Greatest 80s Songs: Channel 5: Sunday 3rd September: 11.20pm
1983. Series 1, episode 4. Simon Bates narrates this look at the music of 1983, featuring interviews with Toyah Willcox, Paul Gambaccini, Cheryl Baker, Carol Decker, Jenny Powell and other famous faces. Among the featured tracks are Eurythmics’ Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This), New Order’s Blue Monday, and Bad Boys by Wham!
It’s Toyah Tuesday and as The Changeling deluxe releases approach Official Toyah are revisiting songs and footage related to the album from then and now. This 2021 performance is an intimate rendition of the classic single Brave New World.
• Pre-order The Changeling Super Deluxe Box Set & other formats.
Toyah and Robert were featured in the Mail On Sunday this past weekend, with a comprehensive feature/review of Cropredy Festival 2023.
• Saturday Morning Song: Dawn Chorus (1982) from The Changeling (Unplugged) – Watch… • Toyah & Robert: UpBeat Moments – Watch… • Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch Revisited – All My Life – Watch…
Press for Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch – This week revisiting their cover of Foo Fighters’ All My Life. (Image © Toyah Willcox)
• Brooklyn Vegan: Watch Toyah & Robert Fripp revisit Foo Fighters’ “All My Life” – Continue…
• Brave Words: Toyah And Robert Fripp Revisit Sunday Lunch Performance Of Foo Fighters’ “All My Life” – Continue…
• Official Toyah TikTok: Continue…
• DGM Live: Toyah & Robert’s Weekend – Continue…
Last weekend’s Saturday Song was a specially filmed acoustic performance of the classic Dawn Chorus, a song from the 1982 album The Changeling.
• Pre-order The Changeling Super Deluxe Box Set & other formats.
Portrait Artist Of The Year: Sky Arts: Wednesday 30th August: 8pm
Celebrities V Kids Special. Nitin Ganatra, Anita Mangan, Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, Toyah Willcox, Leigh Francis and Gemma Cairney join six school pupils selected as part of Sky Arts Access All Arts initiative to paint portraits of Konnie Huq, Lee Ridley and Chi-Chi Nwanoku. (Photos © Toyah Willcox)
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.
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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.
• Continue reading at Classic Rock/Prog.
• 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…
Press for Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch – This week revisiting their Mötley Crüe cover. (Image © Toyah Willcox)
• Brooklyn Vegan: Watch Toyah & Robert Fripp revisit Mötley Crüe‘s “Shout At The Devil” – Continue…
• Brave Words: Robert Fripp & Toyah Sunday Lunch Revisited – Mötley Crüe Classic “Shout At The Devil” – Continue…
• Official Toyah TikTok: Continue…
• DGM Live: Toyah & Robert’s Weekend – Upbeat Groovy Moments! – Continue…
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.
• Pre-order The Changeling Super Deluxe Box Set & other formats.
It’s Toyah Tuesday and as The Changeling release approaches Official Toyah are revisiting some vintage footage.
This 1982 interview is from CBTV’s Hot Seat slot. Premieres at 6pm at You Tube and Toyah’s official Facebook page.
Toyah’s blog for August is available to read at toyahwillcox.com.
• Toyah At Home: August 2023 – Watch… • Toyah & Robert: UpBeat Moments – Watch… • Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch – Smoke On The Water – The Reaction! – Watch…
Press for Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch – This week revisiting, and reacting to, their cover of Deep Purple’s Smoke On The Water. (Image © Toyah Willcox)
• 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…
• DGM Live: Toyah & Robert’s (Online) Weekend – Watch…
A backstage chat with Toyah, at Rewind North 2023… talking lucky charms, pre-gig rituals and much more!
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.
Greatest Hits Radio caught up with Toyah at Rewind Festival Scotland last week, and she shared her memories of creating some iconic music videos. Click below to watch… (Image © Greatest Hits Radio)
• 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…
Press for Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch – This week covering Free. (Image © Toyah Willcox)
• Brooklyn Vegan: Watch Toyah & Robert Fripp cover Free’s “All Right Now” – Continue…
• Brave Words: Watch Toyah And Robert Fripp Perform Free Classic “All Right Now”; New Sunday Lunch Video Posted – Continue…
• Official Toyah TikTok: A brand new Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch episode – All Right Now – Continue…
• DGM Live: All Right Now – Continue…
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.
• Pre-order The Changeling Super Deluxe Box Set & other formats.
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.
