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“WE ARE PRESENTING THE SHOW WITH WHAT WE REGARD AS CLASSIC MUSIC NOW” TOYAH TALKS SUNDAY LUNCH

Toyah is an 80s culteral icon. From punk princess to film and stage actor, presenter, author, and torch carrier for those who relish being an outsider. Aside from her 80s hits including ‘It’s A Mystery’ and ‘Thunder in The Mountains, Toyah and her husband Robert Fripp have transcended generation gaps and brought us great music and performances with their legendary Sunday Lunch shows on social media.

We caught up with Toyah at Rewind South

PHOTOGROUPIE
How does it feel to be back at Rewind?

TOYAH
I love it. I do 20 minutes. Every other night I’m doing two and a half hours, so this is really lovely. It’s fun. I can give it 150% and not worry about act two.

PHOTOGROUPIE
Now I know you’re on the road with Robert tell us about that.

TOYAH
I’m on the road now. I’ve been on the road since March. The Sunday lunch official tour starts at the end of September through October.

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One of the ultimate Toyah fan favourites Angel & Me receives new life in this official 2023 lyric video. In celebration of the 2023 deluxe expanded and remastered editions of the album The Changeling, the lyric video uses previously unseen 1982 B-roll footage from the set of the Brave New World video. © 2023 Cherry Red Records. Edited/produced by Craig Astley.

• Pre-order The Changeling Super Deluxe Box Set & other formats.

Toyah joined Ken Bruce for Golden Years and took us through the year of 1972. She tells Ken about her love for Roxy Music and Elton John amongst others. Toyah talks about the impact of the 1970s and recalls what she remembers about the decade.

She also shares a story about her early life in school and how she may have cause some trouble in school. One story involves several alarm clocks, a school stage and a former Prime Minister!

• Listen to the great interview below or at You Tube.

“It’s a worldwide phenomenon!” Toyah reveals that talks have begun to make Toyah and Robert’s Sunday Lunch: The Movie a reality

Who’s ready for Toyah and Robert Fripp’s Sunday Lunch on the ‘silver screen’?

Toyah has revealed that discussions have begun on making a movie of the hugely popular YouTube series Sunday Lunch she hosts with her partner, Robert Fripp.

The series, which sees the former punk heroine and King Crimson’s leader cover songs from their kitchen in Pershore, Worcestershire, started life during lockdown, and has grown into a “phenomenon”, according to the singer. There are currently 147 videos filed under the Sunday Lunch banner.

Toyah made the revelation while speaking to eonmusic’s Eamon O’Neill ahead of her performance at Rewind South in Henley-on-Thames in August.

On how the YouTube series has taken off, Toyah says, “Sunday Lunch came about because we posted one clip, 28 seconds, something like 19th of April 2020, and we had 100,000 replies within five minutes from people who were just desperate, absolutely desperate. They were on their own. They were in lockdown. They didn’t know when they’d be able to leave their apartments, and we, Robert and I realised that this was at that particular time, a very lonely and frightened world. So we decided to keep posting, and it grew from there.

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Toyah’s blog for September is available to read at toyahwillcox.com.

Weightless has been nominated for Best Female Led Short and Best Experimental Drama at New Renaissance Film Festival London.

Tales Of The Unexpected: Sky Arts: Monday 18th September: 5.30pm
Tales Of The Unexpected: Sky Arts: Tuesday 19th September: 1.30pm
Tales Of The Unexpected: Sky Arts: Wednesday 20th September: 9.30am
Tales Of The Unexpected: Sky Arts: Saturday 23rd September: 9am
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.

It’s Toyah Tuesday which means another slice of content related to The Changeling as we move toward the album’s remastered, expanded releases on 29 September from Cherry Red.

This unplugged performance of the classic Angel & Me comes from an intimate 2018 concert and can be found on the 2CD+DVD edition. Filmed/edited by Robert Cooper © 2018 Toyah Willcox Limited.

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Toyah’s Sack The Stylist?! Top 30: NOW 80s: Saturday 16th September: 3pm
Pop legend Toyah brings 30 memorable videos featuring a cavalcade of clothing calamities from superstars including Bowie, Madonna, Adam Ant and many more in this crazy countdown!

