80s Stars – Then & Now!: NOW 80s: Saturday 30th September: 3am
Where are they now? Classic hits, followed by some recent songs – Including Pet Shop Boys, Kylie, Toyah, The Stones, Gary Numan, The Pretenders, New Order, Rick Astley & T’Pau!
• Saturday Song: In The Fairground (Live 1982 Vintage) – Watch… • Toyah & Robert: UpBeat Moments – Watch… • Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch – Silverchair! – Watch…
Press for Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch – This week covering Freak by Silverchair. (Image © Toyah Willcox)
• Brooklyn Vegan: Watch Toyah & Robert Fripp cover Silverchair’s “Freak” – Continue…
• Brave Words: Robert Fripp & Toyah Get Their “Freak” On With Silverchair Cover: New Sunday Lunch Video Streaming – Continue…
• Far Out: Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp cover Silverchair’s ‘Freak’ in new ‘Sunday Lunch’ video – Continue…
• Official Toyah TikTok: Freak – Continue…
• DGM Live: Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch – Continue…
Toyah & Robert Fripp record Relax with Trevor Horn
Superproducer Trevor Horn presents Echoes – Ancient & Modern, his Deutsche Grammophon debut album, featuring fresh orchestral takes on 11 iconic tracks. The booklet notes feature an interview in which Paul Morley talks to his long-time friend and collaborator about how he picked the right artists to help him transform familiar songs into something magical and new.
Due for release on 1 December 2023, full release details will be announced shortly.
Horn himself sings vocals on the Roxy Music classic “Avalon”, as well as producing Marc Almond, Tori Amos, Rick Astley, Andrea Corr, Steve Hogarth, Lady Blackbird, Jack Lukeman, Iggy Pop, Seal and Toyah Willcox & Robert Fripp in tracks originally performed by Pat Benatar; The Cars; Depeche Mode; Frankie Goes to Hollywood; Billy Idol; Joe Jackson; Grace Jones; Kendrick Lamar; Nirvana and Yes.
Tracklist:
01. Swimming Pools (Drank) feat. Tori Amos
02. Steppin’ Out feat. Seal
03. Owner Of A Lonely Heart feat. Rick Astley
04. Slave To The Rhythm feat. Lady Blackbird
05. Love Is A Battlefield feat. Marc Almond
06. Personal Jesus feat. Iggy Pop
07. Drive feat. Steve Hogarth
08. Relax feat. Toyah Willcox & Robert Fripp
09. White Wedding Feat Andrea Corr with Jack Lukeman
10. Smells Like Teen Spirit feat. Jack Lukeman
11. Avalon
• Continue reading at toyahwillcox.com.
Toyah is guesting through five episodes, during the second week of the new 20 week, 100 episode, series of Richard Osman’s House Of Games, beginning on 2nd October on BBC2.
Each episode airs at 6pm and will be available at BBC iPlayer after broadcast.
Richard Osman’s House Of Games: BBC2: Monday 2nd October: 6pm
Monday. Series 5, Episode 6. Chris Hughes, Debra Stephenson, Inel Tomlinson and Toyah Willcox test their general knowledge skills before Richard Osman announces the day’s winner.
Richard Osman’s House Of Games: BBC2: Tuesday 3rd October: 6pm
Tuesday. Series 5, Episode 7. Chris Hughes, Debra Stephenson, Inel Tomlinson and Toyah Willcox compete in the weekday general knowledge quiz, hosted by Richard Osman.
Richard Osman’s House Of Games: BBC2: Wednesday 4th October: 6pm
Wednesday. Series 5, Episode 8. Chris Hughes, Debra Stephenson, Inel Tomlinson and Toyah Willcox test their general knowledge skills on this week’s House of Games.
Richard Osman’s House Of Games: BBC2: Thursday 5th October: 6pm
Thursday. Series 5, Episode 9. Every day this week, celebrity contestants Chris Hughes, Debra Stephenson, Inel Tomlinson and Toyah Willcox take on a series of quiz rounds selected by the host, quiz legend Richard Osman.
Richard Osman’s House Of Games: BBC2: Friday 6th October: 6pm
Friday. Series 5, Episode 10. The celebrities face their final quizzes, and the week’s winner is announced.
• Visit the House Of Games BBC website. Tune in each evening or catch-up on BBC iPlayer. (Photo © BBC)
With just a week to go until the anticipated release of the expanded, deluxe remaster of The Changeling, this week’s Saturday Song is a live 1982 performance of In The Fairground. The track comes from the 1981 EP Four More From Toyah which features as part of the bonus tracks on CD1 of the 2CD+DVD edition. Released on 29 September on Cherry Red Records.
