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Proudest bloody day of my life. Us here at Lincoln Studios have finished our first ever feature film!!!! It’s called AAAAAAAAH! I almost had to be given the kiss of life when I finished watching it round the director’s place last night. I collapsed to the floor head in hands, I was so overwhelmed. It was better than when I finally opened the salon in Grantham after 16 months of crap with the contractors. It is a fantastic feeling for me but the credit goes to the brilliant actors, crew and production team.

Here’s the poster for AHHHHHHH!!!! Shitting hell it’s brilliant isn’t it! And f-ing creepy. Won’t be putting it on my wall. Don’t fancy seeing that when I get up for a pee in the night, I’d probably wet myself on the landing!!!! Designed by an American feller called Jay Shaw I think, who has relatives in North Hykeham. Yours. Derek Evans

• Continue reading at Lincoln Studios.

The eye-catching poster for Aaaaaaaah!, the new film which includes Toyah in its cast, was made available yesterday. Please click below to view a larger version.

Toyah is making a return to Steve Lamacq’s Roundtable on BBC Radio 6Music later this month.

Steve Lamacq’s Roundtable: BBC Radio 6Music
Thursday 12th March: 4.00pm
Steve hosts Roundtable and is joined by Toyah Willcox and Gideon Coe.

Toyah is headlining another festival this Summer.

PL13 Festival, Black Rock Beach
Millendreath, Nr Looe
17th-18th-19th July 2015

Toyah is preforming. Full line up and tickets available soon.

2015 line up Toyah, The Blockheads, Showaddywaddy, King, From the Style Council, Objayda, James Shead, State of Undress, Rhythm Machine, Dark Plains, Raikes.

• Continue reading at looedirectory.co.uk. Visit the gig page for the festival at toyahwillcox.com.

Get set for some new images… Toyah shared some teaser photos yesterday at Instagram, which also appeared at Twitter and Facebook:

• Guess what im up to? In the studio shooting new images with sean chapman and dean stockings……more 2 come x

• New shoot! #lips #eyes #readyformycloseup

• #hairandmakeup last sneak peek until they are on www.toyahwillcox.com

Two live Toyah classics, Thunder In The Mountains and I Want To Be Free, both from the 1982 Safari Records album Warrior Rock, are included in the new Vintage TV/HMV Digital link-up. Toyah played acoustic versions of both on The Vintage TV Sessions (Episode 4) in early 2014. That show is airing again soon.

Vintage TV is delighted to announce an exciting new relationship with HMV Digital!

Vintage TV music-lovers, you can now listen to all your favourite tracks from The Vintage TV Sessions, courtesy of HMV Digital. From Steve Harley to Lulu, Marc Almond to Lisa Stansfield, simply head over to HMV Digital to download your top songs and listen to them over and over again! There are over a 100 songs for you to add to your music library, so what are you waiting for?

• Continue reading at Vintage TV. Visit Vintage at HMV Digital.

AND THE REST… As always, here’s some of the news you may have missed during the last week, via our Twitter feed.

We’ll see you again next Monday, and throughout the week for more news, reviews and interviews. Keep on peeling!

Toyah Willcox @toyahofficial: Just watched AHHHHHH the movie with the cast. WOW. really really naughty, weird and incredibly wonderful. a very modern love story xxx

• Continue reading at The Velvet Onion.

The episode of Minder, “All Mod Cons”, which originally aired in October 1980 on ITV, with Toyah as Kate alongside Dennis Waterman and George Cole, airs again on ITV4 later this month.

Minder: ITV4: Monday 9th March: 6pm
Minder: ITV4: Tuesday 10th March: 8.05am
All Mod Cons. Arthur decides to sell Terry’s flat without his permission. Meanwhile, Terry gets a job minding at a local club and ends up getting into more trouble than he had planned for when he realises the club’s manager is on the fiddle. Starring: George Cole, Dennis Waterman, Toyah Willcox, Simon Cadell, James Ottaway, and Tony Osaba. (Series 2, Episode 8, 1980). Also showing on ITV4 HD and ITV4 +1.

A much expanded/reworked version of the recent ‘Frome Standard’ interview with Toyah, by Lisa Evans, was published yesterday by the Bath Chronicle.

