Classic Toyah: Hot Press (1981): 30 From Toyah
Toyah was on the cover of, and interviewed in, ‘Hot Press’ twice in 1981. This is the first, from 17th April of that year.
Tara Winter Uncovers The Many Faces Behind The Make-Up
1) Toyah is a dilletante, dabbling in fashionable performance arts for sheer self-gratification.
2) Toyah is a violent sub-cult, fronted by a spitting vixen, getting her kicks from other people’s boots.
3) Toyah is an egomaniac, keeping the musicians in her group in neutral tones, in the dark, out of the picture.
4) Toyah is arrogant, difficult, unreliable, and wears all that make-up to hide acne.
Did you spot the deliberate mistake? Stay behind, anyone who realised that all of the above areuntrue, and I’ll teach you to dance the mashed potato.
When we met on a still-foggy Belfast morning, Toyah was already wide awake, sitting with utter composure amid the bleary salesmen and snaking hoovers that characterise preprandial hotels. We would talk for half an hour, please, and then there was a plane to catch. Tom, Toyah’s boyfriend/minder, set the alarm on his watch…
• Read the full classic Toyah interview by clicking on each of the above scans.
