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Toyah Willcox coming to Epic Studios in Norwich in 2026

A BRIT Award-winning singer, actor, TV host and film star is coming to Norwich in 2026.

Toyah Willcox has worn many hats during her career, which spans more than 50 years.

She will be entertaining a large crowd at Epic Studios for one night only on May 24, when she will perform songs and tell stories from across her many decades in the public eye.

The “High Priestess of Punk” burst onto the scene in 1976 as she forged dual careers as a musician and actor who featured at The National Theatre and London’s Royal Court.

• Continue reading at Eastern Daily Express.  Browse all of Toyah’s confirmed 2026 live dates here.

Toyah’s Christmas Party 2026 Tour announced

Get ready for a sparkling seasonal celebration as music icon Toyah Willcox brings her electrifying Christmas Party to the stage.

With dates in Liverpool, Sunderland, London and Birmingham, Toyah and her band will delight fans with a mix of her biggest hits, plus a sprinkling of festive magic included in this seasonal show.

On the tour, Toyah said “I’m absolutely thrilled to be bringing my Christmas Party Shows back on the road for 2026. These shows are all about joy, celebration and coming together, and I can’t wait to share an unforgettable festive night with everyone. See you there!”

With a career spanning over four decades, Toyah has earned her place as one of Britain’s most distinctive performers — from her Top 10 chart hits including It’s A Mystery, I Want To Be Free, Thunder in the Mountains and Good Morning Universe to acclaimed roles in cult classic films such as Quadrophenia, groundbreaking theatre, and a wealth of television work.

In recent years, Toyah has reached a whole new global audience thanks to the runaway success of Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch on YouTube — a wildly popular series that has now attracted over 150 million viewers worldwide showcasing her energy, humour, and fearless creativity.

• Continue reading at toyahwillcox.com. Book tickets for Toyah’s Christmas Party 2026 here.

Legendary singer Toyah to perform at Beacon Arts Centre

Singer and actor Toyah Willcox is set to bring her “Songs and Stories” show to the Beacon Arts Centre.

Presented by A Way with Media, the event will take place on Thursday, June 11 at 7.30pm.

With a career spanning more than 50 years in the spotlight, Toyah has worn many hats including being a singer, actor, TV host, and author.

Standard tickets for the evening are priced at £29.50, while premium and ‘meet and greet’ ticket options are also available at the Beacon’s website

Toyah became a household name following her role in the film Quadrophenia and soon after, she struck the charts with hits like It’s A Mystery, I Want To Be Free, and Thunder In The Mountains.

• Continue reading at Greenock Telegraph. Browse all of Toyah’s confirmed 2026 live dates here.

Toyah Willcox tour coming Birmingham Town Hall at Christmas

Pershore music legend Toyah is heading back on tour with a string of joyful Christmas shows.

The 80s icon is bringing her 2026 Christmas Party tour to venues across the UK.

The singer and her band will perform at Birmingham Town Hall on December 13, promising to ‘delight fans with a mix of her biggest hits, plus a sprinkling of festive magic included in this seasonal show’.

Toyah said: “I’m absolutely thrilled to be bringing my Christmas Party Shows back on the road for 2026.

“These shows are all about joy, celebration and coming together, and I can’t wait to share an unforgettable festive night with everyone. See you there.”

• Continue reading at Worcester News. Book tickets for Toyah’s Christmas Party 2026 here.

Toyah to bring festive show to Birmingham

Toyah’s Christmas Party promises to be ‘an unforgettable festive night’.

Music icon Toyah Willcox is set to tour her electrifying Christmas Party next year, coming to Birmingham Town Hall on 13th December.

Toyah and her band will delight fans with a mix of her biggest hits, plus a sprinkling of festive magic included in this seasonal show.

• Continue reading at Birmingham World. Book tickets for Toyah’s Christmas Party 2026 here.

Toyah to bring festive show to Sunderland’s Fire Station in 2026

Toyah’s Christmas Party will be ‘an unforgettable festive night’.

