The Hormonal Housewives are back and armed with a load of lessons for us about being a modern woman that are sure to have us in stitches.
This year’s tour is set to feature a cast of women willing and able to scare the crap out of any man, including singer, actor and all-round feisty lady Toyah Willcox and former psycho Hollyoaks star Sarah Jane Buckley alongside the hugely talented Julie Coombe.
• Continue reading at Leeds-List.
Great news! ‘Sheep Farming in Barnet’ is included in Slicing Up Eyeballs‘ Top 100 Albums Of 1980 poll, announced online yesterday. The respected and influential music website – named after a lyric in the song ‘Debaser’ by the amazing PIXIES – is running a year-long “Best of the 80s” feature – an ambitious, year-by-year poll to determine just what were the best albums of each year of the 1980s.
‘Sheep Farming in Barnet’ places at #92 and is in the company of some truly incredible albums. Slicing Up Eyeballs’ poll for 1981 opens next week – Surely ‘Anthem’, with some support from Toyah’s online fans, will also figure?
• Coincidentally, I put together a ‘Sheep Farming in Barnet’ image earlier this week before I knew about the Slicing Up Eyeballs poll, Click above to view a larger version.
A new Toyah interview, by the Liverpool Echo, published yesterday.
Toyah Willcox on Hormonal Housewives and the art of reinvention
There was the feisty, whip-cracking heroine of Calamity Jane, then a femme fatale devil in high-heeled boots in Vampire’s Rock.
Now Toyah Willcox is on her way back to the Liverpool stage as one of a trio of ‘hormonal housewives’ in the show of the same name which makes three visits to Merseyside this spring.
“It’s comedy, and I think comedy is a fantastic art form,” she explains of her decision to join the show which is helmed by Ken Alexander, the Royal Court’s new artistic director. “Everyone thinks comedy is light-hearted and that’s it. It’s not – it has to be so well planned, you have to be setting it up at least a page before.
• Continue reading at the Liverpool Echo.
Andrew’s In The Fairground website has been updated both yesterday and today with some stunning new photos to the Portraits and Iconic galleries. Visit the site by clicking below.
• The News at toyahwillcox.com was updated yesterday, with info on Hormonal Housewives, Weekend Guitar Trio, the Breaking Through newsletter and Toyah’s live dates so far for 2013.
• Something I always reiterate when posting news here about gigs has been advised officially: “If a gig doesn’t appear on the official GIGS page or on any of Toyah’s official webspaces then it means it has not been confirmed, so please bear this in mind when seeing online notices for gigs including Toyah in their line-up.” – Always best to double check or wait for official confirmation to avoid disappointment and/or losing money.
• Toyah mentions in her March blog that there is a lot of press to come during the Hormonal Housewives tour over the next two-and-half months. She will also record an interview for BBC Radio 2’s Steve Wright Show and will guest on Channel 5’s The Wright Stuff after all.
• More Hormonal Housewives tweets from Toyah this week, including yesterday: “Kings Lynn was fabulous! Great audience. 2nite sold out. agent can’t even get ticket“. Viist Toyah at Twitter.
• The debut week of Hormonal Housewives’ shows finishes tonight with a performance at Leas Cliff Hall, Folkestone.
• Star Portraits: Toyah art from a photo from 1986 by Coffee58 at ‘Star Portraits’ – Maybe Robert should have been included too?
The album art and tracklist for the forthcoming Weekend Guitar Trio/Toyah/Jan Bang CD ‘Live At Kings Place’ was revealed yesterday by toyahwillcox.com. The six-track album is due to be released in April 2013.
The album tracklist is: 1. Let’s Make A Bomb, 2. Don’t Even Try, 3. Break The Mould, 4. Toyah Bang, 5. How A Group Is Born, 6. Boredom Is A Killer.
All six tracks feature writing credits for Toyah.
• Visit Weekend Guitar Trio’s website and Facebook page to stay updated.
The latest Hormonal Housewives related Toyah interview, this one from Peterborough Today.
