Music, chat and more of your questions which this week comes from Toyah as she is on tour away from home… Toyah At Home & On The Road. Look out for an exclusive rendition of a 1981 single plus the premiere of a new acoustic in-session version of what is becoming a firm new fan favourite, Summer Of Love, with Simon Darlow. Watch/Rewatch at You Tube by clicking below.
Toyah guests on BBC Radio Hereford & Worcester’s Tammy Gooding show tomorrow afternoon for “Tammy’s Big Toyah Willcox Interview”. The show airs from 2 – 6pm. Toyah has previously guested on Tammy’s radio show a number of times over the past few years, most recently in March 2020.
Tomorrow’s Toyah interview will most likely centre around the new album, Posh Pop, which is released in just two week’s time (Friday 27th August). Pre-order Posh Pop here.
BBC Hereford & Worcester: Tammy Gooding: Friday 13th August: 2pm
Tammy’s big Toyah Willcox interview. What you need to know where you live on a Fantastic Friday with Tammy.
• Listen live at their BBC website or post-airing at BBC Sounds.
To Be Someone, starring Sam Gittins, Leslie Ash, Mark Wingett, Toyah Willcox, Trevor Laird, Gary Shail, Perry Benson and Laura McMonagle, and directed by Ray Burdis, is now available to own on DVD and digitally.
The co-owner of a popular Mods nightclub and with a successful scooter shop business on the side, life couldn’t be better for entrepreneur and British Mod, Danny.
That is until he’s introduced to the club’s secret financier, Mad Mike, an unhinged underworld mobster who is determined to coerce Danny into pulling off an illegal drugs run to The Isle of Wight in return for his shares in the club.
Seeing their friend at an all-time low, Danny’s friends step in with an ingenious plan – they will all go to The Isle of Wight’s annual Mod festival and use the thousands of Mod enthusiasts descending onto the island as a cover!
A feel-good tale of modern-day mods, music, and scooter culture from the producer of ‘The Krays’ and ‘Love, Honor and Obey’.
‘To Be Someone’ stars a number of the original cast of the iconic, cult mods n’ rockers film, ‘Quadrophenia’.
• Buy To Be Someone on DVD, or on digital download, at Amazon UK.
A new interview with Toyah at Wickham Festival 2021. Watch below or at You Tube.
There’s a Posh Pop Special of Toyah At Home on the horizon. Leave a comment or question – about the LP, videos, creative process – with #AskToyah, at Toyah’s Official Facebook, Twitter or Instagram.
NB. This announcement was accompanied by two previously unseen Posh Pop photos of Toyah (below top left & right)! (Photos © Toyah Willcox)
Toyah performing Sweet Child O’ Mine with The SAS band at Wickham Festival 2021.
Dreamscape’s You Tube channel has a great selection of rare Toyah footage to view…
Our You Tube is pretty much what you’d expect from a fan based channel. We’ve compiled a selection of retro interviews, Toyah TV appearances and more from throughout Toyah’s career (which I believe is now in its 45/46th year if Glitter – filmed 1975, aired 1976 – is regarded as the very beginning!). Most of the footage is taken from my old VHS tapes, which I thought I’d do before they disintegrate!
We are rollercoasting towards 2K of subscribers, and our most popular video is Toyah: This Is Your Life, which as of writing has been viewed 360K times. Please click below to visit Dreamscape’s You Tube Toyah channel (which also includes some rare Madonna footage).
A King Crimson Tour Can’t Stop Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox’s YouTube Cover Series
Willcox performs the Divinyls’ “I Touch Myself” for her husband in latest clip
King Crimson may be currently on tour, but that hasn’t stopped Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox from continuing their YouTube series Sunday Lunch.
The latest episode features a cover of the Divinyls’ “I Touch Myself.” Willcox greets Fripp remotely — “Hello baby, I’m keeping the bed warm for you” — before diving into the 1990 hit. She seductively rides an exercise bike while Fripp gives comments of approval, from “hubba hubba!” to “wild!”
Since kicking off Sunday Lunch amid the pandemic, the couple has covered everything from the Stones’ “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” to Britney Spears’ “Toxic” to Hawkwind’s “Silver Machine.”
• Continue reading at Rolling Stone.
Read Toyah’s latest blog at toyahwillcox.com. It’s a Summer Of Love!
OMD, Toyah and all the Let’s Rock Southampton stage times
Toyah will open Let’s Rock Southampton 2021 just before midday on Saturday.
The stage times for the retro festival are now out and the 80s pop princess will perform hits including It’s a Mystery, Thunder in the Mountains and I Want to Be Free during a 20 minute opening set.
Let’s Rock, which is making a triumphant return this weekend after its Covid induced hiatus, is a gloriously unpretentious celebration of all things pop and 80s. Thousands of revellers embrace the throwback vibe in fancy dress from the era.
• Continue reading at the Daily Echo.
