Toyah & Robert guested on BBC Radio Wales last week.
Engaged after just a week! Musicians Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp have been married for 37 years and it was a whirlwind at the start…
They spoke to Carol Vorderman and revealed their Welsh connections too.
• Watch at BBC Radio Wales/Facebook.
Toyah’s full “If I Ruled The World” Reader’s Digest Q&A is now available online…
If you want to eat meat you should have to raise and respectfully take the lives of your own animals
I am very passionate that animals have souls, and most religions say that they don’t. Animals experience empathy, joy and pain. We do not have a right to kill them en masse.
I have never met an animal that does not have empathy. As you get older I think it’s a lot better for you to have a very dominantly vegetarian diet.
There will be a National Concert Day
I used to live in Menton in France and they would have a national concert day, but I don’t think that’s what it was called. Every school would take the school orchestra out into the square. They would play music and the dance classes would do dance. It was a very beautiful spectacle. I’ve seen it in Israel as well. On one day per week in Israel, most communities will go and dance in the square, with live musicians playing.
• Continue reading at Reader’s Digest.
Toyah is interviewed in the October 2023 issue of Reader’s Digest magazine. Here is a preview.
If I Ruled The World – Toyah Willcox
Toyah Willcox is a singer, actor and TV presenter with a career spanning 40 years and eight top 40 singles. Toyah and Robert Fripp tour the UK together in October
Young people would have repercussion predictors
If you make a move in anger, revenge or envy, you need to know the consequences of your actions. I think AI would help young people so much—if they could just have a level of repercussion prediction, they might think twice rather than taint their entire life with a bad action. Within social media, a repercussion predictor would be really useful.
Work-life balance would be a law
The majority of us forget to put life balance first. We are very lucky in the UK that we have two days off a week. I often work in America and I’m so shocked at how hard Americans are expected to work. Life isn’t all about work, email, bureaucracy and accounting. In my working world, I would insist that were two days a week where there is no communication with work.
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At Home In The Cotswolds with Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp
Fancy a delicious treat? Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp are taking their stonkingly popular Sunday Lunch rock video-performances on tour. Katie Jarvis asks all the important questions, including which of them does the washing up
It’s the first week of lockdown: a Sunday in April 2020. Six-am and a warm sun is rising.
In the outside world (whatever that might mean in April 2020), everyone is feeling unnerved; scared, even. The pandemic has started; people are prisoners in their own homes; time on their hands but – in a possible first – no one has the slightest idea what to do with it.
Oh – except for Toyah Willcox, that is.
Out in the garden of her Pershore home, she’s doing what she feels to be The Obvious. ‘If we’re stuck in this house for weeks,’ she thinks, ‘I’m going to put a ball gown on.’
Which she does. Pearlescent, fishtail, clingy, strappy, sheer; one of those inspired charity-shop buys.
• Continue reading at Great British Life.
“WE ARE PRESENTING THE SHOW WITH WHAT WE REGARD AS CLASSIC MUSIC NOW” TOYAH TALKS SUNDAY LUNCH
Toyah is an 80s culteral icon. From punk princess to film and stage actor, presenter, author, and torch carrier for those who relish being an outsider. Aside from her 80s hits including ‘It’s A Mystery’ and ‘Thunder in The Mountains, Toyah and her husband Robert Fripp have transcended generation gaps and brought us great music and performances with their legendary Sunday Lunch shows on social media.
We caught up with Toyah at Rewind South
PHOTOGROUPIE
How does it feel to be back at Rewind?
TOYAH
I love it. I do 20 minutes. Every other night I’m doing two and a half hours, so this is really lovely. It’s fun. I can give it 150% and not worry about act two.
PHOTOGROUPIE
Now I know you’re on the road with Robert tell us about that.
TOYAH
I’m on the road now. I’ve been on the road since March. The Sunday lunch official tour starts at the end of September through October.
• Continue reading at Photogroupie.
Toyah joined Ken Bruce for Golden Years and took us through the year of 1972. She tells Ken about her love for Roxy Music and Elton John amongst others. Toyah talks about the impact of the 1970s and recalls what she remembers about the decade.
She also shares a story about her early life in school and how she may have cause some trouble in school. One story involves several alarm clocks, a school stage and a former Prime Minister!
• Listen to the great interview below or at You Tube.
Robert Fripp on the future of King Crimson: “I’m committed to another band right now – Toyah and Robert”
Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox are set to tour their Sunday Lunch rock party across the UK this Autumn.
Robert Fripp has opened up on the future of King Crimson following the success of his Sunday Lunch YouTube series with his wife and fellow musician, Toyah Willcox.
The duo began performing a range of covers on Willcox’s YouTube channel during the COVID-19 lockdowns, which rose to popularity.
Off the back of the success of their online covers, which are recorded using just an iPhone, the pair are even set to take their Sunday Lunch covers on the road with a UK “Rock Party” tour starting later this month (September).
In a new interview with Guitar World, Fripp was asked if King Crimson is definitely over, or if there is any hope for a tour in the future now that he’s so busy with this new project: “I’ve learned from having attempted to get away from King Crimson in 1974, 1984, 2003 and 2008 that it’s probably hard to say!
