The two new Toyah posters which will be on sale at all dates on the Love Is The Law & More UK Tour have been previewed in the latest ‘Breaking Through’ newsletter, mailed out at the beginning of the week. They are certainly eye-catching, and as Toyah tweeted, they are the first new posters to be available on a Toyah tour for 30 years! Click here to subscribe to ‘Breaking Through’. (Photos by Dean Stockings © Toyah Willcox Ltd)
A couple of Love Is The Law rarities from outside the UK – Toyah on the cover of Yugoslavian magazine ‘itd’ and an unofficial cassette release of the album, most probably from Saudi Arabia. The tape is interesting as not only does it include all 10 songs from Love Is The Law, in a different order to the official release, but it also has five songs from Toyah’s previous studio album The Changeling. Unfortunately I don’t have photos of these in great quality but I think they are worth a post as there are very few LITL rarities in existence.
Vote for your top albums of 1988 in Slicing Up Eyeballs poll. Toyah’s album ‘Prostitute’ is included as an option. Voting closes on 25th October and the results will be announced at the beginning of November. Click below to participate in the poll. View Dreamscape’s mini ‘Prostitute’ feature.
Dreamscape is compiling Love Is The Law – The Complete Lyrics. We’ve reached the eighth song on the album – the rowsing and anthemic title track Love Is The Law, co-written by Toyah, Joel Bogen, Simon Darlow and Phil Spalding. Click below to visit the LITL – The Complete Lyrics page.
• Toyah’s Official Website have added another live song in the countdown to the start of the Love Is The Law & More Tour. It’s ‘Race Through Space’ live at Concorde 2, Brighton from last year’s The Changeling Resurrection II Tour. Listen to the track here. View Dreamscape’s past news posts on all of the previously available Official Live Tracks here.
• As mentioned earlier, a new collection of Toyah photos have been added to the Official Website. As well as this, the headers on each section of the website have been revamped, also including some new photos, with the new Toyah logo.
• Toyah Kicks Off Love Is The Law Tour This Month: Toyah kicks off her natonal autumn music tour on Friday 18 October in Newcastle. The Love Is The Law & More Tour follows on from two years of successful UK live dates which have revisited the cult classic beginnings of Sheep Farming In Barnet and The Blue Meaning through to the Platinum-selling Anthem and the critically acclaimed The Changeling.
The seven UK live dates will see Toyah perform the 1983 hit single Rebel Run, from Love Is The Law, as well as other songs from the same album for the first time in thirty years.
• Continue reading at www.toyahwillcox.com. Toyah talks about the tour in the her latest Blog for the site. Tickets for the tour can be bought from links at the Gigs page.
It’s Love Is The Law Month here at Dreamscape, and our latest post is a selection of screen caps, and the video clip, from Toyah’s phone in/interview on BBC1’s weekend morning show Saturday Superstore. Presented by, Radio 1 DJ, Mike Read, this aired in December 1983. Click here for larger screen caps and below to watch the clip at Dreamscape’s You Tube channel. (Thanks to Andy)
Great new photos have been added to The Official Toyah Willcox Website, featuring the new image created for the forthcoming ‘Love Is The Law & More’ UK Tour. Click below to visit the site and view the photos in full size (Photos by Dean Stockings © Toyah Willcox Ltd). Visit the Official Gigs page for info on the tour.
• You Tubing with Dreamscape: Just uploaded to Dreamscape’s You Tube channel – Toyah guesting on ITV’s Neno from 1987, around the time of the release of her ‘Desire’ album. Not great quality but worth a watch to see Toyah having some fun while discussing the album, Cabaret, her earlier career and more – Watch at You Tube…
• Neno: View larger versions of the screen caps here.
• LITL T-Shirt Image: There was a great response yesterday, on Facebook and to a lesser extent Twitter, to the new image included on the ‘Love Is The Law & More’ t-shirt, with people saying it updated the LITL imagery well etc.
• Time Out: ‘Quadrophenia’ producer: ‘We’re planning a sequel set in the 1970s’: At an exclusive Time Out reunion event, one of the key men behind the counter-culture classic reveals details of a long-awaited follow-up – Continue reading…
• Prostitute: A photo of the rare pre-release cassette of Toyah’s 1988 album was added to catmachine’s Instagram yesterday – View the photo…
A striking new Toyah image has been unveiled today, on the new ‘Love Is The Law & More’ Tour t-shirt. Toyah tweeted: “So excited about new tour t-shirt. Just right balance of past/present imagery. Sleek n’ mean’ n fun“, View the t-shirt at Instagram.
Toyah’s October blog is now available to read at The Official Toyah Willcox Website. Click below to go there!
• A new Breaking Through newsletter will be mailed out tomorrow too.
Dreamscape’s Love Is The Law 30th Anniversary tribute. Dedicated to everyone who loves the album.
Legendary singer Toyah, will be bringing her rollicking Love Is The Law & More Tour to the Concorde 2, Brighton on Thursday, October 24 at 7pm.
The singer, who has recorded 20 albums and famously starred in the Brighton mods and rockers film Quadrophenia, will be performing all her greatest hits, including It’s a Mystery and I Want To Be Free, alongside fan favourites and cult classics. Known for her exuberant, energetic live shows, Love Is The Law & More promises to be a night filled with colour, drama, fantastic wigs and explosive songs.
• Continue reading at GScene.
