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Toyah announces 45th anniversary reissue of EP ‘Four From Toyah’

It will be released on digital/streaming platforms

Toyah Willcox is still releasing music, with her greatest hits album ‘Chameleon: The Very Best Of Toyah’ arriving in 2025, with a huge tour planned for 2026, but she started releasing music more than four decades ago. The singer was known, along with her band, for songs like ‘It’s a Mystery’, and it has now been announced that Toyah is set to re-release the EP ‘Four From Toyah’ to celebrate it’s 45th anniversary.

Announcing the news on social media, Toyah’s official account shared several images, including an original press release promoting the EP, along with photos of Toyah from the early 80s.

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To mark the EP’s 45 anniversary, on Friday 30 January 2026, Four From Toyah is released on digital/streaming platforms with its original artwork. The expanded 8-track EP released in 2021 will also appear on digital platforms.

NB. See Toyah’s Facebook and Instagram for Four From Toyah archive deep dives…

Official Toyah celebrates the 45th anniversary of the release of the Four From Toyah EP.

Forty five years ago this month…… the Four From Toyah EP was released and provided Toyah’s breakthrough chart hit that reached the top 10. Look out for future posts marking this anniversary.

• See Toyah’s Facebook and Instagram. Browse Dreamscape’s recent Four From Toyah news archive. (Photos © Cherry Red)

There are two helpings of Toyah in the latest issue (#79, January/February 2023) of Classic Pop magazine: A review of the forthcoming ‘Rhythm Deluxe Edition’ of studio album In The Court of The Crimson Queen, and Four From Toyah, in a Top 20 EPs feature, with the 1981 release included at #15.

• Click below to view larger versions of both articles. The latest issue of Classic Pop magazine is available to buy in store and online. (Thanks to Minna of The Toyah Willcox Interview Archive for both scans)

Official Toyah are excited to announce two very special releases from Toyah for Record Store Day 2021. Both exclusive releases will be available as part of RSD Drop 1 on Saturday 12 June. Visit the RSD website to find a participating store near you.

Four From Toyah – Fortieth Anniversary
• Cherry Red Records is delighted announce the newly remastered 40th Anniversary release celebrating Toyah’s 1981 hit EP Four From Toyah as a special expanded coloured vinyl mini- album exclusively for Record Store Day 2021.

• Produced by Nick Tauber and introducing a new band line-up the EP was led by the song ‘It’s A Mystery’ which became a hit and entered the top 40 UK singles chart, rising to no.4 in February 1981 and earning a silver certification from the BPI in March 1981. ‘It’s A Mystery’ became one of Toyah’s signature songs and is still performed to this day.

• This expanded release presents all four tracks from the original 7” EP on side one of the vinyl – remastered from the original mastertapes for the first time ever.

• Side Two includes the four original demo/incarnations of the songs which all started life in previous recording sessions, and again are remastered from the original mastertapes for the first time ever.

• The release carries stunning new artwork including previously unseen shots from the classic photography for “Four From Toyah” which saw Toyah in four different striking and meticulous looks representing all four songs and is pressed on ‘jungle green’ coloured vinyl echoing Toyah’s make-up from the front sleeve shot.

SIDE ONE
1. IT’S A MYSTERY – 2021 REMASTER
2. REVELATIONS – 2021 REMASTER
3. WAR BOYS – 2021 REMASTER
4. ANGELS & DEMONS – 2021 REMASTER

SIDE TWO
1. IT’S A MYSTERY (ORIGINAL VERSION) – BLOOD DONOR FEAT. TOYAH WILLCOX – 2021 REMASTER
2. JACK & JILL – ORIGINAL INCARNATION OF REVELATIONS – 2021 REMASTER
3. THE MERCHANT & THE NUBILE – ORIGINAL INCARNATION OF WAR BOYS – 2021 REMASTER
4. ANGELS & DEMONS (DEMO) – 2021 REMASTER

Fantastic to see the Four From Toyah: Birthday Edition EP doing so well on its first day of release yesterday. Great new songs from Toyah and Simon Darlow, it’s always special to hear new music from Toyah. Click below to download. (Thanks to Official Toyah for the FFT flyer design)

What’s caused Robert to shake his money maker to Telepathic Lover by Toyah? The news that Four From Toyah (Birthday Edition) is No.1 In Amazon’s Rock Digital Charts pre-order and No.12 in Digital Albums charts as well.

Great news for Toyah on her birthday.

