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Toyah Willcox joins Greatest Hits Radio as Martin Kemp heads to jungle

Toyah Willcox is joining Greatest Hits Radio to cover for Martin Kemp while he travels to Australia to take part in I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here.

The news comes after Toyah’s successful run on sister station Greatest Hits Radio 80s, and she will now take over Martin’s Mix Tape across Friday and Saturday nights from 21 November.

Toyah says she cannot wait to get started, adding that she is thrilled to cover the show while Martin “is eating bugs in the jungle”.

She promises that the Mix Tape will be “party central” throughout her residency and says she is looking forward to spending the next few weeks with Greatest Hits Radio’s audience.

• Continue reading at On the Radio. See also Official Toyah, Radio Today, Rayo, Bauer Media.

Toyah’s penultimate blog for 2025 is now online to read at toyahwillcox.com.

To be released November 21st, Ophelia’s Shadow and Take The Leap! on 2CD and Picture Disc. Available to pre-order now! See Toyah talk about both here. (Screenshot © Toyah)

Quadrophenia: Sky Cinema Greats: Monday 17th November: 1.35pm
Quadrophenia: Sky Cinema Greats: Monday 24th November: 2.25pm
Quadrophenia: Sky Cinema Greats: Tuesday 25th November: 10.15am
The Who wrote and produced this energetic story of a young man disillusioned with his life in 1960s London. Phil Daniels excels as the alienated anti-hero Jimmy Cooper. Director: Franc Roddam. Starring: Phil Daniels, Leslie Ash, Toyah Willcox, Philip Davis, Mark Wingett, Sting, and Ray Winstone.

We had another faberoonie day out in Glasgow last week… Beginning with a great breakfast at The Crystal Palace, then onto, the amazing, Glasgow Cathedral – an incredible place, full of history and ambience, and also the oldest building in Scotland! – in the East End. We followed this with a visit to the Botanic Gardens in the West End, and finished our day off in the city centre, including a trip to HMV on Argyle Street to do some Toyah spotting, and get some photos with our favourite Still Game characters. Pure brilliant!

• See all our 2025 “tour dates” :) here! (Photos © David Fleming)

Celebrity Help! My House Is Haunted: Really: Wednesday 26th November: 0.00am
Toyah Willcox. Series 1, episode 5. The team undergoes one of the most terrifying investigations yet when visiting Toyah Willcox, who has experienced strange activity in her home ever since she moved in.

• Saturday Song: I Want To Be Free (Vintage) – Watch… • Toyah & Robert: UpBeat Moments: Watch… • Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch – Shout At The Devil – Watch… (Image © Toyah)

Toyah: Meteorite – a new book lands on Earth late Nov

Published November 2025 by A Way with Media, Meteorite is Toyah Willcox’s fearless visual memoir of survival, creativity, and reinvention.

From a childhood shaped by disability and isolation, she found liberation through music, theatre, and punk rebellion. Inspired by icons like Marc Bolan and David Bowie, Toyah forged her own path as a singer, actress, and performer—defying industry expectations and carving out a fiercely independent identity.

Spanning her rise to fame, creative sanctuaries in France and Seattle, and her enduring partnership with Robert Fripp, Meteorite is an honest, raw, and inspiring celebration of individuality and resilience—a manifesto for anyone who has ever felt underestimated or silenced. The book coincides with an extensive UK tour. Beginning March 2026, Toyah/Songs & Stories spans 49 dates and offer an intimate evening of music and revealing insights from a career spanning five decades.

Toyah says: “Meteorite is my story told through the energy that has carried me through decades of music, performance, and reinvention. Each song, image, and memory feels like a fragment of light — moments that burned bright, collided, and reshaped who I am and had a lasting influence on my fans. Like the tour itself, this book is about connection: with the music, with the images that have defined each era, and with everyone who has been part of this incredible journey.”

Available in two editions, both feature new and unheard music. “Swipe Right, Paradise is an exclusive collection only available with this book and brings together previously unreleased demos from various sessions right to five new song demos recorded in 2025.

• Continue reading at toyahwillcox.com.

