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Toyah & Robert at Glastonbury 2023: Press, reviews, photos, vidoes…

• The Guardian: Sunday at Glastonbury 2023: Elton John closes the festival in spectacular style – as it happened:

Toyah and Robert Fripp reviewed!
Acoustic stage, 4.10pm

Fresh from their popular pandemic covers series, husband-and-wife duo Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp appear on the misleadingly named Acoustic stage for a set of songs by artists that either the pop star or the King Crimson guitarist have worked with. Willcox, 65 and lithe in a glossy red catsuit, beckons their six-piece, besuited band (with Fripp front and center) to open with a fiery version of her hit Thunder in the Mountains. “We thought we were in the heavy metal tent, I’m really sorry,” she says afterwards, before shouting out her Birmingham hometown and fellow Brummies Black Sabbath – Continue…

• Financial Times: Glastonbury’s final day brings sense of an ending as Elton John bows out – Continue… (subscription required)

• Mojo: Queens Of The Stone Age, Weyes Blood And More At Glastonbury 2023, Reviewed – Continue…

• Rich’s Album Of The Day: Gig Of The Day: The pandemic Sunday Roast sessions made flesh as an eight piece. Great fun as Toyah and hubby Fripp tackle Paranoid, Heart Of Glass, It’s A Mystery and a host of other songs they’ve been involved in – Continue…

• Toyah & Robert – Live on the Acoustic Stage at Glastonbury photos – Continue…

• Toyah & Robert – Glastonbury Festival: 25.06.2023: Enter Sandman … Heroes … It’s A Mystery … Are You Gonna Go My Way.

A live version of the Posh Pop classic Space Dance filmed live at the Half Moon Putney.

Toyah and Robert Fripp talk the future of Sunday Lunch at Glastonbury 2023

The duo also talk about what David Bowie would have made of music in 2023, and how their upcoming tour is all about “keeping our clothes on and doing fantastic rock music”

Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox — known as Toyah & Robert — caught up with NME backstage at Glastonbury 2023 to tell about the future of their successful Sunday Lunch series, plans to hit the road, and how they handle hateful comments.

Since starting off the series as a bit of light-hearted relief during the pandemic, no one was more surprised by the sudden momentum than the couple themselves. Now, over three-years since they began Sunday Lunch, the duo have ventured out of the kitchen taken the show to the stage.

The latest of which included a debut slot at Glastonbury 2023 this weekend, where they delivered their brand of classic rock covers on the Acoustic Stage. Shortly before they took to the stage, they had a quick catch-up with NME…

NME: Welcome to Glastonbury! Let’s start by taking a look back to when you first started Sunday Lunch. Did the response catch you off guard? It seemed to get a lot of momentum very quickly…

Toyah Willcox: “It did surprise us. We were going for about eight months and it was growing and growing and growing. It started with one very simple post: 28 seconds of us jiving. Within five minutes it got about 100,000 replies from across the world. At that point, we realised that we’d posted something that basically cheered people up who were alone in lockdown.”

“NME almost championed us in a way, and what we loved about NME was they were linking the songs we were covering with the actual artists, and it had a phenomenal effect. Judas Priest wrote to us and said, ‘Thank you so much’ and we’d given them the best tour publicity they could have had when we covered ‘Breaking The Law’. They loved it!

• Continue reading at NME. (Image © Toyah Willcox)

The Changeling Toyah At Home announcement on Saturday 1 July

You’ll want to be “sitting comfortably” when you tune in to Toyah At Home at 11am on Saturday 1 July 2023.

It’s a special episode as Toyah will be announcing details of the much-anticipated reissue of the classic 1982 album “The Changeling” on Cherry Red Records. The Changeling can be pre-ordered from 10am on Monday 3 July 2023.

For collectors it’s worth marking your calendar now to secure limited edition exclusives from Cherry Red’s webshop!

• Continue reading at toyahwillcox.com. (Image © Toyah Willcox/Cherry Red)

This is incredibly exciting… New visuals and audio from Brave New World/The Changeling… one of the most iconic songs/albums of modern music, with visuals that still look ahead of time, some 41 years later!

See footage/Listen to unheard audio by clicking below – Watch Toyah announce the reissue this Saturday on Toyah At Home at You Tube and/or Facebook.

