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• Saturday Song: Marionette (Live 1981) – Watch… • Toyah & Robert: UpBeat Moments – Watch… • Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch – Bad Blood – Watch… (Image © Toyah)

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.

Secret Diary Of A Call Girl: Together TV: Tuesday 1st September: 9.30pm
Series 1. Episode 1. Adult drama based on the journals of Belle de Jour, starring Billie Piper as a high-class escort who enjoys what she does but has to keep it a secret from everyone in her personal life. Belle entertains two new clients – one of whom gets too close for comfort. With Toyah Willcox and Cherie Lunghi.

Secret Diary Of A Call Girl: Together TV: Wednesday 2nd September: 9.30pm
Series 1. Episode 2. Belle is invited to a prestigious adult party, but her client doesn’t want to join the action. Starring: Billie Piper, Toyah Willcox, Aleksandar Mikic, Jamie Sives, Aislinn Sands and Scarlette O’Harlette.

• Series One of Secret Diary Of A Call Girl first aired in 2007 on ITV. Toyah appeared in Episodes 1,2 and 8 (Photos © ITV)

We – me and my mate Mark – had an amazing day in Edinburgh last week. The city is always incredible during August when the festival is running. So vibrant, full of colour and seriously busy. It was lovely spending the day among it all, and we also had a fantastic afternoon tea at Malmaison (Chez Mal Edinburgh) on St. Andrew Square. Great day!

• See Dreamscape’s other 2026 “tour dates” :) here! (Photos © David Fleming)

Toyah plays Lytham Hall Proms on Saturday 29th August, and here’s a short promo video. Browse more details at toyahwillcox.com.

Favourite Singers With Nick Heyward: NOW 80s: Sunday 6th September: 7am
Mr Favourite Shirts is back on NOW 80s – this time he selects his Favourite Singers! Including some who influenced him the most such as David Byrne & XTC’s Andy Partridge.

Toyah Revelations… rare tracks, unseen images and deep archive material from the Safari years.

This unboxing looks at both editions of Revelations – B-Sides & Rarities – the 5CD box set and the grey smoke double vinyl. Across B-sides, instrumentals, alternate versions, demos and live recordings, it opens up a huge part of Toyah’s early catalogue, with plenty of previously unreleased material pulled from tape vaults and personal archives. Unboxing both editions in the video.

• Watch Revelations being unboxed at YouTube and Instagram.

The Chase: Celebrity Special: Challenge: Monday 7th September: 9am
Bradley Walsh hosts the quiz show as four celebrities take on the Chaser. Singer Toyah Willcox, ex-footballer John Barnes, writer Germaine Greer and heavyweight boxer Audley Harrison pit their wits against one of the country’s finest quiz brains in the hope of winning thousands of pounds for their chosen charities.

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)

2026 marks the 50th year of Toyah’s career! Her very first professional job, playing the role of Sue in the BBC’s “Second City First” television play, Glitter, aired in November 1976 – having been filmed in 1975.

Dreamscape had the privilege of interviewing Toyah 15 years ago (back in 2011)… “Toyah Talks Music”: We talked to her about rediscovering her early albums in the 30th anniversary year of Anthem, the, just-about-to-happen, From Sheep Farming To Anthem tour, Joel Bogen, her amazing sophomore solo studio album, Desire, and much more.

• Read the interview here. Browse all of Dreamscape’s  2026 Toyah 50 posts.

• Toyah & Robert: UpBeat Moments – Watch… • Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch – Give In To Me – Watch… (Image © Toyah)

We had a brilliant – and very sunny – day out in Arbroath & Carnoustie, both beautiful seaside towns on the East Coast of Scotland. Great visits to the beach and harbours of both places, delicious food, and a lot of laughs!

• See Dreamscape’s other 2026 “tour dates” :) here! (Photos © David Fleming)

Celebrity Help! My House Is Haunted: Really: Sunday 30th August: 11pm
Toyah Willcox. Series 1, episode 5. The team undergoes one of the most terrifying investigations yet when visiting Toyah Willcox, who has experienced strange activity in her home ever since she moved in. (Photo © Discovery)

Favourite Singers With Nick Heyward: NOW 80s: Sunday 30th August: 7am
Mr Favourite Shirts is back on NOW 80s – this time he selects his Favourite Singers! Including some who influenced him the most such as David Byrne & XTC’s Andy Partridge.

