THE HUMANS – In Concert
feat Toyah Willcox, Bill Rieflin & Chris Wong + special guest Robert Fripp
Tickets for for all three dates are on sale now. Tickets are priced £18 for the 22nd and 23rd and £18.50 for the 24th. They are available from the following outlets:
22nd February 2010: The Assembly, Leamington Spa 01926 523001, www.leamingtonassembly.com www.seetickets.com
23rd February 2010: The Junction, Cambridge www.junction.co.uk
24th February 2010: The Scala, London www.scala-london.co.uk, www.gigsandtours.com
• ‘These Boots Are Made For Walkin’ is going down a storm in New York, at The Bunkhouse, the legendary Long Island gay club. Clubbers have been enquiring about a dance remix. Maybe it’s time to get Ralphi Rosario, Benny Benassi, or Victor Calderone to do some humanising? (Thanks to Jimi Lalumia)
• To the left – The four photos of Toyah made available from The Humans’ ‘Quicksilver’ video shoot.
• ‘The Echoes Blog’ ran an article on The Humans version of ‘These Boots Are Made For Walkin’, commenting: “Toyah looks and sounds good at 51”. Read the full piece here.
• There is now a Wikipedia page on The Humans. Go here for that. Also, Bill Rieflin’s Wiki, here, gives a brief overview of his career, including some of the legendary bands he has worked/played with over the years: KMFDM, Ministry, Pigface, Revolting Cocks, and Swans to name but a few (we are not worthy!!)
• Patricia Fripp gave The Humans, and ‘These Boots Are Made For Walkin’, a mention at ‘Speaking Pro Central’ last week. Click here to view this.
• ‘We Are The Humans’ and ‘Bootz’ are both now available to download via other online music stores, as well as the ever reliable iTunes.
• A very short, and so-so, review of ‘We Are The Humans’ by Viv Hardwick at ‘The Northern Echo’. Check it out here.
A small selection of screen caps from the ‘These Boots Are Made For Walkin’ video. Please click on the caps for larger versions. The, brilliant, video can be viewed at YouTube here, and the single can be downloaded from iTunes here.
Good news for The Humans – just hours after it became available for download at iTunes ‘We Are The Humans’ placed at 187 in the Rock Album Chart.
A selection of Dreamscape ads, inspired by, and for, ‘We Are The Humans’ and ‘These Boots Are Made For Walkin’. Both are digitally released today. Please click on the ads for larger versions.
‘These Boots Are Made For Walkin’, the debut single by The Humans (featuring Robert Fripp), is released as a digital download today.
The Humans are three people: Toyah Willcox, Bill Rieflin (REM) and Chris Wong. On their first single release, These Boots Are Made For Walkin’ due for digital release on Monday 21 September, they are joined by legendary guitarist and musician Robert Fripp.
This new cover version, a 21st century twist on the Nancy Sinatra classic, is very much the sum of the disparate parts. Its deconstructed style, taken still further on their new album, is a radical departure for Toyah who conceived the band.
‘These Boots Are Made For Walkin’ will be available via iTunes, Amazon, 7digital, Play.com, HMV, Tesco and other digital music vendors.
Click on the cover to go to iTunes.
‘We Are The Humans’, the debut album by The Humans, is released as a digital download today.
The Humans are three people: Toyah Willcox, Bill Rieflin (REM) and Chris Wong.
Produced by Bill Rieflin, the band’s 10-song debut album was mixed in Seattle by Rieflin and Don Gunn and mastered by Simon Heyworth (Tubular Bells, Brian Eno) in Devon, UK.
Previously available only as a limited edition in Estonia, ‘We Are The Humans’, is released digitally on 21 September alongside ‘These Boots Are Made For Walkin’. The digital releases will be available via iTunes, Amazon, 7digital, Play.com, HMV, Tesco and other digital music vendors. A new edition of the album featuring the single as a bonus track will be available to buy from remembertheeighties.com from October.
Click on the cover to go to iTunes.
Further fantastic promotional imagery for ‘These Boots Are Made For Walkin’ by The Humans. The full versions of these are available at The Humans MySpace, The Official Toyah Facebook & The Official Toyah MySpace.
The Humans are featured at AWAL, complete with an interesting new photo of the band.
