Coming Soon: A great selection of photos from last night’s Hare & Hounds gig, courtesy of Ray Sears and Chris Cox. Check back to DTN later to view fantastic shots of Toyah onstage.
Great photos of Toyah onstage at last night’s, post-‘Walk Of Fame’, Hare & Hounds gig in King’s Heath. There’s already been lots of positive feedback about the gig. Click below to view these, and more, at Dreamscape’s Gallery. (A huge thank you to Angus Turner)
Andrew York has restored some previously posted photos, including creating a full Toyah image from the 1980 Smirnoff advert. Great work as always by Andrew. View all of our recent Andrew-related news posts. Please click on each preview below to view larger versions.
I’d always thought the photo below right, from the ‘From Sheep Farming To Anthem’ 2011 tour at Leicester Square Theatre in London, reminded me of another photo. It wasn’t until Andi recently sent me the above ‘New Chartbusters’ article that I realised which one… Toyah 1980 & 2011! Click to zoom. (Thanks to Andi & Damon King)
This time exactly 30 years ago Toyah were halfway through ‘The Changeling Tour’. 4th July 1982 saw the band play the first of two nights at Bristol’s Colston Hall before they headed up north and to Scotland. Thanks to Andi Westhorpe for sharing this rare photo from the tour.
Click on the photo for a larger version | Visit Dreamscape’s The Changeling 30 website | View all of our The Changeling Resurrection news, photos and reviews, plus news, so far, on The Changeling Resurrection II. There’s also The Changeling: The Complete Songwords.
Three from the 80s: The ‘Anthem Tour’, 1981; Toyah and Hazel O’Connor at The British Rock & Pop Awards, 1982; and Toyah, Maril Wilson and Kim Wilde at the launch of ‘Just Seventeen’ magazine, 1983. Please click on each to zoom. (Thanks to Andi)
This has been one of my favourite Toyah photos ever since I saw it in a magazine exactly 30 years ago in Summer 1982. I tried rescanning it over the weekend and Andrew York has, yet again, worked his magic to restore it. Click to view a larger version.
Photos of Toyah live at last weekend’s ‘Mylor Sessions’. View larger versions of each, and the songs that made up the two set lists, at Dreamscape’s Gallery. (Thanks to Angus Turner)
More photos from yesterday’s Sleeping Beauty press launch/photo call. These were all tweeted by the Marlowe Theatre, the venue where Toyah’s panto for 2012 will play. An advert/etrailer was also filmed to promote the panto. There’s a new video interview with Gareth Gates at Kent Online. This includes footage of Toyah. (Photos © Marlowe Theatre)
I spent most of yesterday colouring this photo. Crazy I know, but I’ve always wanted to see a non b&w version of it as it’s my favourite band shot from that era… Click to zoom!
A great selection of photos of Toyah from ‘The Changeling Resurrection’ gig at Bush Hall, London (22nd April 2012). Toyah looking fantastic in monochrome. Click below to view them all at Dreamscape Changeling Resurrection Gallery. (Thanks to Mark Evans for the photos)
• View all of our ‘Changeling Resurrection’ news, photographs and the London gig updates.
The National Trust’s Facebook confirmed today that the Toyah photo session held at Croome Park last week will be included in the Autumn issue of the National Trust Magazine. Here’s Toyah with Debbie Schrieber and Helen Beer. (Photo © National Trust)
An excellent selection of photos of Toyah at last weekend’s ‘Blackpool Pride 2012’ have now been added to Dreamscape’s Gallery. (Huge thanks to Ray Sears)
Two fantastic photos of, legendary Toyah bassist, Phil Spalding at the European Premiere of Rock Of Ages on Sunday 10th June. Click on each for larger versions. (Thanks to Phil)
Photos of Toyah onstage yesterday at ‘Blackpool Pride 2012’, at the North Pier Theatre. View larger versions of each at Dreamscape’s Gallery. (Thanks to Glyn Whelan)
A new feature: Toyah: Thru A Photographer’s Eye. Taking a look at a variety of recent, and excellent, live Toyah (and The Humans) photos from the unique perspective of photographer Paul Crutchley. (A huge thanks to Paul | All photos © PAC Photography)
There’s a selection of great photos of Toyah, off and onstage, from last weekend’s ‘Decades Festival 2012’ in Cumbria at the Music Mafia UK website. They also have galleries at flickr and Facebook. (Photos © Music Mafia UK | Thanks to Thomas Lennon)
An image that was created for the 1982 ‘Be Proud Be Loud (Be Heard)’ single release. Not only did the song title become something of an enduring and iconic slogan through Toyah’s career, the image did too. Excellent photos by Robin Saidman. Click below to view larger versions and visit Dreamscape’s 1982 Gallery for more from this session.
• Toyah @ Twitter: Over the last few days Toyah has tweeted about writing for The Humans’ third album, a meeting with ‘Vintage TV’, the weather, Eurovision, and her visits to Cumbria and Minehead for gigs over the weekend. Visit Toyah’s Official Twitter page.
• A huge gallery of photos of Toyah at The Stroke Association Ball the weekend before last are now available to view/buy at the Ragsdale Photography website.
• Your Source Today: Win a pair of tickets to Audley End’s 80’s Night. Toyah, along with Rick Astley, Nik Kershaw, T’Pau and numerous others, play Audley on Saturday 4th August. (Closing date for entries: 23rd June 2012)
• Toyah at BBC iPlayer: The final episode of J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan, (Spring Cleaning Time Again), is now available to listen to at iPlayer. It will remain online until next Monday.
• Fupa Games: When we think of the 80s, we think of Spectrum and Atari. We think of Jet Pac, Combat, Big Country, Toyah Willcox, Kim Wilde and Crystal Palace FC, Top Deck Shandy, KP Outer Spacers and Smash Hits. But most of all we think of Pacman! (Thanks to Simon)
• Either… this is a leaked photo from Series 7 (or Season 33) of Doctor Who: Metal-clad Motrakeb has just torn off the head of the Glow King as she is approached by an Auton disguised as a British Policeman… or it’s a photo of Toyah in Cumbria on Saturday night where she played the ‘Decades’ festival… I’m opting for the former!!
A collection of sensational photos from Toyah’s ‘Changeling Resurrection’ gig at The Robin2, Bilston in Wolverhampton (28th April). All of these have been added to Dreamscape’s dedicated TCR gallery. (Thanks to Kevin McNamara for the photos)
The fantastic Brian Aris photo shoot from mid-1981. This featured on magazine covers and a variety of press articles on Toyah through late 1981 and into ’82. Amazing photos that look current in 2012! Click below to view more at Dreamscape’s 1981 gallery.
