Toyah, Bad Manners plus Aly and Phil to play Stonehaven gigs
Stonehaven is in store for a fantastic line up of gigs in the coming months as an 80’s legend, ska kings and folk heroes are all due to appear.
Heading back to the 80’s Toyah Willcox will play for two nights at Stonehaven Town Hall on September 18 and September 19.
The event page on facebook says: “Toyah that vivacious singer from the 80s is out on tour and every bit as good as before and looking fantastic. Exclusive to Stonehaven Town Hall for two nights only, only dates north of Edinburgh in 2015.”
• Continue reading at the Mearns Leader.
Toyah Willcox to play Uplands venue with band The Humans
Homo Sapians began to evolve 200,000 years ago, but The Humans first appeared in Estonia in 2007.
The band is fronted by Toyah Willcox, who first announced herself to British cultural consciousness in the late seventies, first in Jubilee, the seminal piece of punk celluloid, and then forging her own solo musical career with a string of top 40 UK hits during the eighties, an explosion of colour and energy.
• Continue reading at the South Wales Evening Post.
Drummer Chris Wong playing with Toyah and the Humans plus Scarlett and the Cherry Reds in Medway and Thanet
If you plan to spend this weekend taking it easy, spare a thought for busy musician Chris Wong.
Not only will Chris be performing with Toyah and the Humans at Chatham on Sunday, but before that he will be multi-tasking on drums and percussion with blues and rockabilly trio Scarlett Rae and the Cherry Reds in Broadstairs on Friday, April 17.
Chris is mainly known as Toyah’s guitarist/bassist but, in this latter line up, he and frontwoman Andeecorr Price, otherwise known as Scarlett, form the driving rhythm section.
• Continue reading at Kent Online.
The interview with Toyah and Bill Rieflin, which aired on Monday night on Severn FM’s The Encyclopaedia of Rock, is now available to listen to online.
Beginning at approximately 43 minutes into the programme. Toyah talks the history of The Humans, and the album Strange Tales – with a play of the wonderful Amnesia – The second part of the interview, which includes Bill Rieflin explaining how he initially became a member of The Humans, begins at approximately 59 minutes in and runs for around 12 minutes.
• Listen here. (Click on 13/04/15 Aerosmith Von Hertzen Toyah and The Humans)
• Live 2015: More gigs have been added to Toyah’s concert itinerary for this year, including a few new “electric” concerts which are now titled: “Proud, Loud & Electric” – Visit the Official Gigs page…
• Toyah @ Twitter: Tweeting about last night’s second gig of The Humans tour: “It’s @GlosGuildhall 2nite. Nervous cause the fripp will b in the audience xxx” – Visit Twitter…
• Birmingham City Council: Living in Birmingham: Top 12 Birmingham Facts – 2.Birmingham is home to several legendary music acts including UB40, Duran Duran, ELO, Black Sabbath, Toyah Willcox, Joan Armatrading and Ruby Turner – Continue reading…
• Nitehawk Cinema: Urgh! A Music War: Take a trip back to early 1980s with this compilation of twenty-six powerful live performances by the eras best Punk, New Wave, and Post-Punk bands. Pre-party for Urgh! in Nitehawk’s street level bar at 10pm on both nights…Nitehawk teams up with Network Awesome for a very special screening of WOMEN IN PUNK at 10pm on Friday and Saturday. FREE entry and FREE Mike’s Hard Lemonade (until supplies last) – Continue reading…
• Eastbourne Borough Council: Legends Tribute Extravaganza Kicks Off a Packed Eastbourne Bandstand Summer Season!: Toyah Willcox, an award-winning rock legend will entertain audiences over Airbourne weekend, in a concert showcasing her greatest hits on 14 August – Continue reading…
• Maldon Standard: Family music festival, Soundstock, returns next month: Soundstock will be hosting Toyah, who will be performing her Up Close and Personal show – Continue reading…
Aaaaaaaah! seems like the type of crazy movie that you might have to watch when a little drunk or in a mood to be slightly disturbed. Written and directed by Steve Oram (known for Sightseers), Aaaaaaaah! stars Julian Barratt, Toyah Willcox, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Steve Oram, and Noel Fielding.
The film is said to be basically Romeo and Juliet meets Planet of the Apes. With no discernible dialogue, meaning all of the actors will be grunting and otherwise behaving like monkeys, this movie looks to be rather bananas and insane in nature. The trailer is a little NSFW due to some brief nudity and sexual themes.
