Sneak peek into Toyah in Wonderland – Coming Soon >> “weep heart, weep / the sun’s hiding, crying in the night“… Ask Toyah >> Post your questions to be in with a chance of seeing them answered on video by Toyah. Click on both below for more info.
Toyah’s November blog, the penultimate letter of the year, is now available at The Official Toyah Willcox website.
In October 1983, Toyah’s album Love is The Law was released. It was issued on CD in 2005 and made available digitally for the first time ever in 2013 – thanks to toyahwillcox.com – to mark its 30th anniversary. The release was accompanied by a new digital booklet. You can now view/download the booklet at The Official Toyah website. Click on the original 1983 Japanese Love Is The Law press advert – colourised by Dreamscape – below to visit the album page.
• Browse Dreamscape’s recent Love Is The Law archive of posts here. View the related post at Instagram. The album is available to buy at iTunes and Amazon.
Eeeek!! This is amazing – ZACHT VOOR HAAR >> An astonishing #flashbackfriday to 1977. A rarely seen and seldom spotted shampoo advert modelling shot by a young Toyah. This advert was printed in Dutch magazines and the tag line translates as Soft for you. (Thanks to The Official Toyah Instagram)
• There’s no gimmicks! The above has brought this to mind – From 20 years later…
As has been posted about a fair bit recently… Toyah’s three quite different and, more than quite, brilliant albums: Desire – originally released in 1987, Prostitute – originally released in 1988, and Ophelia’s Shadow – originally released in 1991, were made available digitally, for the first time, earlier this month. There’s been a lot of related promotion…
Desire: Read Toyah’s Letter, first published in Tellurian One (Spring 1987); View info on Tenterhooks, Echo Beach (Acoustic) and Desirable; Visit the album page at toyahwillcox.com; Read a full transcript of Chris Limb’s 1987 interview with Toyah; Listen to the album at Spotify; Buy at Amazon or iTunes; Browse Dreamscape’s Desire news…
Prostitute: Read Toyah’s Letter (Summer 1988); Visit the album page at toyahwillcox.com; Read a reflection by Craig Astley; Listen to the album at Spotify; Buy at Amazon or iTunes; Browse Dreamscape’s Prostitute news…
Ophelia’s Shadow: Read Toyah’s Letter (Summer 1990); Visit the album page at toyahwillcox.com; Listen to the album at Spotify; Buy at Amazon or iTunes; Browse Dreamscape’s Ophelia’s Shadow news…
Explore Toyah’s Instagram for rarities related to all three albums (Thanks to Breaking Through).
Sugar and Spice, written by Nigel Williams and directed by Bill Alexander, opened at the Royal Court Theatre, in Sloan Square, London, 35 years ago today. Starring Toyah Willcox, Caroline Quentin and Gwyneth Strong. Toyah played Sharon, her third stage role – following Tales From The Vienna Woods (Emma, 1977) and American Days (Tallulah, 1979).
• Read an NME interview with Toyah, discussing Sugar and Spice (while she was still appearing in it in 1980), and see the production’s poster at Royal Court Posters. (Thanks to The Official Toyah Instagram)
Toyah’s October blog is now available at The Official Toyah Willcox website. Toyah talks the Desire/Prostitute/Ophelia’s Shadow digital releases, ice cream & chocolate in Stonehaven, King Crimson on tour, new song for the film Extremis “Our Hearts Still Beat”, Aaaaaaaah!, Live With… Toyah, and remembering her Mother.
Desire | Prostitute | Ophelia’s Shadow | Digital releases available now.
Browse related photos and info on Desire, Prostitute and Ophelia’s Shadow at Toyah’s Official Instagram. All three albums are released digitally tomorrow. “This album was an exorcism for me, an exercise in self-worth” Toyah on Prostitute.
Long deleted and never available on any digital platforms, toyahwillcox.com is delighted to announce an October digital release of the catalogue albums Desire, Prostitute and Ophelia’s Shadow. Whilst the latter two have been deleted for over a decade, Desire has been unavailable since the early 1990s. The three catalogue titles are released digitally on Friday 2 October 2015.
1987’s Desire was produced by Mike Hedges and engineered by Haydn Bendall at Abbey Road Studios where Bendall (at the time) had recently engineered Kate Bush’s Hounds of Love… 1988’s acclaimed album Prostitute is an uncompromising work which was composed by Toyah and drummer Steve Sidelnyk who would later to play on Madonna’s Ray of Light album… 1991’s Ophelia’s Shadow is the album which Toyah feels most represents her personally. Recorded in 1990 it utilises the same band line-up of the Toyah/Fripp-helmed band Sunday All Over The World…
On iTunes, all three albums come with a meticulously presented digital booklet to expand the experience of listening to the album. Compiling sleevenotes, production credits and full lyrics they also bring together almost all associated imagery created for each album. Prostitute and Ophelia’s Shadow are foregrounded by an introductory note from Toyah; Desire contains a new reflection on the album by Chris Limb.
