Things you thought you would never see #19 – Toyah wearing a Bird in Flight t-shirt!!! :) This is the new 2016 official design which will be on sale at Toyah’s acoustic and electric gigs this year. See Toyah’s tweet by clicking below. (Photo © Toyah Willcox)
Two great photos of Toyah: 1. A highly rare photo from 1980 during The Blue Meaning era, which has just recently surfaced, and 2. A photo Toyah tweeted this evening as she prepared to attend Quadrophenia: The Immersive Experience 2016 at the Eventim Apollo – formerly the Hammersmith Odeon. (Thanks to Paul Lomas for photo 1 | Photo 2 © Toyah Willcox)
Expect an announcement on March 1st from Toyah and Simon Darlow…
Toyah presents People’s History Of Pop this Sunday on BBC WM 95.6. A one-hour special for the radio station, airing at Midday.
The programme will be available to listen to live online or post-broadcast at BBC iPlayer.
People’s History Of Pop: BBC WM:
Sunday 7th February: 12pm
Toyah Willcox presents a special show about listener’s music memories and memorabilia.
• Visit the BBC WM People’s History Of Pop webpage here. Browse all of Dreamscape’s People’s History Of Pop here. See Toyah’s tweet about recording the programme here. (Photo © Toyah Willcox)
• Toyah’s New Year Message: Read at Twitter…
• Christmas Wrapping: Robert Fripp and WillyFred on Christmas morning…
• Encyclopedia of British Film: Toyah is now included in this book…
• The Toyah Willcox Fuschia: Is another step closer to the flower shops of the world…
• Compassion in World Farming: Used this photo of Toyah and WillyFred as part of their Christmas 2015 campaign.
A couple of recent photos Toyah has shared on Twitter – A fantastic mosaic – Willyfred Sings To The Birds & The Bees – for Willyfred the Wonder Rabbit by Julie Hand of themosaicroom.co.uk. Toyah also wished her Twitter visitors a Happy Winter Solstice yesterday… (Photos © Toyah Willcox)
Today is Toyah’s first day on the set of Lies We Tell, filming in, a rainy, Leeds.
To be released in 2016, Lies We Tell has been filming since the beginning of September around West Yorkshire in the UK. It stars Gabriel Byrne, Harvey Keitel. Sibylla Deen, Mark Addy, Reece Ritchie, Omi Puri and Emily Atack. It is written and directed by Mitu Misra and the Executive Producer is Santosh Sivan.
• View the full cast and crew at the film’s imdb entry. Follow Lies We Tell at Twitter. Browse lots of info on the film at Byrneholics.
Today Toyah retweeted Ultimate Classic Rock’s tweet about the 46th anniversary of the release of In The Court Of The Crimson King. Read an article on the album at Ultimate Classic Rock.
Toyah is currently onstage at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern, London. Here’s a pic! (Photo © RVT)
• Live 2015: Another trio of gigs – Toyah plays an Acoustic, Up Close & Personal date tonight at Vauxhall Tavern, London and tomorrow a Proud, Loud & Electric gig at The Flowerpot, Derby. On Saturday she is the opening music artist of the New Mills Festival 2015.
• Mansfield Chad: See Toyah in full flow at The Flowerpot: Iconic performer Toyah Willcox will be joined by her full band for a gig at The Flowerpot in Derby on Friday, September 11. The popular singer and actor is currently touring with her show, entitled Proud, Loud and Electric – Continue reading…
• Aaaaaaaah!: Another screening at Picture House Central, tomorrow night – View details…
• Get Ready To Rock: Gig review: Cropredy – Oxfordshire, 13-15 August 2015: Last year the festival had a proggy feel to it which I think really worked well but this year I think the attempt to mix in an 80′s pop feel hasn’t really paid off. The Proclaimers, Level 42 and Toyah actually played very good sets; for the folkies they were a bit leftfield – Toyah came out to huge applause and reeled off a set that included ‘It’s A Mystery’ alongside some great covers like ‘Rebel Yell’ and ‘Echo Beach’ – Continue reading…
• Toyah @ Twitter: Stay updated via Toyah’s Official Twitter page….
