Local musicians have been auditioning to play at the Dartford Festival and the response has been so good two further heats have been added
Four bands are set to appear on the main stage at Central Park over Saturday, July 16 and Sunday, July 17. Now more chances to audition have been opened, at the Bull & Vic on Thursday, June 23 and Thursday, June 30. The Community Stage will also return, with local dance and drama groups showcasing their work over both days.
Heavyweight Ska legends and 1980s pop band Bad Manners will headline this year’s festival. They will join Punk princess Toyah Willcox for the free extravaganza.
• Continue reading at Kent Online.
• Live 2016: Tours, festivals, gigs, PAs – All the details and ticket links for Toyah’s upcoming confirmed dates at toyahwillcox.com…
• Let’s Rock Leeds 2016: Watch Toyah at yesterday’s pop festival at You Tube…
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Cockney Rebel and Toyah Willcox headlining Secret World wildlife charity’s first ever music festival
Secret World, Somerset’s favourite wildlife rescue charity, will be singing and dancing with the best later this year.
Legendary rocker Steve Harley is heading to Somerset to headline a festival with a difference.
On September 10, Steve and his band Cockney Rebel will be getting the crowds a-jumping at Music in the Meadow, the first- ever music festival to be held at Secret World Wildlife Rescue.
Visitors have been flocking to events at Secret World for many years, but it’s usually for a chance to get close to wildlife. Now the much-loved charity in East Huntspill, near Highbridge, is holding a one-day music festival, which will also feature Inspirational punk rocker Toyah Willcox. Other acts have yet to be announced.
• Continue reading at Somerset Live.
Toyah Willcox and Steve Harley to play at Music in The Meadow festival
Legendary rocker Steve Harley and punk rocker Toyah Willcox are set to headline a new music festival near Burnham-On-Sea this September.
Tickets go on sale on Wednesday 8th June, priced at £20 each.
Keith Weston, event organiser, told Burnham-On-Sea.com: “We’ve been bursting to announce this event and we are so excited to now tell everyone that we have these brilliant musicians confirmed for our first ever music festival!”
“Music in the Meadow will be in aid of Secret World and will support our work to rescue, rehabilitate and release injured and orphaned wildlife”.
• Continue reading at Burnham-On-Sea.com.
This lively, entertaining and revealing show comes in the form of Toyah performing an unplugged set of her well-loved hits and classic songs, alongside recalling stories from her colourful, 35 year career.
Guitarists Chris Wong and Colin Hinds accompany Toyah on melodic acoustic versions of the hits It’s A Mystery and I Want To Be Free through to Sensational.
Toyah adds: “It’s a lovely show with colourful and amusing stories – you’ll definitely hear some truthful anecdotes from the late 70s and 80s. More importantly the music has real space to breathe.”
• Continue reading at The Blackpool Gazette.
Toyah’s Top Of The Pops performance of Good Morning Universe from the Four More From Toyah EP, originally broadcast on Thursday 26th November 1981, is currently available to watch online at the BBC TOTP website. The programme rcently re-aired on BBC Four. Browse all of Dreamscape’s recent Top of The Pops posts here and click below to watch the programme.
Toyah Willcox gives us the lowdown on Rewind Festival
We caught up with the punk princess to talk all things 80s music and Rewind
In 2014 she topped the iTunes Rock chart with her American band The Humans, and this year will see more music releases and touring – including a stop off at Rewind Festival South in Henley.
This year will see her fifth performance at the mega music weekender. But what is it that keeps bringing her back to Rewind?
Toyah said: “This is what I do, it simply is what I do. I do all sorts of festivals including Glastonbury and all of that, but the one thing about Rewind is that it’s just designed brilliantly.
“The audience love it and it’s just such good fun. There are a ridiculous amount of artists and the production standards are out of this world.
“I do still get nervous in the festival environment, but I have a job to do. I remember performing and turning around to give the band a wink and seeing us on this huge massive video wall – it’s such high quality.”