• Toyah’s Vintage Christmas 2013: A great selection of photos from the filming of Toyah’s festive programme for Vintage TV, Christmas 2013, have recently been added to Photoshot. It looks like the programme is going to include lots of guests – View here… (Thanks to Andy)
• Quadrophenia Reunited: A selection of photos from this event are available at HiBrow: The Arts Online’s Facebook page – View here… For those without FB, a photo was also tweeted – View here…
• Rebel Run: I forgot to mention that the songwords to Toyah’s brilliant 1983 single are also included in the 29th September – 12th October issue of ‘Smash Hits’ (directly after her interview spread – a crafty way of getting fans who compiled scrapbooks to buy two copies of the magazine ;)) uploaded at the weekend to the SH Archive – View here…
• Toyah Ulster Hall 1981: The televised gig from April 1981 has just been uploaded again to ‘You Tube’. This is an excellent concert which took place between two major tours – The “College” and “Anthem” – that year. What an incredibly busy year that was for Toyah – View the concert here… (Thanks to Lärwi)
• At The Rainbow: More goodies from 1981 – Lärwi has also converted the classic “Rainbow” concert to mp3, available indivdually or as part one and part two.
• Dark Night of the Soul with Julie: Toyah was included in Julie’s WFMU radio show playlist on 3rd October – ‘Tiger! Tiger’ from The Blue Meaning was played – Full playlist, and listen to the show here…
Toyah is included in the line-up for next Summer’s Let’s Rock Bristol festival, taking place 6th – 8th June. Others playing include: Bananarama, Kim Wilde, ABC, Level 42, Go West, T’Pau, Nik Kershaw, Captain Sensible, Heaven 17 and numerous others. Click below to visit the festival’s website.
A vaguely rare photo of Toyah from the ‘Love Is The Law’ album shoot. This is a lesser-used variation of a couple of similar colour photographs that were taken to promote the album. I think it was used in one, maybe two, music paper & magazine articles. Click below to view a larger version.
• Love Is The Law & More: It’s now just two weeks until Toyah’s UK Tour begins, at Legends in Newcastle. Full tour dates and links to buy tickets available at The Official Toyah Willcox Website.
As previously mentioned, Toyah is one of the Guest Presenters in the latest series of BBC Radio 4’s, highly popular, Ramblings.
Ramblings: BBC Radio 4: Thu 17th Oct: 3pm
Ramblings: BBC Radio 4: Sat 19th Oct: 6.07am
5: The Same Walk 365 Times. Walking series. Guest presenter Toyah Willcox joins listener Cathy Dreyer as she completes yet another circuit of a short local route in Oxfordshire that she has chosen to walk 365 times.
The programme can be listed to online as it airs at the Ramblings website and will also be available, post-broadcast, at BBC iPlayer.
HiBROW: The Arts Online are currently airing a mini Quadrophenia documentary at their website, with footage from last month’s Time Out Live Quadrophenia Reunion and excerpts from interviews. They will be making the full Toyah interview available soon.
It’s 35 years since director Franc Roddam shot ‘Quadrophenia’ on the streets of London and Brighton – and along the way created a classic of British cinema adored by music and film fans alike. Inspired by the 1973 The Who album of the same name, the film tells of Jimmy (Phil Daniels), a troubled west London mod in 1965 who’s struggling in life and love and joins his mates for a dust-up with rockers one Bank Holiday weekend down in Brighton. Last month, HiBROW with Time Out and the London Film School brought Roddam and some of his key collaborators together …
• Watch at HiBROW. View larger versions of the screen caps here.
• Safari Records: Lots of Toyah at the website’s Home Page at the moment… Including the recently digitally released ‘Love Is The Law’ – Visit the site… (Thanks to Jimi LaLumia)
• Toyah @ Instagram: Toyah recently shared a photo: “Sean chapman & dean stockings have taken over my home! We r shooting Rebel Run bedroom poster and tour t-shirt concept” – View photo…
• We Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday: Toyah tweeted: “Recording Vintage Christmas with brummie pal roy wood of wizard” yesterday – View the photo…
• Express: ‘I came back from the brink’ says China in Your Hand singer Carol Decker: A mention for Toyah in this article published today – Continue reading…
• Dabbler: The Last Set Of Brief Lives For The Time Being: Willcox, Toyah (British popstrel, b. 1958). Mindful of her status as a cultural icon, Toyah Wilcox maintains a separate property solely for the storage of her archive, including press cuttings and VHS recordings of all her appearances on Top Of The Pops. – Continue reading…
The rare Japanese vinyl release of ‘Love Is The Law’. It includes the same 10 song tracklist, white label with English lyric insert and Japanese bio info insert. Plus pink, blue and white obi-strip (Cat: VIL-6093). Click below to view a larger version.
A short rare interview with Toyah during the ‘Rebel Run’ UK Tour. This aired on the 5th December 1983 on BBC1’s Sixty Minutes, the replacement news programme for Nationwide. It had only launched in October and went on to be quite short lived as it was “axed” in July 1984. Toyah talks about touring, new single ‘The Vow’ and there’s also some brief soundcheck footage. Click below to view the clip at Dreamscape’s You Tube Channel and view larger versions of the screen caps here. (Thanks to Andy for the clip)
Toyah is mentioned in The Telegraph‘s review of the, recently published, Derek Jarman’s Sketchbooks.
Derek Jarman’s Sketchbooks, ed. Stephen Farthing and Ed Webb-Ingall, review
Tim Robey is absorbed by the creative mind of film-maker and artist Derek Jarman, as revealed through his extraordinary sketchbooks
The nicest touch is that each chapter gets a separate commentary, too, by someone involved in a working relationship with Jarman at that time. Toyah Willcox, who starred in Jubilee, talks about the excitement of being an 18-year-old virgin from an all-girls school when she first arrived at Jarman’s Edwardian flat to find naked men cavorting around.
• Continue reading at The Telegraph.