Weightless has been awarded Runner Up for Best Film at Brighton International Film Festival. At the same awards Weightless won Best Director for Lois Norman and Best Cinematography.

Watch the trailer for the short film Weightless starring Toyah Willcox as Maureen. Written by Louise Monaghan and directed by Lois Norman.

On a deserted East Sussex beach, a sixty-two year old woman struggles to face down her inner demons as she makes her way into the water.

• Saturday Morning Song: Echo Beach (1987) from Desire (Toyah & Robert – Live At Isle Of Wight Festival 2023) – Watch… • Toyah & Robert: UpBeat Moments – Watch… • Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch – Cream and lots of it – Watch…

Press for Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch – This week covering, and covered in, Cream. (Image © Toyah Willcox)

• NME: Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox douse themselves in cream while performing ‘Sunshine Of Your Love’: “It’s Cream all round” – Continue…

• Guitar.Com: Robert Fripp and Toyah cover themselves in cream while covering Cream: The latest installment of Sunday Lunch is as ridiculous as we’ve come to expect – Continue…

• Classic Rock/Louder: Toyah and Robert Fripp perform Cream cover, cover themselves in cream: Things get extremely literal in the Fripp-Willcox kitchen, with a cream-enhanced cover of Cream’s Sunshine Of Your Love – Continue…

• Consequence: Robert and Toyah Cover themselves in Cream with “Sunshine of Your Love”: The frisky couple take on the Cream classic for their latest “Sunday Lunch” performance – Continue…

• Brooklyn Vegan: Watch Toyah & Robert Fripp cover “Sunshine Of Your Love” with extra Cream – Continue…

• Yahoo!: Robert and Toyah Cover Themselves in Cream with “Sunshine of Your Love” – Continue…

• Guitar World: Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox cover Cream – as they get covered in cream: The couple take on Sunshine of Your Love with the help of dairy products – Continue…

• Brave Words: Robert Fripp & Toyah Perform Cream Classic “Sunshine Of Your Love” – Continue…

• Far Out: Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox cover Cream’s ‘Sunshine of Your Love’ – Continue…

• Official Toyah TikTok: Cream – Continue…

• DGM Live: Toyah & Robert’s Weekend – Continue…

Toyah: Old Grey Whistle Test: BBC Four: Saturday 8th July: 00.35am
Annie Nightingale presents a Christmas Eve performance by the punk princess at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, with a band including acclaimed drummer Simon Phillips. Songs include the hits It’s a Mystery and I Want to Be Free.

NB: I could be wrong but is this the first ever full repeat by the BBC? This has a running time of 1hr, 10m.

80s Greatest Hits: Channel 5: Friday 7th July: 10pm
1986. Series 1, episode 7. Tony Blackburn narrates this study of 1986 pop hits, with series regulars Toyah Willcox, Paul Gambaccini and Cheryl Baker joined by Sam Fox. Peter Gabriel’s Sledgehammer, Sinitta’s So Macho, Falco’s Rock Me Amadeus, and the Bangles’ Walk Like an Egyptian are some of the tracks being discussed.

“We realised during lockdown that classic rock changes people’s lives…”

Toyah and Robert Fripp on the healing powers of music: “We should live every year of our lives as if it’s the best year of our lives”

Robert Fripp and Toyah appeared on BBC Breakfast news this morning, 21 June, to promote their forthcoming appearance at Glastonbury, the first time either of them have played the Worthy Farm festival.

Asked about the Toyah and Robert’s Sunday Lunch videos “which spread such joy” during lockdown, Toyah gave a bit of insight into the thinking behind them.

“We realised during lockdown that classic rock changes people’s lives and it gives people the chance to visit really good memories. For me, it will be David Bowie’s Life On Mars, which I first heard when I was 12. Every time I hear that song, I’m taken back there. And very much the concept of what we are doing is taking people back to classic rock, but also introducing new generations – who’ve just come from the dance tent – to Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, or even introducing them to classic Blondie.”

The presenter commented that the age range of people entering Glastonbury for the festival was huge. “Let’s face it,” said Toyah, “we should live every year of our lives as if it’s the best year of our lives and age should not be something that we judge.”

• Continue reading at Classic Rock/Louder/Prog. (Photo © BBC)

Toyah guested on Absolute Radio’s My Absolute 80s on Thursday night. The first of a new series, with Toyah choosing the songs that defined the decade for her. Listen by clicking below.

