Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch Rock Party Tour premieres on Saturday, with a Sold Out gig at Wimborne Tivoli, and continuing through October.
• Browse all the gigs at toyahwillcox.com, and see the tour countdown at Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and You Tube Shorts.
The countdown to the first date of Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch Rock Party Tour has begun. As of today there are now 9 days to go to slink, groove and rock. A number of the dates have already sold out, or have limited ticket availability. Join the countdown at Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and You Tube Shorts.
Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch – Rock Party Tour dates & tickets: www.toyahwillcox.com/gigs.
Carol Decker of T’pau, Toyah Willcox, Johnny Hates Jazz and Nik Kershaw all wow at Newark Festival in the castle grounds
The eighties were reborn against the fantastic backdrop of Newark Castle last night. The castle rocked and rolled to some of the best entertainers of the era. Hundreds enjoyed the relaxed and intimate affair as the hits were pelted out from the stage.
Carol Decker of T’pau fame kicked off a great night with the crowd dispensing with their picnic chairs and on their feet.
Then followed Toyah Willcox whose energy and zest for life hasn’t diminished one iota.
• Continue reading, and see more photos, at Newark Advertiser. (Photo © Newark Advertiser)
Fairport’s Cropredy Convention 2023: Live Review
Fairport’s Cropredy Convention adds another year to its long list of great bills and festivals. It really is a festival to cherish.
Toyah and Robert Fripp
It was back in 2015 that Toyah Wilcox last had the Cropredy stage to herself. She wowed us then, and -by heck – she certainly delivered the goods this year! Armed with a top-notch band, led, of course by husband Robert Fripp, figurehead of the mighty King Crimson, she left us breathless – and glamour-struck as she blasted through set of favourites from the couple’s hilarious – some might even say ‘notorious’ Sunday Lunch podcast series. The band was on top form, and Toyah had the whole field captivated as she rocked, twirled, enchanted and, of course, sang her way through a set that was thoroughly familiar and contained something for absolutely everyone.
• Continue reading at At The Barrier.
Toyah and Robert were featured in the Mail On Sunday this past weekend, with a comprehensive feature/review of Cropredy Festival 2023.
80s star Toyah to headline Reepham Festival in August 2023
An 80s “pop princess” has been announced as this year’s headliner for one of Norfolk’s most popular music festivals.
Toyah Willcox, who has had eight top 40 singles across her 20-album career, will be headlining Reepham Festival’s main stage on August 12.
The festival features two stages with a line-up that includes the Buster James Band – an “East Anglian favourite” – and The Black Shucks.
• Continue reading at Dereham Times.
Following their Sensational appearances at the Isle of Wight Festival and Glastonbury Festival, Robert Fripp will be a special guest playing with the band for Toyah’s upcoming gigs in July!
01 July: Sittingbourne Party In The Park
20 July: Leeds Morley Town Hall
21 July: Holmfirth Picturedrome
22 July: Castleton Devil’s Arse Cave
28 July: Milton Keynes International Festival – officially a Toyah & Robert date
29 July: Holt Festival, Norfolk
• Tickets and full details are on the Gigs page at toyahwillcox.com.
Watch Toya
h and Robert cover ‘Heroes’ by David Bowie at Glastonbury 2023
The King Crimson guitarist featured on the original recording
Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp performed a cover of David Bowie’s ‘Heroes’ at their recent set at Glastonbury.
The married couple — who both have extensive music careers and came together to form a musical duo in 2020 — took to the stage on Sunday (June 25), and performed renditions of some of their favourite classic rock hits.
A highlight of the set came with their cover of a David Bowie classic, as they put their own spin on his 1977 fan favourite, ‘Heroes’. For the performance, Willcox took the microphone and handled the vocals, while Fripp remained seated and played the guitar through the track.
• Continue reading at the NME. See also : Enter Sandman … Heroes … It’s A Mystery … Are You Gonna Go My Way … School’s Out.
Brand new t-shirt designs, celebrating Toyah & Robert’s 2023 tour, now available. This line-drawing self portrait of herself and Robert was created by Toyah to celebrate the 2023 series of concerts.
Click below for more tour merch, including great posters, prints, tour programmes…
Toyah & Robert at Glastonbury 2023: Press, reviews, photos, vidoes…
• The Guardian: Sunday at Glastonbury 2023: Elton John closes the festival in spectacular style – as it happened:
Toyah and Robert Fripp reviewed!
