Toyah is now included at the official Manchester Pride 2012 website.
Women’s Stage: Sunday sees the stage filled with some amazing female bands, performers and comediennes.
The stage will run from approximately 4pm – 11pm on Sunday 26 Augsut 2012.
Toyah playes ‘Birmingham Pride’ on Sunday 3rd June and she is included in the, just published, Birmingham Pride Guide. There’s a full-page ad on page 18 and a news clipping on 37.
Another busy weekend lies ahead for Toyah. Tomorrow night she headlines the second day of the weekend long ‘Decades Festival’ taking place in Workington, Cumbria, with a live PA at Club Ice. On Sunday there’s a full-band headlining gig at the ‘Here and Now 80s Weekender’ in Minehead. Click on each of the below for further details. Visit Toyah’s official Gigs page for info on all the upcoming 2012 live dates. View all of our Decades news.
In it’s 30th birthday week… and the “album version” too. Take a bow ‘Brave New World’, and Toyah, live at Let’s Rock The Moor 2012 in Cookham.
More photos from ‘Let’s Rock The Moor’. These, and more, have been added to Dreamscape’s 2010 – gallery. (Thanks, once again, to Angus Turner for his excellent photos)
A couple of photos, and that set list again, from yesterday’s concert. (Thanks again to Angus)
Yesterday’s ‘Let’s Rock The Moor 2012’ one-day festival was a roaring success, with a crowd of almost 7000 attending. Toyah’s great set list was: Good Morning Universe, Thunder In The Mountains, Brave New World, Echo Beach, It’s A Mystery, Rebel Run, I Want To Be Free (Thanks to Angus Turner). Photos soon. View all of our ‘LRTM’ news here.
• Early bird price tickets for ‘The Changeling Resurrection II’ at Sheffield Corporation (29th September) now on sale!
• Early bird tickets for ‘The Changeling Resurrection: Rewound & Extended’ final gig (3rd November) at Concorde2, Brighton – SOLD OUT! :)
• Raw Promo Derby: A return visit to the Flowerpot Derby is now confirmed for Sat 28th July for THE HUMANS featuring Toyah Willcox. Check out www.rawpromo.co.uk for info and tickets.
• View the RAW Promo ‘Live At The Flowerpot’ The Humans flyer here.
• The Humans: Live, Up Close & Personal: Direct ticket links: Birmingham, Derby, Manchester.
Toyah’s official Facebook confirmed yesterday that Toyah’s set, at this Saturday’s Let’s Rock The Moor 2012, “is all Toyah classics”. Great news for fans attending.
Toyah tweeted: “Weather 4 saturday 15• & sunny. Yipee! Let’s Rock The Moor. I might wear summer clothes at last“.
• View all of our ‘Let’s Rock The Moor 2012’ news here.
The three remaining Saturdays, and final Sunday, of May see Toyah playing three festivals and a live PA in various parts of the country.
This Saturday is Let’s Rock The Moor 2012, an Eighties festival in Cookham, Berkshire. Other bands include Heaven 17, China Crisis and Nick Heyward. This is a full band gig.
On Saturday 19th May Toyah appears at The Stroke Association’s 20th Anniversary Ball in County Durham. The information on this that was previously available at TSA’s website has been removed. There was a tweet yesterday advising that only one table was still available, so this possibly means the fundraiser has now sold out.
On Saturday 26th May Toyah plays another festival. Decades in Workington, Cumbria. This is another PA and Toyah will play at Club Ice, headlining the Saturday night of the event.
There’s another full band gig the following night: The ‘Here and Now’ Weekender at Minehead. Toyah is headlining the final night, Sunday 27th May. Visit the official Gigs page at toyahwillcox.com for more details on all these dates and many others.
• I think I may have mentioned this in the past, though possibly not! The 1986 film Toyah appeared in, alongside Christopher Lee, The Disputation, is available on DVD.
• Toyah Live 2012: Another new live date has been added to the Official Gigs page at toyahwillcox.com. Toyah plays a live PA at ‘Birmingham Pride’ at the Eden Bar on Sunday 3rd June 2012. Toyah is also playing Blackpool Pride (9th June) and Manchester Pride (26th August).
• Adam Ant (Adam Ant & The Good The Mad & The Lovely Posse) is playing a lot of live gigs this year, including festivals and a tour. View here.
• Books and Music and Stuff: Three Top British Films: 3. Quadrophenia. View here.
• The rare promo poster for the American video release of Murder: Ultimate Grounds for Divorce from the mid-80s. View a larger version here. (Thanks to Sean Green)
• According to a tweet today by ‘The Showbusiness Co’: “Joe Pasquale, Bobby Davro, Toyah Willcox, Richard Digance and many more appear in the Dave Lee tribute show at Marlowe, Canterbury on 6 May.”
• View more details about Dave Lee A Celebration at The Marlowe theatre website. There are other news reports today about the show. None of these mention Toyah.