Music icon Toyah Willcox has announced a tour of her Christmas party shows for next year, bringing a sparkling seasonal celebration to Sunderland Fire Station on December 4, 2026.

Toyah and her band will delight fans with a mix of her biggest hits, plus a sprinkling of festive magic included in this seasonal show.

• Continue reading at Sunderland Echo. Book tickets for Toyah’s Christmas Party 2026 here.

Toyah Willcox is bringing her ‘unforgettable’ festive show to London

Toyah’s Christmas Party promises to be ‘an unforgettable festive night’.

Music icon Toyah Willcox is set to tour her electrifying Christmas Party next year, coming to London Union Chapel on 12th December.

“I’m absolutely thrilled to be bringing my Christmas Party Shows back on the road for 2026. These shows are all about joy, celebration and coming together, and I can’t wait to share an unforgettable festive night with everyone. See you there!”

• Continue reading at London World. Book tickets for Toyah’s Christmas Party 2026 here.

Toyah Announces Christmas Party Concerts

The singer and her band will delight fans with a mix of her biggest hits and festive favourites

Toyah Willcox announces 2026 Christmas Party concerts. With dates in Liverpool, Sunderland, London and Birmingham, Toyah and her band will delight fans with a mix of her biggest hits, plus a sprinkling of festive favourites in this seasonal show.

On the tour, Toyah says: “I’m absolutely thrilled to be bringing my Christmas Party Shows back on the road for 2026. These shows are all about joy, celebration and coming together, and I can’t wait to share an unforgettable festive night with everyone. See you there!”

• Continue reading at Classic Pop. Book tickets for Toyah’s Christmas Party 2026 here.

80’s Icons Toyah Willcox and Cheryl Baker bring Brighton to life at gala night, raising £30,000 for charity

The Sussex business community came together last Thursday, 20th November, at The DoubleTree by Hilton Brighton Metropole Hotel for an unforgettable 80’s-themed Gala Dinner, featuring iconic performances and celebrity appearances that had guests dancing the night away.

This year’s event was headlined by legendary 80’s stars Toyah Wilcox and Cheryl Baker, who brought fantastic energy and insight into their illustrious careers. Toyah shared highlights from her groundbreaking appearances on Top of the Pops and reflected on her experiences on I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!, while Cheryl recounted her memorable win at Eurovision in 1981 with Bucks Fizz, her appearances on Dancing on Ice

• Continue reading at Sussex World. (Photo © Best Of British/Sussex World)

Actor and quirky 80s pop goddess Toyah bringing her tour to Lancaster

Toyah – the High Priestess of Punk and star of cult hit Quadrophenia – will embark on a 49-date spoken word tour next spring.

Her Songs and Stories tour will take in intimate venues across England, Wales, and Scotland, kicking off at Chelmsford Civic Centre on March 22, 2026.

She will be coming to Lancaster Grand on May 15, 2026 at 7.30pm.

A singer and actor, a TV host and author, a BRIT Award winner and a film star – Toyah has worn many hats during a remarkable career spanning more than 50 years.

• Continue reading at the Lancaster Guardian. Browse all of the Songs And Stories dates at toyahwillcox.com.

Toyah Willcox joins Greatest Hits Radio as Martin Kemp heads to jungle

Toyah Willcox is joining Greatest Hits Radio to cover for Martin Kemp while he travels to Australia to take part in I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here.

The news comes after Toyah’s successful run on sister station Greatest Hits Radio 80s, and she will now take over Martin’s Mix Tape across Friday and Saturday nights from 21 November.

Toyah says she cannot wait to get started, adding that she is thrilled to cover the show while Martin “is eating bugs in the jungle”.

She promises that the Mix Tape will be “party central” throughout her residency and says she is looking forward to spending the next few weeks with Greatest Hits Radio’s audience.

• Continue reading at On the Radio. See also Official Toyah, Radio Today, Rayo, Bauer Media.

Another review of Adam Ant’s Antmusic 2025 UK Tour, this one by Rockfiend, focusing on the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall date(s).

