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A new review for Revelations, published on 31st August, by Liverpool Sound and Vision.

Toyah: Revelations. Box Set Review
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King’s Heath in Birmingham might not be that well known to anyone outside of the second city, but it has produced an astonishing number of people to whom art and sport have been fortunate to have graced the suburb, to have been influenced by the leafy green former village and the possibility of being part of a new breed of hero for the post-war generation.

Part of that incredible rebellious, heroic stance comes from Toyah Willcox, the chameleon look ever changing, a woman to whom no was just a two letter word that deserved a choice set of words in return, and who was perhaps the most wonderful sense of anarchy that anyone could ever hope to find in a period that produced the most exuberant of punk, this was the crowned Queen for Birmingham’s youth.

Following on from the Cherry Red boxset release from 2025 of Chameleon: The Very Best Of Toyah, the brand have really gone to town and brought to the public’s attention a set of CDs in Revelations detailing a huge swathe of tracks that were lost, unreleased, hidden away, and now lovingly restored to their rightful place in the Toyah pantheon of music.

• Continue reading at Liverpool Sound and Vision. Browse our Revelations news archive.

Toyah, Chameleon & Cherry Red Records are nominated in the AIM Independent Music Awards 2026.

The Association for Independent Music (AIM) has announced the final wave of nominees for the 2026 Independent Music Awards.

Best Catalogue Release recognises the labels who created imaginative campaigns around impressive bodies of work. Cooking Vinyl is nominated for its sold out deluxe edition of The Alan Parsons Project’s I Robot, Stones Throw Records for Haruomi Hosono’s Tropical Dandy, 4AD for Lush‘s Gala (2025 Remaster), London Records for Orbital’s The Brown Album, and Cherry Red Records for Chameleon: The Very Best of Toyah.

It’s Lytham Proms weekend with Toyah, Aled Jones, Chesney Hawkes and Dodgy – here’s all you need to know

Star-packed weekend of music with the climax of a traditional Proms celebration

Lytham Hall is all set to host its biggest show weekend of the year, as Lytham Proms features stars including Toyah, Aled Jones, Chesney Hawkes and Dodgy. The event is on Saturday and Sunday, from 3pm to 7.30pm each day, featuring a packed programme of music and the traditional ‘Last Night of the Proms’ celebration on Sunday.

• Continue reading at the Lancashire Post. NB. Toyah has had a busy Bank Holiday Saturday, playing Penkridge Festival earlier today, and Lytham Hall Proms this evening.

Toyah Willcox heads star-studded Worcester University graduation

Stars will be graduating along with the students at the University of Worcestershire this September

Celebrated singer-songwriter Toyah Willcox, acclaimed author and journalist Helen Lewis, internationally renowned historian Professor Dame Linda Colley, and sports stars Dawn Scott and Lark Atkin-Davies are among those who will be honoured by the university at this year’s graduation ceremonies.

The five will receive Honorary Doctorates alongside hundreds of graduating students during ceremonies at Worcester Cathedral from September 8 to September 10.

Several distinguished individuals from business, education, the arts, charitable organisations and community leadership will also receive University Fellowships in recognition of their contributions to society and their support of the university and the wider region.

• Continue reading at Worcester Observer.

Toyah Willcox to receive University of Worcester doctorate

Singer-songwriter Toyah Willcox is amongst those who will receive honorary doctorates from the University of Worcester

She will be recognised alongside historian Professor Dame Linda Colley, journalist Helen Lewis and sports stars Dawn Scott and Lark Atkin-Davies during graduation ceremonies at Worcester Cathedral from September 8 to 10.

Professor David Green CBE DL, vice chancellor and chief executive of the University of Worcester, said: “Graduation is always one of the highlights of the university year as we celebrate the achievements of our students alongside individuals who have made exceptional contributions in their chosen fields.

• Continue reading at Worcester News. See also, University of Worcester doctorates – Toyah Willcox, here.