• Continue reading at Get Reading.
The official promotional images/posters for three forthcoming films Toyah has roles in have recently been made available: #SwipeRight, Extremis, Lies We Tell. As well as these Toyah will also feature in Kaleidoscope Man, Hound and To Be Someone.
• #SwipeRight is a psychological thriller film based on a internet dating app. Do you really know who you let into your life when you swipe right? Toyah will have a cameo in this new British horror film directed by Jane Sanger and produced by Lumino Films.
• Toyah acts in a cameo in the British thriller Extremis, written and directed by Steve Stone. The film poster for this was released for this recently whilst a release date is to be confirmed. Toyah also performs the new, original song Our Hearts Still Beat (Willcox / Darlow) for the film’s end titles.
• Toyah appears as the wife of Harvey Keitel in the forthcoming 2016 film release Lies We Tell, directed by Mitu Misra. The film poster has just also been released for the Bradford Film Associates International production which stars Gabriel Byrne and Emily Atack.
News/Info Source: Official Toyah / Breaking Through – Official Newsletter.
Songs from In The Court Of The Crimson Queen and Anthem will be included in the new musical Crime & Punishment. Toyah revealed further info on this in her most recent blog:
“Even though it hasn’t been officially announced yet I think it is safe to confirm that Simon Darlow and myself are over the moon that many of the songs from IN THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON QUEEN are about to be used in a theatre production of Dostoevsky’s CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, a steam punk version/rock musical of the novel which opens on the 30th August at the Scoop Theatre in London. It will run until the 25th Sept.
It is a free event, it is an open-air amphitheatre by the River Thames, but it will be on a first come, first served basis. It is going to be busy. They expect 40,000 people will see it as the event has been full to capacity in the past. It is part of the London Festival’s Russian Season.
Simon and I are writing three new songs for the piece. The writer/director Phil Willmott is also using some songs off ANTHEM.”
• Further info at toyahwillcox.com and freeopenairtheatre.org.
Toyah Willcox on Botox, plastic surgery and why she has one of the happiest marriages in showbiz
The punk icon has just celebrated her 30th wedding anniversary and is happier than ever
Punk icon Toyah Willcox has just as much attitude now as she did when she burst on to the music scene in the 1980s.
She may be just 5ft tall, but the singer and actress makes up for her lack of inches in decibels.
Toyah, 58, and husband, King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp, 70, have just celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary, and she roars laughing as she reveals why this showbiz marriage is one that works .
• Continue reading at the Mirror.
The treasured venue formerly known as The Tute by locals – The Layton – presents the princess of punk and rock Toyah Willcox in October.
Toyah Willcox remains one of Britain’s best known names, an award winning rock legend as well as actress and composer.
If you want to steal a march on the more intimate resort gig (October 8, tickets £18) Toyah recently announced plans to play Preston’s Charter on Friday June 24. She’s also playing The Muni, Colne, in October. And that’s not forgetting a preview of new material at Glastonbury to come.
• Continue reading at The Blackpool Gazette.
Toyah is performing at Glastonbury Festival 2016, which takes place between 22nd and 26th June – Toyah’s set is part of the PRS stage, which isn’t open to the general festivalgoer… Toyah tweeted a photo from rehearsals with Simon Darlow earlier this month. More details on this year’s Glastonbury by clicking below.
Quadrophenia: Sky Select HD: Thursday 23rd June: 10pm
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. (Sky Select HD is on Sky Channel 312)
Read Toyah’s action-packed June 2016 blog at toyahwillcox.com.
The Wright Stuff: Channel 5: Mon 6th June: 9.15am
Lively magazine show in which Matthew Wright and guests discuss the topical issues of the day. With panellists Dominic Holland and Yasmine AB, plus guest Toyah Willcox. (Also airing on Channel 5 +1, Channel 5 +24 and will be available on Demand 5 after airing)