Joining Adam on some of the tour is Toyah, whose connection with Adam dates way back to their involvement in the film ‘Jubilee’. Toyah’s shows in recent years have often been padded out unnecessarily with covers, but I’m pleased to report that tonight’s set was all her own material – and all the better for it.

Toyah is a real pocket rocket and connected really well with the Glasgow audience throughout, which made for an entertaining watch, but her vocals were equally impressive. Of course, we got the big hits – ‘Thunder In The Mountains’, ‘It’s A Mystery’ and ‘I Want To Be Free’ – but most enjoyable for me were the lesser known tracks ‘Neon Womb’ and ‘Ieya’, with the latter dedicated to a delighted member of the crowd who had been eagerly shouting for it. All in, it was a really enjoyable and fun set. My only gripe was that the cymbals and toms on the drummers electronic kit were largely inaudible at times.

• Continue reading at Rockfiend. Toyah continues to be support on the Antmusic 2025 Tour on dates between tonight and Wednesday 12th November. Browse the dates at toyahwillcox.com. See a review of Toyah at the Bournemouth date, here.  (Photo © David Fleming)

A great review, by Bournemouth Echo, for Toyah on Adam Ant’s Ant Music 2025 Tour, from the opening date at Bournemouth BIC.

Review: Adam Ant at the BIC in Bournemouth

It was two legends for the price of one at the Bournemouth International Centre.

First up we had the pleasure of the full on Toyah experience.

Looking sharp and sounding sharper still, this is a performer who has lost none of the enthusiasm and brilliant stage craft that saw her storm the charts in the eighties.

The thing about having a performer as good as Toyah as your support is that there is a good chance they might steal the show.

Tonight that may just have been the case.

• Continue reading at the Bournemouth Echo. (Photo © David Fleming)

Toyah – Chameleon : The Very Best Of
(3CD/ Blu-Ray Box Set)

Chameleon is certainly well named; it perfectly describes singer & actor Toyah Willcox’s ability, much like David Bowie (the greatest chameleon of them all) to evolve and change with the musical times, whilst still holding her own identity and artistry.

It’s also, courtesy of Cherry Red Records, her first ever all-encompassing collection, one that covers every era and musical slant of her four-and-half decade career, from her late 70s new wave/ punk beginnings to the ultra-successful 80s pop period and into the 21st century as an artist who remains relevant through her contemporary pop and rock stylings.

CD1 is collated to showcase the best of Toyah the band, from 1979-1983; it also, unsurprisingly, leads with the Top 10 trio of glossy, new-wave pop hits ‘I Want To Be Free,’ ‘It’s a Mystery’ and ‘Thunder In The Mountains.’

Other chart successes, such as the atmospheric ‘Brave New World,’ feature, but the selected album tracks are their equal; choice cuts here include the pop-punch of ‘We Are’ (from best-selling album Anthem), the slightly darker textures of ‘Dawn Chorus’ and the semi-theatrical, new wave stylings of ‘Angel & Me.’

There’s also space for tracks from the band’s debut EP Sheep Farming In Barnet, including the frantic jazz-punk of ‘Neon Womb’ and the spacey synth & guitar led ‘Danced.’ The live version of the band’s first ever single, punk-pop hybrid ‘Victims Of The Riddle,’ closes out the first disc.

• Continue reading at Fabrication HQ. See links to other Chameleon: The Very Best Of Toyah reviews here. Buy the album on 3CD/Bluray Boxset, 2CD & Double Vinyl at Cherry Red.