THE HUMANS are three people: Toyah Willcox, Bill Rieflin (REM) and Chris Wong. On their first single release, These Boots Are Made For Walkin’, they are joined by legendary guitarist and musician Robert Fripp.
This new cover version, a 21st century twist on the Nancy Sinatra classic, is very much the sum of the disparate parts. Its deconstructed style, taken still further on their new album, is a radical departure for Toyah (who already has 20 albums and 13 Top 40 singles to her credit) who conceived the band. It is due for digital release on iTunes on Monday 21st September, alongside the album, We Are The Humans.
Added to The Official Toyah You Tube last night, the online video for ‘These Boots Are Made For Walkin’ by The Humans (featuring Robert Fripp), with Toyah looking fantastic! The full-length Lips version of the video is also online.
News at The Official Toyah website has been updated today, with confirmation that the debut single by The Humans, ‘These Boots Are Made For Walkin’, will be released as a digital download next Monday, 21st September. Not only that, but the album ‘We Are The Humans’ will also be given a digital release on the same day. Both will be available from iTunes, Amazon, 7digital, Play.com, HMV, Tesco and other digital music stores.
A new edition of ‘We Are The Humans’, featuring ‘These Boots Are Made For Walkin’ as a bonus track, will be available at www.remembertheeighties.com from October.
What came first? The chicken or the egg? Check out Robert Fripp’s Diary entry from 27th August to see a sneak preview of the digital cover for ‘These Boots Are Made For Walkin’ by The Humans.
Toyah, during last night’s PA in Nottingham, revealed that The Humans’ new single, ‘Bootz’ (These Boots Are Made For Walkin’) would be available to download from iTunes on Monday 21st September.
While many continue to enjoy the ‘We Are The Humans’ album, The Humans are currently hard at work writing the follow up. The debut album is available here, and should be available for download via iTunes later this year.
A selection of screen caps from the ‘Quicksilver’ video. View the video at The Official Toyah YouTube channel. Click on the caps for larger versions.
Take a look “behind the scenes” of the recent shoot of the video for The Humans track ‘Quicksilver’.
This candid picture provides a backstage glimpse of Toyah during the fliming of the video, and is also a variation of the much talked about photo first revealed by Toyah’s Official website last month.
View the full photo at The Official Toyah Facebook and video at The Official Toyah YouTube channel.
The official photographs promoting The Humans song/video ‘Quicksilver’. The song is the featured track on a short film, by Stephanie Zarl of Zona Pictures, that will show around the world. View larger versions of both of these pictures at The Humans MySpace and The Official Toyah MySpace.
The Humans debut album, ‘We Are The Humans’, can be bought from Remember The Eighties. A brand new, recently recorded, single by The Humans will also be unveiled very soon.
The video for ‘Quicksilver’ by The Humans premiered last weekend at The Official Toyah YouTube channel. Click below to view the online promo.
Just announced by The Official Toyah Facebook: Toyah is filming videos for ‘Quicksilver’ and ‘Demigod’ soon.
• The Humans played their album launch gig in Estonia on Friday evening. Reports say that the concert went well.
• Unfortunately availability of ‘We Are The Humans’ has been slightly delayed.
• Remember The Eighties, the website the album is exclusively available through until it is released on iTunes, issued this information:
Thank you so much for pre-ordering the new album from Toyah / Bill Reiflin / Chris Wong’s new project ‘The Humans’.
In a perfect world the albums would be all packed up right now ready to be posted to you in the morning, however it turns out that the world is not quite perfect and although the jiffy bags are all addressed and stacked up, I still haven’t actually received the albums from the pressing plant. Apparently a printing problem has meant that a whole new set of covers has had to be printed which has led to delays with the delivery.
The albums are due to be delivered any day now (I’m afraid that at the moment I can’t be more specific than that) and will be packed and shipped out to you as soon as possible, but it only seemed fair to warn you that they might not be shipped tomorrow as planned. Sorry… [Thanks to Minna]
‘We Are The Humans’, the debut album by The Humans (Toyah, Bill Rieflin & Chris Wong), is now available for pre-order at Remember The Eighties.
A strictly limited Estonian edition of the album has been produced which is available to pre-order exclusively at RTE with dispatch on Friday 1st May.