Boxed, Hardback, Exclusive CD, Signed Bookplate, 224pp… Order Luxe Edition.

Boxed, Hardback, Archive Scrapbook, Exclusive Vinyl, Signed Bookplate, 224pp… Order Super Luxe Edition. (Screenshots © Toyah)

A new Toyah album is always good news…

Available exclusively with Toyah’s new book, Meteorite, in two editions – CD and vinyl – both feature new and unheard music.

Swipe Right, Paradise is an exclusive collection only available with this book and brings together previously unreleased demos from various sessions right to five new song demos recorded in 2025.

Pre-order Meteorite in Luxe (with Swipe Right, Paradise CD) and Super Luxe editions (with Swipe Right, Paradise vinyl) at awaywithmedia.com. (Screenshot © Toyah)

Tracklist: 1. Best Day On Earth (Demo), 2. Natural Born Astronaut (Demo), 3. Moonage Wild (Demo), 4. Paradise (Demo), 5. The Science Of Me (Demo), 6. Swipe Right, Paradise (Demo), 7. Kamikaze Girl (Demo), 8. I Am The Feast (Demo), 9. Love You To Death (Demo)

• Toyah At Home: November 2025 – Watch… • Toyah & Robert: UpBeat Moments – Watch… • Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch: Happy Halloween – Watch… (Image © Toyah Willcox)

A new month means a brand new Toyah At Home episode. Toyah has a catch-up on this week’s fabulous gigs… what’s been going on, and there’s also an announcement of a special new book release called Meteorite.

Another review of Adam Ant’s Antmusic 2025 UK Tour, this one by Rockfiend, focusing on the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall date(s).

Joining Adam on some of the tour is Toyah, whose connection with Adam dates way back to their involvement in the film ‘Jubilee’. Toyah’s shows in recent years have often been padded out unnecessarily with covers, but I’m pleased to report that tonight’s set was all her own material – and all the better for it.

Toyah is a real pocket rocket and connected really well with the Glasgow audience throughout, which made for an entertaining watch, but her vocals were equally impressive. Of course, we got the big hits – ‘Thunder In The Mountains’, ‘It’s A Mystery’ and ‘I Want To Be Free’ – but most enjoyable for me were the lesser known tracks ‘Neon Womb’ and ‘Ieya’, with the latter dedicated to a delighted member of the crowd who had been eagerly shouting for it. All in, it was a really enjoyable and fun set. My only gripe was that the cymbals and toms on the drummers electronic kit were largely inaudible at times.

• Continue reading at Rockfiend. Toyah continues to be support on the Antmusic 2025 Tour on dates between tonight and Wednesday 12th November. Browse the dates at toyahwillcox.com. See a review of Toyah at the Bournemouth date, here.  (Photo © David Fleming)

Toyah’s Wonderful World Of Weird
The Witch’s Finger
An original short story
Written & read by Toyah Willcox

A brand new short story – the eighth – written by and narrated by Toyah!

As Halloween approaches, Toyah brings you an original weird and wonderful story, The Witch’s Finger.

“I have always loved short stories, they can inhabit any world from suburbia to the fantastic. When time is short and long distances need to be travelled, the short story has taken me to places i willingly want to go to. So whether you have five minutes to spare, or you want to escape for a while…join me and my love of the unpredictable. Welcome to Toyah’s Wonderful World of Weird…”

• Listen at Toyah’s official You Tube and Facebook. Browse our other Toyah’s Wonderful World Of Weird posts, here. (Image © Toyah)

Our latest Dreamscape On Tour! date was a very special and exciting one as myself and my pal Alec went for a lovely meal in the city centre and then to Glasgow’s Royal Concert Hall on Sunday night to see Toyah supporting Adam And on his Ant Music Tour 2025.

I’ve saw Toyah live many times over the years, the first time in 1981 at Glasgow Apollo – on the legendary Anthem Tour, and Alec even more times than me – he even went to New York specifically to see Toyah & The Humans live, and yet we both agreed Sunday night’s support set was one of the best experiences of ever seeing Toyah live. Amazing!

