The Millers’ home will welcome busloads of talent during June and July — but not just of the footballing kind.
Two events will feature singers and more gracing the ground to showcase their skills. The annual Children’s Festival will end on Wednesday, July 8 with One Voice — a concert featuring 2,500 Rotherham youngsters, singing a programme of popular songs.
The recital will be hosted by TV presenter and music idol Toyah Willcox and is expected to draw 5,000 people. Tickets cost £5 each and are available now from the stadium’s box office.
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Toyah’s iconic imagery from 1980/The Blue Meaning is currently being referenced as an influence on Tesco’s new womenswear trend/range at their F&F clothing/fashion webstore.
AW13 Depeche Mode: 80s chic meets modern attitude in our edgy new collection, Depeche Mode. Sportswear styles and couture silhouettes in a fresh colour palette make for a look that’s luxe yet easy to wear.
Key Pieces: Take inspiration from the 80s. Singer and actress Toyah Willcox mastered edgy chic.
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See Toyah Willcox, The Christians and Jim Diamond in Revenge of the 80s
Toyah Willcox will headline Revenge of the 80s at the Mayflower Theatre this month.
This special evening of live music on Sunday, May 31 at 7.30pm will also feature The Christians and Jim Diamond with their greatest hits from the 1980s and beyond.
Step back in time to experience three 1980s icons and their chart-topping smash hits live in concert once more. Tickets are available from the box office on 02380 711811 or online at mayflower.org.uk.
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Photos from Toyah’s Acoustic, Up Close & Personal gig at Haverhill Arts Centre, which took place on the 1st May. View larger versions of these photos, and more, at the Live 2015 page at Dreamscape’s Gallery. (Thanks to John & Julie | Photos © John Weston)
Dirty Sexy Funny: Olivia Lee: Comedy Central Extra: Saturday 23rd May: 3.25am
Olivia Lee stars in this hidden camera sketch show. Deaf Bubba makes a mess of things at the marina, Door Bitch takes a punt and Elaine Caine meets Toyah Willcox.
Sending Best Wishes to Toyah on her birthday. Have a fantastic day x
Toyah to perform acoustic and story telling gig at Enginuity
Household name, pop icon, TV presenter and actress Toyah is to perform at Enginuity in Coalbrookdale on Friday 2 October. ‘Acoustic, Up Close & Personal with Toyah’ is a wonderful chance to experience the 1980s pop superstar up close and personal at a lively song and storytelling style gig.
She will also be recalling stories from her varied and colourful 35 year career with conversation and film clips; Toyah’s roles on stage and screen have included parts in Calamity Jane, Cabaret, Peter Pan, Jubilee and Quadrophenia. After the show Toyah will sign autographs and pictures.
Tickets to ‘Acoustic, Up Close & Personal with Toyah’, which are priced at £20 per person, are available in advance only.
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Acoustic, Up Close & Personal with Toyah at Enginuity Friday evening 2nd October
Household name, pop icon, TV presenter and actress Toyah is coming to the Engine Shop at Enginuity in Coalbrookdale on Friday evening, 2nd October. ‘Acoustic, Up Close & Personal with Toyah’ is a wonderful chance to experience the 1980s pop superstar up close and personal at a lively song and storytelling style gig.
Toyah will be entertaining the audience with a selection of her much loved hit singles. Supported by musicians Chris Wong and Colin Hinds, her performance will include It’s a Mystery, Thunder in the Mountains, I Want to be Free and Good Morning Universe.
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The 2014 edition of The Acoustic Album and last year’s third album by The Humans, Strange Tales, are both now available to order/buy online on CD. Further info at toyahwillcox.com. Click below to go directly to the Burning Shed store.
Toyah’s party night will be a return to the 80s
Revenge of the 80s sees Toyah Willcox headlining a special evening of live music on Mayflower Theatre’s stage on Sunday 31 May. The show will also feature The Christians and Jim Diamond with their greatest hits from the 1980s and beyond.
Willcox is a pop icon, TV presenter, and stage and screen actress (Calamity Jane, Cabaret, Jubilee, Quadophenia). She will be with her full band to perform numbers such as her much-loved hit singles It’s A Mystery, Thunder In The Mountains, Brave New World and I Want To Be Free.
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Wishing Toyah and Robert a Happy Anniversary, their 29th!, and Happy Birthday too to Mr Fripp. View Toyah’s Instagram post by clicking below, and the Official Toyah Twitter for more photos.
Toyah’s May 2015 blog is available at The Official Toyah Willcox Website. Click below to read.
As previously mentioned in March, Toyah will be guesting on “Tracks Of My Years” on The Ken Bruce Show on BBC Radio 2. It’s been confirmed this will air in June,
Ken Bruce presents Tracks Of My Years: Each week a different artist joins Ken Bruce to pick 10 of the songs that have meant the most to them (two songs per day, Monday to Friday).
• Browse previous participants at the BBC Radio 2 website.
Secret Diary Of A Call Girl: Sony TV: Sunday 17th May: 11pm
Series One. Episode Eight. After falling out with her agent, Belle meets two women who run a company called Diamond International who invite her into their books. Starring: Billie Piper, Toyah Willcox, Aleksandar Mikic, Jamie Sives, Aislinn Sands and Scarlette O’Harlette.
Soundstock Festival, a two-day music and comedy event, will welcome thousands through its gates this weekend for its inaugural appearance on the festival calendar.
Music acts confirmed, include former X Factor contestant Lydia Lucy, as well as Toyah Willcox, Ultimate Eagles, the Johnny Cash Roadshow and the Simon and Garfunkel Story.
