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Toyah promised a bonus Toyah At Home last Saturday… and sure enough it is here, with a special announcement – and a cute cameo from Fripp the bunny!

Celebrity PopMaster TV: More4: Tuesday 18th March: 9pm
Series 2. Episode 1. Ken Bruce kicks off the second series of the music quiz with the first of two celebrity editions. Featuring contestants Toyah Willcox, Richard Blackwood, Sally Lindsay, MistaJam and Kimberly Wyatt. (Photo © Channel 4/More 4)

It’s 1st March and so it’s time for a brand new Toyah at Home. Join Toyah in Edinburgh & Dubai with a catch-up on what she’s been up to including a special appearance in the Now That’s What I Call A Musical theatre show. There’s also music to coincide with the imminent release of two new picture disc vinyl Collector’s Editions for Sheep Farming In Barnet and The Blue Meaning.

• Tune it at the same time next Saturday, 8th March, for a bonus Toyah At Home with announcement.

Read Toyah’s latest blog at toyahwillcox.com. Including news on Now That’s What I Call A Musical, Rewind Dubai & more. New announcements happening soon too! As well as lots about the new Toyah & Robert family members, the gorgeous Fripp & Eno. (Photos © Toyah)

Now This Isn’t What I Would Call A News Post… (see what I did there?, yup, I’m here all week!!), but just a post to say that this poster – created for Toyah’s week of shows at Edinburgh Playhouse in Now That’s What I Call A Musical – is AMAZING!!!  (Photo © Toyah)

Browse Toyah’s, officially confirmed, live schedule for 2025 – including gigs, festivals and more!

• Toyah At Home: March 2025 – Watch… • Toyah & Robert: UpBeat Moments – Watch… • Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch – Breaking The Law – Watch… (Image © Toyah Willcox)

Tales Of The Unexpected: Sky Arts: Friday 14th March: 6.30pm
Tales Of The Unexpected: Sky Arts: Sunday 16th March: 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. (Photo © ITV)

Carol Decker’s 30 Rock Chicks!: NOW Rock: Friday 7th March: 11pm
T’Pau’s Carol Decker brings a bit of Heart and Soul to a countdown of ’80s ladies who like to rock! With Joan Jett, Tina Turner, Stevie Nicks and Pat Benatar. (as well as Toyah via the Thunder In The Mountains video).

Toyah Willcox visits Rudheath Senior Academy for SEND day

Eighties icon Toyah Willcox helped to inspire Cheshire teachers with a talk about her experiences living with dyslexia.

The 66-year-old singer-songwriter and actress was paying a visit to the Rudheath Senior Academy for a day dedicated to special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).

On February 14, the North West Academies Trust (NWAT) hosted its annual Trust Inset Day bringing together 230 educators from the 12 primary and secondary schools it runs, including Rudheath.

And, giving a powerful keynote address, Toyah shared with the audience her experience with dyslexia, which she described as her ‘superpower’.

• Continue reading at Chester Standard. See also: Toyah Willcox shares her dyslexia ‘superpower’ at Chester trust event at Chester Nub News. (Photos © NWAT)

Secret Diary Of A Call Girl: That’s TV: Thursday 13th March: 4am
Series 1. Episode 1. Adult drama based on the journals of Belle de Jour, starring Billie Piper as a high-class escort who enjoys what she does but has to keep it a secret from everyone in her personal life. Belle entertains two new clients – one of whom gets too close for comfort. With Toyah Willcox and Cherie Lunghi.

Secret Diary Of A Call Girl: That’s TV: Thursday 14th March: 4.20am
Series 1. Episode 2. Belle is invited to a prestigious adult party, but her client doesn’t want to join the action. Starring: Billie Piper, Toyah Willcox, Aleksandar Mikic, Jamie Sives, Aislinn Sands and Scarlette O’Harlette.

• Series One of Secret Diary Of A Call Girl first aired in 2007 on ITV. Toyah appeared in Episodes 1,2 and 8 (Photos © ITV)

Celebrity Fantasy Homes: Really: Sunday 16th March: 4am
Toyah (Series 2, Episode 2). Celebrities hunt for a new home. Gaby Roslin helps the original punk-pop princess Toyah Willcox search for a second home, in Richmond upon Thames, with a budget of £650,000.

Now That’s What I Call A Musical is currently playing the Edinburgh Playhouse – a wonderful venue in Scotland’s capital city that Toyah has played a number of times over the past 40+ years: Including The Changeling Tour (1982), Best Of The 80s Tour (2004), Vampires Rock (2009) and 80s Invasion Tour (2017) – with Toyah in a guest role.

• See social media posts from Toyah about the show here and here. (Image © Toyah Willcox)

Toyah also played Rewind Dubai at the weekend (Saturday 22nd February). See a related post here, and a preview of an interview with Toyah talking Rewind Dubai here.

