Toyah and Robert guested on yesterday’s Love Your Weekend with Alan Titchmarsh on ITV. A great interview with Toyah included clips from Top Of The Pops, The Corn Is Green and The Isle Of Wight Festival. Toyah talked Strictly, working with Katharine Hepburn and George Cukor and much more. Robert then joined the conversation to chat about David Bowie, touring, and more.
The show is repeated next Saturday morning on ITV.
Love Your Weekend: ITV: Saturday 23rd November: 7.30am Series 6. Episode 30. Joining Alan at Manor Farm are entrepreneur James Middleton, singer Toyah Willcox and composer Debbie Wiseman. Garden designer Chris Hull has advice on hedging and there is a masterclass on what wine goes with what for Sunday roasts.
The Quayside: Toyah Willcox praises Stourport restaurant
A famous couple has praised a restaurant for being “the heart of the Midlands” and bringing people together from across the Black Country and beyond.
Staff at The Quayside in Stourport have revealed their shock and delight after Birmingham-born singer Toyah Willcox and musician Robert Fripp described their food as “the best”.
Verity Alexander, who works as front of house, said the team couldn’t believe it when the musicians walked through the restaurant doors with some of their regular customers.
Describing the famous couple as “lovely”, Ms Alexander said the visit was made even better when they saw The Quayside had got a special mention on their YouTube channel.
Ms Alexander said: “Toyah and Robert came in really lowkey with a couple of our regulars. They came in first and sat and chilled with a drink. As soon as I heard Toyah’s voice, I knew exactly who she was. She is honestly so lovely and very humble.”
Coming tomorrow at 11am… The Toyah At Home / Love Is The Law special. The songs. the video, the tour, the recording process, the photos. Some of your questions answered by Toyah plus music and lots of unseen photos. Not to be missed. Toyah At Home airs at Toyah’s YouTube channel and Facebook page simultaneously.
• Love Is The Law is out next Friday, 8th November. Pre-order this exciting release at Cherry Red.
Toyah Willcox becomes patron of the Avon Navigation Trust
The popular musician, actress, and Strictly Come Dancing contestant has joined the riverside charity to help inspire young people to care for the waterway.
Clive Matthews, the trust’s chief executive, said: “We’re immensely pleased to have Toyah on board. “Her media profile and fan base will be a major boost to our youth wing and enable us to reach out to many more young people.”
Willcox, who is out on the Avon every day she is at her Pershore home that she shares with her husband, King Crimson band member Robert Fripp, said: “I am proud to be a patron.”
Cherry Red Records release a special limited edition 10” vinyl EP of Toyah’s 1982 version of the seasonal Greg Lake classic I Believe In Father Christmas.
Originally recorded for inclusion on the ITV special Pop Goes Christmas, the track features Toyah Willcox (vocals), Joel Bogen (acoustic guitar) and Keith Hale (keyboards). The much-loved version is newly remastered from the original master tapes, and the EP also includes three previously unreleased variations unearthed from the archives.
Side One includes the main version and the backing track that enables Toyah’s evocative backing vocals for the track to be heard clearly. Side Two features an alternate vocal from the November 1982 Marquee Studios session, without additional overdubs and backing vocals. An Instrumental version completes the EP.
The 10” vinyl is pressed on snow white vinyl and protected by a festive red die-cut inner disco bag inner sleeve that carries the a gift wrap design featuring a repeated classic Toyah logo motif. The EP outer jacket is a newly designed and sports fantastically festive and relevant period photography from the 1982 television programme the track was recorded for.
All EPs come with a colour Toyah Christmas Card (with a rare colour image of Toyah) in a throwback to the annual Christmas cards posted out to members of The Intergalactic Ranchhouse, the official Toyah fan club ran by Safari Records.
The EP is the third in a series of 10″ vinyl releases. The second 10″ EP, Rebel Run reached number 1 in the UK Singles Vinyl Chart, no.3 on the Physical Singles Chart on Friday 27 September.
