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BBC News reporting on Toyah being honoured on the King’s Heath ‘Walk Of Fame’.

• Also covered, so far, by The Brummie, i West Midlands and My Headlinez.

• Toyah tweeted a great photo yesterday from a ‘National Trust’ photo shoot that took place at Croome Park, Worcestershire this week. (Photo © Toyah Willcox)

• Tracey Ullman’s Toyah impersonation, from the first series of Three Of A Kind, has just been uploaded to You Tube.

• The Criterion Collection release a new Quadrophenia Region 1 DVD and Blu-ray in August, with all new artwork. They now have a page dedicated to the release at their website.

• As previously mentioned, The Tempest is also being released on Region 1 Blu-ray in August. No artwork has been released for this yet.

• Toyah was played on today’s David Jensen Double Top 20 on ‘Smooth Radio’. David was counting down the Top 20 from this week in 1981.

Toyah guested on The Tony Wadsworth Show on ‘BBC Radio Leicester’ yesterday morning.

Toyah talks not ageing, keeping working, ignoring critics, making the most of her singing voice while she can, her ‘Walk of Fame’ award, frisky Northern men, appearing at the ‘Rock & Bike Festival 2012’, not representing the UK at Eurovision (phew!) and more.

The full show is available to listen to at BBC iPlayer until next Saturday. Toyah’s interview begins approximately 1hr 35m in and lasts for around 10 minutes.

A new gig has just been announced to mark Toyah’s inclusion in the King’s Heath ‘Walk Of Fame’.

TOYAH CONFIRMS ONE-OFF KING’S HEATH WALK OF FAME GIG

Celebrating Toyah’s induction as the very first star on the King’s Heath Walk of Fame comes a very special homecoming gig in the Hare & Hounds.

This intimate, strictly one-off concert with Toyah’s full band is a true celebration of Toyah’s roots in her hometown on the day her star is unveiled on the King’s Heath Walk of Fame.

SPECIAL HOMECOMING SHOW – ALL TOYAH CLASSICS
* Neon Womb * It’s A Mystery * Thunder In The Mountains * Brave New World *

• Continue reading at toyahwillcox.com. (Photo © Official Toyah)

Toyah’s official website reported during the week that Toyah is to be honoured by her hometown next month.

TOYAH HONOURED AS FIRST STAR IN KING’S HEATH WALK OF FAME

A new Walk of Fame will launch this summer celebrating King’s Heath’s amazing musical and comedy heritage. King’s Heath-born Toyah will be the first star to be inducted on the Birmingham Walk of Fame with the official unveiling taking place in early July. We will bring you further details on this exciting project in the coming weeks.

• News Source: toyahwillcox.com | View more info on King’s Heath ‘Walk Of Fame’.

Quadrophenia is showing on BBC4 at the end of this month.

Quadrophenia: BBC4: Friday 29th June: 10.10pm
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.

The film may be available on ‘BBC iPlayer’ post-airing.

Tales Of The Unexpected: Sky Arts 2: Friday 29th June: 1.30pm
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. Also airing on Sky Arts 2 HD.

• Please return to Falling To Earth over the weekend, as I’ll be adding a great selection of photos of Toyah from last weekend’s ‘Blackpool Pride’ PA (courtesy of the very generous Ray Sears).

• More Toyah imagery to look forward to: Toyah tweeted earlier this week: “Doing shoot with Dean Stockings 2 b submitted 2 National Portrait Gallery! Its a competition. Trying strange idea!”

• The Sun: 10 Looks That Rocked My World: One woman on the changes in her appearance: Monica Troughton opens her photo album here to reveal everything from orange spikes to a glossy black bob and even a Toyah-esque mullet: She says: “I loved Toyah Willcox and began morphing into her. I dyed my hair orange and had it chopped into a mullet.”

• Punk’s Dead: An interesting article, at the ‘Bitterness Personified’ blog, on Simon Barker’s recent ‘Punk’s Dead’ party, which Jordan (the punk legend from Jubilee, not Katie Price) attended: “She’s 57-years old now, silver-haired, mumsy, looks a bit like Su Pollard“.

• Scott McAulay has added a great I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! photo collage to his blog this week. I’m pretty sure the photo of Toyah was taken a few years after she guested in the jungle. Excellent photo anyway!

• I’m thinking of *rebranding* (stop sniggering!): Dropping the “Falling To Earth” and using “Toyah Willcox News” as the site name. Not totally sure yet, does anyone have any thoughts?

Two fantastic photos of, legendary Toyah bassist, Phil Spalding at the European Premiere of Rock Of Ages on Sunday 10th June. Click on each for larger versions. (Thanks to Phil)

Our interview feature with Melissa Mailer-Yates is now online. Please click below to read.

A great new radio interview with Toyah, recorded at Saturday’s ‘Blackpool Pride’ by Chorley FM, is available to listen to via toyah.net.

Toyah talks playing Pride, not wearing a headdress for fear of it being blown away in the gales, acting, The Changeling and The Changeling Resurrection tour, future plans and more.

The interview aired on Mark Jackson-Duxbury’s show last night on ‘Chorley FM’ and will be repeated again on his show on Wednesday (at Midnight).

• Listen to the full interview here. (Thanks to Mark Jackson-Duxbury and David Howard)

Return later today to view FTE‘s Melissa Mailer-Yates interview feature. It’s a great read, with Melissa talking art, her career, Toyah and a lot more! This is also the final Toyah-related feature from me but a great one to finish with… View info on The Changeling prints.

• View FTE‘s other recent features: The Changeling Resurrection Review; Stevie Bray: The Original Toyah Drummer Interview; Toyah: Thru A Photographer’s Eye.

30 years ago this week ‘The Changeling’, arguably Toyah’s finest album, was released. It entered the UK album charts, at number six, on 19th June 1982 and stayed on the chart till September. Here’s Falling To Earth‘s *wishful thinking* 30th birthday pressie…

• Toyah’s set list at Blackpool Pride: Echo Beach, Thunder In The Mountains, It’s A Mystery, Rebel Yell, I Want To Be Free, I Love Rock’n Roll (Thanks to Glyn Whelan)

• Boyband ReConnected tweeted a photo yesterday, “backstage with Toyah”, from Blackpool. View a larger version here. (Thanks to birthday boy Andrew York – Happy Birthday Andrew!)

• Toyah also tweeted a photo of herself and Hazel Dean: “hazel dean and I are getting the party started …….tee hee“. View the photo.

• Toyah tweeted a number of other messages about being in Blackpool, and playing Blackpool Pride, over the last couple of days, including: “Blackpool pride was joyous! Rain finally stopped“. View them all at Toyah’s Twitter.

Toyah will be performing at the Tremayne Hall in Mylor later this month as part of the Mylor Sessions.

Toyah will be play a selection of songs from her Platinum-selling albums Anthem and The Changeling which celebrates its 13th anniversary this year, among many other tracks. This is a unique chance to hear Toyah’s well-known hits alongside cherry-picked songs and dark quirky anthems – many of which have not been heard live since her early tours from the late 1970s and early 1980s.

The Saturday, June 23 show starts at 8pm with doors from 7pm.

Photos of Toyah onstage yesterday at ‘Blackpool Pride 2012’, at the North Pier Theatre. View larger versions of each at Dreamscape’s Gallery. (Thanks to Glyn Whelan)

Coming Soon! An interview with Melissa Mailer-Yates. Discussing art, her career and Toyah!

• Toyah plays Blackpool Pride today, with a live PA at the North Pier Theatre at the North Pier Promenade. Visit the Blackpool Pride website.

• According to Touch FM Toyah will be attending the Evesham River Festival 2012, taking place 6th – 8th July: Look out for famous faces from stage and TV including Prunella Scales, Timothy West, David Suchet and Toyah Willcox.

• Behind The Lens: There’s a short article on Dean Stockings at the f20-12 website. The forthcoming f20-12 exhibition takes place between 26th June and 12th July at Strand Gallery, London. View further info here.

• f20-12 also features photos of Toyah from the opening night of last year’s ‘More Guys Hanging’ exhibition by GPN. View here.

Jubilee is showing tonight at the Rio Cinema in Dalston, London.

The midnight movie lives on in Dalston!
SAT 9 Jun • Late Night | JUBILEE (18) 11.30pm

(UK 1977) dir. Derek Jarman. 100m. Jenny Runacre, Toyah Willcox, Adam Ant, Orlando, Ian Charleson, Richard O’Brien.

Celebrate the 2012 Jubilee with Derek Jarman’s safety-pin and barbed-wire vision of a 1977 London in ruins (all burning prams and castrated policemen) which combines a meditation on English mysticism guided by a time-travelling Queen Elizabeth I and a wild ‘n’ crazy tale of the rampages of a gang of personality punk psychos. Soundtrack contributions come from Adam and the Ants , Wayne County and the Electric Chairs , Chelsea, Siouxie and the Banshees, the Slits and Brian Eno. Rule Britannia!

An update on ‘The Changeling’ prints by Melissa Mailer-Yates.

Melissa has revealed that these will be a limited edition run: There will be just 312 prints made available, marking the 30th anniversary of ‘The Changeling’ in 2012. More info on the prints here.

A great page at Hall For Cornwall for Toyah’s upcoming gig at Mylor Sessions.

Toyah has been touring for the past year to rave reviews.  This hotly-anticipated concert tour sees Toyah perform a selection of material from her first three albums and a concentration of songs from her Platinum-selling albums Anthem and The Changelling which celebrates its thirtieth anniversary this year. This is a unique chance hear Toyah’s well-known hits alongside cherry-picked songs and dark quirky anthems – many of which have not been heard live since her early tours from the late 1970s and early 1980s.