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More amazing photos from Saturday night’s gig. The response to the finale has been incredibly positive, with fans who have saw Toyah live 30 times in the last 30-odd years saying they have never heard her sound better and praising the inspired set-list. View larger versions of these, and more, at Dreamscape’s LITL & More Gallery. (Photos © Damon King | Thanks to Damon for the photos)

Sensational shots of Toyah on the final gig of the Love Is The Law & More UK Tour, at the O2 Academy in Islington, London on Saturday night.  View larger versions of these, and more, at Dreamscape’s LITL & More Gallery. (All photos © Brian Marsh Photography | Thanks to Brian for the photos)

Been out all day, return home this evening and there’s an explosion of Toyah news online: A brief summary for now: Toyah’s Official Newsletter ‘Breaking Through’ has been mailed out; the news, gigs and blog pages at www.toyahwillcox.com have been updated; dozens of new live dates for 2014 have been announced (including ‘Crimson Queen’ gigs); and a new photo from the recent Dean Stockings/Sean Chapman session has been released. Apart from all that Facebook is awash with photos and videos from last night’s final Love Is The Law & More at the O2 Academy. A proper update soon… In the meantime here’s that gorgeous new photo. Please click on it to view Toyah’s live diary for the remainder of this year and, a very busy, 2014.

The final gig of Toyah’s Love Is The Law & More Tour takes place tonight at the O2 Academy in Islington, London. The support acts have already started playing. Have a great gig Toyah and all the lucky fans going! View all of Dreamscape Love Is The Law Tour news and related updates by clicking below. (Thanks to Jo Oliver, Damon King & Official Toyah for the photos I used in the collage)

Game Ends… Runner Wins: Toyah tweeted a couple of photos from the “end of tour tea party” – See them at the Official Instagram. View photos from each gig of the tour at Dreamscape’s LITL & More Gallery.

Great photos from last night’s Club to Catwalk V&A “In Conversation” event, with Toyah, Caryn Franklin and Karen Binns (replacing Brix Start-Smith) discussing women who developed, fused and influenced fashion and music in 1980s London. As you can see some of Toyah’s iconic outfits were also on display. I’ll add larger versions of the photos to Dreamscape’s Gallery soon. (Thanks to Damon King & Jeff Agar for the photos)

Toyah’s full interview, from September’s Time Out Live Quadrophenia Reunion is now available to watch at HiBROW: The Arts Online website.

Toyah discusses how she got the part of Monkey in Quadrophenia, the audition process, working with Director Franc Roddam, screen testing with John Lydon, kissing Phil Daniels, filming the huge riot scenes in Brighton, and her memories of the period the film was set in. She also talks about the other films she made during the late 1970s, in particular The Corn Is Green.

• Watch the full interview at HiBROW.

• Official Twitter: Toyah tweeted yesterday about the upcoming V&A In Conversation event, taking place this evening, AND tomorrow’s final concert of the Love Is The Law & More Tour. She said: “All ready 4 V&A talk, all ready 4 Islington O2……..can’t wait. Now 2 some serious lyric writing 4 Simon Darlow“.

• London Drum: Toyah Willcox, At The O2 Academy: It’s been 30 years since her breakthrough album “Anthem” first hit the charts, and the flame-haired Toyah is still going strong. You can see her play at the O2 Academy in November – Visit here…

• Rabbit Welfare Association: Rabbiting On – The Magazine for Rabbit Lovers: “Woe betide anyone who disturbs me whilst I am reading it…” Toyah Willcox – Visit the RWAF here…

• Phoenix Futures Recovery Music Project: A Message From Phil Spalding: I worked with the singer/songwriter Rob The Liar on this. If you scroll down this page YOU can vote for Rob simply by entering your email address. I’d appreciate your time in doing this for a great artist and for a great project giving people the chance to change their lives for the better … Thanks, best wishes, Phil – Go here to lend your support…

• Club To Catwalk: Caryn Franklin, Toyah Willcox & Brix Start-Smith: In Conversation: It looks like this V&A event, taking place at The Lydia & Manfred Gorvy Lecture Theatre this Friday evening, has sold out – View details here…

• Club To Catwalk: Browse all of Dreamscape’s Club to Catwalk news here…

• Toyah Live 2013: Here and Now Mediterranean Cruise: A selection of excellent photos from one of Toyah’s two shows onboard the Oceana, while sailing from Barcelona to Gibraltar, on 29th October (she later tweeted: “Gibraltar port. NOISY! 2 great shows. 2 standing ovations. Fab time“) – View here…

• Official Instagram: Toyah tweeted on Monday: “Darlow, Caroline Redman Lusher & myself in studio writing 4 @TheRockChoir“. View the photo at Instagram…

• 991 Sleevenotes: Wednesday’s Top Three including Toyah, Duran Duran & Weather Report: TOYAH Sheep Farming In Barnet Rare 1979 UK AUTOGRAPHED Safari 11-track vinyl LP, glossy picture sleeve. The vinyl and sleeve remain in excellent condition, plus the front of the sleeve has been signed and dedicated ‘To Harry Love Toyah’ in gold marker pen 1C064 – View here…

A new interview with Toyah, published today, by The Telegraph.

