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Fireside Chat Featuring Toyah Willcox

Join 80’s icon Toyah Willcox for a lively fireside chat about the punk rock years, her current tours and smashing ageism together!

Dive into a lively fireside chat where we’ll speak out against ageism and celebrate ageless creativity. Get ready to be inspired, entertained, and part of a movement that proves passion only gets stronger with time. Don’t miss this chance to hear Toyah’s stories and insights up close and personal!

As part of London Against Ageism, Age UK London’s campaign to challenge ageism and celebrate ageing in all its diversity we are pleased to invite you to this exclusive fundraising event.

On the afternoon of 18 November, we’ll be welcoming the one and only Toyah Willcox to Cecil Sharp House in Camden for an intimate fireside chat, launching our new Rock Against Ageism series. Doors open from 2.30pm with Toyah taking to the stage at 3.15pm. (Please note seating is not allocated).

• Continue reading/Book tickets at Eventbrite.co.uk.

Toyah was back in Blackpool on Friday (4th September), accompanied by Robert and Laurence, for the big switch on of the illuminations for 2026. Toyah’s tableau “Wishing Star” was one of many spectacular displays being lit for the first time.

Toyah guested on The One Show from Blackpool seafront, and was interviewed by other media, including BBC Lancashire. (Photo © Toyah)

Toyah, Chameleon & Cherry Red Records are nominated in the AIM Independent Music Awards 2026.

The Association for Independent Music (AIM) has announced the final wave of nominees for the 2026 Independent Music Awards.

Best Catalogue Release recognises the labels who created imaginative campaigns around impressive bodies of work. Cooking Vinyl is nominated for its sold out deluxe edition of The Alan Parsons Project’s I Robot, Stones Throw Records for Haruomi Hosono’s Tropical Dandy, 4AD for Lush‘s Gala (2025 Remaster), London Records for Orbital’s The Brown Album, and Cherry Red Records for Chameleon: The Very Best of Toyah.

Blackpool Illuminations 2026: All you need to know

Blackpool is set to light up once again in spectacular colour for the annual illuminations – with the switch-on set for 4 September at the Tower Festival Headland.

The free event will be hosted by BBC Radio Lancashire’s Graham Liver and Sharon Hartley. The illuminations run for six miles (9.65km) along the promenade and are on display until Sunday 3 January.

What’s new this year?
New attractions for 2026 include brightly lit neon sandcastles, a “creatures of the deep” display, a sky forest featuring LED cherry blossom trees and an immersive deep space display.

There will also be a display by performer Toyah Willcox telling a story of courage, resilience and self-discovery.

Also expect photo opportunities with attractions including an oversized seaside postcard and the chance to get a selfie with a giant teddy bear inside an illuminated car.

• Continue reading at BBC News. (Photo © Toyah)

Toyah, who has did pretty much everything through her 50-year career has come up with something completely innovative and different to anything that’s gone before during that career. She has designed a tableau for Blackpool illuminations. The stunning interactive display is titled “Wishing Star”.

Toyah said: “I am thrilled to be part of this year’s illuminations. As a child I visited Blackpool at Easter time and I was always enthralled by the Promenade and the sea. This memory is so strong, I wanted to create a display of light and story-telling that takes everyone back to their childhood selves, while enjoying the sea, the sky, the stars and the coast. My story is about a child and her guitar meeting new friends who make her stronger while flying over the sea.”

• Continue reading at toyahwillcox.com. See more photos at Toyah’s official Facebook. (Photo © Toyah)

Toyah will be the Guest Of Honour at Brighton Rocks International Film Festival this evening. The short film, Weightless will also be screened.

• Get tickets for this event by clicking below.

Toyah is guesting at RetroConUk this May, being interviewed by Pat Sharp. Info by clicking below.

Toyah had a fab day at Southport Flower Show in mid-August, with some great photos shared online, including this colourful shot! See another photo and interview with Toyah at Instagram. (Photo © Toyah)

The Really Big Auction in support of Children with Cancer UK is back, and you could win a pair of tickets to Toyah’s 2026 Songs & Stories Tour with a Meet & Greet included.