• Saturday Song: Street Creature (1982) from The Changeling (Vintage 1982 performance) – Watch… • Toyah & Robert: UpBeat Moments – Watch… • Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch – Crazy – Watch… (Image © Toyah Willcox)

50 Wild Women Of The 80s!: NOW 80s: Saturday 16th September: 6pm
Brilliant songs, big voices, blazing hair & bags of attitude – the ladies of the 80s had the lot! From Toyah to Tina & Joan Jett to Janet Jackson.

This weekend’s Saturday Song was a vintage TV clip of Street Creature filmed for Razzmatazz in 1982. Toyah, Joel Bogen and the late Phil Spalding took a break from album recording sessions for The Changeling and flew to the Tyne Tees television studios in Newcastle Upon Tyne to film this and a version of Brave New World.

80s Stars – Then & Now!: NOW 80s: Saturday 16th September: 3am
80s Stars – Then & Now!: NOW 80s: Monday 18th September: 4pm
Where are they now? Classic hits, followed by some recent songs – Including Pet Shop Boys, Kylie, Toyah, The Stones, Gary Numan, The Pretenders, New Order, Rick Astley & T’Pau!

Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch – Rock Party Tour dates & tickets: www.toyahwillcox.com/gigs.

Robert Fripp on the future of King Crimson: “I’m committed to another band right now – Toyah and Robert”

Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox are set to tour their Sunday Lunch rock party across the UK this Autumn.

Robert Fripp has opened up on the future of King Crimson following the success of his Sunday Lunch YouTube series with his wife and fellow musician, Toyah Willcox.

The duo began performing a range of covers on Willcox’s YouTube channel during the COVID-19 lockdowns, which rose to popularity.

Off the back of the success of their online covers, which are recorded using just an iPhone, the pair are even set to take their Sunday Lunch covers on the road with a UK “Rock Party” tour starting later this month (September).

In a new interview with Guitar World, Fripp was asked if King Crimson is definitely over, or if there is any hope for a tour in the future now that he’s so busy with this new project: “I’ve learned from having attempted to get away from King Crimson in 1974, 1984, 2003 and 2008 that it’s probably hard to say!

• Continue reading at Guitar.Com. Browse all of Toyah & Robert’s Rock Party tour dates at toyahwillcox.com.

This exclusive interview excerpt (from the DVD of the 2CD+DVD) goes behind the music with a deep dive into the classic Street Creature.

NB. There is now only three weeks until the long-awaited deluxe editions of The Changeling are released!

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On Friday, Street Creature, the final preview of The Changeling remaster, will be released on digital platforms. The 2–track digital single also includes the Work In Progress Mix. Pre-save now by clicking below.

• Pre-order The Changeling Super Deluxe Box Set & other formats.

• Toyah At Home: September 2023 – The Changeling Special – Watch… • Toyah & Robert: UpBeat Moments – Watch… • Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch Reaction – The Homecoming – Watch… (Image © Toyah Willcox)

50 Wild Women Of The 80s!: NOW 80s: Thursday 7th September: 4pm
Brilliant songs, big voices, blazing hair & bags of attitude – the ladies of the 80s had the lot! From Toyah to Tina & Joan Jett to Janet Jackson.

The incredible Toyah, wearing an amazing devil’s costume, spoke to us about an exciting new fly on the wall documentary coming up, about a possible link to Stranger Things, and about her upcoming tour among other things.

Toyah and Robert Fripp bring us fun, hilarity and music every Sunday for more than two years now from their kitchen with covers of pop & rock classics.

It’s not that they weren’t already famous before the Covid-19 lockdown started.

Toyah and Fripp have both remarkable careers on their résume and they’re definitely not done yet, as Toyah proved crystal clear with her 2021 Posh Pop album and Robert still touring with King Crimson, his band of a lifetime.

And regularly they leave their beloved kitchen to play live together, as happened last May at the Stone Valley South Festival in Great Amwell, England where they played, as part of their set, their vivid cover of David Bowie‘s 1977 mega-hit Heroes, on which Fripp played guitar back then.

Toyah and Robert recently celebrated their 37th anniversary together, cause they’re lovers, and that is a fact, yes they’re lovers, and that is that.

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