Toyah On TV: Greatest 80s Songs: Channel 5: Sunday 27th August: 11.30pm 1989. Series 1, episode 10. Jackie Brambles narrates this look back at 1989, the era of Madonna, Milli Vanilli and Jason Donovan. Toyah Willcox, Paul Gambaccini, Cheryl Baker and Jenny Powell add their thoughts on the year when the Bangles’ Eternal Flame was a huge hit, Lisa Stansfield sang All Around The World, and Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers were almost unstoppable.
To celebrate the upcoming expanded & remastered reissue of The Changeling, Deezer have curated their very own ‘100% Toyah’ playlist, filled with hits and highlights from Toyah’s music career. Deezer users can stream by clicking below.
Preview track time! The 2023 remaster of the classic Dawn Chorus is available digitally this Friday. The 2-track release also includes the fan favourite 6:55 Special Mix, available digitally for the first time.
Pre-save the track now by clicking below on the digital sleeve, featuring another previously unseen photo of Toyah from The Changeling.
Get some of the inside track on the song tonight at 6pm in an exclusive clip from the forthcoming 2CD+DVD of The Changeling at Facebook and You Tube.
Nice moves, Robert! Watch Fripp and Toyah’s backstage dance-off
Robert Fripp’s a 21st-century dancing man in new footage shared ahead of his autumn live dates with Toyah
We’re used to seeing Toyah Willcox throwing shapes onstage and in Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch series, but now her husband Robert Fripp has been captured getting his groove on backstage.
Filmed by Willcox just moments before the pair were due to perform at Wickham Festival in Hampshire on August 6, the footage shows the King Crimson guitarist getting lost in Rod Argent’s rather splendid extended Mellotron solo in The Zombies’ classic She’s Not There.
• Saturday Morning Song: Good Morning Universe (1981) from the Four More From Toyah EP (Live In Germany) – Watch…• Toyah & Robert: UpBeat Moments – Watch… • Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch – Shout At The Devil – Watch…
Last weekend’s Saturday Song was a vintage 1982 performance of the classic single Good Morning Universe, live in Germany.
Find the remastered version of Good Morning Universe and the TOTP performance of the song on the remastered deluxe 2CD+DVD edition of Toyah’s classic 1982 album The Changeling released on 29 September.
• Brooklyn Vegan: Watch Toyah & Robert Fripp revisit their cover of “Smoke On The Water” – Continue…
• Brave Words: Toyah And Robert’s Sunday Lunch Covers Deep Purple’s “Smoke On The Water” – “We Gave An Impromptu Concert At 6 In The Morning By The River Avon” – Continue…
• Official Toyah TikTok: Check out lots of clips from Toyah & Robert’s recent gigs and festival appearances – Continue…
Preview track time! The 2023 remaster of the classic and fan favourite Angel & Me is available digitally this Friday. It’s digital B-Side is the previously unreleased Work In Progress Mix from CD2 of the 2CD+DVD edition.
Pre-save the track now by clicking below on the digital sleeve, featuring a previously unseen photo of Toyah from The Changeling.
Get some of the inside track on the song tonight at 6pm in an exclusive clip from the 2023 Toyah interview at Facebook.
• Saturday Morning Song: Angel & Me (1982) from The Changeling (Live At Islington Academy 2018) – Watch… • Toyah & Robert: UpBeat Moments – Watch… • Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch – All Right Now – Watch…
Last weekend’s Saturday Song is a specially filmed concert performance of the classic Angel & Me, a song from the 1982 album The Changeling. Filmed at the o2 Academy Islington, November 2018.
TOYAH – LIVE AT THE RAINBOW / LIVE AT DRURY LANE (CHERRY RED)
These two releases now available form a perfect set of stepping stones leading from the club-venue rawness of Toyah! Toyah! Toyah! to the theatrical, large scale Changeling shows which birthed Warrior Rock. They have been a long, long time coming, and they are most welcome to say the least.
Continuing the excellent Toyah reissue series comes the bonus of two albums, both originally recorded in 1981, to follow up the slightly earlier Toyah! Toyah! Toyah!, recorded the previous year. Interestingly, however, these two albums – which nicely bridge the gap between the raw Toyah! Toyah! Toyah! album and the later more populist Warrior Rock double – are less reissues than they are entirely new releases. Live At The Rainbow, of course, from a February 1981 show, was a popular video release back in the day, but oddly enough has never seen the light of day in audio form until now. Live At Drury Lane, on the other hand, is a show from the latter end of that same year, originally broadcast by the BBC on the annual Old Grey Whistle Test Christmas In Concert programme, and has only ever been available, for a relatively short time in incomplete form, on a BBC videotape called Good Morning Universe. The differences between the two releases really highlight how much was going on within a few months of this highly successful year, and is a large part of what makes these releases a fascinating back-to-back listen for fans.
• Continue reading at Velvet Thunder. Live At The Rainbow and Live At Drury Lane are available in both CD+DVD and colour 12″ vinyl from Cherry Red Records.
The Janice Long Review Show “The Changeling” (2013)
This programme excerpt from 2013 sees Toyah discuss the album The Changeling, and its then recent celebration Resurrection Tour, with the late Janice Long for her Album Review Show. Also discussing are Paul Sexton and Trevor Horn.
• Pre-order The Changeling, on 2CD+DVD, neon pink 12″ vinyl LP, Super Deluxe Limited box set, at Cherry Red.
Secret Diary Of A Call Girl: That’s TV: Friday 28th July: 1.45am 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: That’s TV: Friday 28th July: 2.10am 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.