• Continue reading at Gotcha Movies.
Toyah Willcox has enjoyed a successful career as a singer and an actress for nearly 40 years. Now she is going back to her roots to embark on a UK tour with rock band The Humans.
Toyah joins Lorraine on the sofa to talk about her forthcoming tour, why 80s music is still in demand and why she is still relevant after almost four decades in the business!
Toyah and The Humans telling strange tales tour
14/04/2015: GLOUCESTER
GUILDHALL; 16/04/2015: SOUTHAMPTON
THE TALKING HEADS; 17/04/2015: SWANSEA
THE GARAGE [WHITEZ]; 18/04/2015: LONDON
100 CLUB; 19/04/2015: CHATHAM, KENT
THE BRITANNIA
• Continue reading/Watch the interview at ITV/Lorraine.
Screen caps from this morning’s Lorraine. Click below for larger. Watch Toyah’s interview here.
Lorraine on ITV tweeted this morning: “‘Keep working and love life!’ says @toyahofficial as she prepares for her new tour“, and Toyah tweeted: “THANK U 2 @ITVLorraine 4 A FUN MORNING TALKING ABOUT THE HUMANS XXX“.
Toyah and Bill Rieflin were interviewed on The Encyclopaedia on Severn FM tonight.
The radio station has a “Listen Again” function at their website so the interview/show may possibly become available sometime this week.
First Teaser for Steve Oram’s Wonderfully Surreal AAAAAAAAH!
The first teaser has dropped for Steve Oram’s (Sightseers) directorial debut, Aaaaaaaah!, which is billed as “Romeo & Juliet meets Planet of the Apes”. Wowzers.
The high-concept film sees the film’s actors favouring grunts for traditional dialogue, a la Quest for Fire. That’s really all we know at this point.
Besides Oram, the film stars Alice Lowe, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Noel Fielding, Julian Barratt and Toyah Willcox.
• Continue reading at Quiet Earth.
She has been a household name since the eighties, and Toyah Willcox is heading to Gloucester Guildhall tonight (Dreamscape: It’s tomorrow night!) for an intimate gig with her band The Humans.
Toyah isn’t straying far from home when she plays at the Guildhall tonight. The Brummie-born singer lives just over the county border in Worcestershire.
“Looking back on my career I think I’m someone with a good voice who can express themselves,” says Toyah who lives in Pershore with her musician husband Robert Fripp.
“I don’t think you can define it by one subject. I’m a singer and an actress but I’ve also done very well as a businesswoman. But I like to create, I like to sing, I’m very good at that, I’m a good actress but I’m stylised. I can’t lose myself in a role so there’s limitations.”
Outspoken, free-spirited and strong-willed, on the surface Toyah appears to be your typical punk rock star. But she is now known for her smoky, jazz hall vocals.
• Continue reading at the Gloucestershire Echo. Browse Toyah & The Humans’ tour dates.
There’s not much to be said for this one (the trailer is only 34 seconds long after all) but a fan of surreal British comedy might get a few kicks out of the Aaaaaaaah! trailer. Aaaaaaaah! (yes, with eight A’s and the exclamation point) is the (probably mentally disturbed) brainchild of Steve Oram, who’s worked with some of the UK’s best (and weirdest) talents: he co-starred in, and co-wrote Ben Wheatley’s Sightseers; appeared in Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg’s The World’s End; acted in Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding’s The Mighty Boosh – Barratt and Fielding both have roles in Aaaaaaaah!; and acted with Nick Frost and Chris O’Dowd in Cuban Fury.
Aside from Oram, Barratt, and Fiedling, the cast includes Tony Way (Game of Thrones), Alice Lowe (Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace), and Toyah Willcox (Jubilee, Quadrophenia, and Teletubbies, of course).
• Continue reading at mxdwn.com (All That Matters in Movies).
The utterly legendary and brilliant Quadrophenia is airing again on ITV4 later this month.
Quadrophenia: ITV4: Thu 23rd April: 10.30pm
The Who wrote and produced this energetic story of a young man disillusioned with his life in 1960s London. Phil Daniels excels as the alienated anti-hero Jimmy Cooper. Director: Franc Roddam. Starring: Phil Daniels, Leslie Ash, Toyah Willcox, Philip Davis, Mark Wingett, Sting, and Ray Winstone. Also airing on ITV4 HD and Plus 1.