• Pre-Order I Believe In Father Christmas on 10″ Vinyl EP at Cherry Red. Read the news at toyahwillcox.com. Watch Toyah announcing the release during, a surprise bonus episode of, Toyah At Home (which also includes a special video for The Vow from The Saturday Show in 1983).
• NME: Watch Robert Fripp and Toyah Wilcox cover David Bowie’s ‘Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)’ for Halloween: It was made for a special “scary Sunday Lunch” – Continue…
• Classic Rock/Louder: It’s all gone spectacularly Halloween-shaped in the Fripp-Willcox household: Watch aghast as Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp wrestle David Bowie’s Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) into the grave – Continue…
• Brooklyn Vegan: Watch Toyah & Robert get in the Halloween mood, cover of David Bowie’s “Scary Monsters” – Continue…
• Consequence: Robert Fripp and Toyah Celebrate Halloween with Cover of David Bowie’s “Scary Monsters”: Toyah looks eerily like Bowie in the couple’s new “Sunday Lunch” performance – Continue…
• Far Out: Watch Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox cover David Bowie for Halloween special – Continue…
• Brave Words: Robert Fripp & Toyah Perform David Bowie’s “Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)” In Halloween Edition Of Sunday Lunch – Continue…
The 1981 POWER Hour!: NOW 80s: Wednesday 30th October: 4pm
60 minutes of power pop & rock! Earplugs at the ready as we rewind to 1981 with Toyah, Genesis, Rick Springfield & Meat Loaf.
Way Back When! 1981: NOW 80s: Wednesday 30th October: 5pm
60 minutes of lesser heard hits from 1981. Including The Pretenders, Spandau Ballet, George Harrison, Toyah & The Pointer Sisters.
Celebrating Toyah’s incredible career… Celebrating the unsurpassed imagery… Celebrating some of the finest music ever released… Celebrating 12 years of Toyah Fanzine!
Most Shocking Celebrity Moments: Channel 5: Sunday 3rd November: 10pm Series 1, Episode 4. Pop. Tamzin Outhwaite narrates a selection of memorable incidents involving musicians, including Zayn Malik leaving One Direction and Robbie Williams rejoining Take That. There are lessons in etiquette from Grace Jones, the scoop on Beyonce’s sister Solange taking on Jay-Z and the British singing legend who was one of the first to take on the Apartheid regime. With insight from Toyah Willcox, Rick Wakeman, Bez, Dan Hipgrave, Harvey, Jay Aston, Carrie and David Grant and Linda Lewis, with comments from Ralf Little, Matt Richardson, Katie Puckrik, Pat Sharp and Robert Elms.
A great retro interview with Toyah – from The Lady in 2014- has recently been republished online…
Toyah Willcox … is an English singer. She has had 13 Top 40 singles, including It’s A Mystery and I Want To Be Free, and has released 20 albums. She is also an actress and has written a number of books. Toyah and her husband divide their time between London and Worcestershire.
What are you working on at the moment?
I am on tour all year with my band, Toyah. I am also touring an acoustic show with my American band, The Humans. I have three movies to shoot this year – in the first there’s no dialogue as we all ‘speak’ like apes… it will make sense in the end.
When were you at your happiest?
Why ‘were’? I am happy now. Happiness is an art form. I find it challenging at times but the past is gone. My motto is never look back – but my 40s were fantastic.
What is your greatest fear?
In the last five years I have lost my parents and the pain is overbearing. My great fear is losing my husband and our friends. I can’t imagine being happy without my hubby.
What is your earliest memory?
My mother putting a towelling nappy on me and the super size of the safety pin she used to secure it.
What do you most dislike about yourself?
I have less patience and sympathy for difficult people. I am on stage most nights and my audiences are wonderful, but there may be one person who has had too much to drink and disrupts the show.
It’s Toyah Tuesday and the count down to the official release of the 2024 remastered, expanded edition of Love Is The Law on 8 November. Discover the story behind the recording of the beloved album track Martian Cowboy, a sequel song to Pop Star on Anthem.