• Saturday Song: We Are (Live at Union Chapel) – Watch… • Toyah & Robert: UpBeat Moments – Watch… • Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch – Blitzkrieg Bop – Watch… (Image © Toyah)

Carol Decker’s 30 Rock Chicks!: NOW 80s: Tuesday 18th August: 8pm
Carol Decker’s 30 Rock Chicks!: NOW Rock: Sunday 23rd August: 5pm
T’Pau’s Carol Decker brings a bit of Heart and Soul to a countdown of ’80s ladies who like to rock! With Joan Jett, Tina Turner, Stevie Nicks and Pat Benatar. (as well as Toyah via the Thunder In The Mountains video).

Toyah, who has did pretty much everything through her 50-year career has come up with something completely innovative and different to anything that’s gone before during that career. She has designed a tableau for Blackpool illuminations. The stunning interactive display is titled “Wishing Star”.

Toyah said: “I am thrilled to be part of this year’s illuminations. As a child I visited Blackpool at Easter time and I was always enthralled by the Promenade and the sea. This memory is so strong, I wanted to create a display of light and story-telling that takes everyone back to their childhood selves, while enjoying the sea, the sky, the stars and the coast. My story is about a child and her guitar meeting new friends who make her stronger while flying over the sea.”

• Continue reading at toyahwillcox.com. See more photos at Toyah’s official Facebook. (Photo © Toyah)

As Toyah’s new studio album, Future Dreaming, is being finalised for release, take a look back – via Dreamscape’s huge news archive – at Toyah’s most recent studio album, Posh Pop.

Upon its release, almost five years ago, the album received great reviews from a number of magazines, there were some great articles published focusing on the album, fan reaction to the release was universally positive too. Toyah filmed videos for every song, and toured the album in late 2021/early 2022.

Toyah wrote and recorded each song almost entirely on her own – with only collaboration and input from Simon Darlow and Bobby Willcox. Toyah also filmed each video and captured all of the associated promo shots/photos with little outside assistance. Amazing!

The album charted at #22 on the Official UK Album Chart. Posh Pop became Toyah’s highest charting studio album since 1982, when The Changeling peaked at #6.

• Revisit the Summer Of Love of 2021 here, and browse all of Dreamscape’s 2026 Toyah 50 posts.

NB. When I look at the huge archive this website has created over the past 26+ years, and the work involved, when I could have not bothered to do any of it, I sometimes wonder why there’s been so much animosity directed at me, and I could name names. It’s just odd, but then it’s been going on for fucking decades now! I guess enthusiasm and positivity is threatening to it’s opposites!!

Dreamscape (Alternate Version) is premiering today, as a standalone video for #ToyahTuesday and the beginning of the countdown to the release of Revelations, after first being shown as part of Toyah At Home (July 2026)…

Toyah’s new B-Sides & Rarities album Revelations is released on 21 August 2026 on 2LP and 5CD Box Set. As we near closer to the album release here is a chance to hear a full preview of an upcoming track from the release. This is a new mix of Dreamscape by Joel Bogen which uses the song’s original arrangement as recorded in the 1983 album sessions at the Marquee Studios.

• Pre-order Revelations at Cherry Red. (Screenshot from a video that is © Cherry Red)

Toyah’s Blog for August is a Vlog with lots of news, as well as an update on the progress of Toyah’s new album, recently revealed as being called Future Dreaming. Watch at toyahwillcox.com or YouTube. (Screenshot from a video that is © Toyah)

I’ve just completed the Scotties In The City trail by Maggie’s cancer charity. It took me a few weeks and I visited 40 large scottie dog art sculptures all around Glasgow and some outwith. I absolutely loved it, visited loads of places I haven’t been to for years, saw some amazing art, spoke to some lovely people and all for a great cause. Here are just six from the 40 I visited.