• Pre-order The Changeling Super Deluxe Box Set & other formats.
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen party with Toyah Willcox and Jilly Cooper
Rock and roll royalty, authors and artists all congregated at an art gallery in Burford to see the opening night of Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen’s first solo painting exhibition.
The interior designer – who lives in Siddington with his wife Jackie and is best known for appearing on BBC programme Changing Rooms – has recently turned his back on presenting to pursue more creative aspirations.
• Continue reading at the Evesham Journal. See also Wilts & Gloucestershire Standard.
Carol Decker’s 30 Rock Chicks!: NOW Rock: Thursday 28th September: 10am
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)
At Home In The Cotswolds with Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp
Fancy a delicious treat? Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp are taking their stonkingly popular Sunday Lunch rock video-performances on tour. Katie Jarvis asks all the important questions, including which of them does the washing up
It’s the first week of lockdown: a Sunday in April 2020. Six-am and a warm sun is rising.
In the outside world (whatever that might mean in April 2020), everyone is feeling unnerved; scared, even. The pandemic has started; people are prisoners in their own homes; time on their hands but – in a possible first – no one has the slightest idea what to do with it.
Oh – except for Toyah Willcox, that is.
Out in the garden of her Pershore home, she’s doing what she feels to be The Obvious. ‘If we’re stuck in this house for weeks,’ she thinks, ‘I’m going to put a ball gown on.’
Which she does. Pearlescent, fishtail, clingy, strappy, sheer; one of those inspired charity-shop buys.
• Continue reading at Great British Life.
The countdown to the first date of Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch Rock Party Tour has begun. As of today there are now 9 days to go to slink, groove and rock. A number of the dates have already sold out, or have limited ticket availability. Join the countdown at Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and You Tube Shorts.
• Saturday Songs: Ieya (Vintage 1982) – Watch… • Toyah & Robert: UpBeat Moments – Watch… • Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch – Have Love Will Travel – Watch…
Press for Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch – This week revisiting their cover of Have Love Will Travel, previously released by The Sonics, and Richard Berry. (Image © Toyah Willcox) NB: This was a revisit but a few online magazines reported it as being a new cover!
• NME: Watch Robert Fripp and Toyah cover ‘Have Love Will Travel’ for Sunday Lunch sessions: Another lively cover for their viral video series – Continue…
• Guitar.Com: Robert Fripp and Toyah pack their bags in new Have Love, Will Travel Sunday Lunch cover: The world’s wackiest music duo take on The Sonics’ version of Richard Berry’s 1959 classic – Continue…
• Far Out: Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp share raunchy video for cover of ‘Have Love, Will Travel’ – Continue…
• Official Toyah TikTok: Have Love Will Travel – Continue…
• Official Toyah Threads: Continue…
• DGM Live: Toyah & Robert’s Weekend – Continue…
Last weekend’s Saturday Song was a 1982 vintage TV clip of Ieya filmed for Pebble Mill. This performance features on the 2CD+DVD Edition of the remastered reissue of The Changeling, out 29 September on Cherry Red Records.
• Pre-order The Changeling Super Deluxe Box Set & other formats.
Toyah unboxes The Changeling‘s gorgeous Super Deluxe box set… Click on the screenshot to watch at You Tube. (Image from a video that is © Toyah Willcox)
With just over 1 week to go until the release of the remastered and expanded editions of The Changeling, we get an advance sneak preview of the Super Deluxe Edition of the album, unboxed by Toyah herself.
• Pre-order The Changeling Super Deluxe Box Set & other formats.
A very exciting entry for The Changeling series of Toyah Tuesday episodes is coming this, yup, Tuesday.
Toyah will be unboxing the Super Deluxe Edition of the forthcoming release of the classic 1982 studio album, which is now less than two weeks away – on Friday 29th September!
Official Toyah say: With just over 1 week to go until the release of the remastered and expanded editions of The Changeling, we get an advance sneak preview of the Super Deluxe Edition of the album, unboxed by Toyah herself.
• Pre-order The Changeling Super Deluxe Box Set & other formats.
Toyah Willcox says a Sunday Lunch movie is in the works
She says there’s a documentary crew following her and her husband Robert Fripp and “quite a big” production company working on an idea.
According to a new interview with Toyah Willcox, a Sunday Lunch movie is in the works.
Willcox and her husband, King Crimson‘s Robert Fripp might be accomplished musicians in their own right, but they shot to prominence with a new audience at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic when they began uploading videos to YouTube.
Entitled Toyah and Robert’s Sunday Lunch, their videos feature covers of well-known songs, with their cover of Metallica‘s Enter Sandman receiving over 8.4 million views to date.