• Three musicians, who have all worked with Toyah at various stages of her music career, play at ‘Jammin Java’, Vienna tomorrow. STICK MEN ft. Tony Levin, Pat Mastelotto and Markus Reuter. More info here.
• Manchester Pride Twitter today: “The Women’s Stage will return to Sackville Gardens for this year’s event. We’ll welcome Toyah as the headline act!”
• Canal Street (Manchester) Twitter today: “Look who is headlining the Women’s stage at Manchester Pride this year.. Toyah”
• Collapse Board: How I lost my love for music (and how I found it again): The first record I think was mine was ‘I Want To Be Free’ by Toyah…
• So So Gay: Blue To Headline Blackpool Pride 2012. Toyah is also mentioned in this article published today.
• Toyah Montaging: I’ve, quite literally, thrown together a couple of Toyah video montages. At The Rainbow and some career clips. I’d love to do a more professional and substantial career montage at some point, with lots of interview and music clips, almost like a documentary type retrospective.
A new live date for 2012 has been added to Toyah’s official Gigs page at toyahwillcox.com.
Toyah will be playing a “Hits & Surprises”, full band, gig at Mylor Sessions, Mylor, Cornwall on Saturday 23rd June. Tickets go on sale on Monday 21st May.
Mylor Sessions: Dedicated to deliver an eclectic mix of music, comedy and the arts in an intimate environment. All profits to local charities and projects.
Toyah tweeted yesterday: “Humans dates, humans album & TOYAH autumn tour schedule all shaping up beautifully :-)“.
Lots to look forward to for fans of Toyah and The Humans. One of the Autumn dates (aside from the rescheduled Glasgow gig) has already been posted on a support band’s Facebook. The full Autumn dates will be officially announced soon.
‘The Changeling Resurrection’ good news keeps coming: Tonight’s gig at Bush Hall. London is now officially confirmed as Sold Out! Fantastic news for Toyah. What a night it will be! Doors open 7pm. First support starts 7:05pm. Toyah is on stage at 9.15-10.45pm approx. Venue curfew is 11pm.
Tonight ‘The Changeling Resurrection’ reaches Bristol, for the second gig of the tour, playing at The Tunnels. Following the Brighton concert, Bristol is sure to be another amazing night of Toyah music and visuals. A special mention for someone who is attending and deserves to have a great time… have a brilliant gig Lee Jones! (Photos © Andy Sturmey)
Brighton’s Concorde2 mailed out their April newsletter to subscribers today. It includes news on Toyah’s forthcoming gig at the venue, plus a chance to win tickets for it.
Saturday 14th April
Sanctuary Music presents TOYAH WILLCOX
THE CHANGELING RESURRECTION 2012 TOUR
Celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of ‘The Changeling’, Toyah & her full band, will perform a selection of songs from the album alongside classic material as heard on the ‘Warrior Rock’ live album.
* TOYAH WILLCOX COMPETITION *
This week we are giving you the chance to win a pair of tickets to see TOYAH @ CONCORDE2 on Saturday 14th April, all you need to do is answer this simple question…
“Tell us the name of Toyah’s 2012 tour…?” Send your answers to hello@concorde2.co.uk, winners will be contacted by email no later than Monday 9th April.
(Thanks to Stephen Bennett for the newsletter)
For some reason Google have ranked this page’s recent ‘Audley End Concerts 2012’ news posts at the very top of their searches whenever anyone Googles “audley end concert”. It’s slightly odd that we’ve been listed so highly but it’s great for ‘Falling To Earth’ as we have received hundreds of extra visitors over the last few days. (Hello!!!) Hopefully it may even result in a few new fans for Toyah as well as ticket sales for the Audley End Concerts! Full info on the weekend of concerts here.
The official flyer for the ‘Rock & Bike Festival 2012’. Please click on it to view a larger version. Toyah’s non-music appearance, she will be compering, at the July festival was confirmed officially at the weekend. Another “festival” update: ‘Absolute Radio’ are currently airing an advert for ‘Let’s Rock The Moor 2012’. Toyah plays this event on Saturday 12th May in Berkshire. Full details of all upcoming live dates at the official Gigs page.
Toyah returns to ‘Blackpool Pride’ in June, playing a live PA at the North Pier Theatre. This will be Toyah’s third ‘Blackpool Pride’ appearance since the event began in 2006. Organisers are celebrating seven years of entertaining people from Blackpool and far beyond.
The official ‘Blackpool Pride 2012’ website recently added an artist page for Toyah, saying “Toyah is back by popular demand”.
• View the official ‘Blackpool Pride 2012’ flyer here.
More new gigs, festivals and PAs for Toyah have been confirmed by the official website.
Toyah plays the ‘Decades Festival’ in Workington on Saturday 26th May, a return to ‘Blackpool Pride’, with a live PA at the North Pier Theatre, on Saturday 9th June. There’s also a return to ‘Manchester Pride’, headlining the Women’s Stage at Sackville Gardens on Sunday 26th August.
• All the details are available on the Gigs page at toyahwillcox.com.
