Dreamscape – Toyah Willcox Fansite

A great video montage capturing all the fun of Let’s Rock Bristol 2014. Click on the caps below to watch at You Tube. (Thanks to Kevin McNamara)

Great photo of Toyah and Pat Sharp. (Thanks to/Photo © Let’s Rock Bristol)

Toyah, onstage and off, today at Let’s Rock Bristol. (Thanks to/All photos © Let’s Rock Bristol)

Toyah plays Let’s Rock Bristol tomorrow. She tweeted earlier today: “Just popped 2 bristol, no rain! & good weather 4 sunday. I’m on at 12.15 lunch time 2rrow. New outfit too“. Others playing tomorrow include: Kim Wilde, ABC, Nik Kershaw, China Crisis and numerous others. Click below to stay updated via the festival’s official Facebook page.

A very busy week ahead for Toyah: This evening it’s SohoCreate; tomorrow a Crimson Queen/Greatest Hits…Live! date in Clacton-On-Sea; Saturday a PA in Minehead; on Sunday Toyah plays the Let’s Rock Bristol festival; and on Tuesday there’s An Evening With Toyah Willcox @ Say What? Waterstones, Manchester – Phew!

There’s a, very, short interview clip with Toyah in the Plymouth Volksfest 2014: Highlights video report uploaded recently to the Chatterbox Productions You Tube channel. View by clicking on the screen caps.

• Plymouth Volksfest 2014 #1: Toyah onstage yesterday evening at the festival: Toyah gets the evening off to a thunderous start – View here…

• Plymouth Volksfest 2014 #2: Toyah being interviewed, by Siobhan Elise Robbie, before her live set – View here…

• Plymouth Volksfest 2014 #3: Toyah tweeted from Volksfest, saying it was “Huge! Fab! Muddy! Hurray!” – View her muddy photo here…

• Western Morning News: Sir Bob Geldof gets affectionate reception at Plymouth’s Volksfest: Other artists appearing over the Bank Holiday weekend event included The Feeling, Razorlight, Heaven 17 and Toyah – Continue reading…

The thoughtful organisers of the Lechlade Music Festival presented Toyah with a fantastic birthday cake on Friday night, as her live set closed the first day of concerts and events. View larger versions of both photos below at Lechlade Festival Facebook and Cotswolds Finest Cakes Facebook. (Photos © Lechlade Festival/Cotswolds Finest Cakes)

• OsFest 2014: Toyah has just been confirmed as playing another festival, OsFest, which takes place in Shropshire between 9th – 11th August. Toyah plays the first day, Saturday 9th – Visit the OsFest website…

• OsFest 2014: The official festival website say: Our last addition is the amazing Toyah Willcox who’s career has now spanned 3 decades and she’ll be playing some of her major hits including the anthemic “It’s a Mystery” – View a larger version of the promotional flyer/poster here…

• Shropshire Live: Paloma Faith to perform unique DJ Set at Osfest: Paloma Faith, The Hoosiers, From the Jam, Bay City Rollers and Toyah have been added to the Osfest lineup which recently swapped dates from May to 9-11 August 2014 – Continue reading…

• Daventry Express: Thousands expected for boat show: Thousands of visitors are expected to arrive in Crick over the bank holiday weekend for the annual boat show. The popular event, held at Crick Marina off the A428 south of the village, is expected to draw in 25,000. Toyah Willcox will be performing her ‘Acoustic, Up Close & Personal’ set at Crick as part of the show’s Saturday evening entertainment programme – Continue reading…

• Western Morning News: Bumper bank holiday weekend on the way as summer season gets under way: TOP TEN THINGS TO DO THIS WEEKEND: 3. Volksfest at Plymouth, the weekend long festival which this year will be headlined by Razorlight, The Feeling, Toyah and Heaven 17 – Continue reading…

It’s another of those exceptionally busy Bank Holiday weekends for Toyah, with three festival concerts. Last night there was a full-band gig at Lechlade Music Festival 2014, which is taking place at Riverside Park, Lechlade-On-Thames, Gloucestershire. Over 70 bands are playing through until Sunday.

Tonight Toyah’s Acoustic, Up Close & Personal tour headlines Crick Boat Show, another three-day festival, in Northampton. 25,000 people are expected over the weekend at the annual boat show.