She sounded incredible – that note during Ieya…,, and awesome Neon Womb, stunning Race Through Space, mesmerising Rebel Run – looked amazing – her new tour look is gorgeous, a touch of the old but also up-to-date new, and performed to a packed Concert Hall (a fantastic venue) on the first of two dates in the city.

We both had a great time, and Adam wasn’t half bad either, though we were both there to see Toyah. A great night was finished off with a few drinks and lots of chat about a memorable gig.

• See all our 2025 “tour dates” :) here! See many more photos and a couple of videos at my Facebook or Instagram. I’ve had a lot of great feedback about the photos I took at the gig. (All photos © David Fleming)

A great review, by Bournemouth Echo, for Toyah on Adam Ant’s Ant Music 2025 Tour, from the opening date at Bournemouth BIC.

Review: Adam Ant at the BIC in Bournemouth

It was two legends for the price of one at the Bournemouth International Centre.

First up we had the pleasure of the full on Toyah experience.

Looking sharp and sounding sharper still, this is a performer who has lost none of the enthusiasm and brilliant stage craft that saw her storm the charts in the eighties.

The thing about having a performer as good as Toyah as your support is that there is a good chance they might steal the show.

Tonight that may just have been the case.

• Continue reading at the Bournemouth Echo. (Photo © David Fleming)

• Saturday Song: Insects (Live At Lafayette Wolverhampton) – Watch… • Toyah & Robert: UpBeat Moments: Watch… • Toyah & Robert’s Halloween Sunday Lunch – Highway To Hell – Watch…

Press for Toyah & Robert’s new Sunday Lunch. This week covering AC/DC. (Image © Toyah Willcox)

• Louder: Robert Fripp dons Satanic nun costume as Toyah sings an AC/DC classic and we may never sleep again: Just another Halloween-themed afternoon in the Fripp-Willcox kitchen – Continue…

• Brooklyn Vegan: Watch Toyah & Robert Fripp cover AC/DC’s “Highway to Hell” for Halloween – Continue…

• NME: Watch Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox cover AC/DC’s ‘Highway To Hell’ in costume for Halloween ‘Sunday Lunch’ special: The married couple put the series on hold earlier this year after Fripp suffered a heart attack – Continue…

• Far Out: Watch Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp take on AC/DC in new Halloween special – Continue…

• Brave Words: Robert Fripp And Toyah Perform AC/DC Classic On 2025 Halloween Sunday Lunch Episode – Continue…

• DGM Live: Toyah & Robert’s Weekend – Continue…

Catch up on a selection of Toyah BBC interviews at The Toyah Willcox Interview Archive.

As well as full transcripts, and related photos, of each interview there’s also a link to listen to each interview too.

BBC Radio Two: Sounds Of The 80’s: 19th July 2025
Gary Davies interviews Toyah • Read/Listen here…

BBC Breakfast: August 2025
Jon Kay and Sarah Campbell interview Toyah • Read/Listen here…

BBC Radio Two: Scott Mills Breakfast Show: 8th August 2025
Scott interviews Toyah • Read/Listen here…

BBC Radio Two: Tracks Of My Years: 1st September 2025
Vernon Kay interviews Toyah • Read/Listen here…

BBC Radio London: Carrie & David Grant: 13th September 2025
David and Carrie interview Toyah • Read/Listen here…

• Click to visit the archive. Find links to all of the new, and previous, transcripts on the right hand sidebar of the blog/website.

Toyah onstage, on the opening date of Adam Ant’s Ant Music 2025 Tour, at Bournemouth International Centre on Thursday night. Toyah also played Utilita Arena in Cardiff last night.

• See more photos at Facebook and Instagram. (Photo © Toyah)

There’s a new Sunday Lunch coming tomorrow for Halloween 2025! (Screenshot © Toyah)

Toyah guested on Never Mind The Buzzcocks on Tuesday night on Sky Max and Sky Showcase.

We had a great day out in Glasgow earlier this week, visiting the amazing Purrple Cat Cafe during the afternoon and a great time seeing The Wendy James at King Tuts in the evening. Great venue, fantastic gig, amazing band.

• See all our 2025 “tour dates” :) here! (Photos © David Fleming)