The Four From Toyah: Birthday Edition EP is doing brilliantly in Amazon’s Best Sellers lists.

As of 15 minutes ago the EP was number 2 in the Rock Albums chart, 4 in the Hot New Releases chart, and number 8 in the Album chart.

These lists are updated hourly.

The new EP includes four new and previously unreleased songs written by Toyah and Simon Darlow:

1. Telepathic Lover 2. Who Let The Beast Out 3. Fire Escape 4. Our Hearts Still Beat

• Four From Toyah: Birthday Edition was released today and is available to download from Amazon by clicking below. It’s also available to download from iTunes and to stream at Spotify.

Toyah’s new four-track EP is available to pre-order now from Amazon. It’s released on Friday.

On Friday 18 May 2018 – Toyah’s actual 60th Birthday – a new digital EP will be released on iTunes, Spotify, Amazon. Four From Toyah | Birthday Edition includes four new and previously unreleased songs written by Toyah and Simon Darlow, their first release since 2011. The EP begins with the rousing lead track Telepathic Lover which you can hear an exclusive preview of here.

Two tracks heard in the Crime & Punishment production at London’s Scoop Theatre also feature, Who Let The Beast Out and Fire Escape. The EP is rounded off with the stirring, beautiful Our Hearts Still Beat, written specially for the end titles of the film In Extremis. There are currently no plans to make a CD/vinyl of this particular release available.

• Subscribe: For full info on the above, and more Toyah news, sign up to Breaking Through. The EP was also given a special Instagram announcement today.

Four rare radio interviews with Toyah; 1979 – 1982. Click below for the Downloads section.

1. Capital Radio: Mummy’s Weekly (1979): Fighting talk from Toyah! She also chats about being discovered, ‘Victims Of The Riddle’ and more. 2. Radio One: Rock On (1980): Toyah talks Shoestring, Glitter, the band’s influences, mayhem, ’Sheep Farming In Barnet’, ‘Neon Womb’, and future plans. 3. Radio Trent: (January 1981): Toyah, interviewed just before the release of the ‘Four From Toyah’ EP. Great interview with lots of interesting pre-mainstream fame chat. 4. Radio One: Rock On (May 1982): Toyah talks to, former ‘Smash Hits’ writer and eternal cynic, Mark Ellen about ‘The Changeling’, aliens, fairies, her ‘Brave New World’ image and much more.

• Thanks to Giddy Gavin (aka Logan 5) and Sean.

On Valentine’s Day 1981, the Four From Toyah EP entered the UK Top 40 singles chart. It would rise to a peak position of 4 and after many years of frequenting the Indie Charts would be the first of Toyah’s singles to cross into the mainstream. (Image © Official Toyah)

Click below to view Dreamscape’s 2011 30th Anniversary feature on the iconic EP,  and browse our sporadic Four From Toyah news posts – from 2012 onwards (go further back in time at our News Archive).

Burning Shed are now stocking the first four Toyah studio releases, Sheep Farming In Barnet (1979), The Blue Meaning (1980), Anthem (1981) and The Changeling (1982).

Featuring copious bonus tracks, these editions were pressed in 1999 and 2002 (N.B. These are not new pressings or remasters) and showcase Toyah’s adventurous and sophisticated fusion of Post-Punk and Art Rock at its very best.

The Changeling was produced by Steve Lillywhite and featured Be Bop Deluxe’s Andy Clarke on keyboards plus the formidable rhythm section of Phil Spalding and Simon Phillips (both soon to depart for Mike Oldfield’s band).

• Further info at Burning Shed. Pre-order for 21st April shipping.

A selection of photos shared over the last few days by Toyah/Official Toyah:

1. Some intriguing news coming tomorrow…. #fashion, 2. A new photo from Gary Clutterbuck’s recent photo shoot, revealed today to promote the 80s Invasion Tour ticket pre-sale opening, 3. Toyah tweeted yesterday: “A hot day on HOUND….but lots of fun“, 4. Toyah and Alec Porter, lead actor from Crime and Punishment. Click below to visit Toyah @ Instagram. (Photos © 1/3/4. Toyah Willcox, 2. Gary Clutterbuck)

The Four From Toyah EP, Toyah’s sixth UK single, was released this week in 1981. This was Toyah’s chart breakthrough release after almost three years of albums, singles and tours. Toyah can be seen performing the lead song, It’s A Mystery on Top Of The Pops on BBC Four tonight at 7.30pm and again at 11pm. It will also be available to watch online at BBC iPlayer after airing. Click below to view Dreamscape’s 30th Anniversary feature on the EP, from 2011.