A star-packed weekend in store at Lytham Hall’s Proms – here is all you need to know

“We really can’t wait to bring this amazing line-up to Lytham Hall for our biggest fundraising event of the year”

Lytham Hall is all set to host its biggest show weekend of the year, as Lytham Proms features stars including Toyah, Aled Jones, Chesney Hawkes and Dodgy. The event is on Saturday and Sunday, from 3pm to 7.30pm each day, featuring a packed programme of music and the traditional ‘Last Night of the Proms’ celebration on Sunday.

• Continue reading at Blackpool Gazette.

Blackpool Illuminations 2026: All you need to know

Blackpool is set to light up once again in spectacular colour for the annual illuminations – with the switch-on set for 4 September at the Tower Festival Headland.

The free event will be hosted by BBC Radio Lancashire’s Graham Liver and Sharon Hartley. The illuminations run for six miles (9.65km) along the promenade and are on display until Sunday 3 January.

What’s new this year?
New attractions for 2026 include brightly lit neon sandcastles, a “creatures of the deep” display, a sky forest featuring LED cherry blossom trees and an immersive deep space display.

There will also be a display by performer Toyah Willcox telling a story of courage, resilience and self-discovery.

Also expect photo opportunities with attractions including an oversized seaside postcard and the chance to get a selfie with a giant teddy bear inside an illuminated car.

• Continue reading at BBC News. (Photo © Toyah)

80’s star Toyah Willcox issues special message to Blackpool music fans ahead of Blackpool’s 80s Weekender

Taking place on Friday 25 and Saturday 26 September, the event will celebrate one of music’s most influential decades with performances from some of the biggest names of the era. Toyah will appear alongside ABC, Kim Wilde, Go West, The Christians, Katrina, Johnny Hates Jazz and Hue & Cry.

80’s superstar Toyah Willcox has issued a special message to music fans in Blackpool.

The singer songwriter is heading to the resort in September as headliner of the Blackpool 80s Weekender in September.

She joins a star-studded line-up of iconic artists who will take to the stage at Blackpool Winter Gardens for two days of live music, entertainment and nostalgia.

• Continue reading at Blackpool Gazette. Browse all of Toyah’s upcoming confirmed 2026 live dates at toyahwillcox.com.

This Is Money have re-published their Toyah interview from September 2024:

New Strictly star Toyah Willcox: Letting other people manage my money was a big mistake

Toyah Willcox has made waves as a singer in a career lasting almost 50 years.

She has made several number-one albums and stormed the charts in the Eighties with singles including It’s A Mystery and I Want To Be Free.

She has also made her mark as an actress, starring on stage in the award-winning Three Men On A Horse, and film credits include The Tempest and Quadrophenia.

Toyah, 66, has been married to musician Robert Fripp since 1986 and they live in Worcester. She is now on the BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing, partnered with professional dancer Neil Jones.

• Continue reading at This Is Money.

Toyah / Revelations
5CD anthology of B-sides, rarities, etc

Toyah has announced Revelations, a rarities collection featuring material from the band’s time on Safari Records (1979-1983).

Revelations provides an alternate history of the Toyah Willcox-fronted new wavers by way of B-sides, outtakes, instrumentals, alternate versions, home demos and live tracks. Record label Cherry Red say that “it has been designed to perfectly complement the album catalogue reissue programme”. Remarkably, given how comprehensive the individual album reissues were, 50 of the 102 tracks on Revelations are previously unreleased. The box has been compiled by by Toyah archivist Craig Astley alongside Joel Bogen, co-founder, composer and guitarist with the band.

This is a 5CD set, in a clamshell box, with each disc in an individual wallet. These are accompanied by a 40-page booklet.

• Continue reading at Super Deluxe Edition. Pre-order Revelations at Cherry Red.

Review: Toyah Willcox at The Tivoli in Aberdeen

Mark Lenthall reviews Toyah Willcox at The Tivoli Theatre in Aberdeen, Wednesday June 10, 2026.

Not many artists can say they’ve enjoyed two successful careers separated by a kitchen table. Toyah Willcox can.

The viral Sunday Lunch videos she and her husband, prog rock guitarist Robert Fripp, began making during lockdown introduced her to an entirely new generation, proving that sometimes the shortest route back into the spotlight involves a phone camera, a few daft ideas and a complete disregard for dignity.