All three albums will be available digitally to buy or stream from Friday 2 October including iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, Apple Music. Some digital vendors may follow on from the 2 October date and may appear at different times. The digital booklets will only be available when purchasing the entire album from iTunes. They will however be made available from The Official Toyah Website for all fans to enjoy.
Look out for some other related surprises too, courtesy of toyahwillcox.com!
• Continue reading at The Official Toyah Willcox website.
Toyah’s September blog is now available at The Official Toyah Willcox website. Lots of interesting news on Aaaaaaaah!, films, concerts… Including mention that there is going to be a Live… With Toyah for Vintage TV (“Vintage are filming a mini-version of the acoustic show“).
Toyah also mentions Extremis, a new film in which she has a cameo. She has also written (and I assume is performing) the closing credits song for it. A full press pack on Extremis is available online.
A news update today, from toyahwillcox.com, on Toyah’s forthcoming, and by the look of the photos published so far – retrotasticjustslightlyexciting – appearance on The One Show on BBC1
Look out for a special appearance by Toyah on The One Show scheduled for broadcast week of Monday 14 September… but may be subject to change.
Here is an exclusive sneak look at Toyah in hair & make-up for the filmed segment.
• Continue reading at The Official Toyah Willcox website. Here is “Four From The One Show” photos of Toyah!! (Photos © Toyah Willcox/Sean Chapman)
Great trio of gigs: Thursday 13 August at London Hippodrome; Friday 14 August at Eastbourne Bandstand; Saturday 15 August at the legendary Fairport Cropredy Convention – Visit Toyah’s Official Instagram by clicking below.
Toyah’s August blog is available at The Official Toyah Willcox Website. Toyah composed her latest missive while in Perth, my late Mum’s birthplace. Toyah talks all things Rewind Scotland, filming Doctors, recording with Simon Darlow and much more. Click below to read the blog and view a selection of great Toyah photos from the last month.
Toyah’s July blog is available at The Official Toyah Willcox Website. Including news on Aaaaaaaah!, performing at the London Palladium and more. Click below to read the blog and view photos from the last month.
Hot – yup it is exceedingly hot at the moment etc. ;) – on the heels of last month’s Breaking Through newsletter, comes another! With juicy Toyah updates on Aaaaaaaah! and more… including:
• Toyah will host a screening of, the Derek Jarman inspired, The Raft of the Medusa at Barbican, London on Thursday 16th July – Further details/tickets here…
• Toyah will appear at the Celebrity Autograph Convention event at Viva Blackpool on 24 October along with other cast members from Quadrophenia – Further details/tickets here…
• A trio of classic Toyah albums – Desire, Prostitute and Ophelia’s Shadow – will be available digitally in August. Full details to follow.
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The Official Toyah Willcox Website’s news on the premiere of Aaaaaaaah!
The much anticipated Steve Oram film AAAAAAAAH! will receive an official premiere on Friday 28 August 2015 at 18.35. There is a Q&A with some of the cast planned as part of the premiere.
The film with no dialogue stars Julian Barratt, Steve Oram, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Noel Fielding, Alice Lowe, Toyah Willcox, Sean Reynard, Tom Meeten, Holli Dempsey, Shelly Longworth and Tony Way. Written and directed by Steve Oram / Produced by Lincoln Studios. Featuring music by King Crimson ProjecKts.
FrightFest is the UK’s biggest, best and most renowned genre festival is now a globally recognised brand and its sixteenth year sees yet another enhancement of its core mission to bring the finest in home-grown and international fear to the dark heart of London’s West End at the Vue, Leicester Square, between 27-31 August.
• Continue reading at www.toyahwillcox.com. Visit the FrightFest 2015 website.
Toyah’s June blog is available at, the revamped and now super responsive, The Official Toyah Willcox Website. Click below to read the blog and view photos from the last month.
Toyah’s Official Website has a great new look…
Toyah’s May 2015 blog is available at The Official Toyah Willcox Website. Click below to read.
Toyah’s April blog is now available over at toyahwillcox.com. Toyah talks The Humans: “I hope you can make it to the gigs. The band is very different to when we last toured the UK. It is all very exciting. Don’t forget you can get the STRANGE TALES album CD hard copy at the gigs too“.