Comedians include Patrick Monahan, who will compere over the weekend, as well as Katherine Ryan and Chris Turner.
The festival, which will be at Little Boyton Hall, Roxwell Road, Chelmsford, and is being organised by Ingenious Rock, is backing Essex Air Ambulance, Chelmsford Community Radio and Stanley’s Heroes.
For more information and tickets, go to www.soundstockfestival.com
• Continue reading at the Chelmsford Weekly News.
Toyah to headline at Aylesbury Live In the Park music festival
The ’80s rock star received the Friars Aylesbury Cup (FA Cup) for selling out Friars faster than any other artist 34 years
Eighties pop phenomenon Toyah will be headlining Aylesbury Town Council’s ‘Live in the Park’ music festival on Saturday August 29 in Vale Park.
Toyah will be on stage at 8:30pm and says she is very excited to be performing at this free outdoor event.
“I am thrilled to be playing ‘Live in the Park’ in Aylesbury! It will be a wonderful, fun day with great music. It’s only 34 years since I received the FA Cup (Friars Aylesbury Cup) for selling out Friars faster than any other artist in the history of Friars … so it’s about time I came back.”
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• Toyah Willcox is topping the bill for this year’s Music in the Park
• The 56-year-old is headlining the annual event in Vale Park
• Toyah is best known for her 80s solo hits including It’s a Mystery
Popstar, author and presenter Toyah Willcox has been announced as the headline act for this year’s Music in the Park. The 56-year-old is top of the bill for the free outdoor music event in Vale Park, Aylesbury on Saturday August 29.
“I am thrilled to be playing Live in the Park” Toyah Willcox
Toyah will be on stage at 8.30pm and she said she is very excited to be performing in the town.
Toyah said: “I am thrilled to be playing ‘Live in the Park’ in Aylesbury! “It will be a wonderful, fun day with great music.”
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80’s pop star Toyah will be headlining Aylesbury Town Council’s ‘Live in the Park’ music festival in August in Vale Park.
The event on Saturday 29th is an entire day of music for free, Toyah Willcox will be on stage at 8:30pm and is very excited to be performing at this free outdoor event.
“I am thrilled to be playing ‘Live in the Park’ in Aylesbury! It will be a wonderful, fun day with great music. It’s only 34 years since I received the FA Cup (Friars Aylesbury Cup) for selling out Friars faster than any other artist in the history of Friars….. so it’s about time I came back”.
Toyah will be performing on stage following eight and a half hours of continuous live music, featuring many local bands and musicians, including Platform Soul, the ultimate soul, disco and dance band.
Rob Casey, Platform Soul lead guitarist says, “We are very excited that Toyah will be headlining ‘Live in the Park’. It’s an honour to share the large outdoor stage with such a popular national star as well as a wide range of talented local artists.
• Continue reading at Mix 96. Browse Toyah’s complete 2015 gig guide, with new dates being added all the time, at toyahwillcox.com.
The continuing adventures of the Brave New World doll. (Thanks to Andy | Photos © A Westhorpe)
Pray to the Mighty Boosh above! Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding are back. The comedy duo will be taking to the screen in a new feature film, Aaaaaaaah!, written and directed by Steve Oram. The first trailer for the film has been released, and it’s a strobing dash through the mad tumble of the film.
What is Aaaaaaaah!?
There’s no hint yet what the plot might be, but it’s listed as a “thriller” on IMDB.
There also seems to be a Spaced feeling in the setting and tone. This may be due in part to the Blood & Ice Cream pedigree in the cast and crew. The director, Steve Oram, appeared in the most recent Simon Pegg/Nick Frost/Edgar Wright collaboration, The World’s End. Alice Lowe, playing an unnamed role in Aaaaaaaah!, appeared in The World’s End and Hot Fuzz.
The cast is a ripper, with Barratt and Fielding joined by Julian Rhind-Tutt (The Hour, Green Wing), Tony Way (Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) and more. Tom Meeten, of Noel Fielding’s Luxury Comedy, will be in the film, though fellow luxe comic Mike Fielding won’t.
Pop-culture cred is right up there, with Toyah Willcox having once been a punk-rock superstar / the narrator of children’s show Brum.
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• Angel and Me: Tears Of An Angel: A couple of lines of lyrics from Toyah’s iconic Angel and Me, from the 1982 album The Changeling, have been used in this Harry Potter fan story at fanfiction.net – See here…
• The Letters of Derek Philpott (and Wilf Turnbull): The Crowd Fund Kickstarter Campaign For The Book has succeeded!! The deadline to secure a copy is Sunday May 3rd at 3.40pm. I am only printing sufficient copies to provide for everyone that has pledged because I am one ordinary fellow who will be sending these out from where they are being delivered to .. my front room! The book will not be in the shops or available anywhere else – Continue reading…
• Get it On… With Bryan Burnett: It’s A Mystery, from The Safari Records Singles Collection Part 1: 1979 – 1981, was included in Bryan’s BBC Radio Scotland show playlist yesterday evening. I only mention it because I was listening at the time, and coincidentally I’ve also been playing both the Safari Collection CDs this week! #stillgetexcitedwhentoyahgetsplayedontheradio – Visit Bryan’s page…
• Kiss & Make Up – Carl Stanley: Yesterday I posted about Carl’s forthcoming book. Today I received an email from him saying thank you. A rare occurrence. Thanks Carl, wishing you every success with your book.
• FlexiPop! The Book: There’s still time to pledge and help get this fantastic book published – Further info here…