At Aberdeen’s Tivoli Theatre on Wednesday night, a stop on her Songs & Stories tour, the audience got to meet the woman who had been all this and more before the algorithm found her.

How was Toyah Willcox at the Tivoli?
Like recent appearances there from Stewart Copeland and Justin Hawkins, the show demonstrated the growing appeal of the “Evening With” format. Audiences increasingly seem willing to hear what happened behind the music.

The woman once dubbed the “High Priestess of Punk” has enough stories over five decades to fill several evenings, never mind one.

• Continue reading at Aberdeen Press & Journal.

In a new interview with Leona Graham on The Leona Graham Podcast, Toyah reflects on challenges she’s faced in her last 50 years in the industry, including her current experience of ageism:

‘I’d say in this millennium I’ve had to deal with quite different things. Life has been fantastic. I’ve made wonderful movies, done fantastic tours, but there’s that edge of, ‘oh, you are old now.’ And I’m thinking, ‘Yeah? And I have pedigree, deal with it.’

Toyah also reveals that her first introduction to rock music came when she broke into a Black Sabbath gig at the age of 12:

‘…a roadie opened the exit. I think it was the Top Rank in Birmingham. And I slipped in. I think I was on my own and I didn’t know what to expect, but I’d heard a lot about Black Sabbath and it was so incredibly loud. And I think I was one of about two women in the audience. It wasn’t a huge audience but I will never, ever forget hearing “Paranoid”.’

• Continue reading at Music News.

Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp’s 10 best Sunday Lunch performance videos

Lockdowns were a drag but Toyah and Robert Fripp helped keep us going.

In the long ago, when lockdown stopped us going out to gigs musicians, did their very best to entertain us in other ways.

Nick Cave streamed the stunning Idiot Prayer, Laura Marling did online guitar lessons and Sophie Ellis-Bextor gave us her Kitchen Disco.

But maybe best of all were the Sunday Lunch videos from new wave/prog rock married couple Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp, often with mysterious collaborator Sidney Jake. There’s no reason to stop a good thing, and even now, long after the last lockdown, they’ve just kept on going.

They’ve done hundreds of videos so far, and below we round up our favourite ten, along with Toyah and Robert’s snappy captions.

• Continue reading at Gold Radio. Browse Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch “back catalogue” at YouTube.

Toyah’s Celebrating The Best Of Toyah Union Chapel, London, gig from October 2025 was reviewed in Blitzed magazine (Issue #24, January 2026)

GIG REVIEW (By Mik Scarlet)
TOYAH/UNION CHAPEL, LONDON

Surprisingly, I have never seen Toyah live before, so when I saw that she was playing the Union Chapel in Islington I had to see her, and the gig coincided with the release of the Best Of Toyah compilation. On the night I wasn’t feeling that great but struggled to get myself ready, and off my wife and I set. The venue was stunning, if a little interesting around wheelchair access. At least the management had thought about it, and I could actually get in. I even had a front row seat with my name on it… Billy Big Boots me! Soon the room was packed and as I scanned each face it struck me that I wasn’t the oldest person in the room, not by a long chalk. In fact, I felt rather young. Yes, there were a few kids that had come along, but this was mostly a room of fans from way back when.

The support, Rachael Sage, was really good. A mixture of Suzanne Vega, Tori Amos and folk with her own personal twist. Well worth checking out. After Rachael’s short set, the lights came up and the queue for the loos began. So many old bladders all needing to be emptied before the show began. As the lights dipped again, the excitement was palpable. Like so many bands of the era who are still playing, Toyah has some dedicated followers. She came on to the stage like a dervish in black and, from the outset, made the huge space her own.

All the hits were covered, as well as obvious fan favourites. I did forget that Toyah always had a tendency to veer off to ‘prog’. That said, Toyah is a real performer, and this gig was a must see for the fans. Toyah bounced around like a teenager. Her stage craft is second to none and she held the room in the palm of her hand. She talked to the crowd like friends, told them stories I felt they’d heard before but could listen to over and over, along with some new insights into each track. I left a room of older faces, all transfixed and taken back to their youth.