After performing in Frome, former punk princess Toyah Willcox tells us why she loves Bath and why she owes her success to looking strange

Charismatic, outspoken and impossible to categorise, former punk princess Toyah Willcox is one of Britain’s iconic household names. When she visited Frome to perform at the Cheese and Grain this month, she told Lisa Evans why she adores Bath and why she owes her success to looking ‘strange’.

Toyah Willcox has always liked to surprise. She is, she admits, ‘a bit of an attention-seeker’ and was a rebellious extrovert who knew what she had to do to be noticed. During her 20s, with her shock of bright pink hair and unconventional outfits, she was the most outrageous and most successful punk rocker of her age, and she tells me that she thinks her alternative look was the reason she found success.

“I always wanted to be noticed,” says Toyah. “And, for me, dying my hair crazy colours and wearing different clothes from everyone else helped me to break free from the mould which women were put into at the time. I wanted to be different and not judged by the same book as everyone else was.

“And to be honest with you, if I hadn’t have looked a bit strange, I don’t think I would have been noticed in the first place. I owe my career to that colourful hair – I was a punk rocker at a time when no other woman was doing anything like that.”

• Continue reading at the Bath Chronicle.

A previously unreleased live track has been made available by toyahwillcox.com.

Get In Your Car [Live at Triple Door Club, Seattle] by The Humans is now playing on Toyah’s Official Gigs page. A great taster for the forthcoming UK live dates by The Humans.

Toyah & The Humans kick off a special six-date tour Telling Strange Tales on 11th April.

• See the dates, buy tickets & hear the exclusive unreleased live track at toyahwillcox.com. Browse Dreamscape’s Strange Tales and Telling Strange Tales UK Tour news feeds.

Toyah’s Electric Ladies, new from Vintage TV, is now being listed in the latest television guides. There are two airdates so far.

Toyah’s Electric Ladies: Vintage TV: Sunday 8th March: 6pm
Toyah’s Electric Ladies: Vintage TV: Tuesday 10th March: 8pm
New! The princess of punk shines the light on those iconic female artists through the years who have inspired and made their own mark.

Punk legend Toyah to tour UK with King Crimson drummer Bill Rieflin

Toyah & The Humans embark on a UK Tour of six intimate concert dates this April in Uckfield, Gloucester, London, Southampton, Swansea and Chatham.

The Humans’ third album ‘Strange Tales, recorded in Pearl Jam’s studio, is available digitally now and will be available exclusively on CD at the six UK tour dates. The band is the brainchild of renowned singer, actress and household name Toyah Willcox and brings together three lifetimes of musical experience, experimentation and craftsmanship.

• Continue reading at Metal Express Radio.

The original and best ‘Quadrophenia Night’ returns to the Artrix in Bromsgrove giving fans of this British film and the music of the 1960’s another opportunity to re-live the culturally significant period in post-war British history which gave rise to an awakening in the psyche of teenagers and was responsible for much of the music that came to be known as ‘The British Invasion”

This production will feature an opportunity to see the classic Franc Roddam film on the big screen in a seated theatre followed by a live performance from The Quikbeats with the evening closed by the sensational Who tribute “The Whoo”.

• Continue reading/further info at the Facebook Event page.

Tickets are on sale for all six dates of The Humans forthcoming UK Tour, Telling Strange Tales. Playing Uckfield, Gloucester, Southampton, Swansea, London and Chatham between 11th and 19th April. View more info/ticket links by clicking below.

Fri 6th Mar, 11.00pm – The Vintage TV Sessions
Must-see shows on the Vintage TV calendar, these live sessions offer all the excitement and atmosphere of a gig in your own home. So, sit back and enjoy two songs each, recorded at The Bedford in Balham, from indie rockers The Struts, punk princess Toyah Willcox and her band, singer songwriters Josephine and Judie Tzuke, of ‘Stay With Me ‘Til Dawn’ fame , and 80s icon Nik Kershaw. Veteran musician, broadcaster and campaigner Tom Robinson is your esteemed host.

Sun 8th Mar, 6.00pm – Toyah’s Electric Ladies
The princess of punk shines a light on those iconic female artists who have electrified the music scene in their own unique way. In this new show, Toyah pays respect not only to her 80s contemporaries but also to the legendary ladies whose spark and spirit has inspired through the decades. Flick the switch for full illumination!

