Toyah’s involvement in yesterday’s huge traffic-jam in Sussex has been reported just about EVERYWHERE today, from Sky News to ITV’s Daybreak, from BBC Breakfast to many local tv and radio stations. Both Daybreak and Breakfast even tweeted Toyah directly, requesting interviews. Online it’s essentially the same story being reported by countless websites. Here are just a few:
• OK! Magazine: Toyah Willcox among stars caught up in snow hell: Singers Toyah Willcox and Cheryl Baker, and hip-hop duo Rizzle Kicks, were left stranded on a snowbound road for up to 10 hours as blizzards blanketed parts of the U.K. this week
• The Express and Star magazine running exactly the same report – they are all owned by the same publisher so that makes sense. Contact Music also ran this story.
• Orange News: Toyah Willcox & Rizzle Kicks caught up in snow hell: 1980s star Willcox took to Twitter.com to reveal her six-hour misery in the snow.
• Birmingham Mail: Birmingham born actress Toyah Willcox among hundreds forced to spend the night in their car: Brummie actress Toyah Willcox was marooned for more than 14 hours as roads in the south of England were blocked by snow and stranded vehicles. The Kings Heath-born star posted on Twitter how she finally got off the M23 in Sussex at 6.30am following a freezing night trapped in her car.
• ITN News: Rizzle Kicks and Toyah Willcox get caught up in the snow: Half the nation was battling with snow-covered roads on Monday evening and so were Rizzle Kicks and Toyah Willcox.
• View more coverage at Digital Spy, The Epoch Times, The Argus, Yahoo News, Heart…
Snow ‘apocalypse’ in Sussex leaves hundreds of motorists (and Cheryl Baker) stranded for up to ten hours in freezing weather
• 80s pop stars among hundreds trapped
• Minus temperatures force Red Cross to be drafted in to help
• Vehicles jackknifed on A23, making access hard for emergency vehicles
• Parts of A23 and M23 worst hit by freezing weather and delays
Cherly Baker, Toyah Willcox, and pop group Rizzle Kicks were among hundreds of motorist trapped for up to ten hours on motorways in Sussex and Kent. The Red Cross dispatched emergency teams to help people stranded in the freezing conditions on the A23.
• Continue reading at the London Evening Standard.
Cheryl Baker, of 1980s pop group Bucks Fizz, told ITV Daybreak that her vehicle was at “complete standstill” after eight hours on the A23: @daybreak Hoping to be asleep in my bed by then! 8 hours and still at a complete standstill. Bloody ridiculous.And they KNEW snow was coming
Singer Toyah Wilcox also complained about being stranded on the A23: Still on A23, not moved yet northbound is moving freely. 6 hours! Come on snow isn’t that bad :-O
• Continue reading at ITV News.
Rizzle Kicks, Cheryl Baker and Toyah Willcox among hundreds of motorists stranded in cars by snow
Queues of up to 30 MILES long formed as police, snow ploughs and gritting lorries battled to treat the roads in the South East.
Hundreds of motorists were stranded in their cars overnight in freezing conditions after snow brought traffic to a standstill. Celebrities including Rizzle Kicks, Cheryl Baker and Toyah Willcox were among those stuck for hours in the bitter cold in long tailbacks
• Continue reading at the Mirror.
Unfortunately Toyah didn’t make it to last night’s Hormonal Housewives performance in Brighton due to the snow causing tailbacks of up to 30 miles in Kent and Sussex.
Toyah tweeted several times from her car that she had been on the A23 a few miles from Brighton for more than six hours attempting to reach the theatre!
Overnight there have been numerous news reports, including Sky News, Gem 106 and Orange News, who mention Toyah being caught up in the chaos and also publish one of her tweets.
Hundreds of motorists have been trapped overnight in their cars for up to 10 hours after heavy snow brought traffic in Sussex to a standstill… The worst affected areas were the A23 between Crawley and Brighton and the M23 around Handcross Hill.
Cheryl Baker, the 1980s pop star with the Eurovision-winning group Bucks Fizz, was among those stuck on the roads as she tried to make her way along the A23 to Brighton to her children. In a series of furious tweets she said: “8 hours and still at a complete standstill. Bloody ridiculous. And they KNEW snow was coming. “Could have flown to NY by now. Was it the wrong kind of snow?”
Toyah Willcox, another 1980s pop star also found herself stranded on the A23 around 15 miles from Brighton tweeted: “Still on A23, not moved yet northbound is moving freely. 6 hours! Come on snow isn’t that bad.”
Steve Wright In the Afternoon: BBC Radio 2: Wednesday 20th March: 2pm
Steve chats to comedian Marcus Brigstocke, and singer and actress Toyah Willcox. Plus more fascinating Factoids, the latest entertainment and lifestyle news and the Non-Stop Oldies.
