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‘These Boots Are Made For Walkin’, the debut single by The Humans (featuring Robert Fripp), is released as a digital download today.

The Humans are three people: Toyah Willcox, Bill Rieflin (REM) and Chris Wong. On their first single release, These Boots Are Made For Walkin’ due for digital release on Monday 21 September, they are joined by legendary guitarist and musician Robert Fripp.

This new cover version, a 21st century twist on the Nancy Sinatra classic, is very much the sum of the disparate parts. Its deconstructed style, taken still further on their new album, is a radical departure for Toyah who conceived the band.

‘These Boots Are Made For Walkin’ will be available via iTunes, Amazon, 7digital, Play.com, HMV, Tesco and other digital music vendors.

Click on the cover to go to iTunes.

‘We Are The Humans’, the debut album by The Humans, is released as a digital download today.

The Humans are three people: Toyah Willcox, Bill Rieflin (REM) and Chris Wong.

Produced by Bill Rieflin, the band’s 10-song debut album was mixed in Seattle by Rieflin and Don Gunn and mastered by Simon Heyworth (Tubular Bells, Brian Eno) in Devon, UK.

Previously available only as a limited edition in Estonia, ‘We Are The Humans’, is released digitally on 21 September alongside ‘These Boots Are Made For Walkin’. The digital releases will be available via iTunes, Amazon, 7digital, Play.com, HMV, Tesco and other digital music vendors. A new edition of the album featuring the single as a bonus track will be available to buy from remembertheeighties.com from October.

Click on the cover to go to iTunes.

Further fantastic promotional imagery for ‘These Boots Are Made For Walkin’ by The Humans. The full versions of these are available at The Humans MySpace, The Official Toyah Facebook & The Official Toyah MySpace.

The Humans are featured at AWAL, complete with an interesting new photo of the band.

THE HUMANS are three people: Toyah Willcox, Bill Rieflin (REM) and Chris Wong. On their first single release, These Boots Are Made For Walkin’, they are joined by legendary guitarist and musician Robert Fripp.

This new cover version, a 21st century twist on the Nancy Sinatra classic, is very much the sum of the disparate parts. Its deconstructed style, taken still further on their new album, is a radical departure for Toyah (who already has 20 albums and 13 Top 40 singles to her credit) who conceived the band. It is due for digital release on iTunes on Monday 21st September, alongside the album, We Are The Humans.

Added to The Official Toyah You Tube last night, the online video for ‘These Boots Are Made For Walkin’ by The Humans (featuring Robert Fripp), with Toyah looking fantastic! The full-length Lips version of the video is also online. 

News at The Official Toyah website has been updated today, with confirmation that the debut single by The Humans, ‘These Boots Are Made For Walkin’, will be released as a digital download next Monday, 21st September. Not only that, but the album ‘We Are The Humans’ will also be given a digital release on the same day. Both will be available from iTunes, Amazon, 7digital, Play.com, HMV, Tesco and other digital music stores.

A new edition of ‘We Are The Humans’, featuring ‘These Boots Are Made For Walkin’ as a bonus track, will be available at www.remembertheeighties.com from October.

What came first? The chicken or the egg? Check out Robert Fripp’s Diary entry from 27th August to see a sneak preview of the digital cover for ‘These Boots Are Made For Walkin’ by The Humans.

Toyah, during last night’s PA in Nottingham, revealed that The Humans’ new single, ‘Bootz’ (These Boots Are Made For Walkin’) would be available to download from iTunes on Monday 21st September.

While many continue to enjoy the ‘We Are The Humans’ album, The Humans are currently hard at work writing the follow up. The debut album is available here, and should be available for download via iTunes later this year.

A selection of screen caps from the ‘Quicksilver’ video. View the video at The Official Toyah YouTube channel. Click on the caps for larger versions.

Take a look “behind the scenes” of the recent shoot of the video for The Humans track ‘Quicksilver’.

This candid picture provides a backstage glimpse of Toyah during the fliming of the video, and is also a variation of the much talked about photo first revealed by Toyah’s Official website last month.

View the full photo at The Official Toyah Facebook and video at The Official Toyah YouTube channel.

The official photographs promoting The Humans song/video ‘Quicksilver’. The song is the featured track on a short film, by Stephanie Zarl of Zona Pictures, that will show around the world. View larger versions of both of these pictures at The Humans MySpace and The Official Toyah MySpace.

The Humans debut album, ‘We Are The Humans’, can be bought from Remember The Eighties. A brand new, recently recorded, single by The Humans will also be unveiled very soon.

The video for ‘Quicksilver’ by The Humans premiered last weekend at The Official Toyah YouTube channel. Click below to view the online promo.

Just announced by The Official Toyah Facebook: Toyah is filming videos for ‘Quicksilver’ and ‘Demigod’ soon.

• The Humans played their album launch gig in Estonia on Friday evening. Reports say that the concert went well.

• Unfortunately availability of ‘We Are The Humans’ has been slightly delayed.

• Remember The Eighties, the website the album is exclusively available through until it is released on iTunes, issued this information:

Thank you so much for pre-ordering the new album from Toyah / Bill Reiflin / Chris Wong’s new project ‘The Humans’.

