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.
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.
• Continue reading at toyahwillcox.com.
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.