As a singer, actress, author, punk princess and composer, Toyah Willcox’s life has never been dull.
In a career spanning thirty years she has had thirteen top 40 singles, recorded twenty albums, written two books, appeared in over forty stage plays, made ten feature films and presented television programmes as diverse as The Good Sex Guide Late, Watchdog and Songs Of Praise.
During her run she has visited Peterborough on many occasions, and she will add to that list on March 12 with the production of Hormonal Housewives at the Cresset Theatre.
Following 2012’s celebrated reception as they caused mayhem and mania in theatres across the land, the irrepressible Hormonal Housewives are back and return this spring to commence a second national tour.
• Continue reading at Peterborough Today.
It’s a mystery how women cope with their hormones but 80s star Toyah Willcox aims to have a laugh finding out.
The singer – she of the orange hair and wild make-up back in the day – turned actress some time ago and is now appearing in a great new sketch style show with Julie Coombe called Hormonal Housewives which should be a good giggle on Tuesday March 12. Is your man more James May than Christian Grey? Then this is the show for you!
Toyah says – “Girls… don’t let anyone tell you otherwise, 40 is the new 20. I’m now 54 and life isn’t slowing down. I tour my band, do TV and travel the world. I’ve even played Billie Piper’s mother in Diary Of Call Girl.
• Continue reading at ESP Magazine.
A review of the second show of the Hormonal Housewives tour. Praise for Toyah and the cast by the Ipswich Star.
Men were definitely in the minority at the Ipswich Regent.
There was an element of men-bashing, and with such a female-biased audience, it obviously went down well. But running deeper than that, most of the audience will have been able to pick at least one thread they could relate to, giving them a unity with the cast.
A great girls night out.
• Read the full review at the Ipswich Star. Also at EADT24.
Plans are coming together to make the third Upton Music Festival more of a family affair. The event returns to Fish Meadow from Friday to Sunday, August 23-25 with more incentives for families and traders to get involved.
Acts already confirmed include Bucks Fizz, Alexander O’Neal and local celebrity Toyah Willcox, as well as a DJ set from Pat Sharp, while a grand firework display will bring the celebrations to a close for the whole town at 9.15pm on the Sunday.
• Continue reading at Worcester News.
The excellent I Was A Teenage Toyah Fan is currently available in paperback from lulu.com for £5 + P&P. Use the coupon code SPARK to save a further 20% off the listed price. This represents the cheapest opportunity to buy the paperback since it was published in late 2011 (Offer ends 8th March 2013 at 11:59pm).
• View Dreamscape’s recent news on I Was A Teenage Toyah Fan.
Last month the complete Safari Records/Intergalactic Ranchhouse/Toyah Fan Club photo collection was added to Dreamscape’s Gallery. I’ve now finally also added a thumbnail link to the page on the Gallery menu.
The full collection of “Intergalactic Ranchhouse” and “Toyah Fan Club” photos, which originally accompanied the regular newsletters, were mailed out to fan club subscribers between 1980 and ’86.
There are also a few pre and post-fan club/official Toyah photos included too. (Thanks to Andi Westhorpe for the IRH/TFC collection. Thanks also to Paul Lomas)
Toyah’s March blog is available to read at toyahwillcox.com.
Over a decade ago Dreamscape reported that Toyah was regularly appearing in Eastenders.
Eagle-eyed viewers of one of Britain’s favourite (and most depressing!) soaps spotted the classic Quadrophenia poster showing up regularly onscreen on Billy Mitchell’s wall.
In January 2012 Damon King sent us photos of the Toyah! Toyah! Toyah! (K-Tel) album he had spotted on one of the market stalls and now, the ultimate… one of the greatest live albums… Warrior Rock hits Elstree/Walford!!! Click on the photos to zoom. (Thanks again to Damon and also to Larwi)
Unfortunately it looks like Toyah won’t be guesting on The Wright Stuff today, despite being advertised as doing so on Channel 5’s website all week.
