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Christmas 2025, and Official Toyah recalls Christmas 1980…

Broadcast 45 years ago tonight…. The documentary ‘Toyah’ on ATV

ATV decided to profile Toyah in a documentary, directed by filmmaker Graham Moore. This was a significant
coup for Toyah, securing an hour of prime-time TV as an ‘up and coming’ recording artist. It was produced by ATV, the Midlands franchise of ITV but networked across the ITV regions on 18 December 1980.

The documentary meant cameras followed Toyah’s weekly activity for several months. This included photo shoots, in-store record signings, television appearances including Straight Talk, rehearsals for Nigel Williams’ controversial play Sugar And Spice and band rehearsals at Toyah’s live-in Battersea warehouse ‘Mayhem’.

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The tour countdown continues, today it’s a look at one of the most legendary points of Toyah’s career (for me anyway): The 1980 ATV documentary TOYAH. Open door five by clicking below…