BFI will celebrate the 10th anniversary of Steve Oram’s horror comedy, Aaaaaaaah!, with a special screening – on Wednesday 20th August.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Steve Oram & (work permitting) Julian Barratt, Noel Fielding, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Toyah Willcox.

Debauchery, chaos and the jarringly mundane unfold in weird ways, and amid drab suburban contexts, in actor-comedian Steve Oram’s strange and unpredictable feature directorial debut. Humans act like apes and physical, dialogue-free powerplays remap the Ryan family household when a visitor challenges the precarious hierarchy. Oram and his cast go ape in this wildly original, gleefully animalistic film – a true one-off for 21st century British cinema. The Q&A will be hosted by the BFI’s William Fowler and Ruby McGuigan.

• Continue reading/Book tickets here. Browse our huge Aaaaaaaah! archive.

Toyah Willcox to Grace Southport Flower Show with Q&A sessions

Toyah Willcox will be joining us on Friday 15th August. Tickets into the show will get you access to see a Q&A with Toyah and our show compere Paul Crone.

Alan Adams, General Manager said “We can’t wait to welcome Toyah to this year’s show. She will be doing two Q&As in the Garden Theatre at 11am and 1pm. I am sure it will be busy so make sure you get your seats early”.

Toyah Willcox has spent over five decades captivating audiences as a singer, actress, and writer, earning multiple awards. She received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Central England in 2001 and was recognized in 2018 by Paul McCartney with a LIPA Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts Companionship for Outstanding Achievement in music, drama, performance, and media.

• Continue reading at Eye On Southport. See also The Guide Liverpool and Stand Up For Southport.

Toyah and Robert at last night’s Radio Times Covers Party 2025, held at Claridges, London. Toyah also bumped into, Scottish actor, Laura McKenzie who starred alongside Toyah, and Richard Madden, in two series of Barmy Aunt Boomerang in the late 90s and early 2000s. (Photos © Toyah Willcox)

Toyah performing I Want To Be Free at the Vive Le Rock Awards on 12th April 2024. (Thanks to Piranah Pete)

Toyah Willcox chats about ‘Revolting Rhymes with Toyah Willcox’ taking place at The Courtyard, Hereford on Wednesday 1 November at 3pm. For tickets head here…

Roald Dahl’s wickedly reimagined fairy tales narrated by Toyah Willcox Orchestra of the Swan presents two of Roald Dahl’s wickedly reimagined fairy tales, Little Red Riding Hood and Three Little Pigs. We all love stories and there is no better storyteller than Dahl who manages to pull off the ingenious trick of appealing to both adults and children. Narrated by Toyah Willcox and featuring a perfectly pitched musical score by Paul Patterson this performance will appeal to children and adults of all ages.

Orchestra of the Swan Presents Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes with Toyah Willcox

The Courtyard’s resident orchestra, The Orchestra of the Swan will present a musical reimagining of Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes with Toyah Willcox this November.

This wickedly reimagined take on, Red Riding Hood and the Three Little Pigs, will be narrated by Toyah Wilcox and accompanied by the Orchestra of the Swan. This show is suitable for people of all ages using Roald Dahl’s beloved rhymes.

The score for Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes was composed by Paul Patterson and is a perfect blend of humour and suspense. There is no better storyteller than Dahl who manages to pull off the ingenious trick of appealing to both adults and children, and what better way to enhance his stories than setting them to music.

Toyah Willcox is an English singer, actress and television personality who has released over 20 albums and has starred in numerous films and television shows. Her flamboyant and eclectic style is just what is needed to add to the children’s fairy tales.

Explaining how she got involved, Toyah Willcox said; “The Orchestra of the Swan invited me to do it and I think it’s a gorgeous piece. It has so much strength in pulling young people into what an orchestra can be. Music is part of our lives and I just hope this performance will introduce children to classical music. The way I see it I think the music is now the greater part of the experience as children are more worldly-wise and more aware of the dangers – but I think they are not learning about music on the level I used to.”

• Continue reading at EatSleepLive Hertfordshire. See also The Courtyard.

Iconic movie Jubilee is showing as part of Queer Time, Queer Space at Indiana University Cinema next month.