We’ve teamed up with Target Live to give you the chance to win a pair of tickets for the Hormonal Housewives tour – 5 prizes to be won!
• Enter at Woman’s Own. Competition closes at 23.59 on Tuesday 12 March 2013.
• Toyah’s appearance on BBC Radio 2’s Steve Wright in the Afternoon show goes out on Wednesday 20th March. Steve’s show airs each week day between 2 and 5pm and can be listened to online at the BBC Radio 2 website. (News Source: The Official Toyah Facebook)
• “Just recording Steve Wright In The Afternoon, then Brighton. Its Snowing in london!!!!!” tweeted Toyah today.
• Those Hormonal Housewives begin the second week of their mammoth UK tour at the Theatre Royal, Brighton this evening. Visit the website for details. Tomorrow they play Peterborough’s Cresset Theatre.
• West Sussex Gazette: Some Hormonal Housewives: Following 2012’s incredibly popular show at The Hawth, the irrepressible Hormonal Housewives are back and return to Crawley this spring… This year, the ladies are led by British pop icon Toyah Willcox and writer Julie Coombe.
• Daily Star: A Double Mystery For Toyah: A retro tabloid photo article from the ‘Daily Star’ is included in KajaFax’s look back at 1983. (be warned, there is a “mini pop” in the article!!)
Hormonal Housewives are on their way to Derby, after the launch of their spring tour.
The celebrated show returns to the city as part of a nationwide tour which was launched this month.
With a packed schedule ahead, Toyah Willcox and Julie Coombe are hitting the road with a stop-off in Derby in April.
• Continue reading at the Ashbourne News Telegraph.
Causing mayhem and mania wherever they go, the Hormonal Housewives are coming to G Live on Monday 8 April.
Led by British pop icon Toyah Willcox these ladies mean business and will be giving Guildford audiences the ultimate girls night out!
• Continue reading at easthampshire.org.
The Most Fertile Man In Ireland: Sky Movies Indie: Sunday 17th March: 2.30pm/10pm
Satirical comedy with Kris Marshall, Kathy Keira Clarke, Bronagh Gallagher, James Nesbitt, Kenneth Cranham, Olivia Nash, Pauline McLynn, Tara Lynne O’Neill, Toyah Willcox, Harry Towb, Marc O’Shea and Paddy McCarney. Also airing on Sky Movies Indie HD.
The final three covers for Imaginary Toyah Singles. I’ve had some great feedback about these and I’m glad some of you have liked them. The final three are ‘Dreamscape’ (from Love Is The Law), ‘Stand Proud’ (from the flexi that was included with the first 100,000 copies of Four More From Toyah) and ‘Angel in You’ (from In The Court Of The Crimson Queen). View full size versions of these and many others by clicking below.
Various recent press and reviews for the newly released Region 1 DVD box set of Maigret: The Complete Collection.
• USA Today: DVD extra: Michael Gambon’s ‘Maigret’ out this week: New boxed set features complete collection of episodes from 1992 detective series ‘Maigret’ starring Michael Gambon (Harry Potter’s Hogwarts Headmaster Dumbledore).
• Sentinel Source: Old ‘Maigret’ returns to DVD in new edition: “Maigret” has now been reissued in a boxed set of 4 DVDs holding the 12 episodes that comprise Series 1 and 2 of this wonderful police drama.
• HK Film News: Maigret: Complete Collection – DVD Review: A woman’s body is discovered in the basement of an upperclass hotel in “Maigret and the Hotel Majestic”, which finds the detective getting physical with an irate prostitute (Toyah Willcox) and receiving some nasty scratches across one side of his face.
• Blog Critics: DVD Review: Maigret, Complete Collection: There are some actors who have the ability to make everything they do seem effortless. Somehow they manage to make their characters seem like a natural extension of themselves.
• DVD File: Maigret: The Complete Collection: DVD Review: Maigret: The Complete Collection isn’t must-see crime drama programming, but Gambon’s performance really is something special, so fans of the subgenre shouldn’t hesitate to give these discs a spin on their rental queues. A/V quality isn’t sensational (and there are no bonuses included at all), but from the right vantage point, these episodes can be pretty fun.
Welcome to the first day of Dreamscape’s 14th year online… I don’t want to make too much of a fuss but to mark the occasion here’s a photo of Toyah from each year we’ve been online. Just like this website she has gone through many, many changes! Click to zoom.
• Woman’s Own: Toyah is interviewed in the first issue of the new Woman’s Own magazine “Get Healthy”: In our first Get Healthy magazine we aim to help you feel your best. We share with you the stars’ go-to remedies for staying well. Toyah Willcox tells us what made her sleep after 40 years of insomnia.
