Toyah is guesting on Sky News this morning, participating in the daily “Paper Review”. She appeared at 6.45am, and will be appearing again at 7.40am. I managed to take a few quick screen caps. Click on these to view larger versions.
Now that Dreamscape has nestled into its 15th year online I thought it was time to give the site a bit of a makeover.
Over the last couple of months, inbetween work, life, sleep, fanzines and other websites, I’ve been revamping each section and I finally managed to finish and uploaded the changes this weekend – I’m pleased with the finished result and think the alterations give Dreamscape a bright, fresher (and fun) look.
I’ve also added content and brought up to date a few of the sections that had been slightly neglected over the last couple of years. I sometimes forget how vast the archives of this site are…
Take a look at Downloads, Press Archive, Features, News Archive and Gallery…
Toyah guests on the Richard Green Show this afternoon on BBC Radio Devon.
Richard Green: BBC Radio Devon: Sat 15th Mar: 1pm
Toyah. Great tunes from the 80’s and a chat with Toyah about her music and “The Humans” Project.
Listen live at the website or catch up later at BBC iPlayer.
Pop icon Toyah Willcox headlining this year’s Crick Boat Show and Waterways Festival in Northamptonshire
Pop icon, TV presenter and actress Toyah Willcox is headlining this year’s Crick Boat Show & Waterways Festival.
The annual event, which showcases the inland waterways industry with over 250 exhibitors from across the canal world, takes place at Crick Marina, near Daventry in Northamptonshire, from 24 to 26 May 2014.
Toyah will be performing her ‘Acoustic, Up Close & Personal’ set at Crick as part of the show’s Saturday evening entertainment programme.
• Continue reading at Northampton Herald & Post.
News of a Safari nature is expected to be announced, via Toyah’s Breaking Through newsletter, imminently. There will also be a Safari reissue project later in 2014.
• Subscribe: Sign up to ‘Breaking Through’, to receive regular newsletter updates, here.
80s singer Toyah Willcox to headline Crick Boat Show
Pop singer and TV presenter Toyah Willcox will headline this year’s Crick Boat Show & Waterways Festival.
The annual event, which showcases the inland waterways industry with over 250 exhibitors from across the canal world, takes place at Crick Marina, near Daventry in Northamptonshire, on the weekend of May 24 to 26.
The show is expected to attract 25,000 visitors and Toyah will be performing her ‘Acoustic, Up Close & Personal’ set during the Saturday evening entertainment programme.
Her gig will include renditions of her most well-known singles, such as It’s A Mystery, Thunder in the Mountains and I Want to Be Free and she will tell stories from her colourful 35-year career.
• Continue reading at Northampton Chronicle & Echo.
• Live 2014: Dates for Toyah’s Autumn tour are being announced shortly… Visit the Official Gigs page at toyahwillcox.com to browse the many dates already available for 2014.
• Live 2104: View all of Dreamscape’s Toyah Live 2014 news here…
• Bass Evening with Phil Spalding: View a great photo of Phil, from his recent Doncaster appearance, at his Official Facebook page here…
• The Letters of Wilf Turnbull and Derek Philpott: Dear Toyah, Re: I Want To Be Free: This not entirely (not at all really) serious letter, to which Toyah playfully replied, caused great merriment, and confusion, at Facebook recently – Read here…
• CafeSpike: Derek Philpott – A Letter To Lady Gaga: Toyah is also mentioned in this related article – Read here…
• Volksfest Festival 2014: Toyah is playing this on 25th May. View her page at the festival’s website here…
The Corn is Green: True Drama: Friday 21st March: 1.00pm
Academy Award winner Katharine Hepburn stars as a schoolteacher determined to help the people of a turn-of-the-century Welsh mining town. With Ian Saynor, Bill Fraser, Patricia Hayes, Anna Massey, Artro Morris, Dorothea Phillips, Toyah Willcox, Huw Richards, Bryn Fon, Dyfan Roberts and Robin John. Directed by: George Cukor (1979).
• Strange Charts: The Humans’ third album, Strange Tales, placed well in various charts upon its release almost a fortnight ago. It charted in the Top 30 of Amazon’s Rock Chart and also entered iTunes Rock chart at No. 65 on just one day of sales.
• Strange Booklet: A digital booklet to accompany Strange Tales was made available at toyahwillcox.com. Usually these are only included with albums bought via iTunes – Get yours here…
• Strange Photos: The digital booklet includes exclusive photos (from the recording sessions for the album), lyrics to all seven songs and production credits.
• Strange Tell Tales: Six tracks (aside from the previously previewed Get In Your Car) were exclusively previewed across a number of websites including Sugar Rush: The Humans Fan Site, This Is Not Retro, Dreamscape, Discipline Global Mobile and toyahwillcox.com. You can listen to a playlist of those preview tracks here…
• Strange Links: Stay updated on all things Humans by visiting The Humans Official and Sugar Rush. (News Source for most of the above info: Breaking Through: The Official Toyah Newsletter)
Dirty Sexy Funny: Olivia Lee: Comedy Central Extra: Friday 21st March: 3.15am
Dirty Sexy Funny: Olivia Lee: Comedy Central Extra: Monday 24th 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.
The air dates/times for the fourth instalment of The Vintage TV Sessions have just been confirmed. Toyah, along with Chris Wong and Colin Hinds, will perform acoustic versions of the singles ‘Thunder In The Mountains’ and ‘I Want To Be Free’ on the show.