• Live 2015 +: New dates are sporadically being added to Toyah’s Official Gig page for the remainder of 2015, and also now into 2016 – Check if there’s an upcoming gig near you here…
Toyah performed, and Vintage TV recorded, an acoustic set yesterday for future airing as Live With… Toyah on the music channel (which is currently celebrating five years onscreen). Vintage tweeted: “Lovely, hugely talented @toyahofficial recording today for #LiveWith. See http://toyahwillcox.com & watch this space!” (Photo © Vintage TV)
A brilliant photo from last night, tweeted by Toyah this morning: “My first Premiere in Leicester Square was fabulous. Thank you to everyone at @Film4FrightFest“. (Photo © Toyah Willcox)
“Genuinely excited that (and my goodness she’s great in the film!) @toyahofficial will be in attendance for our AAAAAAAAH! World Prem!” Film4 FrightFest @ Twitter.
Toyah has a message for Jack Up The 80s. Click below to watch.
Another photo from The One Show shoot, tweeted by Toyah yesterday – Filming a special strand for @BBCOne The One Show. (Photo © Toyah Willcox)
Last week Toyah guested on Tracks Of My Years on Ken Bruce’s BBC Radio Two show – Here’s a catch-up of some extra related newsy bits…
• Official Toyah: Toyah Selects The ‘Tracks Of My Years’: Toyah has selected the Tracks of My Years for BBC Radio 2’s Ken Bruce Show which airs all of this week – Visit toyahwillcox.com…
• The Toyah Willcox Interview Archive: Read a full transcript of Toyah’s Tracks Of My Years week – including all her song choices and chat – at Lärwi’s site…
• Ken Bruce @ Twitter: Ken tweeted: “toyahofficial is choosing the #Tracksofmyyears all week with @realkenbruce starting with T Rex and Kate Bush…“.
• Tasmin Archer @ Twitter: Tasmin tweeted: “Toyah Willcox picks the Tracks of My Years,with songs from David Bowie & Tasmin Archer“.
• BBC Radio 2 Facebook: A listener posted: “Glad I listened to Toyah Willcox yesterday explain the meaning of Nights in White Satin. For the past 30 odd years I’ve been clueless as to its meaning…!”
• Shadow.com: Want to see what people say about Lana Del Rey? – Not sure if this is a Lana Del Rey website but they mentioned Toyah choosing Videogames on Ken’s show.
• Listen Again: The full week of programmes are available at BBC iPlayer until the end of July.
• Tracks Of My Years @ Dreamscape: Browse all of our news here…
Toyah tweeted a photo from yesterday’s One Voice concert – This is the third year running she has guested at the event at Rotherham’s New York Stadium. Click below to visit Toyah at Twitter. (Photo © Toyah Willcox)
• This photo reminded me of that fantastic National Trust shot from Autumn 2012.
• Toyah @ Twitter: Toyah is working with Simon Darlow. She tweeted a photo, saying: “In the studio with Darlow. So incredibly excited” – Continue to Twitter…
• Catmachine: Five Years On: I can’t believe that it’s already five years since I wrote the first blog in the I Was A Teenage Toyah Fan series, a series which turned into a book self-published on kindle and paperback – Continue reading…
• Scottish Daily Mail: Radio Choice: Toyah Willcox, who’s been touring the UK with the three-piece band The Humans, joins Ken Bruce (Radio 2, 9.30am) this week to pick her Tracks Of My Years. Toyah begins with songs from T. Rex and Kate Bush.
• England Events: Aylesbury: Live in the Park – part of Parklife Weekend: August 29, 2015 at Vale Park. in Aylesbury – Vale Park will be filled with continuous live music performed on a large outdoor stage by 80’s pop star TOYAH and a number of fantastic local bands playing an array of musical styles and genres from rockabilly, punk and new wave to well-known pop and rock covers – Continue reading…
• The Oxonian Review: An Insubstantial Pageant: A Question of Perspective in The Tempest – The effectiveness of putting Shakespeare on film is a vexed question. There are certainly those who find that all those words hang heavy in such a visual medium as cinema. More plentiful, though, are those who think that adding pictures to the supple and ambiguous wordscapes of the plays is a violent reductiveness – Continue reading…