In a perfect world the albums would be all packed up right now ready to be posted to you in the morning, however it turns out that the world is not quite perfect and although the jiffy bags are all addressed and stacked up, I still haven’t actually received the albums from the pressing plant. Apparently a printing problem has meant that a whole new set of covers has had to be printed which has led to delays with the delivery.

The albums are due to be delivered any day now (I’m afraid that at the moment I can’t be more specific than that) and will be packed and shipped out to you as soon as possible, but it only seemed fair to warn you that they might not be shipped tomorrow as planned. Sorry… [Thanks to Minna]

‘We Are The Humans’, the debut album by The Humans (Toyah, Bill Rieflin & Chris Wong), is now available for pre-order at Remember The Eighties.

A strictly limited Estonian edition of the album has been produced which is available to pre-order exclusively at RTE with dispatch on Friday 1st May.

There is now a feature on The Humans at The Official Toyah website, and Toyah’s Official MySpace was updated yesterday with bumper Easter News. Lots of interesting tidbits, including news on a forthcoming Toyah documentary (whether this is the aforementioned Psychic Therapy or another docu I’m not sure) on The Biography Channel, aka bio, and also that Toyah will appear in Series Two of Ashes to Ashes, albeit in poster form. Check out the Easter News update here, and click on the image below to see The Humans feature.

We are pleased to announce details of the long awaited album release by the band project The Humans – Toyah, Bill Rieflin & Chris Wong. The album, “We Are The Humans” is launched on 1 May in a very special concert in Tartu, Estonia which celebrates the anniversary of Estonia’s independence. The concert will see The Humans perform a live set of their material to an audience which includes the President of Estonia and the Minister for Justice. Musician Robert Fripp will support the band with a solo live set and also perform as a special guest in the live set by The Humans.

Recorded in Seattle, USA and produced by Bill Rieflin, the 10-song album was mixed by Don Gunn & Rieflin in Seattle, USA and mastered by Simon Heyworth (Tubular Bells, Brian Eno) in Devon, UK.

A strictly limited Estonian edition of the album will be available in Estonia and online exclusively through RememberTheEighties.com from May 2009. Details of a worldwide digital release through iTunes will be announced soon.

Confirmed album track list:

The Humans
We Are The Humans
Cat no: HUMCD01E (Limited Edition)

1. We Are The Humans.
2. Is It Wrong
3. Twisted Soul
4. Telekinesis
5. Quicksilver
6. Labyrinth
7. Icarus
8. Noise In Your Head
9. This Belongs To You
10. Demigod

As well as announcing the above details about ‘We Are The Humans’, The Humans MySpace also has a competition with prizes of the album and an exclusive poster.

The Official Toyah MySpace and www.toyahwillcox.com have also been updated with news on The Humans long-awaited album.

The full version of ‘We Are The Humans’ (2009 Full Song) has just been added to The Humans MySpace. A clip of another new song, ‘Icarus’, has also been added.

The clip of ‘Icarus’ is also at The Official Toyah MySpace, along with other clips from The Humans and songs from Toyah’s last two albums ‘Velvet Lined Shell’ and ‘In The Court Of The Crimson Queen’.

Toyah also talks about The Humans in her April blog.

The Humans MySpace has been updated with samples of new songs; ‘Labyrinth’, ‘Twisted Soul’ (previously ‘This Is Your Life’), ‘Demigod’, and ‘Quicksilver’, plus a new version of ‘We Are The Humans’.

Toyah’s Official MySpace now also has ‘Quicksilver’ and ‘Demigod’ on its player.

“THE HUMANS is a project that fills my heart with light and happiness. The story behind this is the Estonian Embassy asked myself, the hubby, and Bill Reiflin to do a concert in Estonia around November, of course Robert said No…why say YES when a word like NO is so easy to say. BUT Bill and I said YES! And thus we became THE HUMANS.”

That’s what Toyah said about The Humans in her May 2007 Webletter/Blog.

Three samples of songs; ‘We Are The Humans’, ‘This Belongs To You’ and ‘This Is Your Life’ were made available at The Humans MySpace when it launched in June 2007.

Exclusive photos of Toyah and Bill Rieflin were also added to MySpace and later further images included Chris Wong, who became The Humans’ third member.

In September 2007 a Dean Stockings video was produced for the song ‘We Are The Humans’, featuring footage of the band rehearsing. The album, ‘We Are The Humans’, was recorded in Seattle, USA.

So far The Humans have played three live gigs; 25th October, Tallin, 26th October, Tartu, and 27th October, Viljandi. All in 2007 and all in Estonia. A fourth concert, the ‘We Are The Humans’ album launch, takes place on 1st May, once again in Estonia.

This concert is special for a number of reasons; it’s the launch of a much-anticipated album, Robert Fripp will be supporting The Humans, as well as guesting in their set, the gig will be recorded for a possible live release, and the President of Estonia will be in attendance as part of the Anniversary of Estonia Independence.

THE HUMANS… Are Here!