On Sunday Toyah plays another full-band gig at Plymouth Volksfest 2014 in Devon. Also playing at this festival, which has six stages (including a dance village and cabaret tent), are Razorlight, The Feeling, Heaven 17 and The Boomtwon Rats. Toyah is scheduled to be onstage between 6.30 -7.30pm on Sunday evening.

• The Advertiser: Crimson queen ready to reign with set of her greatest hits: A news article on Toyah’s recent Crimson Queen gig in Blyth, and forthcoming Acoustic, Up Close & Personal date at The Duchess, York – Continue reading…

• Cat On The Wall Music & Culture Webzine: Whitby Goth Weekend – Day One – Friday 25th April 2014: Toyah Willcox: Her vocals were perfectly placed, her communication with the audience was excellent, the music itself was replicated to a tee (complete with plenty of synth, of course) and, ultimately, she’s about as practised live as a musician can get. She knows how to perform and uses the experience well without becoming the slightest bit robotic. I’ve never seen an audience so adoring before. It’s actually quite an incredible sight – Continue reading…

• Flatpack Film Festival: Jubilee: The 1978 film is showing at the Library of Birmingham Studio Theatre, Saturday 14th June at 7.30pm – Further info here…

• Crimson Queen/Greatest Hits…Live!: Tickets are now on sale for Toyah’s gig at West Cliff Theatre, Clacton-On-Sea – Buy/View info here…

• Toyah Live 2014: Browse Toyah’s full diary of upcoming Crimson Queen/Greatest Hits, Acoustic, Up Close & Personal, festival and PA dates. There are numerous gigs listed at The Official Gigs Page…

• Toyah on Twitter: “Breakfast in Seattle overlooking Puget Sound… Planning 2015! xxx” – Follow Toyah at Twitter…

• The Watchers Film Show Blog: Shakespeare On Film: The Tempest: This is my favourite of Shakespeare’s plays. There are two particularly interesting film version of this lyrical, beautiful and poignant play. Derek Jarman’s 1979 version, starring Heathcote Williams as Prospero and Toyah Willcox as Miranda (above), is full of the usual striking and out-there imagery you would expect for a Jarman film – Continue reading…

An ad for the Live Wyre Festival, which Toyah plays on Sunday 1st June, has just been uploaded to You Tube: Live Wyre Festival in association with Frack-Free Sunday, featuring The Happy Mondays, Alabama 3, Big Country, Bad Manners, Toyah and The Troggs. Click below to view.

Fab photos of Toyah onstage last night at the Phoenix Theatre, Blyth, on the 11th date of the Crimson Queen/Greatest Hits…Live! UK Tour. Click below to view the full versions of these, and more, at Dreamscape Gallery. (Thanks to Gareth| All photos © Gareth Suthers)

Splendid shots of Toyah headlining the first night of ‘Whitby Goth Weekend’ on Friday 25th April.

Browse Dreamscape’s Toyah-related past news on the three-day festival here, and click below to view the full versions of these photos, and more, at Dreamscape Gallery. (Thanks to Jeff | All photos © Jeff Agar)

Following dates in Holmfirth, Nuneaton, Bury St Edmunds, Wimborne, London, Hastings, Clitheroe and Wakefield, Toyah played at the legendary Eric’s in Liverpool on Friday 2nd May, the ninth gig of the Crimson Queen/Greatest Hits…Live! UK Tour. Click below to view the full versions of these great photos of Toyah from Eric’s, and more, at Dreamscape Gallery. (Thanks to Myke | All photos © Myke Crombleholme)

The recent Chorley Guardian interview with Toyah has been slightly rejigged and published today by the Lancashire Telegraph.

No mystery that Toyah Willcox still rocks

Toyah Willcox has never been afraid to speak her mind, and, now she’s a 50-something, the former high priestess of punk doesn’t show any signs of putting the brakes on.

Toyah burst on to the pop scene with smash hits It’s A Mystery and I Want To Be Free, and since then she’s also enjoyed a successful career as a singer, presenter and an actress, appearing in several films, stage plays and in numerous television dramas.

• Continue reading at the Lancashire Telegraph.