Acoustic stage, 4.10pm
Fresh from their popular pandemic covers series, husband-and-wife duo Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp appear on the misleadingly named Acoustic stage for a set of songs by artists that either the pop star or the King Crimson guitarist have worked with. Willcox, 65 and lithe in a glossy red catsuit, beckons their six-piece, besuited band (with Fripp front and center) to open with a fiery version of her hit Thunder in the Mountains. “We thought we were in the heavy metal tent, I’m really sorry,” she says afterwards, before shouting out her Birmingham hometown and fellow Brummies Black Sabbath – Continue…
• Financial Times: Glastonbury’s final day brings sense of an ending as Elton John bows out – Continue… (subscription required)
• Mojo: Queens Of The Stone Age, Weyes Blood And More At Glastonbury 2023, Reviewed – Continue…
• Rich’s Album Of The Day: Gig Of The Day: The pandemic Sunday Roast sessions made flesh as an eight piece. Great fun as Toyah and hubby Fripp tackle Paranoid, Heart Of Glass, It’s A Mystery and a host of other songs they’ve been involved in – Continue…
• Toyah & Robert – Live on the Acoustic Stage at Glastonbury photos – Continue…
• Toyah & Robert – Glastonbury Festival: 25.06.2023: Enter Sandman … Heroes … It’s A Mystery … Are You Gonna Go My Way.
Sept/Oct Tour tickets on sale now!
After wowing crowds at Isle of Wight Festival & Glastonbury 2023, Toyah & Robert are bursting out of the Sunday Lunch kitchen to hit the road this September/October.
An evening of hits & rock classics including I Want To Be Free, Heroes, Sensational, Enter Sandman, Kashmir, Thunder in The Mountains & more!
Just announced: Toyah plays Newark Festival 2023 – Concert In The Castle – this Bank Holiday August weekend – on 27th, day three of the four-day festival. Info/Tickets – click below.
If you were wondering what Robert Fripp and Toyah are like on tour, wonder no more
Much to humanity’s delight, pro-shot footage of Robert Fripp and Toyah performing Billy Idol’s Rebel Yell at the Isle Of Wight festival has emerged
Over the last few years, Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox have built a new, enthusiastic and unexpected audience, with the entire internet seemingly in thrall to their long-running-although-currently-dormant series of Sunday Lunch videos.
Could they cut it on the road? That was surely the question on everyone’s lips when the frisky duo announced a series of ‘Rock Party’ dates, during which they’d perform many of the songs that have so enriched our lives.
In late May the first audiences bore witness to the pair’s live antics, as the King Crimson man and his bride played a pair of local shows at Worcester’s Huntingdon Hall. Amongst the songs performed were Metallica’s Enter Sandman, Black Sabbath’s Paranoid, ZZ Top’s Sharp Dressed Man, and, perhaps most remarkably, Kashmir by Led Zeppelin.
• Continue reading at Classic Rock/Louder. See also Metal Sucks, Ultimate Guitar and Ultimate Classic Rock.
As previously mentioned, highlights from Toyah & Robert’s Isle Of Wight Festival set were included on Sky Arts coverage of the music festival over the weekend. Here is their performance of Rebel Yell. (Thanks to Minna)
YouTube hits Toyah and Fripp at Isle of Wight Festival in Photos
The husband and wife musical partnership of Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp — both from strangely different but equally experimental musical backgrounds — performed their popular Sunday Lunch Live show in the Big Top.
It was enjoyed by the musically nostalgic and those of younger generations perhaps searching for their own musical roots to follow.
Sunday’s afternoon show was, as you would expect with Fripp, musically precise, while Toyah showed infectious, punk-rooted enthusiasm with her performance.
She performed a set which included some of her solo classics, It’s a Mystery and I Want to Be Free, together with some great pop standards, such as Bowie’s Heroes and Billy Idol’s Rebel Yell.
• Continue reading at Isle Of Wight County Press. Toyah & Robert were also included on Sky Arts’ Isle Of Wight Festival Highlights 2023, with further airings this week. See videos of Toyah & Robert at the Isle Of Wight at Toyah’s official Instagram.
Swanfest 2023: 73 pictures from Swanmore College with Toyah Willcox, Artful Dodger, Blazin Squad and Ben Haenow
Here are dozens of pictures of families enjoying themselves at Swanmore College’s annual festival Swanfest.
This year the line-up saw 1980s icon Toyah Willcox perform with her husband Robert Fripp, early 2000s hip hop act Blazin Squad, garage act Artful Dodger and X Factor winner Ben Haenow.
Hundreds of people enjoyed a warm day on the school playing fields on Saturday – and photographer Keith Woodland filled his camera’s memory card with plenty of great pictures.
• Continue reading at The News. See photos from Swanfest 2023 at Toyah’s official Facebook.
Toyah & Robert perform David Bowie’s Heroes at Stone Valley South Festival 2023 – Robert Fripp played Lead Guitar on the original recording of Heroes, from the album of the same name and also released as a single in 1977.
Toyah & Robert have played a number of concerts and festivals over the past couple of weeks, with gig goers saying they “stole the show”. See Facebook for photos from Irlam Live Festival, Stone Valley Festival South + two special gigs at Huntingdon Hall, Worcester. (Photo © Robert Fripp)
A few clips of a great day at Stone Valley Festival South in Ware on May 28. Featuring Toyah, From The Jam, The Beat, The Selecter and Ocean Colour Scene. (Thanks to Choose 80s).
Coming up on Thursday 8 June…. A very special intimate Toyah gig at Boisdale Restaurants Canary Wharf. Click below for tickets.
