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Exactly 45 years and a day since the original broadcast on BBC One, Top Of The Pops featuring Toyah performing Good Morning Universe – the lead song from the Four More From Toyah EP – airs again on BBC Four later this month.

This was Toyah’s penultimate Top Of The Pops studio performance of the year, following four other appearances for It’s A Mystery (twice/two different performances in February), I Want To Be Free (in May) and Thunder In The Mountains (in September)

The final studio visit for Toyah and the band would air on the Christmas Day, best of the year, episode, with another performance of It’s A Mystery, Toyah’s biggest hit single of the year. The I Want To Be Free and Thunder In The Mountains promo videos were also shown on Top Of The Pops during 1981.

Top Of The Pops: 1981: BBC Four: Friday 27th November: 8.25pm
Top Of The Pops: 1981: BBC Four: Saturday 28th November: 2.30am
26.11.1981: Mike Read presents the pop chart show, first broadcast on 26 November 1981. Includes appearances by Kim Wilde, Jets, Toyah, Kool and the Gang, Earth Wind and Fire, Cliff Richard, Ultravox, and Queen and David Bowie.

• To mark this fantastic repeat showing, here’s a Four More From Toyah/Good Morning Universe feature from Toyah Fanzine’s Chameleon issues.

Toyah’s Blog for November is a Vlog from The Old Mill, with lots of news, including and update on Toyah’s Christmas Party Tour. Watch at toyahwillcox.com and YouTube. (Screenshot from a video that is © Toyah)

Toyah guests on this morning’s Sunday Brunch, airing from 10am on Channel 4.

Watch Toyah unbox Twenty-Four From Toyah… Pre-order the box set here.

Tales Of The Unexpected: Sky Arts: Monday 23rd November: 6.30pm
Tales Of The Unexpected: Sky Arts: Tuesday 24th November: 1.30pm
Tales Of The Unexpected: Sky Arts: Wednesday 25th November: 9.30am
Blue Marigold. Series 5, Episode 1. Dropped by her agency for her diva-like behaviour, supermodel Marigold’s mental health deteriorates. Years later, she plots a comeback. Director: Giles Foster. Starring: Toyah Willcox, Ralph Bates, Sharon Duce, Helen Fraser, Billy Hamon, Edward Jewesbury.

• Toyah & Robert: UpBeat Moments – Watch… • Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch – You Were Made For Me – Watch… (Image © Toyah)

Celebrity Fantasy Homes: Really: Sunday 22nd November: 6am
Toyah (Series 2, Episode 2). Celebrities hunt for a new home. Gaby Roslin helps the original punk-pop princess Toyah Willcox search for a second home, in Richmond upon Thames, with a budget of £650,000.

It’s a new month and a new episode of Toyah At Home with updates on recent film shooting, gigs coming up and exciting projects for the new year. There’s also an unseen concert performance of a Sheep Farming In Barnet song. (Image © Toyah)

Less than a month until the new deluxe 24CD single box set Twenty-Four From Toyah is released on Cherry Red Records. The box set features 24 individual discs with expanded tracks lists for each single containing B-Sides, mixes, demos, rarities & alternate versions. Pre-order now by clicking below.

Toyah is taking part in Celebrating David Bowie: All Star 80th Birthday Concert, on 9th January 2027 at O2 Forum Kentish Town. Also featuring Tony Hadley, Lady Blackbird, Steve Hogarth, Toyah Willcox, Dave Vanian, Angelo Moore, former Bowie and Iggy band members, the London Community Gospel Choir & many more!

• Toyah & Robert: UpBeat Moments – Watch… • Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch – Nice Day To Die – Watch… (Image © Toyah)

I will never tire of celebrating Toyah! I think I’ve said it all before but I still find it difficult to articulate just how important Toyah’s music, imagery and career have been to my life. She was there when I was an awkward 12-year old, a slightly less awkward 19-year old, a super confident 25-year old, a not so confident 44-year old and now, a sometimes optimistic, still curious, still questioning 59-year old! Indeed, the past few years have been great fun, sharing being a fan with my pals who I spend fantastic days with.

She was there when I was a kid, when my parents were alive, when I sat in class at school hating life, when I was a student at uni loving life, when I worked in a soul-destroying desk job, when I seriously struggled with my sexuality, when I accepted my sexuality…

I’ve met Toyah briefly a few times over the years and each time has always been difficult for me because I always feel unexplainably nervous, but this year – after 46 years – I finally had a photo with her and almost managed to relax. Almost!