Celebrity Fantasy Homes: Home: Sunday 26th April: 3pm
Celebrity Fantasy Homes: Home: Monday 27th April: 1am
Celebrities hunt for a new home. Gaby Roslin helps punk-pop princess Toyah Willcox search for a second home, in Richmond upon Thames, with a budget of £650,000.
Toyah will be talking about The Humans, Telling Strange Tales, tour tomorrow morning on ITV’s Lorraine. Her appearance will be at 8.50.
Lorraine: ITV/STV: Mon 13th April: 8.30am
Morning show with a topical mix of entertainment, discussion and showbiz glamour, as well as featuring the latest fashion, food and celebrity gossip.
• Visit the Lorraine website at ITV.com.
Superstars set to rock Roxwell in charity family festival organised by mum-of-three
Eighties pop star Toyah Willcox and X Factor’s Next Of Kin are set to rock a charity family festival organised by a local mum-of-three.
Sharon Alford, 44, is using the contacts she’s amassed in an eight-year career working for local radio stations like Saint FM and Chelmsford Community Radio, to put on the event in aid of three charities close to her heart – Essex Air Ambulance, Chelmsford Community Radio and Stanley’s Heroes.
The 44-year-old of Princes Avenue, Mayland, said: “I know what a good job the Air Ambulance does and when I heard about Stanley’s Heroes on Twitter I thought that I had to do something to help the family.”
• Continue reading at the Essex Chronicle. Browse our Soundstock Festival 2015 news here.
Another photo of Toyah & The Humans last night at Trading Boundaries. Click on the photo to view a larger version of this, and more, at the Live 2015 page at Dreamscape’s Gallery. The Humans will be Telling Strange Tales next at Gloucester’s Guildhall on Tuesday – View the full tour schedule. (Thanks to Angus | Photo © Angus Turner)
• Proud, Loud & Electric: Angus also sent a couple of photos from Toyah’s gig at The Tivoli Theatre, Wimborne from the end of March – View at Dreamscape’s Gallery. (Thanks again to Angus)
The Humans last night at Trading Boundaries, Uckfield. The first gig of the Telling Strange Tales tour. Click on the photo to view a larger version of this, and more, at the Live 2015 page at Dreamscape’s Gallery. (Thanks to Paul | Photo © Paul Stephens)
First trailer and poster for Steve Oram’s Aaaaaaaah!
The cult of personality would be enough to make Steve Oram‘s Aaaaaaaah! into an incredibly appealing prospect, and very possibly a cult hit; this thing is just jam-packed with favourite figures from British comedy and music.
Just to scratch the surface, there’s Oram himself; his former stage comedy partner Tom Meeten and Sightseers co-star Alice Lowe; both halves of The Mighty Boosh; Tony Way; Toyah Willcox; and the music is by Willcox’s husband, Robert Fripp and his current band, The Crimson Projeckt.
But the real draw is the concept of the film, previously pitched by Oram as “Romeo and Juliet meets Planet of the Apes.”
None of the cast of characters get traditional dialogue, all of them left to communicate through grunts and groans, and their often-animalistic actions. This poster pretty much hits the nail on the head.
• Continue reading at Film Divider.
Ooooh! It’s The First NSFW Trailer For Steve Oram’s AAAAAAAAH!
We have been chomping at the bit here at TwitchFilm to get a look at Steve Oram’s directorial feature debut, Aaaaaaaah! (that’s eight “As”) and now the first teaser trailer for the film has arrived.
Pitched as “Romeo & Juliet meets Planet of the Apes”, Oram’s debut is an insanely surreal concept, with all performers eschewing traditional dialogue in favour of simian-like grunts, roars and howls. Featuring a who’s who of British comedy talent, including Oram himself, Alice Lowe, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Noel Fielding, Julian Barratt and 80s punk princess Toyah Willcox to name just a few, Aaaaaaaah! is quickly becoming one of the most hotly anticipated films of the year. It doesn’t have a release date yet, but it better be soon!
• Continue reading at TwitchFilm.
The Humans six-date UK Tour, Telling Strange Tales, kicked off last night in Uckfield. Toyah tweeted this great photo yesterday: “Thank u 2 “TRADING BOUNDARIES” for inviting THE HUMANS to open our tour 2nite. Fab venue. Cant wait xxx“. (Photo © Toyah Willcox)