The transatlantic touring twosome exchange another video postcard, this one from Robert to Toyah. Toyah and Robert’s Postcards Home… #6
Love the new Posh Pop / Summer Of Love promo at Toyah’s Official Instagram… (Images © Toyah Willcox)
Press coverage for this week’s Sunday Lunch (Love Letters #2) with Toyah and Robert. (Images © Toyah Willcox)
• NME: Watch Toyah Willcox cover ‘I Touch Myself’ in solo Sunday Lockdown Lunch video – The singer brought back her exercise bike from her and husband Robert Fripp’s viral Metallica video – Continue reading…
• Guitar.Com: Robert Fripp Reacts To Toyah Willcox Going Solo In Sunday Lunch Cover Of Divinyl’s I Touch Myself – “Hello baby, I’m keeping the bed warm for you”- Continue reading…
• Metal Sucks: Toyah Willcox Covers Divinyls’ “I Touch Myself” for King Crimson’s Robert Fripp – Robert Fripp is on tour in the U.S. with King Crimson at the moment, but that doesn’t mean his infamous “Sunday Lunch” cover videos with his wife, the actress and singer Toyah Willcox, have taken a pause – Continue reading…
• Metal Injection: Toyah Willcox Offers Cover of “I Touch Myself” for King Crimson’s Robert Fripp While He’s On Tour – Continue reading…
• Metal Addicts: Toyah Willcox Sends Cover Of ‘I Touch Myself’ To King Crimson’s Robert Fripp While He’s On Tour – Continue reading…
• Consequence: Toyah Seductively Serenades Robert Fripp with Divinyls’ “I Touch Myself”: Watch – Toyah has figured out a way to excite Robert while he’s on tour with King Crimson – Continue reading…
• Tone Deaf: Toyah seduces Robert Fripp with solo cover of ‘I Touch Myself’ – With Robert Fripp in the thick of a US Tour with his band King Crimson, Toyah Willcox was left to her own devices with this week’s instalment of their Sunday Lunch Sessions – Continue reading…
• DGM Live: Transatlantic Weekend – Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch – Love Letters Part 2 – Toyah & Robert Fripp’s Postcards Home #5 – Toyah – Summer Of Love, from the “Posh Pop” album – out on August 27th! (with Simon Darlow and Bobby Willcox) – Toyah At Home & Away #1 – Continue reading…
With the release of Summer Of Love, there have now been three single previews made available from Toyah’s forthcoming studio album, Posh Pop. These singles have also been accompanied by new video premieres – Watch all three at The Official Toyah You Tube Channel. (Images © Toyah Willcox)
This has become my favourite song already from the forthcoming album Posh Pop, which is interesting as Levitate was my firm favourite until last night, but Summer Of Love is glorious and has such a rousing chorus. I love the subject matter and the retro, slightly psychedelic, protest song vibe. Anyway, enough of what I think… The new Summer Of Love video premiered earlier today, watch it below!
The transatlantic touring twosome exchange a video postcard, this one from Toyah to Robert.
Music, chat and more of your questions which this week comes from Toyah as she is on tour away from home… Toyah At Home & On The Road. Look out for the premiere of the video for the new single Summer Of Love, an exclusive rendition of Hyperventilate and a live performance of, the second single from Posh Pop, Zoom Zoom. Watch/Rewatch at You Tube by clicking below.
Toyah unveils ‘Summer of Love’ from forthcoming ‘Posh Pop’ LP
The star’s first solo album in 13 years features the recent singles ‘Levitate’ and ‘Zoom Zoom’ and is accompanied by a series of music videos for each track.
Toyah has released Summer of Love as the latest cut from her new ‘Posh Pop’ album.
The ‘80s icon will drop her forthcoming record on August 27, featuring previously-released tracks Levitate and Zoom Zoom, and this week reveals a third single from the LP.
“For me, this is an anti-war song,” says Toyah. “In the original summer of love there were many wars that shouldn’t have been going on, where young people lost their lives or their minds”
• Continue reading at Retro Pop.
Toyah, and The SAS Band, at Wickham Festival 2021 on Thursday night. Click below to see the photos at Twitter. Click here to see Toyah’s tweet.
Toyah Willcox recalls trying to scrap with Adam Ant
Toyah Willcox has weighed in on the time-honored rumours about her once trying to beat up New Romantic figurehead Adam Ant.
Toyah recently sat down with NME to discuss her debut appearance on Top Of The Pops way back in 1981. The episode saw Toyah tear through her track ‘It’s A Mystery’, alongside performances from Adam Ant and Australia’s sweetheart Joe Dolce… ahhhhh…. shaddap you face!
“Even though I knew Adam Ant and had done Jubilee with him, I was still star-struck by the whole event,” Toyah recalled of the performance.
When asked whether or not the rumours about her trying to beat Adam Ant up were true, she revealed: “Yes! He formed a band for Jubilee that was needed in a scene called the Maneaters – I was the singer for it, and Adam’s wife, Eve, was the bassist. The problem was, I was too individualistic and I already had the Toyah Band.
• Continue reading at Tone Deaf.
Toyah Willcox remembers trying to beat up Adam Ant: “I was a terrible scrapper”
Toyah Willcox has recalled an altercation with Adam Ant on the set of Derek Jarman’s iconic punk film Jubilee.
Discussing her debut appearance on Top Of The Pops in 1981 for NME‘s ‘Does Rock ‘n’ Roll Kill Braincells?!’ feature, Willcox recalled being on the same bill as Ant. “Even though I knew Adam Ant and had done Jubilee with him, I was still star-struck by the whole event,” she said.
Asked about whether rumours about her once trying to beat Ant up were true, she added: “Yes! He formed a band for Jubilee that was needed in a scene called the Maneaters – I was the singer for it, and Adam’s wife, Eve, was the bassist. The problem was, I was too individualistic and I already had the Toyah Band.
• Continue reading at the NME.