A selection of just some of the Toyah news and press – all about Strictly – instigated by her interview on Thursday’s Good Morning Britain. (Photo © BBC)

• Manchester Evening News: Strictly Come Dancing star picked own partner after ‘rejecting’ two professional dancers: Singer Toyah Wilcox danced with Neil Jones on the hit BBC Latin and ballroom dance show in 2024 – Continue…

• Mirror: Strictly Come Dancing’s Toyah Willcox turned down partners over ‘inappropriate’ fears: Toyah Willcox has admitted that she turned down certain Strictly Come Dancing partners over fears of coming across as ‘inappropriate’ if there was a considerable age gap – Continue…

• Liverpool Echo: BBC Strictly Come Dancing star rejected two partners as ‘it would have felt completely wrong’ – Continue…

• Devon Live: Strictly Come Dancing star got to pick professional partner after ‘inappropriate’ choices: A former Strictly Come Dancing star has revealed why she turned down two partners before signing up for the show last year – Continue…

• Daily Star: GMB: BBC Strictly Come Dancing star turned down two partners as she admits ‘it felt wrong’ – Continue…

• Female First: Toyah Willcox reveals why she was allowed to pick her Strictly Come Dancing partner – Continue…

• Yahoo! News: GMB: Toyah Willcox turned down two Strictly pros before show – Continue…

• Wales Online: Strictly Come Dancing star turned down two partners before signing up for BBC show – Continue…

Toyah – Chameleon – The Very Best of Toyah: Album Review

First-ever career-spanning collection covers Toyah’s entire recording career – the band years, the solo years and the adventures alongside husband Robert Fripp. Chameleon REALLY is a ‘Best Of’ collection

Release Date: 5th September 2025
Label: Cherry Red Records
Formats: 2xCD, 3xCD+Blu Ray, 2LP Vinyl

A TRUE ‘BEST OF’ COLLECTION
Rule-breaker, boundary-pusher, consummate entertainer. Even, dare I suggest it – National Treasure. Toyah Wilcox has been, and remains, all of these things – and she fulfills her roles in many guises, from attitude-loaded punk to loving companion. As the title to this career-spanning collection suggests, Toyah is a persona-shifting chameleon.

It’s hard to believe that Chameleon is the first ever comprehensive retrospective of Toyah’s varied recording career, a career that began as long ago as 1977 when fledgling actor Toyah hooked up with guitarist/songwriter Joe Bogen and keyboardist Pete Bush to form the band that would soon be christened ‘Toyah.’ Tall trees from little acorns grow – Toyah’s musical career went on to spawn over 20 albums and delivered eight Top 40 singles. And the highlights of that career are all here. Chameleon is, truly, a ‘Best Of’ collection.

• Continue reading at At The Barrier. See links to other Chameleon: The Very Best Of Toyah reviews here. Buy the album on 3CD/Bluray Boxset, 2CD & Double Vinyl at Cherry Red.

Toyah: Chameleon: The Very Best Of Toyah
Box Set Review

From humble beginnings of a young girl from Kings Heath in Birmingham, the rebellious nature shone through early with acts that thrill the heart such as setting off a multitude of clocks from underneath the stage of her school that disrupted a speech from the then Education Secretary Margaret Thatcher, and which led rightly to her being hailed within a few short years as the Queen of the British Punk movement.

It is in that reassurance of Time shaping our future without our realising that those who hear the ticking of the clock act with a kind of urgency that commands attention, that regards even a minute wasted as a tolling bell ringing out the laments of lost opportunities and creative despair; a kind of passing of the moment that would never resurface.

The be the best in the world you have to take it on, the ticking of the clock that signals each beat of a life’s intended mission, the chameleon’s camouflage adapting, changing, altering with every circumstance and yearning, of breaking free…this is the heartfelt and honourable belief that comes from every pore of the Cherry Red release of Chameleon: The Very Best Of Toyah.

• Continue reading at Liverpool Sound and Vision. See links to other Chameleon: The Very Best Of Toyah reviews here. Buy the album on 3CD/Bluray Boxset, 2CD & Double Vinyl at Cherry Red.

Review | Chameleon – The Very Best of Toyah [Cherry Red Records]

Toyah Willcox’s career has always defied easy classification, and Chameleon – The Very Best of Toyah leans into that restlessness, offering a panoramic view of her 45-year arc as punk agitator, pop icon, and enduring creative force. Released via Cherry Red Records, this career-spanning anthology is the first to fully embrace the breadth of her recording history, and it does so with a curatorial precision that mirrors Willcox’s own chameleonic artistry.

