Toyah has tweeted a couple of photos of The Humans in rehearsals for their tour this afternoon: “YIPEEEE! We r back 2gether again and sounding awesome xxx“. View the full version of both at Twitter. (Photo © Toyah Willcox)
Toyah talks Bill Rieflin, Chris Wong… The Humans… and the upcoming UK Tour.
Toyah’s March blog is available at The Official Toyah Willcox Website. Along with some fantastic new photos. Click below to read/view.
“I’m so very pleased and proud to be a part of this truly strange and wonderful film!” TOYAH xxx
The film poster for AAAAAAAAH! has been released. A film by Steve Oram (Sightseers), the British film 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.
The film is set for release in 2015.
Written and directed by Steve Oram | Produced by Lincoln Studios | Featuring music by King Crimson ProjecKts.
• Continue reading at The Official Toyah Willcox website.
Get set for some new images… Toyah shared some teaser photos yesterday at Instagram, which also appeared at Twitter and Facebook:
• Guess what im up to? In the studio shooting new images with sean chapman and dean stockings……more 2 come x
• New shoot! #lips #eyes #readyformycloseup
• #hairandmakeup last sneak peek until they are on www.toyahwillcox.com
A previously unreleased live track has been made available by toyahwillcox.com.
Get In Your Car [Live at Triple Door Club, Seattle] by The Humans is now playing on Toyah’s Official Gigs page. A great taster for the forthcoming UK live dates by The Humans.
Toyah & The Humans kick off a special six-date tour Telling Strange Tales on 11th April.
• See the dates, buy tickets & hear the exclusive unreleased live track at toyahwillcox.com. Browse Dreamscape’s Strange Tales and Telling Strange Tales UK Tour news feeds.
Head over to The Official Toyah Facebook page for the latest opportunity to “Ask Toyah” a question.
From FB: New questions invited for Toyah to answer directly in video messages for www.toyahwillcox.com. Post your questions in the comments on this post. All “when are you playing live in my town” won’t be answered! There is also a signed copy of The Acoustic Album (2014 re-press) up for grabs for the most original question or question which Toyah likes the most from this batch! Ready, steady ASK!
Toyah’s February blog is available at The Official Toyah Willcox Website. Click below to read.
Toyah’s first blog of 2015 is available at The Official Toyah Willcox Website. Click below to read.
The Official Toyah Christmas 2014 Advent is now complete, with today’s final door opened. It’s been a great countdown to Christmas with rare and interesting Toyah goodies over the last 24 days. Click below to open door 24 and revisit the full countdown…
A gorgeously festive Toyah is behind door 22 of toyahwillcox.com’s 2014 advent, the first part of Toyah’s Desert Island Desires.
Breaking Through, The Official Toyah newsletter say: Have you been opening each door of the Toyah Digital Advent Calendar? Audio and visual delights have been unlocked daily in the countdown to Christmas with live songs from the most recetnt our and a flashback to rare and thought-never-to-exit concert footage from September 1980..
We’ve reached the final three days and for those three days comes an exclusive three-part special. Open door 22 now to start watching Toyah’s Desert Island Desires.
• Above: A couple of screenshots from Toyah’s Desert Island Desires: Part 1 | Sign up to ‘Breaking Through’ here | The Christmas newsletter mailout also includes info on all of Toyah’s 2015 live dates so far.
The countdown to Christmas Day has been continuing daily at toyahwillcox.com’s Christmas Advent, with wonderfully colourful and rare Toyah content, including photos and video footage.
The festive countdown continues right through until Christmas Eve… at The Official Toyah Willcox Website.
Toyah’s festive December/Christmas blog is now online at toyahwillcox.com. Toyah has also tweeted a photo of her gorgeous Christmas tree at Twitter: “Christmas tree almost finished. Yipeeeee! Now…..what to get hubby for xmas?”
• Toyah @ Twitter: Yesterday Toyah tweeted a lovely festive photo: “Our christmas wreath is up including white bunnies and now we r expecting snow…….where’s my sledge xxxx” – View a larger version of the photo… (Photo © Toyah Willcox)
• Toyah Live 2015: More live dates for next year, including an Acoustic, Up Close & Personal date on 9th May at Selby Town Hall – Visit the Official Gig Diary…
• Worcerstershire Life: An interview with Toyah from 2008, around the time of her 50th birthday, has recently been re-published – “Some women,” whispers the photographer discreetly, “just look better and better as they get older.” Read here…
• The Seattle Times: ‘Sub Pop USA’ book release party celebrates the independent music scene of the 1980s: As Johnson spun discs by post punk NW acts like the Beakers and the Blackouts, one could spot the Beakers’ George Romansic and the Blackouts’ Bill Rieflin chatting to each other (the always busy Rieflin, most recently playing with King Crimson, revealed he’s planning a new musical project with British singer Toyah Willcox) – Continue reading…
• Dorset Echo: Shock rockers plan to set the Pavilion alight: Vampires Rock: The show has attracted some famous names in its time on tour too. In 2007 Eddie Ojeda of hit rock band Twisted Sister played guitar in the show, and he was followed by Toyah Willcox, who toured in the show for two years as the Devil Queen, the long-suffering wife of Baron Von Rockula – Continue reading…
There’s already been lots of interesting content revealed daily at toyahwillcox.com’s Christmas Advent, including this glorious photo of Toyah, Joel Bogen and Phil Spalding from Hold Tight in 1982. The festive countdown continues right through until Christmas Eve… (Photo Source: The Official Toyah Willcox Website)
The Digital Advent at The Official Toyah Willcox Website has started today. Check every day in the lead up to Christmas – “Surprises in store”.
The Breaking Through newsletter has today confirmed more live dates for Toyah. These are in addition to the Acoustic and Humans tours and includes festivals and multi-artist concerts.
• Subscribe: For full info on all of the above, and to receive future issues of the newsletter, sign up to ‘Breaking Through’ here.
Toyah has answered a couple more interesting fan questions for “Ask Toyah”.
• Visit the Official Toyah Willcox Website to watch. View earlier “Ask Toyah” questions/responses here.
Toyah’s November blog is available at The Official Toyah Willcox Website. Click below to read.
The latest issue of Breaking Through, Toyah’s Official newsletter, was emailed to subscribers last week.
Included was news on and photos from the Songs From The Intergalactic Ranch House tour, an overview of the countdown to the tour, news on forthcoming releases and more.
• Subscribe: Sign up to ‘Breaking Through’, to receive regular newsletter updates, here.
Due to one thing or another – being super busy with the Christmas fanzines, work, life, and having a week’s holiday – I missed posting about the final day of toyahwillcox.com’s great IRH Tour countdown. It was the third “Five Live” Toyah EP, so now is a good time to look at the set:
Five Live (Volume One: Rarities): Indecision (Belfast 1981); Ghosts (London 1981); We Are (London 1981); Victims Of The Riddle (Germany 1982); The Packt (Glasgow 1982) – Listen here…
Five Live (Volume Two: Hits): It’s A Mystery (Belfast 1981); I Want To Be Free (Germany 1982); Thunder In The Mountains (Germany 1982); Good Morning Universe (Germany 1982); Brave New World (Glasgow 1982) – Listen here…
Five Live (Volume Three: Classics): Race Through Space (Belfast 1981); Angels & Demons (Belfast 1981); Neon Womb (Germany 1982); Angel and Me (Glasgow 1982); Jungles Of Jupiter (Glasgow 1982) – Listen here…
• Revisit the full countdown at The Official Toyah Willcox Website.
