Dreamscape is compiling Love Is The Law – The Complete Lyrics (though almost all of you will already have them if you own the original album or the recently released 30th Anniversary digital edition). We’ve reached the fifth song on the album – the sublime Martian Cowboy, co-written by Toyah, Joel Bogen, Simon Darlow and Phil Spalding. Click below to visit the new LITL – The Complete Lyrics page.
Check out the new Dreamscape Links page – A small but perfectly formed list of other great Toyah, and The Humans, websites – Including both official and fan resources.
Speaking of which, the fantastic Toyah Willcox Interview Archive is celebrating seven years online today – The site launched on 7th September 2006 and has brought us lots of great Toyah content over the last seven years. Happy Birthday to the Archive and Lärwi.
An update to the 2010- page at Dreamscape’s Gallery, with 20 new photos from some of Toyah’s recent gigs, appearances and events, including BBC Breakfast, Rock The Stadium in Falkirk, Club to Catwalk at the V&A, Tatton Park Picnic Concert, Jack Up The 80s, Upton Festival and Manchester Pride. Click below to visit the Gallery (the updates are at the foot of the page)
Welcome to September!! As Toyah’s Love Is The Law & More Tour grows closer I’ve created a new page at Dreamscape’s Gallery dedicated to the album, the original Rebel Run Tour and this year’s Anniversary Tour – There’s photos, official adverts & memorabilia, great fan shots from the 1983 tour and a selection of Dreamscape bits and pieces I’ve put together over the last year. Click below to visit.
• Visit Dreamscape’s other Tour Galleries: From Sheep Farming To Anthem 2011 – The Changeling Resurrection 2012 – The Changeling Resurrection II.
Check out Dreamscape’s Gallery – We have virtually thousands of Toyah photos to browse from every era of her career. If I can find the time at some point I’d like to make it even more comprehensive.
Welcome to July, and to the “new look” Dreamscape.
I thought it was time for a revamp, though I’ve left a few elements from the previous version to, hopefully, retain an air of familiarity.
All the latest Toyah news is still right here on the main page and the links above, as always, take you to the other sections of the site. Happy Browsing!!
More Toyah shots from a 1978 photo session have surfaced very recently. Until a year or so ago there were only two photos available from this collection, best known for an image used on the cover of ‘Record Mirror’ in January 1979, and now there are many more. I’ve updated Dreamscape’s Gallery with all now available from the session. Great shots of Toyah just after filming Quadrophenia and a very early band line-up. (Thanks to Andi)
A Gallery update: A trio of great shots of Toyah live at Kremlin, Belfast in August 2004. Click below to view larger versions of these. (Thanks to Jonathan David Smyth)
Something we haven’t done for a while… a look at which other places in the world people are visiting Dreamscape from. Toyah fans are all over the globe.
As always the majority of visits are from the UK, but as you can see, over the last 24 hours there have been visitors from France, USA, Germany, Australia, Spain and numerous other countries. This is just a snapshot of the last day or so, no doubt the list of locations will be quite different tomorrow or the next day!
Hello to everyone out there! What was the last album you played? I’m currently listening to the playlist I put together a few months ago.
• Click on the screenshot to view a larger version. Previous stats updates are available to view here.
Toyah tweeted the other day that the Autumn dates (marking the 30th anniversary of the Love Is The Law album and tour) will be announced soon. Now seems as good a time as any to take a look back at the other recent anniversary Toyah tours. Click on each of the below to view numerous photos from each tour. (Thanks to Angus Turner & Ray Sears)
The first Gallery update for a while. Great photos of Toyah from 1994 on the Leap 2 Dream UK Tour. These were taken at The Fridge, Brixton in April of that year. Click below to view more at Dreamscape’s Gallery. (Thanks to Mark Evans)
The final three covers for Imaginary Toyah Singles. I’ve had some great feedback about these and I’m glad some of you have liked them. The final three are ‘Dreamscape’ (from Love Is The Law), ‘Stand Proud’ (from the flexi that was included with the first 100,000 copies of Four More From Toyah) and ‘Angel in You’ (from In The Court Of The Crimson Queen). View full size versions of these and many others by clicking below.
Welcome to the first day of Dreamscape’s 14th year online… I don’t want to make too much of a fuss but to mark the occasion here’s a photo of Toyah from each year we’ve been online. Just like this website she has gone through many, many changes! Click to zoom.
Last month the complete Safari Records/Intergalactic Ranchhouse/Toyah Fan Club photo collection was added to Dreamscape’s Gallery. I’ve now finally also added a thumbnail link to the page on the Gallery menu.
The full collection of “Intergalactic Ranchhouse” and “Toyah Fan Club” photos, which originally accompanied the regular newsletters, were mailed out to fan club subscribers between 1980 and ’86.
There are also a few pre and post-fan club/official Toyah photos included too. (Thanks to Andi Westhorpe for the IRH/TFC collection. Thanks also to Paul Lomas)
Visit Dreamscape at Facebook for even more Toyah! The FB page mostly features “Classic Toyah” posts, sharing photos of Toyah from the past, along with occasional up-to-date news. There are already 100s of Toyah photos to browse. Please “like” the page too – Thanks!
Sporadic “Classic Toyah” content will still be posted here, along with the latest news updates.
It’s the penultimate Imaginary Toyah Singles update. Four more covers that don’t, or ever did, exist, though luckily for us all the great songs are real: ‘Haunted’ (from The Vow 12″), ‘Baptised in Fire’ (from the Rebel Run 12″), ‘Heal Ourselves’ (from In The Court Of The Crimson Queen) and another cover for ‘Elocution Lesson’ (from Anthem). View full size versions of these and many others by clicking below.
A few more covers for Imaginary Toyah Singles: ‘Elocution Lesson’ (from Anthem), ‘She’ (from The Blue Meaning), ‘Street Addict’ (b-side of Thunder In The Mountains) and ‘Space Between The Sounds’ (from Minx). View full size versions of these and many others by clicking below.
New to Dreamscape’s Gallery: The full collection of “Intergalactic Ranchhouse” and “Toyah Fan Club” photos, which originally accompanied the regular newsletters, mailed out to fan club subscribers between 1980 and ’86. There are also a few pre and post-fan club photos included too. (Thanks to Andi Westhorpe for the IRH/TFC collection. Thanks also to Paul Lomas)
Pay a visit to Dreamscape’s shiny new Facebook page, and please give us a “like” while you are there. Over the last few days we’ve been posting lots of Toyah bits & pieces, as well as various “collections”, including The Blue Meaning, Thunder In The Mountains, Brave New World, The Ieya Tour 1980, Rock & Pop Awards 1982 and Melissa Caplan.
The positive feedback for Imaginary Toyah Singles has been something of a surprise. I thought about doing it a while ago and then, like so many other things, promptly forgot about it again. I’m glad some of you are enjoying it. I’ve added another three: Voodoo Doll (especially for Lärwi); Martian Cowboy and Kiss The Devil.
Check out the latest addition to Dreamscape: A page dedicated to Hormonal Housewives, the theatre show that Toyah will tour with through March, April and May.
Dreamscape’s page includes info, photos and the full tour dates. I’ve also added direct links to the Hormonal Housewives page at each theatre website (just click on the theatre’s name).
Hormonal Housewives 2013 opens at the Churchill Theatre, Bromley on Tuesday 5th March and goes country wide over the following three months. The complete dates are also available at The Official Toyah Gigs page.
(Thanks to Valeria Carboni & Jamie Wilson Productions)