Last Thursday’s repeat of Top Of The Pops on BBC4 included Four From Toyah in “The Charts” rundown. The EP had climbed into the Top 30 for the first time. Click here to view larger versions of the screen caps and below to watch the programme at BBC iPlayer.

Top Of The Pops: 26/02/1981: Peter Powell introduces the pop programme, featuring Status Quo, Kim Wilde, Madness, Kiki Dee, Coast to Coast, the Passions, Roxy Music and Joe Dolce, and a dance performance from Legs & Co.

Exactly 34 years ago today, Valentine’s Day 1981, Four From Toyah entered the UK Singles Chart. Toyah’s sixth single and second EP eventually peaked at number four and spent 14 weeks on the chart. The rest, as they say, is history…

There’s now just one week left to collect all the songs from Twenty Four From Toyah: Live Archive Selections 1993-2102.

The page at Soundcloud, where all the tracks can still be listened to, will expire on the 24th January. Get your cover/artwork for the album, plus a digital booklet with photos and info here. The complete Twenty Four From Toyah can be downloaded at Media Fire in two zip files.

Twenty-Four From Toyah – Side 1 | Twenty-Four From Toyah – Side 2 (These are officially provided links).

Twenty Four From Toyah was Toyah’s Christmas gift to fans. Featuring a selection of unreleased live songs from various gigs and tours spanning 1993 to 2012. Not only celebrating Toyah’s live history over the past 20 years but marking the end of three recent highly successful UK tours commemorating Toyah’s amazing Safari albums from ‘Sheep Farming In Barnet’ to ‘The Changeling’.

Side One: 1993-2006: 1. It’s A Mystery (Acoustic, Take The Leap! sessions, 1993), 2. Dreamchild (Acoustic Dreamchild Tour, Burgess Hill 1994), 3. Now And Then (Acoustic Dreamchild Tour, Burgess Hill 1994), 4 Unkind (Acoustic Dreamchild Tour, Burgess Hill 1994), 5. Let Me Go (Acoustic Dreamchild Tour, Burgess Hill 1994), 6 Out Of The Blue (Has God Ceased To Dream You Tour, Plymouth 1994), 7. Moonlight Dancing (Has God Ceased To Dream You Tour, Plymouth 1994), 8. Something Good (Ronnie Scott’s, London 2002), 9. Strange (Ronnie Scott’s, London 2002), 10. Little Tears Of Love (Ronnie Scott’s, London 2002), 11. Obsolete (Acoustic Faith & Music sessions, 2006), 12. Neon Womb (Acoustic Faith & Music sessions, 2006).

Side Two: 2011-2012: 13. War Boys (FSFTA, London 2011), 14. Blue Meanings (FSFTA, London 2011), 15. Elusive Stranger (FSFTA, London 2011), 16. Pop Star (FSFTA, Oxford 2011), 17. Masai Boy (FSFTA, Oxford 2011), 18. Demolition Men (FSFTA, Shorham 2011), 19. Latex Messiah (Viva La Rebel In You) ( FSFTA, Manchester 2011), 20. Castaways ( TCR, London 2012), 21. Voodoo Doll (TCR, London 2012), 22. Bird In Flight ( Manchester 2012), 23. Rebel Run (Minehead 2012), 24. Angel & Me (TCRII, Brighton 2012).

• Listen to the complete ‘Twenty Four From Toyah’ album at Soundcloud. Download the album cover and a booklet with photos and song information at toyahwillcox.com. Thanks to Toyah, and the Official Toyah Website, for this great gift!

Toyah’s Christmas Countdown was fully revealed and completed on Christmas Eve. Browse Twenty Four From Toyah at Soundcloud.

A great selection of rare live Toyah recordings from 1993 to 2012.

Download the digital artwork as well as a Twenty Four From Toyah booklet at toyahwillcox.com.

The sixth window on Toyah’s Official Christmas Countdown was opened yesterday, taking visitors to another live recording.

Twenty Four From Toyah: Live Archive Selections 1993-2012 – Collect the ‘Twenty Four From Toyah’ full album in the run up to the 24th December.

Already available: Moonlight Dancing (Live in Plymouth 1994), Neon Womb (Acoustic, Faith & Music 2006), Little Tears Of Love (Live in London 2002), It’s A Mystery (Acoustic, Take The Leap! Sessions 1993) and more.

Visit Toyah’s Christmas Countdown here and Twenty Four From Toyah here.