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Toyah & Fripp: The Lockdown Films
**Updated** A sprinkling of pure, escapist, fun during these troubling, uncertain times many of us are experiencing. Check out Dreamscape’s Toyah & Fripp: The Lockdown Films News Archive. Watch the films at The Official Toyah You Tube channel. (Screenshots © Toyah Willcox)
Official Toyah: June 2020 Blog
Toyah’s new June 2020 blog is available to read at toyahwillcox.com.
Official Toyah: Toyah Vs Robert Fripp – The Showdown
This is brilliant – In this week’s Sunday lunch, Toyah & Robert are discussing which has more cultural significance…. #Toyah or #KingCrimson. Only one way to find out….. a #showdown.
Official Toyah: You Tube Channel
Toyah’s official You Tube channel has tripled its followers in just the last few weeks. This is, no doubt, partly due to some of the recent great content additions – Toyah & Fripp: The Lockdown Lunch Dances, Heroes for VE Day, Toyah & The Humans – 21st Century Schizoid Man, Tribute to Bill Rieflin, Toyah Live In Your Living Room – check all these out, and more, by clicking below.
Connect Video: A Message From Toyah
Give someone you love (or even just like a lot!) a virtual hug with a personal video message from Toyah! Click below for more details.
VE Day 75: Toyah & Robert Fripp Vs King Crimson – Heroes
Toyah and Robert Fripp paying tribute, via a moving performance of David Bowie’s Heroes, on VE Day 75, to all those who gave so much.
Backing track: King Crimson Live In Berlin on September 12th. 2016.
Personnel: Gavin Harrison, Jeremy Stacey, Pat Mastelotto, Mel Collins, Tony Levin, Jakko Jakszyk & Robert Fripp. Fairy dustings provided by Bill Rieflin.
Recorded and mixed by Chris Porter. Produced by Chris Porter with Robert Fripp & David Singleton. Used by permission.
Vocal track & video: Toyah Willcox, at home in the kitchen, Middle England; May 5th. 2020 on iPhone. Vocal & backing track mix: Jakko Jakszyk.
The guitar used in the video is RF’s Les Paul serial no. 9-1986; used on all KC albums 1969-74; and on the Heroes session in Berlin with David Bowie, Tony Visconti & Brian Eno at the Hansa Studios, July 1977.
The two VE Day Heroes being celebrated within the Fripp and Willcox families:
Uncle Bill, aka RAF Flight Sergeant Alfie Fripp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfie_Fripp, who helped in planning The Great Escape.
Beric Willcox of the Royal Navy, based in Alexandria, who guarded convoys in the Mediterranean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Mediterranean.
Official Toyah: Something Special Premieres Tomorrow!
Something special premieres at Toyah’s You Tube channel at 07:00 BST, Friday 8th May 2020 for #VEDay #veday75 #veday2020 #toyahwillcox #robertfripp (Photos © Toyah Willcox)
Official Toyah: Lockdown Unicorn Bolero Sunday Lunch
Official Toyah: May 2020 Blog
Toyah’s info-packed new blog is available to read at toyahwillcox.com.
Official Toyah: Lockdown Swan Lake Sunday Lunch
Official Toyah: Lockdown Tango Sunday Lunch
Official Toyah: Social Media
For anyone who doesn’t have a Facebook account (and I know a lot of people who don’t, and don’t want one), you can check out Toyah’s posts via her official website rather than at the source.
Official Toyah: Lockdown Easter Sunday Dance
Demonstrating how to have more fun than you could ever have imagined, at home, in the kitchen, on Easter Sunday! Click below to watch. (© Toyah Willcox)
Official Toyah: Social Media – #Lockdown #StaySafe
Catching up with Toyah’s official social media, which is bursting with content! From news on the great new mix of Step Into The New World to clapping gratitude for the NHS. Plus eating well, staying healthy, easter bees (“we’re just buzzing”), tripping the light fantastic for a lockdown lunch and much more! Follow Toyah at the official Instagram and Twitter. (Photos © Toyah Willcox)
Official Toyah: Happy Lockdown Lunch
Official Toyah: April 2020 Blog
Toyah’s April 2020 blog is available to read at toyahwillcox.com.
Official Toyah: March 2020 Blog
Toyah’s March 2020 blog is available to read at toyahwillcox.com – Toyah talks Toyah Solo, the forthcoming new colour vinyls, great February gigs in Halifax, Holborn, Bacup, Selby, Stamford, Norwich and Scarborough, and more. She also pays tribute to Colin Hinds and Caroline Flack. Click below to read.
Toyah Celebrates New Releases: Toyah Solo + Minx Red Vinyl
Toyah Solo: New Official Box Set Trailer
The brilliant new trailer for Toyah Solo – a box set of incredible albums, released on 28th February. View the trailer below or at Toyah’s You Tube channel. The new 7 CD + DVD anthology of collected works by Toyah, released by Edsel Records, can be pre-ordered here.
Official Toyah: February 2020 Blog
Toyah’s February blog is available to read at toyahwillcox.com. A great, and upbeat, read as always, and as a veggie of 35 years I was really happy to read Toyah is vegetarian again.