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.
“We’re thrilled to announce that TOYAH & ROBERT are playing the Acoustic Stage at Glastonbury 2023 on Sunday 25 June!” Toyah Willcox
Glastonbury announced the full line up on 24 May:
The Acoustic Stage is a festival within a festival. For the last thirty years or so, people have been trooping up to the hill to the haven of the Acoustic field. The crowds visit the Acoustic Stage to either avoid the rain and, maybe even, the sun – in the sanctuary of super-duper circus tent – or, to hear acoustic, song-based music. Mostly it’s blues, folk, contemporary or country music, but…..it’s not always played on acoustic instruments.
The Acoustic Stage has had the pleasure to welcome Ray Davies, Christy Moore, Joan Baez, Jackson Browne, The Waterboys, Robert Plant, The Moody Blues featuring… Michael Eavis, John Prine, Art Garfunkel, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Keane and The Bootleg Beatles, amongst many others.
• Continue reading at toyahwillcox.com.
Becky Hill, Toyah and possibly Harry Styles to perform at Glastonbury
The Glastonbury line-up has been released and several county stars feature.
Some of the most popular artists from Worcestershire will take to the stage at the country’s biggest music festival later this summer.
Bewdley’s Becky Hill and Pershore’s Toyah Willcox are among the names set to appear. But there are rumours that another locally born musician could be joining them.
• Continue reading at Worcester News.
Stone Valley Festival South: Toyah provides moment of magic with a Fripp down memory lane
But Stone Valley South invariably also serves up a surprise – delivered this year by Toyah.
The former punk pixie-turned-New Romantic warrior queen in a post-apocalyptic chariot took an unenviable early spot, but drew a huge crowd.
As an early adopter of her 1980s make-up brand, available in Woolworths, I made the effort to join them. Frankly, I was curious about exactly what kind of novelty act we would see, but she was pure class.
For the uninitiated, Toyah Willcox has been married since 1986 to musician Robert Fripp, founder and guitarist of prog rockers King Crimson.
• Continue reading at Bishop’s Stortford Independent.
Toyah & Robert onstage at Huntingdon Hall, Worcester last weekend. (Thanks to Sharon Dickson for the great photo)
Toyah & Robert posted this great promo image on their social media spaces last week in the build up to their two gigs at The Huntingdon Hall, Worcester. (Image © Toyah Willcox/Robert Fripp)
Press for the official announcement of Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch Rock Party 2023 Tour:
• NME: Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp confirm ‘Sunday Lunch Rock Party’ tour: The run of shows includes a show at London’s O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire – Continue…
• Consequence: Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp Officially Announce 2023 “Sunday Lunch Rock Party Tour”: The married couple will celebrate their popular YouTube series with a month-long UK outing – Continue…
• Classic Rock/Louder: Robert Fripp and Toyah announce Rock Party tour: Toyah Wilcox promises “an uplifting party of a show” with husband Robert Fripp on September and October live dates – Continue…
• Metal Sucks: Toyah & Fripp to Take Their YouTube Show All Over the U.K. This Fall – Continue…
• Far Out: Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp officially announce ‘Sunday Lunch’ tour – Continue…
• At The Barrier: Robert & Toyah’s Rock Party: Tour News: It’s been on the cards – now it’s here! Robert (Fripp) & Toyah’s Rock Party is heading on tour – Continue…
• Ghost Light: Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp Announce Toyah and Robert’s Rock Party Tour – Continue…
• Ultimate Guitar: Robert Fripp and Toyah Are Hitting the Road on ‘Rock Party’ Tour: The duo will balance Toyah’s hits with their popular Sunday Lunch covers – Continue…
• DGM Live: Toyah & Robert’s Rock Party Debut: Toyah & Robert’s Rock Party makes its debut next May 26th & 27th at Huntingdon Hall in Worcester! – Continue…
• Official Toyah Tik Tok: This weeks updates including Rock Party – Continue…
Toyah & Robert’s Rock Party makes its debut on May 26th & 27th at Huntingdon Hall in Worcester! Tickets: toyahwillcox.com/gigs.
May 26th, Toyah & Robert’s Rock Party makes its debut! Tickets here.
RF: Slinky persons of the grooving variety might like to get out their party shoes in preparation for Toyah & Robert’s Rock Party in Worcester this May 26 & 27th. Audient alert: please be prepared to rock out and have a good time!
Following the Isle Of Wight Festival announcement, Toyah & Robert will also play Milton Keynes International Festival 2023 on Friday 28th July. Click below for further info and ticket link.
Isle of Wight Festival to welcome Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp
Toyah Willcox has announced she will be playing the Isle of Wight Festival on Sunday, June 18.
She will join Robbie Williams, Blondie, Mika, Niall Horan, Echo and the Bunnymen and the Manic Street Preachers on the last day of this year’s Seaclose Park event.
Also due to play over the four-day weekend are Pulp, Courteeners, One Republic, Sabrina Carpenter and Lovejoy.
Toyah, who will return for the second year running, is known for her punk hits, including It’s A Mystery, I Want To Be Free and Echo Beach.
• Continue reading at Isle Of Wight County Press. See also Yahoo!
Toyah & Robert have just been added to the line-up of the Isle Of Wight Festival 2023. They will appear in the Big Top on the Sunday afternoon (18th June). The news was announced during this weekend’s Sunday Lunch!
• More info at toyahwillcox.com. Book tickets at isleofwightfestival.com.