Toyah’s version of Cabaret was played on Sunday evening’s Dancing On Ice, accompanying Michaela Strachan and her skating partner Mark as they performed their routine on the ice. There are countless recordings of, the iconic, Cabaret to choose from, so the fact that Toyah’s was chosen is a big compliment to her version, and it sounded great!

Way Back When! 1981: NOW 80s: Sunday 2nd March: 6am
60 minutes of lesser heard hits from 1981. Including The Pretenders, Spandau Ballet, George Harrison, Toyah & The Pointer Sisters.

• Saturday Song: Race Through Space (Live in Islington) – Watch… • Toyah & Robert (+ Fripp & Eno): UpBeat Moments – Watch… • Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch – One Way Or Another – Watch…

Press for Toyah & Robert’s new Sunday Lunch. This week covering Blondie. (Image © Toyah Willcox)

• Guitar.Com: Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox are up to their usual antics, this time covering Blondie’s One Way Or Another: Willcox dons a binbag, flashy sunglasses and a cheeky side of sex-appeal to embody Blondie’s Debbie Harry – Continue…

• Classic Rock/Louder: Watch Toyah Willcox run her fingers seductively through Robert Fripp’s hair as they perform Blondie’s One Way Or Another: Warning: Includes bonus footage – Continue…

• Brooklyn Vegan: Watch Toyah & Robert Fripp cover Blondie’s “One Way Or Another” – Continue…

• Brave Words: Watch Robert Fripp & Toyah Perform Blondie Classic “One Way Or Another” In New Sunday Lunch Video – Continue…

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

Carol Decker’s 30 Rock Chicks!: NOW 80s: Thursday 27th February: 2pm
T’Pau’s Carol Decker brings a bit of Heart and Soul to a countdown of ’80s ladies who like to rock! With Joan Jett, Tina Turner, Stevie Nicks and Pat Benatar. (as well as Toyah via the Thunder In The Mountains video).

A new interview with Toyah, by Liam Rudden for Must See Theatre, which is also a great “Toyah in Edinburgh” history feature!

Interview: Toyah Willcox returns to Edinburgh Playhouse! Now that’s what I call an Eighties’ icon…

“I’m not going to tell you,” laughs Toyah Willcox, her face beaming, “because it’s a big impact moment that works really, really well…”

It’s 25 years since I first interviewed the effervescent Eighties’ punk princess, and more than I care to remember since I first listened to her music. Tracks like Ieya, Danced and It’s A Mystery were a huge part of my youth, along with the songs of the Pet Shop Boys and hits of Meatloaf, all of which is fitting as today, via Zoom, we are talking Now That’s What I Call A Musical, the 80’s jukebox musical in which the Birmingham-born singer makes a special, one week only, guest appearance during its Edinburgh run.

No stranger to the Scottish capital’s stages, Now That’s What I Call A Musical brings Toyah back to The Playhouse, a venue she has appeared in concert many times; her Changeling Tour stopped off there in 1982 then she returned, revisiting her early hits in 2004’s Best of the 80’s Tour and again for 2017 with the 80’s Invasion Tour. And it wasn’t just her pop persona, however, that brought Toyah to 3,039 capacity theatre, in 2009 she appeared as the Queen of The Night there, in Steve Steinman’s Vampires Rock, a show she describes as “a lot of fun”.

• Continue reading at Must See Theatre. See also The Edinburgh Reporter. Buy Now That’s What I Call A Musical at Edinburgh Playhouse tickets here.

• Saturday Song: Angels & Demons (Live 1981) – Watch… • Toyah & Robert: UpBeat Moments – Watch… • Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch – Rock Me Like A Hurricane – Watch… (Image © Toyah Willcox)

Toyah presents two new limited edition official t-shirts that are available to order now. Featuring illustrations that celebrate Toyah’s Minx and Blue Meaning eras. Watch Toyah “modelling” both t-shirts at Facebook and Instagram.

• Click below to order the t-shirts. (Images from a video that is © Toyah Willcox)

Toyah Willcox set for Edinburgh shows with Now That’s What I Call A Musical – ‘the songs connect in an instant’

The Spotify generation will never know just how big the ‘Now That’s What I Call Music’ brand was back in the 1980s.

Compilation albums were nothing new – K-Tel mastered the genre a decade earlier – but they became multi-platinum selling albums which took the best of the charts and delivered the perfect package of hits to millions of turntables and CD players.

Pretty much every single iconic single of the 80s can be found on the albums, so the only surprise it has taken this long to use that as the basis of a musical. Written by comedian Pippa Evans and choreographed by Strictly judge, Craig Revel Horwood, Now That’s I Call A Musical celebrates the decade of pop that still resonates to this day.

• Continue reading at Fife Today. Buy Now That’s What I Call A Musical at Edinburgh Playhouse tickets here.