Crick Boat Show needs no introduction. It is a hallmark of the waterways events calendar at the heart of the waterway network. Every year crowds of boaters, boats and lovers of the great outdoors flock to Crick in Northamptonshire for the renowned Crick Boat Show.

Pop icon, TV presenter and actress Toyah Willcox will headline this year’s Crick Boat Show & Waterways Festival entertainment programme. Toyah will be performing her ‘Acoustic, Up Close & Personal’ set at Crick as part of the show’s Saturday evening entertainment programme. Her gig will include renditions of her best loved hit singles, alongside stories from her colourful 35-year career.

• Continue reading at Canal & River Trust. Browse all of Dreamscape’s Toyah at Crick Boat Show news.

• New Quay Music Festival 2014: The festival, taking place at the beginning of August, has recently updated its website with more artists and bands. Both Toyah and Hazel O’Connor are playing on Saturday 2nd August – which sounds like a fine line-up to me – Visit the site…

• Toyah Live 2014: View all of Toyah’s confirmed live dates for 2014 at The Official Gigs page.

• Hit Fix: 11 Fun Facts About U2, Duran Duran And Tears For Fears From ‘Mad World’: Toyah is namechecked (by Limahl) in this article on the new book “Mad World: An Oral History of New Wave Artists And Songs That Defined The 1980s.”… “I’d go out to nightclubs in London with a spaceman’s outfit on and weird oil paint over my face, which was a bit punk/Toyah/Adam and the Ants,” says lead singer, Limahl – Continue reading…

• Concert News Online: SohoCreate: 50 of the country’s top creatives gather in Soho to make the case for creativity. SohoCreate features some of Britain’s best creatives discussing their art, inspiration and story so far. Creative people talking about what they do and why they do it – Continue reading…

• The Humans US: Toyah and The Humans American adventure is over, for now. She tweeted yesterday: “Portland was AMAZING! Totally won audience over. Even got a round 4 Psychopath vocal……just fab“.

• Take The Leap!: Bid on a black long sleeved t-shirt, size large. It has Take The Leap printed down the left sleeve. The shirt was bought at a 1993 Toyah concert at Lincoln Theatre Royal. It is in excellent condition. All proceeds from this auction will be going towards a Three Peaks mountaineering, charity challenge for The Myton Hospices – View/bid here…

Toyah was never a shrinking violet when it came to rummaging through the dressing up box, and she’ll no doubt be done up like Fenwick’s Christmas window when she gets out her greatest hits at Blyth’s lovely Phoenix Theatre this May.

Has Toyah released an autobiography yet? If not she needs to get scribbling as she’s got a tale to tell. From playing ‘Mad’ in Derek Jarman’s punk film Jubilee (and ‘Monkey’ in mod epic Quadrophenia) to colourful pop star, to stage performer, to a whole range of TV presenting jobs (she’s ran the full gamut on the small screen from The Good Sex Guide to Songs Of Praise), she’s a woman who’s been constantly on the move. And her pop career, which has yielded thirteen top 40 singles and twenty albums, has won her an enormous army of fans who will no doubt be in force on her Crimson Queen tour in which she’ll be playing all her greatest hits. X-Factor? Toyah’s still got the Max-Factor.

Toyah Willcox, Saturday 10 May, Phoenix Theatre, Blyth, 7pm, £20/£23. thephoenixtheatre.org.uk

• Read the article at The Crack website.

More fantastic photos from the Crimson Queen/Greatest Hits…Live! UK Tour. These are from Saturday night’s gig at St Mary In The Castle, Hastings. Click below to view the full versions of these photos, and more, at Dreamscape Gallery. (Thanks to Angus (1&5), Brian (2&4) and Paul and Merx (3&6) | Photos © Angus Turner, Brian Marsh & Paul Stephens)

Toyah played the sixth date of her, nine-month-spanning, Crimson Queen/Greatest Hits…Live! tour last night at St Mary In The Castle, Hastings. Meanwhile, here are more great photos from last weekend’s CQ/GH… Live! gig at the Jazz Cafe, Camden. The next live date for Toyah is another CQ concert, at The Grand, Clitheroe on Saturday 19th April, though there are live dates for The Humans in the US next week. Click below to view the full versions of these photos, and more, at Dreamscape Gallery. (Thanks to Damon | All photos © Damon King)