As previously reported, Toyah is the cover star of the Autumn 2012 issue of the National Trust Magazine.
Did you know? The magazine has a readership of 3.76 million, and it currently has the sixth highest magazine circulation in Britain (and that figure doesn’t include the digital version).
Three issues are sent out every year – Spring, Summer and Autumn – and are delivered as part of the National Trust members’ mailout, which includes local newsletters and other information for Trust members.
Meaning those great photos of Toyah with the umbrella will be seen by almost four million people! View the digital version online.
The issue of ‘Lifestyle’ magazine mentioned a few days ago, with Toyah as the cover star, is now available to read online in digital format.
The entertainment and arts publication is available to buy in the North East of England region.
As well as being the undisputed Queen of Punk, Toyah Willcox is also a celebrated actress and has played everybody from Mad, in punk film Jubilee, to Calamity Jane. Nicolle Thompson chatted to the talented chameleon about her hometown, growing old and the huge impact punk had on a generation.
Just last month you became the inaugural star on the new King’s Heath Walk of Fame!
It’s very, very sweet. The business people of King’s Heath put this together because King’s Heath has this amazing history which I actually didn’t know about. People like The Beatles did their first gig in King’s Heath, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and people like Laurel and Hardy even performed there.
• Read the full three-page interview, Toyah: Still Hot, online here.
Toyah is the cover star of the Autumn 2012 issue of the ‘National Trust Magazine’, plus an interview & great photos.
This season sees the start of our big walking festival, with some 3,000 outdoor events scheduled for our sites nationwide. To help us launch it we’ve asked four familiar faces to reveal where – and why – they love to roam…
Toyah Willcox: Singer, author and presenter, at Croome
The benefits of walking are so underestimed! It’s free and it gives you instant access to the wonderful diversity of the British landscape. I think it’s so important to walk; to explore and to escape your very day routine – it’s so good for your body and mind. I’ve always loved walking as it has proved to be the perfect exercise for me. I’ve had problems with my joints throughout my life, particularly my hips, so I can’t go running…
Croome is a very special place to walk. I live nearby and make sure I come here at least twice a month…
• Continue reading online at the digital edition of the ‘National Trust Magazine’. It is also available to buy for £3.95 as a physical publication. (Photos © National Trust)
Toyah is the cover star of the September 2012 issue of ‘Lifestyle’, the North East arts, leisure and entertainment magazine, with a three-page interview inside. Toyah previously appeared on the magazine’s cover back in June 2009.
Two retrotastic Toyah articles from early Eighties ‘Suzy’ magazine: Toyah: The Troublesome Kid!, from November 1982 (this includes some great live photos from ‘The Changeling Tour’), and A Hit Show For Toyah!, from July 1983 (with some shots of Toyah performing in Trafford Tanzi). Please click on each to view larger versions. (A big thank you to Paul Lomas)
The Tempest has just been released for the first time on Blu-ray. Here is the Time Out cover feature/interview from 1980 published the week that the film was originally released. View the magazine cover here.
Toyah reflects… stage actress, rock singer, icon of the New Wave, star of ‘Quadrophenia’ and now Derek Jarman’s ‘The Tempest’, Toyah Willcox on creating her own image. Next Thursday Derek Jarman’s film of ‘The Tempest’ opens. Toyah Willcox, late of ‘Jubilee’ and ‘Quadrophenia’ plays Miranda. Chris Auty went in search of Ms Willcox…
Click here to read at Dreamscape’s Press Archive. View all of our recent retro Classic Toyah press articles & interviews here. (Thanks to Andi)
Another retro Toyah magazine interview. This one is from ‘Cosmopolitan’ magazine, published in 1983 (Main photo by Brian Aris): Amazing and unclassifiable, Toyah – rebel and bizarre pop star – is also an accomplished actress, starring opposite Lord Olivier in a TV film of The Ebony Tower. Click below to read, and here for part two. View all of our recent retro Classic Toyah press articles & interviews here. There are yet more here. (Thanks to Andi)
A couple of Toyah magazine items from the early 80’s: ‘With Love From Toyah!’; a mini article on Toyah’s make-up range, which had just gone on sale at the time, and ‘Four From Toyah’; four classic early 80’s Toyah photos. Click below to view larger. (Thanks to Andi)
‘Flexipop!’ was brilliant! If it wasn’t for the early ’80s magazine we might never have heard Sphinx or For You… Here’s an interview with Toyah (including a photo with the infamous bunny ears!) from one of the magazine’s final issues in late 1982: Seven days with pop star, bunny lover and trainee accountant TOYAH. Click below to read. View all of our recent retro Toyah press articles & interviews here. (Thanks again to Andi)
• View a 2010 Guardian article on ‘Flexipop!’. Visit Dark Neon for more from the FP! archives.
This fanzine, the first issue of ‘Shout!’ from 1981, recently listed on eBay appears to include two rare photos of Toyah. Difficult to tell with the smaller one but I can’t remember ever seeing the main photo. Toyah is interviewed about the break up of the band and the ATV docu!
The full, rarely seen, four-page Smirnoff advertising feature from ‘Company’ magazine in 1980.