Babs Michel: BBC Three Counties Radio: Saturday 24th June: 6am
Toyah guests on Babs Michel’s breakfast show this morning – at approximately 8.10am. Listen live or available at BBC Sounds later.

Sept/Oct Tour tickets on sale now!

After wowing crowds at Isle of Wight Festival & Glastonbury 2023, Toyah & Robert are bursting out of the Sunday Lunch kitchen to hit the road this September/October.

An evening of hits & rock classics including I Want To Be Free, Heroes, Sensational, Enter Sandman, Kashmir, Thunder in The Mountains & more!

Portrait Artist Of The Year: Sky Showcase: Saturday 24th June: 12pm
Portrait Artist Of The Year: Sky Arts: Saturday 24th June: 2pm
Portrait Artist Of The Year: Sky Arts: Sunday 25th June: 12pm
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)

Just announced: Toyah plays Newark Festival 2023 – Concert In The Castle – this Bank Holiday August weekend – on 27th, day three of the four-day festival. Info/Tickets – click below.

Tales Of The Unexpected: Sky Arts: Tuesday 4th July: 5.30pm
Tales Of The Unexpected: Sky Arts: Wednesday 5th July: 1.30pm
Tales Of The Unexpected: Sky Arts: Thursday 6th July: 9.30am
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.

If you were wondering what Robert Fripp and Toyah are like on tour, wonder no more

Much to humanity’s delight, pro-shot footage of Robert Fripp and Toyah performing Billy Idol’s Rebel Yell at the Isle Of Wight festival has emerged

Over the last few years, Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox have built a new, enthusiastic and unexpected audience, with the entire internet seemingly in thrall to their long-running-although-currently-dormant series of Sunday Lunch videos.

Could they cut it on the road? That was surely the question on everyone’s lips when the frisky duo announced a series of ‘Rock Party’ dates, during which they’d perform many of the songs that have so enriched our lives.

In late May the first audiences bore witness to the pair’s live antics, as the King Crimson man and his bride played a pair of local shows at Worcester’s Huntingdon Hall. Amongst the songs performed were Metallica’s Enter Sandman, Black Sabbath’s Paranoid, ZZ Top’s Sharp Dressed Man, and, perhaps most remarkably, Kashmir by Led Zeppelin.

• Continue reading at Classic Rock/Louder. See also Metal Sucks, Ultimate Guitar and Ultimate Classic Rock.

BBC Breakfast: Ahead of their Sunday performance at Glastonbury 2023 Catch Toyah & Robert on BBC Breakfast at 07:50am on BBC One, Wednesday 21st June (aka later this morning)…

Vectis Radio: Isle of Wight Festival 2023 – Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp on taking their Sunday Lunch on tour and the covers you haven’t heard yet: After their barnstorming set in the Big Top, Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp chat to Nik and Kieren about their upcoming tour, working together after 37 years of marriage and the tracks you haven’t heard them cover live… yet! – Listen at Audio Boom…

As previously mentioned, highlights from Toyah & Robert’s Isle Of Wight Festival set were included on Sky Arts coverage of the music festival over the weekend. Here is their performance of Rebel Yell. (Thanks to Minna)

Sky Arts aired a new career-spanning feature documentary, Call Me Kate, on legendary Hollywood great Katharine Hepburn last month. Toyah was included, and talks about meeting Katharine, and working with her – on The Corn Is Green (Thanks to Minna)

YouTube hits Toyah and Fripp at Isle of Wight Festival in Photos

The husband and wife musical partnership of Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp — both from strangely different but equally experimental musical backgrounds — performed their popular Sunday Lunch Live show in the Big Top.

It was enjoyed by the musically nostalgic and those of younger generations perhaps searching for their own musical roots to follow.

Sunday’s afternoon show was, as you would expect with Fripp, musically precise, while Toyah showed infectious, punk-rooted enthusiasm with her performance.

She performed a set which included some of her solo classics, It’s a Mystery and I Want to Be Free, together with some great pop standards, such as Bowie’s Heroes and Billy Idol’s Rebel Yell.

• Continue reading at Isle Of Wight County Press. Toyah & Robert were also included on Sky Arts’ Isle Of Wight Festival Highlights 2023, with further airings this week. See videos of Toyah & Robert at the Isle Of Wight at Toyah’s official Instagram.