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!
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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.
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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“.
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.
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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.