• Primitive Screwheads: Friday Night Movies 415: Jubilee is a 1978 film by Derek Jarman… With its uninhibited punk petulance and sloganeering, Jubilee, brings together many cultural and musical icons of the time, including Jordan, Toyah Willcox, Little Nell, Wayne County, Adam Ant, and Brian Eno (with his first original film score), to create a genuinely unique, unforgettable vision.
• Retro Brit: Quadrophenia: Great Retro Brit Flick: I can remember the first time I saw the advert at the Bank Underground station in 1979… There was Sting from the band: The Police and Toyah Willcox who were all rock stars of that time.
• NI Scene: Calamity Jane: Ciara Mackey joins the ranks of Barbara Windsor, Toyah Willcox and the iconic Doris Day herself in playing the disaster-prone Calamity Jane.
The Hormonal Housewives are back and armed with a load of lessons for us about being a modern woman that are sure to have us in stitches.
This year’s tour is set to feature a cast of women willing and able to scare the crap out of any man, including singer, actor and all-round feisty lady Toyah Willcox and former psycho Hollyoaks star Sarah Jane Buckley alongside the hugely talented Julie Coombe.
• Continue reading at Leeds-List.
Great news! ‘Sheep Farming in Barnet’ is included in Slicing Up Eyeballs‘ Top 100 Albums Of 1980 poll, announced online yesterday. The respected and influential music website – named after a lyric in the song ‘Debaser’ by the amazing PIXIES – is running a year-long “Best of the 80s” feature – an ambitious, year-by-year poll to determine just what were the best albums of each year of the 1980s.
‘Sheep Farming in Barnet’ places at #92 and is in the company of some truly incredible albums. Slicing Up Eyeballs’ poll for 1981 opens next week – Surely ‘Anthem’, with some support from Toyah’s online fans, will also figure?
• Coincidentally, I put together a ‘Sheep Farming in Barnet’ image earlier this week before I knew about the Slicing Up Eyeballs poll, Click above to view a larger version.
A new Toyah interview, by the Liverpool Echo, published yesterday.
Toyah Willcox on Hormonal Housewives and the art of reinvention
There was the feisty, whip-cracking heroine of Calamity Jane, then a femme fatale devil in high-heeled boots in Vampire’s Rock.
Now Toyah Willcox is on her way back to the Liverpool stage as one of a trio of ‘hormonal housewives’ in the show of the same name which makes three visits to Merseyside this spring.
“It’s comedy, and I think comedy is a fantastic art form,” she explains of her decision to join the show which is helmed by Ken Alexander, the Royal Court’s new artistic director. “Everyone thinks comedy is light-hearted and that’s it. It’s not – it has to be so well planned, you have to be setting it up at least a page before.
• Continue reading at the Liverpool Echo.
Andrew’s In The Fairground website has been updated both yesterday and today with some stunning new photos to the Portraits and Iconic galleries. Visit the site by clicking below.
• The News at toyahwillcox.com was updated yesterday, with info on Hormonal Housewives, Weekend Guitar Trio, the Breaking Through newsletter and Toyah’s live dates so far for 2013.
• Something I always reiterate when posting news here about gigs has been advised officially: “If a gig doesn’t appear on the official GIGS page or on any of Toyah’s official webspaces then it means it has not been confirmed, so please bear this in mind when seeing online notices for gigs including Toyah in their line-up.” – Always best to double check or wait for official confirmation to avoid disappointment and/or losing money.
• Toyah mentions in her March blog that there is a lot of press to come during the Hormonal Housewives tour over the next two-and-half months. She will also record an interview for BBC Radio 2’s Steve Wright Show and will guest on Channel 5’s The Wright Stuff after all.
• More Hormonal Housewives tweets from Toyah this week, including yesterday: “Kings Lynn was fabulous! Great audience. 2nite sold out. agent can’t even get ticket“. Viist Toyah at Twitter.
• The debut week of Hormonal Housewives’ shows finishes tonight with a performance at Leas Cliff Hall, Folkestone.
• Star Portraits: Toyah art from a photo from 1986 by Coffee58 at ‘Star Portraits’ – Maybe Robert should have been included too?
The album art and tracklist for the forthcoming Weekend Guitar Trio/Toyah/Jan Bang CD ‘Live At Kings Place’ was revealed yesterday by toyahwillcox.com. The six-track album is due to be released in April 2013.
The album tracklist is: 1. Let’s Make A Bomb, 2. Don’t Even Try, 3. Break The Mould, 4. Toyah Bang, 5. How A Group Is Born, 6. Boredom Is A Killer.
All six tracks feature writing credits for Toyah.
• Visit Weekend Guitar Trio’s website and Facebook page to stay updated.