Toyah Willcox, the singer and actress, has fond memories of Estonia and the remotest regions of Belize, but hates to travel with Ryanair

Your earliest memory of travelling?

As a young child, my family holidays were always in Rock, Cornwall, with my parents, older brother Kim and sister Nicola. We hired a bungalow on the grounds of a hotel, but there were only two bedrooms. Mum and Dad stayed in one while Kim and Nicola shared the other. They used to put me to sleep in the living room by pushing two armchairs together. We lived in Birmingham at the time, so it took what seemed like 10 hours to get there, pootling along the single-track roads and country lanes.

• Continue reading at The Telegraph – Travel.

Wonderful photos from Thursday’s Love Is The Law & More gig in Brighton. View larger versions of all of these at Dreamscape’s LITL & More Gallery. (Thanks to Damon King for the photos)

The set-list for Love Is The Law & More includes six songs from the 1983 album, along with selected songs from each of Toyah’s other Safari albums.  Here are a few live clips to keep you going until the tour reaches your area: Now the whole of the human race, needs a DREAMSCAPE; and the feeling gets too hard to hold, I EXPLODE; and we’re walking on BROKEN DIAMONDS; to the tiger’s claw LOVE IS THE LAW. Dates and ticket info available HERE. (Thanks to Paul & Dawn for sharing their great footage).

A great photo of Toyah at Legends, Newcastle on the opening night of the Love Is The Law & More Tour last Friday (18th October). The photo is by Jo Oliver, who also interviewed Toyah last week and reviewed the gig. View more of Jo’s photos here and here.  (Photo © Jo Oliver – Click below to visit Jo’s Facebook)

Tomorrow there will be a Love Is The Law & More news catch up at Dreamscape, along with other bits & pieces from the past week or so. Stay tuned for press, reviews, photos and more!

Toyah performs ‘Dreamscape’ from the album LOVE IS THE LAW for the first time in 30 years on the “Love Is The Law & More” UK Tour at Manchester Academy on 19.10.2013 – A huge thank you to my wonderfully thoughtful longtime friend Paul Lomas for sending the song for the website.

It’s Love Is The Law Month at Dreamscape. and we are now two-thirds of the way through it! The Love Is The Law & More page at Dreamscape’s Gallery has been updated with some of the latest fan creations…

Here’s hoping last night’s opening gig went amazingly. Toyah plays Manchester Academy tonight… Dreamscape created a fan opinion “wall” for The Changeling 30th Anniversary website last year so I thought it made sense to follow that with one dedicated to Love Is The Law. Earlier this year I asked fans for their thoughts about the album. And here they are… Click to view the wall.

Toyah’s, much anticipated, Love is The Law & More Tour gets underway tonight. The premiere gig takes place at Legends in Newcastle. Wishing Toyah, and everyone attending the gigs,  a successful and happy tour.

Dreamscape is compiling Love Is The Law – The Complete Lyrics. We’ve reached the penultimate song on the album – the brilliant Remember, co-written by Toyah, Joel Bogen and Simon Darlow. Click below to visit the LITL – The Complete Lyrics page.

LITL Month: Updates for the next week, beginning today, are “scheduled”. Live updates, including a news catch-up on the tour etc., will resume at the end of next week.

Issue 22 (October 2013) of Respect Magazine has just been published and included is a great four-page interview with Toyah. The magazine is available online in digital format and Toyah’s interview is on pages 48-51. She talks Love Is The Law, who she would like to collaborate with, her dream party guest list and much more. Click below to read at Issuu.

A new interview with Toyah, ahead of Friday’s first Love Is The Law & More gig, from Chronicle Live, published today.

Love is still the Law for 80s singer Toyah: We chat to Toyah ahead of her gig at Legends

Entertainment Editor Gordon Barr chats to Toyah, who is at Legends in Newcastle on Friday

Three decades on, 80s pop princess Toyah still recalls 1983 as one of her favourite years. Little wonder then she is bringing her album release of that year back out on the road.

Love Is The Law was critically acclaimed at the time and Toyah will be performing about six tracks from it, as well as a host of her numerous other hits, when she takes to the stage of Legends in Newcastle on Friday.

“This is my favourite album, it has very happy memories for me,” she tells me. “It was released in 1983 and I made it at a time when I was also appearing as Trafford Tanzi in the West End and it had to be written and recorded at the same time.

“But it was just glorious. I don’t have one bad memory of that year at all…”

• Continue reading at Chronicle Live.

As previously mentioned, Toyah guest presents this week’s edition of Ramblings on ‘BBC Radio 4’. Here are a couple of photos of Toyah and Cathy Dreyer (with Buster) from the walk. Visit the Ramblings website to view larger versions of the photos and full details on this Thursday’s programme. (Photos © BBC)

• Visit Cathy’s Walking In A Circle blog. The page on the Ramblings walk is here.