Toyah, and little Toyah, onstage at Manchester Academy last Saturday night. View larger versions of these and more at Dreamscape’s TCRII Gallery. (Thanks to Glyn Whelan)
Toyah mentioned in a recent interview with The Telegraph: “Next year, I’m touring in a show called Hormonal Housewives. It’s a comedy drama.”
Join the Hormonal Housewives as they battle against weight gain, weight loss, mood swings, wine, PMS, men, going to the gym, waxing, stretch marks, chocolate, upper-lip hair, chocolate, men, chocolate… and all the other joys of being a 21st Century girl! Did we mention chocolate?
Dates and cast list for the 2013 tour are expected to be announced shortly.
A new trailer for Toyah’s Christmas 2012 panto, Sleeping Beauty at the Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury, has recently been uploaded to You Tube… Oh yes it has! (Thanks to Paul Lomas)
Toyah, in Sheffield for the second gig of The Changeling Resurrection II, with Zak Jenkinson. Zak plays bass guitar in The Silent Age, one of the support bands at The Corporation. View larger versions of the photos below at Dremscape’s TCRII Gallery. (Thanks to Zak Jenkinson)
• The Guardian: Cheryl Cole to Neil Young: The Week in Music: Pictures: And as well as Ms. Cole and old, everyone from Kiss to Psy rocked the world this week … Toyah Willcox performs at the Corporation in Sheffield on 29 September. (Thanks to Stephen Bennett Troake)
• Great photos of Toyah at Manchester Academy at talk | photography.
• Toyah brings The Changeling Resurrection II to the Islington Academy, London tomorrow night and Kings Lynn Corn Exchange on Sunday night.
• Ticket links and full details of the remainder of the 2012 tour dates are available at the gigs page at The Official Toyah Willcox Website.
• View all of our Changeling Resurrection II news here, and The Changeling Resurrection news here.
Another chance to hear the episode of The Lee Mack Show with Toyah appearing as his music/sketch guest.
The Lee Mack Show: BBC Radio 4 Extra
Saturday 27th October: 11.30pm
Episode Six of Six. Toyah Willcox joins the sharp comedian for stand-up, sketches and music. Originally aired on BBC Radio Two in April 2005, Toyah also performs ‘Sweet Child O Mine’. Also starring: Angela McHale, Steve Brown
Punk princess Toyah Willcox has named Croome Park, near Pershore, as her favourite place to take a walk. The actress and singer named the historic landscape park as her top spot as the National Trust launched a nationwide search to discover the country’s 10 Greatest British Walks.
• Continue reading at the Cotswold Journal.
The BBC have confirmed that ‘The Legacy Box’ will be the first Doctor Who DVD release of, the programme’s 50th anniversary year, 2013, being made available on Region 2 on 7th January and Region 1 the following day.
The two-disc set will include the “lost” Tom Baker episode Shada and the 1993 documentary More Than 30 Years in the TARDIS, in which Toyah appears. The set will also include numerous extras, including a feature on DW‘s first producer Verity Lambert.
Gered Mankowitz took some iconic, and memorable, photos of Toyah at the height of her, and the band’s, pop career in the early 1980s. A brief clip of him talking about working with Kate Bush and Toyah has recently been uploaded to You Tube. (Thanks to Stephen Bennett Troake)
British Gered Mankowitz, one of the world’s most prominent photographers in the music and artistic world. Here he talks about what it was like to work with Kate Bush & Toyah Willcox. His iconic images of The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Eurythmics, Marianne Faithfull and Kate Bush have become historic pieces of history that graced hundreds of magazine & album covers.
Three very rare photos of Toyah from three well-known 1980 photo sessions. (Thanks to Andi)
• The Alan Titchmarsh Show: Toyah guested on Alan’s ITV1 Afternoon chat show on Thursday 4th October, chatting about music from the Sixties. The full programme is still available to view at ITV Player for the next couple of weeks.
• Toyah and Derek Jarman: Toyah has contributed a chapter to a new book on Jubilee/The Tempest director Derek Jarman. She has also been offered a film role by a scriptwriter who worked with Jarman.
• Pick Of The Pops (BBC Radio 2: Saturday 20th October: 1pm): Tony Blackburn plays the biggest hits from this week in the charts of 1962 and 1981, with music from Brian Hyland, Ray Charles, Little Eva, Alvin Stardust, Ottowan and Toyah.
• London Evening Standard: Vanity Fair – or a night at Annabel’s: Toyah and Robert photographed out and about in London at the Nicholas Coleridge book launch last week.
