80s music. She said: “It really is great, we all get along together very well and there is a real energy about that era that means we all have a great time.
“When I’m touring myself and doing a full set I do a lot of my new material – but with this I have about 20 minutes and I concentrate on the 80s stuff, that’s what people have come to hear.”
• Continue reading at the Ipswich Star. See further info on Let’s Rock Ipswich 2022 and ticket link at toyahwillcox.com.
Toyah Willcox on sex In later life, hysterectomies and checking your body
Season 1, Episode. 3: Singer, actor and YouTube sensation Toyah Willcox doesn’t just want to keep living, she wants to feel as full of life as she can for as long as possible.
In this episode, Toyah speaks openly about keeping intimacy alive in later life, and how communication and understanding can help women flourish when it comes to sex, relationships and living life to its full potential.
• Listen to Toyah’s interview, on the Women’s Health – Breaking The Taboos podcast, here.
The next preview of the remastered edition of Anthem drops this coming Friday. War Boys – Live at Paris Theatre is out to stream/download on Friday 29th July. Pre-save the track now by clicking on the stunning digital artwork below.
This track was performed live during an in concert session for the BBC at their London Paris Theatre on 1st April 1981. It’s never previously been released on any commercial release or Toyah release. Newly remastered from the BBC mastertapes, it appears with five other tracks from the same concert on the 2CD+DVD edition which is also part of the Super Deluxe Box Set.
• Pre-order Anthem LP, 2CD+DVD or Super Deluxe Box Set at Cherry Red.
Dreamscape’s TOYAH Fanzine is hitting 50 issues. It’s fitting that the 50th fanzine should be a celebration of Toyah’s legendary album ANTHEM (though as a Toyah fan since 1980 just about everything Toyah has ever created/released/worked on is legendary to me!). I’m working on these now and will continue for the next few weeks, to be completed, printed and in the post for early September. There’s just a few more days left to order.
Following her Top 30 hit album Posh Pop and Isle of Wight Festival performance Toyah unveils details of the new Rhythm Deluxe Edition of studio album In The Court of The Crimson Queen, presented as a prequel to Posh Pop.
