Toyah’s autumn tour, Songs From The Intergalactic Ranchouse kicked off in Birmingham on 18 October and so far has wowed Leeds, Glasgow and Manchester.
The tour is treating fans to a reworked set list which spans Toyah’s whole career from Sheep Farming In Barnet through to Crimson Queen. For the first time ever, selections from Minx are included with a fantastic rendition of Soul Passing Through Soul which can you hear a special audio preview of on this page or at Toyah’s official Soundcloud.
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It’s the penultimate day of toyahwillcox.com’s countdown to the start of the Songs From The Intergalactic Ranch House tour. Yes, the first gig takes place tomorrow in Birmingham (Toyah has been tweeting photos of more potential outfits for the tour).
On Wednesday a selection of Intergalactic Ranch House era pamphlets & leaflets were made available via the countdown. Yesterday vintage live performances of classic singles from UK & Germany were added as ‘Five Live | Vol Two: Hits’, and today a scrapbook of articles and reviews, some rare, from the late 70s/early 80s.
• Visit the countdown/Open door 17 here.
Yesterday was day nine of toyahwillcox.com’s, excellent and eclectic, countdown to the start of the Songs From The Intergalactic Ranch House tour, with an acoustic version of ‘Dreamscape’ being made available. Today a Sheep Farming In Barnet archive has been added to Toyah’s Official Website. Open door ten by clicking below…
• Toyah has been tweeting over the last few days about possible outfit ideas for the Intergalactic Ranch House tour, saying she may wear something different for each date, and posting a photo of a previously unseen design by Melissa Caplan.
Yesterday there was another instalment of “Ask Toyah” via door seven at toyahwillcox.com’s countdown to the start of the Songs From The Intergalactic Ranch House tour, and today “The Live Archive 1978 – 1983” has been launched. Open door eight by clicking below…
It’s day six of toyahwillcox.com’s countdown to the Intergalactic tour and today things have went all Sugar and Spice. Click below to open door six.
The tour countdown continues, today it’s a look at one of the most legendary points of Toyah’s career (for me anyway): The 1980 ATV documentary TOYAH. Open door five by clicking below…
Day Four of the official countdown to Toyah’s Songs From The Intergalactic Ranch House UK Tour. The sheet music that was available for a selection of Toyah’s early 80s singles has been added to the new toyahwillcox.com archive. Open door four by clicking below…
It’s the third day of toyahwillcox.com’s countdown to Toyah’s Intergalactic tour and it’s a retrotastic goodie today: A flashback to Tales Of The Unexpected: Blue Marigold, which also launches an ACTING section at the Official Website which will feature pages on roles from Toyah’s acting career to date. Open door three by clicking below.
The countdown to the start of Toyah’s new tour, Songs From The Intergalactic Ranch House, continues today at toyahwillcox.com. There’s the launch of a new archive section… Remember Toyah make-up from 1982? Open door two by clicking below. (Thanks to andy)
Toyah’s October blog is available at The Official Toyah Willcox Website. Click below to read.
17 days until the Autumn Intergalactic Ranch House Tour kicks off. The countdown is now live: In a land of broken dreams only tears are free…
The countdown to the start of Toyah’s new tour, Songs From The Intergalactic Ranch House, commences today at toyahwillcox.com…
There’s now less than a month until the autumn Songs From the Intergalactic Ranch House tour kicks off on 18th October at The Institute Birmingham.
Taking in selections from Minx, Crimson Queen and a supersonic selection of Safari classics. Tickets for Birmingham opening night on sale at See Tickets. For details on all of the dates visit The Official Toyah Willcox Website.
SAT 18 OCT: BIRMINGHAM HMV INSTITUTE
THU 23 OCT: LEEDS UNIVERSITY UNION
FRI 24 OCT: GLASGOW CLASSIC GRAND
SAT 25 OCT: MANCHESTER ACADEMY 3
FRI 7 NOV: BRIGHTON HAUNT
FRI 14 NOV: SOUTHAMPTON BROOK
SAT 15 NOV: BRISTOL FLEECE
SAT 22 NOV: LONDON O2 ACADEMY ISLINGTON
• Browse all of Dreamscape news on Songs From the Intergalactic Ranch House… here.
Toyah @ Twitter today: “learning ALL IN A RAGE, DONT FALL IN LOVE and SOUL PASSING THRU SOUL 2day. talk about walk down memory lane”
Toyah tweeted about seeing Kate Bush live last night: “Kate Bush gig last night. Truly awesome. Saw her after. She held me in her arms & kissed me…really topped the evening. Cant stop smiling“. (Speaking of Kate Bush – A huge thanks to Sharon for the wonderful tour programme)
More webisodes have been uploaded to ToyahTV over the last few days.
• The entire collection, so far, is available to watch at the Official Toyah Vimeo page.
Toyah’s September blog is available at The Official Toyah Willcox Website. Click below to read.
Toyah’s Official Website has now been online for over 14 years and has evolved in to a fantastic resource for fans – the Discography has to be one of the best online – The site also now boasts Ask Toyah and Toyah TV, the latest new features which make www.toyahwillcox.com an essential part of your online Toyah experience.
Toyah has answered a selection of questions submitted so far for Ask Toyah.
Keep an eye out in October when there will be another batch of videos.
Note: This Ask Toyah batch of videos is a playlist. You can either let the clips play through or use the arrows on the YouTube navigation to skip through them. Each clip is 2-3 minutes long.
The latest Breaking Through, Toyah’s Official newsletter, was emailed to subscribers earlier this week.
It contains lots of news as always, including details on gigs, Ask Toyah, ToyahTV, Drury Lane on BBC Radio 6 Music, Who’s Doing The Dishes?, The Power Of Three DVD, The Humans and much more.
• Subscribe: Sign up to ‘Breaking Through’, to receive regular newsletter updates, here.
There’s a new ToyahTV clip at toyahwillcox.com, as well as more webisodes at Vimeo from Toyah. Fans can also submit their questions for “Ask Toyah” at the official site too. Post your question in the comments section on the news post.
Toyah is filming short videos for a new series of webisodes for ToyahTV which you can be viewed at vimeo.com/toyahofficial.
Catch up with Toyah rehearsing for gigs, looking through costumes, getting haircut, sharing recipies and talking to Robert on Skype.Lots more webisodes to come….
Now is your chance to interview Toyah! Sort of!!
Got a question you’d like to ask Toyah? Post your question in the comments section at The Official Toyah Facebook page.
Toyah will answer a selection on video for a new webisode of ToyahTV which will accompany her September blog at www.toyahwillcox.com.
Thinking caps on!