The guest for this morning’s show was announced as Maggie Philbin at the end of yesterday’s programme. It did seem odd, as Toyah was appearing in Hormonal Housewives in Ipswich last night and is in Kings Lynn tonight.
• Every little thing that you say or do… I couldn’t resist giving yesterday’s photo of Toyah as Madonna, circa Hung Up/Confessions On A Dancefloor, a bit of a makeover. Time goes by, so slowly! Click to zoom!
• Toyah has tweeted about the first night of Hormonal Housewives: “An exceptionally good First night. Great audience, great show. WOW! Loving it“. Toyah fan Jacqui Keeler saw the show last night in Bromley and loved it, saying Toyah is full of energy.
• Hormonal Housewives second show is tonight at the Ipswich Regent Theatre.
• PR Newswire: Toyah is mentioned (as a supporter of previous BUAV campaigns) in this press release today: Joanna Lumley, Twiggy, Jenny Seagrove, Chrissie Hynde and Kimberly Wyatt Join Cruelty Free International to Celebrate the End of Animal Cosmetics Testing in Europe
• Toyah fan Vanessa has named her gorgeous new goat after one of her favourite female singers. The newly christened Toyah not only now shares the same name but also has very similar looking Changeling horns too. (Thanks to Vanessa)
Following their hugely successful 2012 tour, Toyah Willcox and Julie Coombe star in the hilariously funny Hormonal Housewives, which returns to the New Victoria Theatre, Woking, with all-new sketches as well as all the best bits for one night only on Monday March 18, at 7.30pm.
A side-splitting evening – what they can’t teach you about modern woman-hood isn’t worth knowing.
• Continue reading at Get Surrey.
Visit Dreamscape at Facebook for even more Toyah! The FB page mostly features “Classic Toyah” posts, sharing photos of Toyah from the past, along with occasional up-to-date news. There are already 100s of Toyah photos to browse. Please “like” the page too – Thanks!
Sporadic “Classic Toyah” content will still be posted here, along with the latest news updates.
Toyah’s interview with ‘What’s On’ magazine, published on Saturday, is now also available at Kent Online.
From chart-topping 1980s punk princess to her current racy role as a hormonal housewife, with a stint hosting Songs of Praise along the way, Toyah Willcox has always defied convention. And the feisty 54-year-old has no intention of slowing down, as Kathryn Tye found out.
It would be a brave man who ventures out for a night at the theatre with the Hormonal Housewives. The comedy show, featuring an all-female cast, comprises a series of sketches on everything that makes today’s woman tick – or ticked off – from the trials of dealing with teenagers to battling the bulge – and of course the challenges of dealing with the opposite sex.
But star Toyah Willcox says that men would be very welcome – and might even enjoy themselves! Toyah, 54, said: “It is a very female-oriented show, but we don’t demonise men in it. We like sex. There is no doubt that most of our audience will be women enjoying a night out together, but it is definitely suitable for men as well. It might even prove educational for them, getting an insight into what we talk about when they’re not there.”
• Continue reading at Kent Online.
The hit comedy ‘Hormonal Housewives’ will bring its latest tour to Southport Theatre next week, starring pop icon Toyah Willcox.
Toyah, who has already performed in the musical ‘Vampires Rock’ as well as a ‘Here and Now’ show in Southport, is looking forward to hitting the venue’s stage once again. “I think this show is going to be a scream,” she told the Champion, ahead of the March 14 show.
Now on its second national tour, Hormonal Housewives is written by husband and wife team John McIsaac and Julie Coombe, who will also appear alongside Toyah.
• Continue reading at Champion News.
Toyah now has an official presence at Instagram, the photo-sharing website, and has already posted a couple of great Hormonal Housewives related photos over the last two days.
One from the stage set of the show, which opens tonight in Bromley, and the other, looking fantastic, in her dressing room in full Madonna Hung Up/Confessions On A Dancefloor garb. Visit or follow Toyah at Instagram by clicking below.
