Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp’s 10 best Sunday Lunch performance videos
Lockdowns were a drag but Toyah and Robert Fripp helped keep us going.
In the long ago, when lockdown stopped us going out to gigs musicians, did their very best to entertain us in other ways.
Nick Cave streamed the stunning Idiot Prayer, Laura Marling did online guitar lessons and Sophie Ellis-Bextor gave us her Kitchen Disco.
But maybe best of all were the Sunday Lunch videos from new wave/prog rock married couple Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp, often with mysterious collaborator Sidney Jake. There’s no reason to stop a good thing, and even now, long after the last lockdown, they’ve just kept on going.
They’ve done hundreds of videos so far, and below we round up our favourite ten, along with Toyah and Robert’s snappy captions.
• Continue reading at Gold Radio. Browse Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch “back catalogue” at YouTube.
Exclusive: Toyah Willcox reveals key to 38-year marriage and why she’s happy being child-free
Punk singer and actress Toyah Willcox has shared they key to her near four decade long marriage to rock musician Robert Fripp and their decision to not have children
Toyah Willcox has given a rare insight into her marriage of 38 years with rock guitarist Robert Fripp.
The punk singer, 65, married Robert, who has worked with the likes of David Bowie and Brian Eno, in 1986. They have gone on to work together as well as creating their viral Sunday Lunch series, which they now tour. Toyah and Robert, 77, film themselves every week performing covers of huge hits including Slipknot’s Psychosocial, Billy Idol’s Rebel Yell and Foo Fighters’ All My Life.
In an exclusive chat with The Mirror, Robert and Toyah have shared the secret to their successful marriage of almost four decades. Sharing what it is like touring together, Toyah said: “It’s exactly the same as being married for 38 years, it’s good. We both come from very different genres.” Robert added: “But we complement each other well, I have a wonderful time being out working with my wife, may I say, even having greater fun than when we were at home together.”
• Continue reading at The Mirror. See also Gold Radio.