• Toyah is also included in the latest issue (#26, March 2026) of Blitzed magazine, which is on sale now. (Thanks to Colin Dew-Parry)

Hospital Radio takes a trip down Toyah lane

Torbay broadcaster looks ahead to an evening with the High Priestess of Punk, exploring her 50-year career and chart-topping classics

Obviously, you have to be of a certain age to remember the High Priestess of Punk who burst onto the scene in 1976 both as a musician and actress.

It has been a successful career for her in the 50 years that have followed, she’s been a singer and actor, a TV host and author, a BRIT Award winner and a film star. I am thinking her stories will be interesting and I understand she still has the voice that was so distinctive.

I’m planning ahead and with that in mind I am off to see An Evening with Toyah: Songs and Stories at the Palace Avenue Theatre on March 27.

• Continue reading at Torbay Today.

Punk ‘high priestess’ to spill the beans in Plymouth

‘It’ll be really exciting for me to look back on my career’

Punk singer Toyah will spill the beans about her lengthy showbiz career – and sing a few songs – during an “intimate” show in Plymouth this year.

Toyah has often been dubbed “the high priestess of punk”. She made her name – shortened from Toyah Wilcox – during the late 1970s when she appeared in the punk movie Jubilee, the mod movie Quadrophenia and brought out the first of a string of hit records which saw the likes of It’s a Mystery, I Want to be Free and Thunder in the Mountains ride high in the singles chart.

• Continue reading at Plymouth Live.

No mystery now that Toyah’s on tour

The High Priestess of Punk is set to visit South Devon in March

After acting, presenting, performing, headlining tours, and releasing 23 studio albums continued her unique story and now it’s time for Toyah to reflect.

With a new book in the offing, Toyah is hitting the road for an extensive UK tour in which she’ll sing favourite hits and tell stories from her remarkable career.

Her role in Quadrophenia made her a household name and soon after she gate-crashed the charts with It’s A Mystery, I Want To Be Free, and Thunder In The Mountains, as the album, Anthem, earned a gold disc, and BRIT Award Best Female as well as a BRIT Nomination for British Breakthrough Act.

• Continue reading at the Mid-Devon Advertiser. Browse all of Toyah’s upcoming Songs & Stories dates at toyahwillcox.com.

Toyah is interviewed in the latest issue – #579, January 2026 – of Record Collector magazine.

Toyah Ann Willcox was born in Kings Heath, Birmingham and came to prominence as an actor starring in the 1978 film Jubilee. It was while filming 1979’s Quadrophenia that she and her band Toyah auditioned for Safari Records, and after signing her on the spot, they issued their debut single, Victims Of The Riddle, that same year. She’s since put out 16 studio albums – five with Toyah including 1981’s Anthem, which yielded the Top 10 singles It’s A Mystery and I Want To Be Free, and since 1985 as a solo artist, a further 11, the most recent being 2021’s Posh Pop. She has also made records with The Humans, an experimental trio with Bill Rieflin and Chris Wong, and with her husband Robert Fripp. This September sees the issue of Chameleon: The Very Best Of.

Tell me about Chameleon. The cover of you with your shock of orange hair is very striking.
It’s a very visual piece. The double album version is on gold vinyl and is a gatefold. Of course, if you’re covering 45 years of songwriting, and it doesn’t feel like 45 years – in fact the last 25 years feel like a weekend – then you’re looking to show the progression, and you’re looking at development and a career.

You got your first real attention not as a musician but as an actor starring as ‘Mad’ in Derek Jarman’s punk film Jubilee.
I was this girl from Birmingham and here I was in a room with Little Nell from The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Jenny Runacre, the award-winning actress and filmmaker, and Jordan and Adam Ant and Jayne County, and I went straight into the A-list party, as it were. It was unbelievable.

Was punk a good time for female musicians?
I would say there were many women within the punk movement, but we were grouped together as a whole body. Now I think women are treated respectfully as individuals with their individual sound, but it wasn’t really like that back then. It was, “Why isn’t this woman like this woman?” There was always comparison. But it just made us tougher people.

• Continue reading at recordcollectormag.com. (Photo © Toyah)

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.