To a gifted jewellery designer, we dedicate the Mint Gem. To a rising star, who played Miranda in The Tempest, we present the Stormy Weather cocktail…
Toyah Willcox: Star of Derek Jarman’s The Tempest, subject of an ITV documentary, founder of her own band and leading lady in a new Royal Court play, is the phenomenon of 1980. Can she continue to succeed as both a rock singer and serious actress? ‘I have the energy, so of course I can’. Of the future, the fiery redhead says quite simply: ‘I’d like to be an astronaut.’ – Dress, Bruce Oldfield; jewellery, Butler & Wilson.
NB: Valerie Robertson, also included in this feature, was the designer of the famous gold & black bangle Toyah wore in numerous photos in the early 80s. Gill Smith, also in the feature, is wearing Toyah’s famous bronze bangles!
• Click below to view a larger version of the feauture. (A huge thanks to Andi for this rarity)
An interesting, very rare, interview with Toyah from 1981. This was originally published by Finnish music magazine ‘Suosikki’.
FIERCE REDHEAD TOYAH SAYS: “I’M CRAZY ABOUT RABBITS!”
Now I have seen her, today’s hottest rock singer in the world, Toyah (Willcox). Compared to this tiny redheaded whirlwind rest of the female singers- and some men- look like salt statues. Toyah is 145 centimetres of pure sex appeal and energy!
After the concert Suosikki Magazine got an exclusive interview with Toyah, an honour not bestowed on many publications in the world. Markku Fagerlund asked the questions and Toyah answered. At the same time Toyah read the latest issue of Suosikki and liked it so much she sent the readers a special message: “Keep going strong!”
Toyah Willcox is a 23 year old multi-talented artist who has this year finally reached the top. Her latest album “Anthem” has been well received in most European countries (it’s number 2 in the UK at the moment) and her gigs have been massively successful.
As well as being a famous singer Toyah is an actress. We’ve been able to admire her sexy persona in “Quadrophenia”, “Jubilee”, “The Corn Is Green” and various TV series including “Radioetsivä” (Shoestring) which aired also in Finland.
• Read the full interview at Dreamscape’s Press Archive. (Thanks again to Lärwi for this rare interview and for taking the time to translate it for Dreamscape News’ visitors)
Check back to Dreamscape News soon for a brilliant, and rare, 1981 interview with Toyah, courtesy of our very good friend Lärwi, from Finnish pop magazine ‘Suosikki’ (similar to the UK’s ‘Smash Hits’): Toyah is 145 centimetres of pure sex appeal and energy…
A photo of Toyah from early 1980 is included in this week’s issue of ‘Inside Soap’ magazine, in a feature on children being named after pop star’s, in real life and in soaps. Of course a Coronation Street character from the past was named after Toyah. (Thanks to Damon King)
The National Trust’s Facebook confirmed today that the Toyah photo session held at Croome Park last week will be included in the Autumn issue of the National Trust Magazine. Here’s Toyah with Debbie Schrieber and Helen Beer. (Photo © National Trust)
Exactly 30 years ago today, 27th May 1982, Toyah’s ‘Brave New World’ visage graced the cover of the biggest music magazine of the 80s, ‘Smash Hits’. If it’s not the it’s certainly one of the greatest magazine covers, and 30 years later it still looks fantastic. Visit the Like Punk Never Happened: Smash Hits Archive to read the full issue online.
‘Smash Hits’ magazine gave Toyah memorable cover issues in November 1980 and September 1981, but little did we realise what May 1982 would bring…
I got a wave of nostalgia for ‘Look-In’ magazine last weekend, and found a great website dedicated to “The Junior TV Times”. Toyah had two full covers of ‘Look-In’ in 1981 and ’82, and was omnipresent in the publication, via a plethora of pin-ups, features, fact files and comic strips, in the early 80’s. The magazine ran for 23 years between 1971 and 1994.
An excellent new interview with Toyah, from the latest issue of Worcestershire Living magazine.
How did Toyah Willcox transform herself from the original Punk Princess to Proud Resident of Pershore? Deirdre Shields finds out.
There is something very endearing about Toyah Willcox. She is one in a long tradition of creative – sometimes downright cussed – free spirits, who mellow into a kind of national treasure with the passing years. Say what you like about Toyah, you could never pigeon-hole her. She is the original wild child Punk Princess, credited with starting the Goth movement, who voiced Teletubbies, champions the National Trust, and is a staunch supporter of her local community in Pershore.
Being Toyah, she challenges the word ‘mellow’. ‘I don’t think I’m mellowing,’ she says, ‘though I do find things that freaked me out in the past don’t bother me anymore. I’m working harder than ever.’ She certainly is. She is about to embark on a spring tour to celebrate the 30th anniversary of her albums The Changeling, and Warrior Rock. The tour is billed as a treat for ‘Toyah diehards, 1980’s fans, and Goth’rock lovers.’
• Continue reading at Worcestershire Living.
The free PDF magazine “The Mick”, from Mick Mercer, this month contains his review of ‘I Was A Teenage Toyah Fan’ as well as over 100 pages of music reviews and ruminations from 2011… Well worth a download.
(News Source: I Was A Teenage Toyah Fan Facebook)
• View all of FTE’s ‘I Was A Teenage Toyah Fan’ news.
Toyah is included in a new article by ‘Vogue’: 100 Definitive Hairstyles: From Cleopatra to Kate Moss, see the 100 most definitive hairstyles: TOYAH WILLCOX – The singer’s choppy and wildly-coloured hairstyles epitomised her rebel spirit.