• Do Believe The Hype: W 40th Anniversary Issue: Wasikowska channels full on 80s in snakeskin-print Balenciaga (looking like a cross between David Bowie’s make-up and Toyah Willcox’s hair).
• 80s Remix: Toyah – Echo Beach (Extended Surf Mix): Released in 1987, this cover version of the classic hit by Martha And The Muffins was Toyah Willcox’s last single to chart in the British Singles Chart, peaking at #54. The track was released as the lead single from Toyah’s second album as a solo artist, Desire, which failed to chart. One more single was released from the album entitled Moonlight Dancing.
Great footage of Toyah onstage at Manchester Academy performing ‘Brave New World’. Click below to view at You Tube. (Thanks to Paul Lomas)
View numerous clips from The Changeling Resurrection II at The Classic Grand, Glasgow.
Birmingham’s very own punk queen Toyah Willcox returns this month (Oct 31st) to perform a very special Halloween show at the Birmingham Ballroom.
LTW’s Ross Cotton took the chance to ask Toyah about her memories whilst recording her album ‘The Changeling’ and her future plans.
The iconic pop star, actress and TV personality is reigniting her triumphant forth album ‘The Changeling’, to celebrate its 30th anniversary and the mark of the gothic era. After a sell-out touring stint earlier this year, and a well deserved star awarded at the ‘Kings Heath Walk of Fame’, it comes as no surprise that our local girl is in high demand.
• Continue reading at Louder Than War.
Pop Star Toyah Willcox: How I stood up to BBC gropers in the Eighties
Toyah Willcox, the pop star, says she stood up to the men sexually assaulting girls at the BBC in the Eighties.
As the list of women who claim to have been subjected to unwelcome male attention at the BBC seems to lengthen daily, Toyah Willcox insists that she at least made it clear that she was having none of it.
“You either had to stand up to it or play into it,” the feisty 54-year-old pop star informs me at Annabel’s nightclub, where Nicholas Coleridge was launching his novel The Adventuress. “I’m feisty, I always have been, even then. I was deemed quite old at 20, among men, and that probably saved my bacon, in a way. You knew, in any case, that there were certain men that you shouldn’t be alone with.”
• Continue reading at The Telegraph.
Toyah Willcox is arguably the busiest she has ever been.
These days split very much between acting and singing, the ’80s legend who set the template for many modern musical maidens returns to Sheffield and Corporation on Saturday in a very different guise to her last visit – playing The Wicked Queen in panto at the Lyceum.
“Actress/singer,” she says when asked what goes on her passport these days. “Because you want to get into different countries you’re not going to put controversial person, troublemaker.”
She’s got a point. In her post-punk heyday Toyah was something of a mould-breaker. With costumes as outrageous as she was outspoken, pop hadn’t really come across someone like her before.
“I was being very successful at a time when it was a novelty for a woman to be successful. When you look at the 1980s the glass ceiling was being raised daily and I came into the music business as a strong woman who knew what I wanted with a strong identity. That sense of novelty continued for quite a while.
• Continue reading at The Star.
Toyah’s October blog is available to read at toyahwillcox.com. Click below to leap on over.
Toyah dropped in on Wynne’s Cakes in Stoke-On-Trent on the way to her Glasgow gig and enjoyed some marshmallow cakes. Wynne’s John and Carl also delivered a yummy cake backstage at the Manchester Academy concert. (Photos © Official Toyah)
Metalville webzine reviewed Toyah’s Changeling Resurrection II gig at Sheffield Corporation earlier this month. Read by clicking below (Photos © Metalville webzine)
Another couple of opportunities to catch Toyah’s 1982 episode of Tales Of The Unexpected.
Tales Of The Unexpected: Sky Arts 2: Tuesday 30th October: 1.00pm
Tales Of The Unexpected: Sky Arts 2: Wednesday 31st October: 00.45am
Tales Of The Unexpected: Sky Arts 2: Wednesday 31st October: 6.00am
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.
Celebrity Ghost Stories UK: Bio: Thursday 25th October: 11.00pm
Sue Cook reveals creepy encounters with a malevolent nutcracker and a UFO, Toyah Willcox speaks of a spooky apparation, and Alex Fearns discusses sinister sounds he caught on tape.
The full transcript of Toyah and Robert’s Love and Marriage interview, which aired on BBC4 earlier this month, is available at The Toyah Willcox Interview Archive. The full episode is also available to view online at You Tube. (Thanks to Lärwi)