QUEER TIME, QUEER SPACE: JUBILEE + NEW QUEER SHORTS
Fri, Feb 24, 7 pm; $5

Derek Jarman | 1978 | United Kingdom | Not rated | DCP
Queen Elizabeth I travels 400 years into the future to witness a dystopian London overrun by a vicious gang of punk guerrilla girls led by the new Monarch of Punk. Preceded by three shorts from up-and-coming queer filmmakers.

About Queer Time, Queer Space: Jubilee + New Queer Shorts
Queen Elizabeth I asks her court alchemist to show her England in the future and she’s transported 400 years to a postapocalyptic wasteland of roving girl gangs, an all-powerful media mogul, fascistic police, scattered filth, and twisted sex. Legendary British filmmaker Derek Jarman channels political dissent and creative daring into a revolutionary blend of history, fantasy, cinematic experimentation, satire, anger, fashion, and philosophy. Starring cultural icons Jordan, Toyah Willcox, Little Nell, Jayne County, Adam Ant, and Brian Eno. 100% on Rotten Tomatoes! [106 mins; drama, fantasy; English]

“Ahead of its time and often frighteningly accurate in its predictions, [Jubilee] is a fascinating historical document and a gorgeous work of film art.” — The Criterion Collection

“Jarman’s sophomore film is a Molotov cocktail of celluloid—a film that practically dares you to watch it.” — Film Threat

“One of the most original, bold, and exciting features to have come out of Britain in the 1970s.” — Variety

• Continue reading for further details and ticket link at Indiana University’s website.

Toyah entertained guests at the NCBC 99th Christmas Party in Nottingham on Friday, talking about her career and more. Here’s a great photo of Toyah with Ray post-event. (Photo © Ray Sears)

Hundreds attend Peter and the Wolf performance

On Saturday, 5 November, 450 people turned out to hear singer and actress Toyah Willcox narrate Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf, with Salisbury Cathedral’s Assistant Director of Music John Challenger taking on the ‘orchestral’ role with the famous Father Willis organ.

• Continue reading at Love Salisbury. NB. Toyah also narrates two performances of Orchestra Of The Sawn – Into The Woods at Stratford Playhouse, as part of Stratford Music Festival 2022, on Sunday 20th November. More info/Ticket links here and here.

Organ Festival 2022: Toyah Willcox announced as narrator

A famous face will be returning to this year’s Organ Festival at Salisbury Cathedral.

Actress and singer Toyah Willcox returns to Wiltshire on Saturday, November 5 for a Fireworks Day performance of Sergei Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf.

Toyah and her husband Robert Fripp lived in Broad Chalke in the 1980/90s. She will tell the story of the heroic small boy Peter who takes on a fearsome Wolf, accompanied by a duck, a bird, and a cat.

Timed to work in with firework displays later in the day, the concert begins at 2pm with an hour-long programme.

• Continue reading at the Salisbury Journal. See also SalisburyCathedral.Org.

Toyah is guesting at the Motorhome & Caravan Show 2022 on Thursday 20th October.

The six-day event is taking place at the Birmingham NEC from 18th to 23rd October.

Toyah will be recalling memories of family caravanning holidays and outdoor adventures when she was growing up.

• Visit the Motorhome & Caravan Show website. Use the code TOYAH for a discount. See Toyah’s tweet here.

Toyah Willcox film telling disabled Quakers fan’s incredible life story to premiere in Darlington

Give Them Wings is set to premiere at Darlington’s Vue Cinema on July 16 to honour the writer’s hometown and the film’s location

A feature film based on the life story of a disabled Quakers fan will premiere at Darlington Vue Cinema on July 16. Starring Toyah Willcox, Give Them Wings chronicles the journey of Paul Hodgson, who was left disabled after being diagnosed with childhood meningitis.

Darlington born Mr Hodgson was diagnosed with the illness at just 10 months-old and his parents were told he would never move or speak. The now 57-year-old has defied all odds by becoming an award-winning novelist, film producer and screenwriter and Give Them Wings tells the story of his journey.

• Continue reading at Teeside Live.