They’ve been on tour with it, and now it looks as though there’s even going to be a movie too. Speaking to eonmusic, Willcox explains, “Well, the Sunday Lunch phenomenon, which is a worldwide phenomenon which a movie’s being made about, it’s basically, we picked up on classic rock, and our treatment of rock is; if you can teach Mozart and Beethoven in schools, then why can’t you teach classic rock? Because that’s what it is now; rock from Led Zeppelin, rock from Black Sabbath; it’s classic, it’s never going to go away. And it’s something that I think, kids would really love learning about.”
Continue reading at Guitar.Com. See also: NME, Far Out Magazine, Metal Injection.
“WE ARE PRESENTING THE SHOW WITH WHAT WE REGARD AS CLASSIC MUSIC NOW” TOYAH TALKS SUNDAY LUNCH
Toyah is an 80s culteral icon. From punk princess to film and stage actor, presenter, author, and torch carrier for those who relish being an outsider. Aside from her 80s hits including ‘It’s A Mystery’ and ‘Thunder in The Mountains, Toyah and her husband Robert Fripp have transcended generation gaps and brought us great music and performances with their legendary Sunday Lunch shows on social media.
We caught up with Toyah at Rewind South
PHOTOGROUPIE
How does it feel to be back at Rewind?
TOYAH
I love it. I do 20 minutes. Every other night I’m doing two and a half hours, so this is really lovely. It’s fun. I can give it 150% and not worry about act two.
PHOTOGROUPIE
Now I know you’re on the road with Robert tell us about that.
TOYAH
I’m on the road now. I’ve been on the road since March. The Sunday lunch official tour starts at the end of September through October.
• Continue reading at Photogroupie.
One of the ultimate Toyah fan favourites Angel & Me receives new life in this official 2023 lyric video. In celebration of the 2023 deluxe expanded and remastered editions of the album The Changeling, the lyric video uses previously unseen 1982 B-roll footage from the set of the Brave New World video. © 2023 Cherry Red Records. Edited/produced by Craig Astley.
• Pre-order The Changeling Super Deluxe Box Set & other formats.
Toyah joined Ken Bruce for Golden Years and took us through the year of 1972. She tells Ken about her love for Roxy Music and Elton John amongst others. Toyah talks about the impact of the 1970s and recalls what she remembers about the decade.
She also shares a story about her early life in school and how she may have cause some trouble in school. One story involves several alarm clocks, a school stage and a former Prime Minister!
• Listen to the great interview below or at You Tube.
“It’s a worldwide phenomenon!” Toyah reveals that talks have begun to make Toyah and Robert’s Sunday Lunch: The Movie a reality
Who’s ready for Toyah and Robert Fripp’s Sunday Lunch on the ‘silver screen’?
Toyah has revealed that discussions have begun on making a movie of the hugely popular YouTube series Sunday Lunch she hosts with her partner, Robert Fripp.
The series, which sees the former punk heroine and King Crimson’s leader cover songs from their kitchen in Pershore, Worcestershire, started life during lockdown, and has grown into a “phenomenon”, according to the singer. There are currently 147 videos filed under the Sunday Lunch banner.
Toyah made the revelation while speaking to eonmusic’s Eamon O’Neill ahead of her performance at Rewind South in Henley-on-Thames in August.
On how the YouTube series has taken off, Toyah says, “Sunday Lunch came about because we posted one clip, 28 seconds, something like 19th of April 2020, and we had 100,000 replies within five minutes from people who were just desperate, absolutely desperate. They were on their own. They were in lockdown. They didn’t know when they’d be able to leave their apartments, and we, Robert and I realised that this was at that particular time, a very lonely and frightened world. So we decided to keep posting, and it grew from there.
• Continue reading at Classic Rock/Louder. See also: Ultimate Classic Rock, Loudwire, Brave Words, Metal Sucks.
Toyah’s blog for September is available to read at toyahwillcox.com.
Weightless has been nominated for Best Female Led Short and Best Experimental Drama at New Renaissance Film Festival London.
Tales Of The Unexpected: Sky Arts: Monday 18th September: 5.30pm
Tales Of The Unexpected: Sky Arts: Tuesday 19th September: 1.30pm
Tales Of The Unexpected: Sky Arts: Wednesday 20th September: 9.30am
Tales Of The Unexpected: Sky Arts: Saturday 23rd September: 9am
Blue Marigold. Series 5, Episode 1. Dropped by her agency for her diva-like behaviour, supermodel Marigold’s mental health deteriorates. Years later, she plots a comeback. Director: Giles Foster. Starring: Toyah Willcox, Ralph Bates, Sharon Duce, Helen Fraser, Billy Hamon, Edward Jewesbury.