The collection’s structure tells a story. CD1 captures the original Toyah band years (1979–1983), where the collision of Joel Bogen’s spiky guitar and Willcox’s commanding, otherworldly vocals forged a sound that felt both feral and theatrical. Singles like “It’s A Mystery” and “I Want to Be Free” may have cemented her as a chart presence, but it’s deeper cuts like “Jungles of Jupiter” and “We Are” that underline her singular lyrical vision, tapping into cosmic anxieties and spiritual yearning against the urgency of post-punk rhythms. The material retains its charge, a reminder of how Toyah helped broaden the vocabulary of British new wave beyond mere attitude.

• Continue reading at Ottic Media. See links to other Chameleon: The Very Best Of Toyah reviews here. Buy the album on 3CD/Bluray Boxset, 2CD & Double Vinyl at Cherry Red.

A new interview with Toyah, from The Sunday Post. This was also included in P.S. magazine, with Toyah on the cover.

Toyah Willcox on the 50 years of hard graft that have kept her at the top of her game

It’s Wednesday lunchtime and I am telling Toyah Willcox my own favourite Toyah story.

I remember going to see you as part of a 1980s revival night in Glasgow, alongside Belinda Carlisle, Go West and various members of Spandau Ballet, I say. This must have been back in the late 1990s, early 2000s. I’m a bit hazy on the date, I admit.

But Toyah’s not. “2002,” she interrupts emphatically.

Ah, right. Anyway, you came bounding on to the stage and exclaimed: “Glasgow, I’ve come for your men!” And a woman in the crowd shouted back: “Take them! Take them!”

“I remember it happening!” Toyah tells me gleefully over Zoom.

Speak to the singer, actor and presenter and it’s quickly clear that she remembers everything. Dates, chart positions, people. Her memory is a Google search engine containing the records of nearly 50 years in showbiz. And there’s a lot to remember.

• Continue reading at The Sunday Post.

Cherry Red will release Chameleon: The Very Best Of Toyah next month across three formats

A 3CD+blu-ray edition comes in clamshell box packaging with disc one devoted to the band Toyah with hits such as ‘I Want To Be Free’ and ‘It’s A Mystery’ while the second CD covers Toyah’s career as a solo artist. CD 3 is devoted to rarities, while the blu-ray includes 12 promo videos, 22 TV performances and concert footage.

The 2CD digipak edition omits the rarities and the blu-ray from the box set and a 2LP set pressed on gold-coloured vinyl offers 28 tracks from band and solo years.

Chameleon: The Very Best Of Toyah will be released on 5 September 2025, via Cherry Red.

• Continue reading at Super Deluxe Edition.

Still Bouncing: Toyah on 46 Years of Music, Strictly, and Her New Greatest Hits

It is 46 years since Toyah bounced onto the music scene as the lead of a band that took her name. With her distinctive vocals, captivating image, and lyrical prowess, it’s hardly surprising that she continues to thrive 46 years later. After experiencing a significant surge during the Covid-19 lockdowns, Toyah ventured into Strictly and has been on the road multiple times in the past few years. As the touring continues, she has teamed up with Cherry Red for a fully comprehensive Greatest Hits collection – Chameleon – which not only celebrates the hits but also offers real insight. We caught up with Toyah to learn more…

J: Hello Toyah, How are you?

T: I’m good. How are you, Jeremy?

J: I’m very well, very well indeed, thank you. Thank you so much for joining us today. Now, the important thing we need to know is—are you ready to share some juice with us?

T: Okay? Oh, I just hope my mind is in gear—but you know, cross your fingers, Jeremy. Anything could happen!

J: Let’s see what happens. Here we go. We want to take you back to your childhood for now—what was your initial ambition? Did you always want to be a performer?

T: In the beginning, when I didn’t yet understand the difference between boys and girls, I wanted to be a muscle man—which amused everybody. Then I wanted to be an astronaut. But very quickly, by the time I was seven and had seen The Sound of Music about seven times, I knew I wanted to become a singer and an actress.

• Continue reading at Chimeo.