• Continue reading at Guitar.Com. Browse all of Toyah & Robert’s Rock Party tour dates at toyahwillcox.com.
The incredible Toyah, wearing an amazing devil’s costume, spoke to us about an exciting new fly on the wall documentary coming up, about a possible link to Stranger Things, and about her upcoming tour among other things.
It’s Toyah Tuesday and as The Changeling release approaches Official Toyah are revisiting some vintage footage.
This 1982 interview is from CBTV’s Hot Seat slot. Premieres at 6pm at You Tube and Toyah’s official Facebook page.
A backstage chat with Toyah, at Rewind North 2023… talking lucky charms, pre-gig rituals and much more!
Greatest Hits Radio caught up with Toyah at Rewind Festival Scotland last week, and she shared her memories of creating some iconic music videos. Click below to watch… (Image © Greatest Hits Radio)
Toyah talks summer festivals, Peak Cavern, stripping off and Robert Fripp.
Toyah and Robert guested on Mike Sweeney’s BBC Radio Manchester Show yesterday.
Mike chats with Toyah and Robert about their career ahead of their show at The Lowry later this year.
• Listen to the show, for the next month, at BBC Sounds.
Toyah – Enduring Icon Of Pop Culture Deep Dive Interview! by Steve Blame (formerly of MTV)
Toyah Willcox, better known simply as Toyah, is an English pop star and artist who rose to fame in the late 1970s and 1980s. With her distinctive voice and striking appearance, Toyah became a fixture on the UK music scene, producing numerous hits and carving out a unique space for herself in the world of pop. Beyond her music career, Toyah has also been a prolific actress, writer, and television presenter, making her a multi-talented and dynamic figure in the entertainment industry. With a career spanning several decades and a devoted fan base, Toyah remains an enduring icon of British pop culture.
My 80s Playlist: Toyah Willcox picks her favourite 80s tunes from Bowie to Kate Bush
80s icon Toyah Willcox made her name not just on the charts but on the screen too.
She first kicked things off in the band Toyah until 1983, before embarking on an impressive solo career, with top 10 singles including I Want To Be Free and Thunder in the Mountains. Toyah also found fame on the big screen as Monkey in 1979’s Quadrophenia, and worked alongside Katharine Hepburn in The Corn is Green.
While at the Top of the Tower at Virgin Radio 80s Plus Toyah sat down with Steve Denyer for My 80s Playlist, and shared the top 80s tunes that made the era.
• Continue reading at Virgin Radio.
The iconic Toyah Willcox joins Steve Denyer on My 80s Playlist.
A snapshot of Toyah & Robert’s interview feature – Relative Values – as it appeared in print in The Sunday Times – available for one day only, Sunday 15th January 2023 – magazine.
A new interview, and photos, with Toyah & Robert published by The Times.
Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp on fidelity and rock’n’roll Sunday lunches
The singer and her guitarist husband on why they’re going on tour at a combined age of 140
The first time I met Robert was in a taxi in 1983 with our managers. I remember being intrigued by this man who was reluctant to talk, which provoked me to ask, “What colour are your underpants?” He brought out the prankster in me.
We didn’t meet again until 1985, when he asked me to make a charity album with him. He proposed within a week and we married on his 40th birthday in May 1986. Robert is an intelligent, deep thinker who’s disciplined in his music, his health routine and how he lives. All of that was perfection for me.
• Continue reading at The Times. (subscription required)
Phil Marriott spoke with Saxon drummer Nigel Glockler about his time with Toyah in 1981, a hugely successful time for Toyah and her band, during which they released the No.2 album Anthem and hits such as ‘It’s A Mystery’ and ‘Thunder In The Mountains’.
A new interview with Robert Fripp, including mention of Toyah and You Tube/Sunday Lunch…
Robert Fripp Lightens Up
No one expected to see the leader of King Crimson dancing in a tutu on YouTube. In a rare interview, the guitarist explains “an entirely different trajectory.”
• Continue reading at The New York Times.
Toyah and, Anthem – and many other Toyah releases during the Safari Records years – producer, Nick Tauber are interviewed in The Guardian today, discussing It’s A Mystery, from the Four From Toyah EP and the, just reissued in deluxe formats, iconic/legendary/magnificent 1981 album, Anthem.
Toyah on It’s a Mystery: ‘I told Princess Margaret I was a punk rocker. She said “How ridiculous”’
‘There was a vinyl shortage when it was released. Old records had to be sent to the factory to be melted down and pressed. But soon it was selling 75,000 copies a day’
I was a cult punk singer playing sweaty little clubs and getting covered in so much gob that dry cleaners would go: “Yeuch! We’re not touching that!” Then a brilliant PR woman called Judy Totton turned everything around. She put me in every parish magazine in the country that would talk to me. I soon had all these fans who said they discovered me because their parents or grandparents had told them about this punk rocker.
I was making singles that were eight minutes long with reams of lyrics and had never had a hit. When Safari Records played my 1980 single Ieya on rotation in their office, a man apparently appeared at their door with a knife and said: “If you play that song again, I’ll kill you!” I started working with a new producer, Nick Tauber, who said I needed to simplify the message. He was completely right.
• Continue reading at The Guardian.