• Continue reading at Vintage TV.

• Twitter: A rare photo of Toyah & Steve Strange at Derek Jarman’s Tempest party 1980 was tweeted by Toyah last Friday – View here…

• Wales Online: Steve Strange and me, by the friend who knew him for 40 years: “I found a warehouse that was owned by Toyah Willcox in Battersea and we rented it out for a warehouse party,” said Chris. “I had a snake charmer, a burlesque show, blue films from the ’50s going backwards on the ceiling, and it was a huge success” – Continue reading…

• Northampton Herald & Post: Rick Astley, Hot Chocolate, Bucks Fizz stars and Toyah in line-up at Northampton Franklin’s Gardens 80s concert – Continue reading…

• Monocle 24: The Stack: Still available to download – A music magazine special with the Tony Herrington, editor-in-chief of ‘The Wire’ and music journalist Andrew Mueller. Plus Toyah Willcox shares her experience as one of the 1980s most featured front-cover musicians – Play/Download/Share here…

FM: 4Music: Tuesday 3rd March: 10.40pm
System Addict. Jane dares Dom to quit drinking, he challenges her to stop smoking and Lyndsay is set the task of finding a girlfriend. Including guest appearances by the Toyah Willcox and the Wombats, who perform My Circuitboard City. Comedy, starring Chris O’Dowd, Kevin Bishop and Nina Sosanya.

Dirty Sexy Funny: Olivia Lee: Comedy Central Extra: Tuesday 10th March: 3.20am
Dirty Sexy Funny: Olivia Lee: Comedy Central Extra: Friday 13th March: 3.30am
Dirty Sexy Funny: Olivia Lee: Comedy Central Extra: Monday 16th March: 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.

Dexter Brown is the world’s foremost painter of motor sports. He explains to Matthew Wilcox what drives him – and how a charity exhibition to be held at Bonhams has kept him on track.

… It was in this spirit that he launched himself in a new direction in 1978, when he found himself captivated by the energy of performers such as Toyah Willcox, Debbie Harry and Suzi Quatro at the fabled Electric Ballroom in Camden. As Willcox reminisced in a recent interview, “He used to come to the live shows and paint, he’d be on the side of the stage and quickly sketching away in pastels. The drawings were astonishing. The energy that comes out of his work…”

The collaboration proved so fruitful that Willcox asked Brown to design her album covers and even her stage costume for her tour in the winter of 1981. A subsequent exhibition of Brown’s pop portraits made an impression on the executives of London’s Capital Radio, who owned the Duke of York theatre. For five years he was the artist-in-residence at the theatre, sitting in on plays and in dressing rooms, and given the task of portraying actors such as Al Pacino, Glenda Jackson and Billy Connolly.

• Continue reading at Bonhams.

Toyah plays live two nights in a row in Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire later this year, as reported by Ma Simpsons.

Toyah: Friday 18th + Saturday 19th September 2015

Toyah that vivacious singer from the 70s/80s is out on tour and every bit as good as before and looking fantastic. Exclusive to Stonehaven Town Hall for 2 Nights only (only dates north of Edinburgh in 2015)

Friday 18th and Saturday 19th of September 2015. Support from our very own Leighann Esslemont and Band

• Continue reading at Ma Simpsons. Further details of the gig at toyahwillcox.com.

A new article on the episode of Shoestring, “Find The Lady”, in which Toyah had a significant role, by Memorable TV.

Shoestring: Find The Lady (BBC-1 2 Dec 1979 with Toyah Willcox)

In Find the Lady singer Toola asks Eddie to help her former bass player Gary “Mole” Molecombe who is convinced that his girlfriend Chrissie has been murdered by Toola’s manager Kenrick. Kenrick is quite the nasty piece of work but there seems to be no real evidence to support Moles claims of murder especially as a local photographer provides evidence of Chrissie being alive and well. But then Mole himself dies of an apparent overdose…

UK / BBC One / 1×50 minute episode / Broadcast 2 December 1979
Writer: Philip Martin / Production Design: Spencer Chapman / Director: Marek Kanievska
Series: Shoestring / Season 1 Episode 9

• Continue reading at Memorable TV. View their previous feature on, another 20th Century programme which also included Toyah, Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde.