Remember ‘Ladies Love The Beatles’? A couple of recent related pieces of news on this forthcoming compilation:
• Katrina Leskanich, of Katrina & The Waves, posted on her 8th March 2012 website update: “I was in the studio recording a couple of Beatles tracks for a new compilation which includes Kim Wilde, Mica Paris, Toyah and several other female artists which will be released in 2012”.
• Producer/Mixer Martin Sutton’s ‘Wikipedia’ page has recently been updated to include his Programming, Instrumentation & Mixing on “The Ladies Love…The Beatles”. Artists listed are: Mica Paris, Beverley Craven, Des’ree, Kim Wilde, Toyah, Heather Small and Katrina Leskanich.
Toyah played ‘The Magical Faerie Festival’ last April in Canterbury. An interview from then has just been uploaded to ‘You Tube’. Toyah talks punk, steampunk, acting, Canterbury and fairy wings. Click below to view.
On Tuesday Toyah tweeted an update on The Humans writing sessions.
“Humans last writing day. 20 songs in the demo pot! Sooooo excited! Soooo rockin”, along with a photo of the band.
• Visit ‘The Humans Official’ here.
• Visit the ‘Sugar Rush’ fansite here.
The Classic Grand website has now been updated with the new Glasgow date for ‘The Changeling Resurrection’: 12th October.
It also reiterates what Toyah said in her tweet on Tuesday: “20th April tickets valid for 12th Oct”.
80’s Music Sensations Confirm Scottish Date
It may have been over 20 years since they first burst onto the music scene with their catchy hits, but over two decades on, the greatest line up of eighties music icons is coming to Glasgow for an exclusive outdoor show this summer. Here and Now, a concert featuring the biggest artists from the 1980s, will take music lovers down memory lane as a cast list of seven pop icons take to the stage. Paul Young will get heart rates racing when he performs his massive number one hit, ‘Wherever I lay my hat’, while Rick Astley’s ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’ will get the crowd on their feet. Others include Toyah, The Real Thing, Curiosity Killed the Cat, Belinda Carlisle and T’Pau.
The night has been billed by event organiser CK Events as the biggest party on the green this summer. The back to back, hit only concert takes place at Glasgow Green, in the heart of Glasgow, on Saturday 21 July 2012.
Tickets, priced at £36, go on sale on Friday (9th March 2012) from www.ticketline.co.uk. Gates open at 6.30pm on Saturday 21 July 2012.
This black-tie event promises a fabulous night out including reception drinks, a delicious three course dinner and superb entertainment including the fantastic Toyah Willcox to get you dancing the night away.
Join us on Saturday 19 May 2012 for The Stroke Association’s 20th Anniversary Ball at Radisson Blu Hotel in the beautiful City of Durham.
Tickets are £45 per person or £450 for a table of 10. Don’t miss out, tables are selling fast! Book your tickets online today! For more information please contact Janet Price on 0191 492 6191 or at janet.price@stroke.org.uk
It’s the official flyer for ‘Let’s Rock The Moor!’ Summer 2012, the one day festival that includes Toyah in its line-up.
‘Lets Rock The Moor!’, taking place in Cookham, Berkshire on Saturday 12th May, has also had more bands added. Nick Heyward and Modern Romance are both now also on the bill.
The festival’s website has also been updated. Visit it here. View a larger version of the official flyer here.
From the website: Let’s Rock The Moor! will be returning for its 4th year on Saturday May 12th, with an action packed day of live music at this Boutique, Family Friendly, 80’s Festival. Now relocated on to a much larger site, Billy Ocean, Go West, Heaven 17, Boney M, Toyah, Nick Heyward, China Crisis and Modern Romance are all confirmed. Set in the picturesque village of Cookham in Berkshire, this event has plenty to do for everyone!
Win one of three Family Tickets to ‘Let’s Rock the Moor 2012’.
Let’s Rock The Moor! will be returning for its 4th year on Saturday May 12 with a massive 80’s line up and plenty to do for everyone! Families Online has three sets of family tickets to giveaway for this great event in Cookham.
Go here to enter the competition. Closing date – 9am April 10th 2012.
30 Women Photographers and the Women Photographers Who Inspired Them: A Blog Series in Honor of Women’s History Month, March 1 – 31
Caroline Coon is a multi-talented artist born and based in Britain. She is a painter, designer and photographer whose work has been exhibited at major London galleries, including the Saatchi Gallery and the Tate. Her photographs are in the National Portrait Gallery, and currently on display at the Strand Gallery in She-Bop-a-Lula, an exhibit celebrating female singers captured by women photographers.
In the 1970’s and 80’s, Coon wrote about, designed for, and photographed a number of Punk Rock bands, including The Slits and The Clash. Her New Wave Punk Rock Explosion is an inside, “as it happened” story of punk, with iconic images, and commentary by musicians and fans. (Photo: Jenny Runacre and Toyah Willcox 1977 © Caroline Coon/Camera Press)
You bought and read the, ruddy excellent, book… so why not go one step further and be loud, proud and seen in your ‘I Was A Teenage Toyah Fan – Were You?’ t-shirt.
There are numerous colours to choose from. Go here for more details on how to add the ‘IWATTF’ to your t-shirt collection.
The Changeling Resurrection After-Show
Saturday, April 14, 2012
Doors/Event 10pm – 2am, Price: Free
What better way to celebrate the very first gig in Toyah’s Changeling Resurrection Tour 2012 at the Brighton Concorde 2 than a Toyahtastic party after the show with a soundtrack requested by YOU!
Toyah’s eighth song choice from My Vintage, ‘Walk On The Wild Side’.
“When I was about 14 I was just so rebellious, you just could not contain me whatsoever. I was still going to school because my mother drove me to school every day, and then they kind of locked the gates so I couldn’t get out. In the weekends my parents allowed my brother and myself relative freedom, and we had a caravan in Worcestershire, and my brother, who was older than me, could drive at this time so at midnight we’d drive off, and we’d go and see midnight movies in Worcestershire…”
• Read the full transcript of the reasons for this song choice here.
Possibly one of Toyah’s best photo shoots? Certainly one of the most colourful.
These great photos were used in European magazine ‘Pop Rocky’ and the UK’s ‘Jackie’ in the Summer of 1982, at the height of the glorious ‘Changeling’ era.
Gorgeous Toyah wears various Melissa Caplan designed outfits that were rarely seen anywhere else.
Toyah is listed as a guest on BBC Radio’s Late Show with Keith Middleton on Saturday 31st March. Keith’s show airs on BBC Radio Shropshire. Stoke and a number of other BBC stations broadcasting around The Midlands.
Keith Middleton Late Show: BBC Radio (Various): Sat 31st March: 9pm
Keith is joined by Toyah Willcox, Hazel O’Connor and Annabella Lwin (of Bow Wow Wow) for a ‘Punk Extravaganza’. Is there a punk track you haven’t heard for a while? Let Keith know and he’ll do his best to play it…
Airing on BBC Radio Shropshire, Stoke, WM, Hereford & Worcester and Coventry & Warwickshire.
Toyah has previously guested on Keith’s show in November 2010 and July 2005 so this could possibly be a repeat of one of those interviews.
From yesterday evening, possibly Toyah’s best ever tweet: “Dear fellow Changelings…. Bush Hall is about to be a sell out so get tickets now if you are coming. :-)”. All the tour info is available by clicking below.
Jubilee inspires at least one new article a week. The latest is by ‘Ikono’.
Numerous punk icons appear in the film including Jordan (a Malcolm McLaren protégé), Toyah Willcox, Nell Campbell, Adam Ant (born, Stuart Leslie Goddard), Demoriane and Wayne County. It features performances by Wayne County and Adam and the Ants. There are also cameo appearances by The Slits and Siouxsie and the Banshees. The film was scored by Brian Eno.
Mark Satchwill’s amazing painting inspired by Toyah’s ‘The Changeling’ is now available to buy as an 8×10 print from Etsy.
As well as a print, small poster or postcard from Red Bubble. A great gift for any Toyah fan.
One of the pioneers of fashion make-up artists… from Biba, London in the seventies, to an international career in the 1980s and 90s, Régis Huet was one of the first make-up artists to use make-up as art and some of his creations are extraordinary, and extraordinarily beautiful.
In 1985 Régis worked with Toyah on the promotional imagery for the ‘Don’t Fall In Love (I Said)’ single and the album ‘Minx’.
The look was striking but subtle and, ironically, far removed from his more outlandish and experimental earlier work. Imagery that certainly inspired some of Toyah’s most adventurous early 80s visuals.
Régis eventually made Sydney, Australia his base where he worked on the first issue of ‘Australia Vogue’ among many magazines.
Toyah’s seventh song choice from My Vintage, ‘Running Up That Hill’.
“I feel really lucky to be able to say to you I want to put this next artist into My Vintage because she is a friend.
She’s the most delightful woman, and she is a total inspiration and a great role model. I have loved her work since I first heard ‘Wuthering Heights’ when I was 19, listening to the radio and I stopped in a stunned silence as I listened to her voice. It was breathtaking and she has continued to be breathtaking every decade ever since…”
• Read the full transcript of Toyah talking about Kate here.
Last August Toyah was interviewed about her meteorite collection for BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Live in their ‘Secret Life’ series. This was repeated on BBC Radio 4 Extra’s The 4 O’Clock Show last October.
That edition of The 4 O’Clock Show is currently available to listen to again, here. Be quick as it will only be online for one more day. The seven minute clip also includes brief bursts of The Humans’ ‘This Belongs To You’ and Toyah’s ‘It’s A Mystery’.
More than a dozen pubs, clubs, bars and live venues will be celebrating Bishop’s Stortford’s vibrant music scene as part of next month’s week-long Stortfest Crawl.
In common with its bigger brothers like Glastonbury, the annual Stortford Music Festival – usually held in the grounds of St Mary’s Catholic School – is taking a break for the first time in its 14-year history.
Headlining the event will be 80s punk-pop icon Toyah Willcox, who will mark the 30th anniversary of her album The Changeling with a greatest hits set at Rhodes on May 5.
Best known for 1981 breakthrough single It’s A Mystery and accompanying album Anthem, Toyah has also enjoyed a successful acting career, with roles in films like cult Mod hit Quadrophenia. More recently, she was a guest star on ITV’s I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!