She inspired me to be creative, her music has soundtracked my life – Cherished memories of playing the albums as a kid, on the bus to uni, on the train to and from work in Glasgow, or just playing my favourites on repeat in my bedroom as a teenager – and helped me through memorable happy days and very tough times – losing my Mum and Dad – her imagery brought, and brings, endless colour and light, her positive attitude has helped me be less pessimistic… I’ve forever found it fascinating that someone you, essentially, don’t know personally can bring so much to your life for close to 50 years.

PS. I’m not going to apologise for the selfies. They are just fun. People used to ask me why I was so camera shy. I never was, I just wasn’t particularly interested in taking photos, but in the last few years I’ve really enjoyed capturing moments. Life is short!

We had a really great day in Fort William in the glorious Scottish Highlands… Yep, wearing matching t-shirts for “Thunderrr… In The Highlands” :) Life is for living and living it thundering around the Highlands is actually a lot of fun!

• See Dreamscape’s other 2026 “tour dates” :) here! (Photos © David Fleming)

Official Toyah celebrated Halloween 2026 with some great unseen photos… (© Cherry Red)

• Toyah & Robert: UpBeat Moments – Watch… • Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch – Season Of The Witch – Watch…

Press for Toyah & Robert’s new Sunday Lunch. This week covering Donovan. (Image © Toyah)

• Classic Rock/Louder: Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp launch their most terrifying Sunday Lunch video yet: Is Robert Fripp auditioning for Slipknot? – Continue…

• Guitar.com: Robert Fripp and Toyah’s Sunday Lunch Halloween special is the most unsettling thing we’ve seen all year: After enjoying the witching hour, Toyah Willcox is hosting a December Christmas Party tour to celebrate her Twenty-Four From Toyah boxset – Continue…

In Week 24, Robert recalls his time working with Toyah in Sunday All Over The World, and we listen to him playing on Blondie’s Fade Away And Radiate on the Spotify playlist.

The band Sunday All Over The World grew out of the improvisational work Robert had begun with Toyah in 1985. One of the pieces they had worked on for the Claymont Children’s School project would later appear on the band’s Kneeling At The Shrine album, with the addition of Stick player Trey Gunn and drummer Paul Beavis. Initially known as Fripp, fripp, the group began rehearsals in October 1988 and played three warm-up shows at Moles Club in Bath in early November, followed by four further UK performances in aid of charities including Greenpeace and Salisbury Arts Centre. They then toured in the Netherlands and Germany.

The following year saw the band change its name, record an album at Tony Arnold’s Courthouse Studio in Cranborne, and tour the UK, concluding at Salisbury City Hall close to where Robert and Toyah were then living.

• Continue reading at DGM Live. Browse more of Robert Fripp @80. See also Mothership from the @80 series.

Spectral Songs is a mixtape for Halloween that collects dark, macabre and gothic moments from Toyah’s catalogue.

Perfect for the season of witches, ghosts, beasts, demons and voodoo. It’s a frightfully good listen. Playlist available now at Spotify…

Spooky season approaches – though judging by where I live some people celebrate Halloween throughout October these days! – and a brand new Sunday Lunch yesterday…Toyah & Robert performed a spirited (I’ll get my coat!) Season Of The Witch, originally released by Donovan but covered by numerous artists over the past 60 years!

• Watch Toyah & Robert in spooky mode here. NB: I’ll update later in the week with related press etc. (Image © Toyah)

I want Blackpool to be City of Culture because it would mean the country has woken up to how special it is

TV personality Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen has described Blackpool potentially becoming UK City of Culture 2029 as “the most extraordinary accolade”, while singer Toyah Willcox has called the seaside resort “a gem within the UK”.

The celebrities voiced their support for Blackpool after the resort was shortlisted as one of four finalists in the prestigious national City of Culture competition, alongside Wrexham, Sheffield and Milton Keynes.

• Continue reading at the Blackpool Gazette. See more reports on Toyah’s Wishing Star at Blackpool Illuminations here. (Photo © Toyah)

Fab day out in Dundee with Sharon, Bob & Irene. Busy day but we found time to have an amazing long lunch at Yamms. So good!

• See Dreamscape’s other 2026 “tour dates” :) here! (Photo © David Fleming)

• Toyah & Robert: UpBeat Moments – Watch… • Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch – Highway To Hell – Watch… (Image © Toyah)