The Vintage TV Sessions: Vintage TV
Thu 20th March: 8.00pm/Sun 23rd March: 10.00pm
Let’s keep it live! We are proud to present our fourth Vintage TV Sessions, live from the Bedford pub in Balham, With The Struts, Josephine, Sheryl Crow, Nik Kershaw, Toyah Willcox and Judie Tzuke.
• Visit the Vintage TV schedules here. (Photo © Vintage TV/Roger Goodgroves)
This is fast becoming our favourite diary date – the chance to see five incredible acts do their stuff live from the atmospheric and intimate Bedford pub in Balham. And this month veteran singer songwriter, broadcaster, campaigner and all-round good guy Tom Robinson is hosting.
Taking to the stage at the 4th Vintage TV Sessions (20th March, 8pm) are: punk princess Toyah Willcox and her band: indie rockers The Struts, 80s idol Nik Kershaw, the gorgeous Judie Tzuke of ‘Stay with me ‘til Dawn’ fame; and acclaimed singer songwriter Josephine. Let’s keep it live!
• Visit the Vintage TV website.
Toyah’s March blog is now available to read at The Official Toyah Website. It’s a Strange Tales special, with Toyah talking about the evolution of the, just released, album. Click below to read.
The Corn is Green: True Entertainment: Saturday 8th March: 1.00pm
Academy Award winner Katharine Hepburn stars as a schoolteacher determined to help the people of a turn-of-the-century Welsh mining town. With Ian Saynor, Bill Fraser, Patricia Hayes, Anna Massey, Artro Morris, Dorothea Phillips, Toyah Willcox, Huw Richards, Bryn Fon, Dyfan Roberts and Robin John. Directed by: George Cukor (1979).
We haven’t had a Classic Toyah post for a while – Rectifying this with a very rare magazine advert from July 1981, from Finnish magazine ‘Soundi’. They also published an issue with Toyah’s Brave New World image on their cover in 1982, and another full-page advert for The Changeling. Click below to see the full size advert. (Thanks to Juha Merilainen for this amazing scan)
The Humans’ third album Strange Tales has been becoming available worldwide as each timezone hits Midnight and the world enters March 2014.
Here in the UK it has just been released and is now available to buy at Amazon UK and iTunes. You can also get it at Amazon US and no doubt many other digital music stores very soon.
The much anticipated album has been previewed over the last week via a series of Tell Tales at a selection of Toyah/Humans-related websites.
View further information on the album and listen to previews of all seven songs here. There’s a new page for the album at Toyah’s Official Discography. There’s also a great page celebrating the release of ‘Strange Tales’ at The Humans fansite Sugar Rush.
Tracklist: 1. Slow Descent, 2. She’s Fast, 3. Get In Your Car, 4. Amnesia, 5. Bedhead, 6. Improbable Thing, 7. Sleep Tight
Recorded in Seattle, seven tracks make up the third album created by the transatlantic band comprising Toyah Willcox, Chris Wong and Bill Rieflin. Rieflin once again helmed production of the album. As previously stated, this third instalment in the musical adventures of The Humans adds more instrumentation into the mix with saxophone and violin featuring for the first time.
It’s the final “Tell Tale” today. The album will be available at Midnight tonight, in whichever timezone you are in: The final tell tale previews the album opening track Slow Descent at the album entry for Strange Tales at the Toyah Official Discography.
• Previews of each song are now available at The Humans’ Soundcloud. Visit/listen/follow.
Discipline Global Mobile is exclusively telling tale #6…. Click below to hear Sleep Tight.
Screen caps from Toyah’s appearance on Sky News Sunrise yesterday morning. She guested at around 8.15am to discuss dyslexia on the programme hosted by Eamonn Holmes. View larger versions of the screen caps and click on those below to watch the video.
• Edinburgh Evening News: Enjoy the creative genius of Jarman: Liam Rudden: Like many of my generation, it was the 1978 film Jubilee that introduced me to the work of film-maker, artist and gardener, Derek Jarman. Now considered a cult classic, it featured a very young Toyah Willcox, equally youthful Adam Ant, and starred Jenny Runacre and Edinburgh’s own Ian Charleson – Continue reading…
• Flexipop! Facebook: Toyah had a decent showing in the Top Tens you sent in for the Flexipop! Readers’ Ultimate Top 40 Singles Of The 80’s Chart with Thunder In The Mountains being the most popular choice. Released in 1981, it was her eighth UK single and not included on an album at the time – Continue reading…
• Sounds Of The 80s: View a full transcript of Toyah’s recent BBC Radio 2 interview at The Toyah Willcox Interview Archive…
• Get Bucks: Bowie fan celebrates Friars anniversary after catching the star’s shirt: The exhibition also features… the classic double neck guitar used by Genesis founder Mike Rutherford, Howard Jones’s 1983 Moog keyboard rig, and an amplifier used by U2, a stage costume worn by Toyah Willcox, and Lol Coxhill’s saxophones – Continue reading…
It’s Tell Tale #5 and Dreamscape has the privilege of bringing you the preview of the beautiful ‘Amnesia’ from the forthcoming album Strange Tales by The Humans. This album is sounding sooo good! Roll on 1st March! (Thanks to Craig, toyahwillcox.com and The Humans)
