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• Wokingham Today: Toyah heads up first RaW Sounds. Today playlist of 2022: Happy New Year and welcome to another 12 months of great music from bands in and around the Reading and Wokingham areas. Each week, the RaW Sounds Today playlist features 10 great tracks that you can listen, for free, thanks to our Spotify playlist. Every song featured has a connection with the area, be it a touring artiste like Toyah, or an up-and-coming talent like Sam Handy. The RaW Sounds playlist is a terrific way to explore a wide range of brilliant artists, discover some new music and keep dancing – why not make tuning in every week your new year’s resolution? – Continue reading…

• Metal Sucks: King Crimson’s Robert Fripp & Toyah Willcox Look Back at Their Hottest Videos of 2021 (Part 3!): King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp and his wife, the actress and singer Toyah Willcox, have unveiled the latest entry in their “Sunday Lunch” series of cover videos that captured the Internet’s attention throughout 2021. Robert and Toyah’s latest video continues the look back at their greatest hits of 2021, dubbed “Most Wanted.” And indeed, some of the pair’s videos racked up millions of views in a short amount of time. Have a watch below at their third 2021 recap video featuring some brief clips of their most popular performances from last year. (part one; part two) – Continue reading…

• DGM Live: Toyah & Robert’s Weekend: Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch – Most Wanted – Part 3… Toyah & Robert – Flashback to Summer 2021… Toyah At Home – Space Dance – Continue reading…

• Posh Pop Tour 2022: The first few months of the year bring many dates of the Posh Pop Tour. There are four this month, with the first at Huntingdon Hall in Worcester next Saturday, There then follows a further 12 dates through February, and nine in March – See further details and ticket links for all of the upcoming Posh Pop Tour dates at toyahwillcox.com…

• Kent Online: Toyah Up Close and Personal coming to Glassbox Theatre in Gillingham: Punk legend Toyah is bringing her Up Close and Personal show to Medway this spring. The singer and actress, who has just finished a residency at Proud Embankment’s Cabaret All Stars before Christmas, will play at the Glassbox Theatre in Gillingham – Continue reading…

• The Mail: Toyah set to perform at The Beggars Theatre, Millom: A singing sensation is set to perform up close and personal with a show that has a lively cinematic sound. Toyah will be stopping off at The Beggars Theatre, Millom on her Posh Pop tour on February 3 at 8pm – Continue reading…

• Loudwire: 10 Things That Didn’t Suck About 2021: King Crimson’s Robert Fripp + Toyah Willcox’s Many Cover Songs: King Crimson’s Robert Fripp and his wife Toyah Willcox turned heads in January when they uploaded a strange cover of Metallica’s “Enter Sandman.” Fripp played the guitar as Willcox sang from her exercise bike, and the video just about went viral. They’ve covered a bunch of other songs ever since, and often make them pretty epic, so those videos are just one example of something light-hearted and fun that made us smile in 2021 – Continue reading…

• Metal Sucks: King Crimson’s Robert Fripp & Toyah Willcox Look Back at Their Hottest Videos of 2021 (Part 2!): King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp and his wife, the actress and singer Toyah Willcox, have unveiled the latest entry in their “Sunday Lunch” series of cover videos that captured the Internet’s attention throughout 2021 – Continue reading…

• A Personal Message From Toyah!: Surprise a loved one with a personalised video message from Toyah for a New Year. Order here…

• Birmingham Mail: Inside town that looks like Netflix’s Bridgerton set and ‘best place’ Toyah Willcox ever lived – Georgian Pershore is a stunning market town to live out your Bridgerton period drama fantasies – Continue reading…

• Guitar.Com: Robert Fripp and Toyah Look Back on the Best Sunday Lunch Videos of 2021 – The first episode of the three-part special released on Boxing Day: Robert Fripp and his wife, singer Toyah Willcox have prepared a special three-part episode of Sunday Lunch to wrap up 2021, taking a look back at the greatest moments of the internet cover series which has kept fans entertained year-round – Continue reading…

• Metal Sucks: King Crimson’s Robert Fripp & Toyah Willcox Look Back at Their Hottest Videos of 2021: King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp and his wife, the actress and singer Toyah Willcox, have unveiled the latest entry in their “Sunday Lunch” series of cover videos that have captured the Internet’s attention throughout 2021 – Continue reading…

• DGM Live: Merry Christmas!: Toyah & Robert wish you a Merry Christmas! – Continue watching…

• DGM Live: T&R’s Christmas Weekend: Part one of a three-part series taking a look at the Most Wanted Sunday Lunch videos of the last year… Toyah & Robert wish you a Merry Christmas… Toyah & Robert – Burning Question (December 25th, 2021)… Toyah At Home – Drury Lane 40th Anniversary Special – Continue reading…

• Sunday Lunch – Most Wanted – Part one of a three-part series taking a look at the Most Wanted Sunday Lunch videos of the last year! – Watch here… (Images © Toyah Willcox)

• NME: Watch Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox cover The Stooges ‘I Wanna Be Your Dog’: Willcox brought a toy bone to this week’s Sunday Lunch video – Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox have covered The Stooges’ classic ‘I Wanna Be Your Dog’ as part of their ongoing Sunday Lunch video series. The couple began the bitesize YouTube covers series at the start of the pandemic in 2020 and quickly went viral for their versions of famous songs by the likes of Nirvana, Metallica, Guns ’N Roses, Britney Spears and more – Continue reading…

• Guitar.Com: Fripp and Toyah Leave the Christmas Tunes Behind for a Cover of I Wanna Be Your Dog: The Stooges classic gets the Sunday Lunch treatment – Robert Fripp and Toyah Wilcox have returned to their Sunday Lunch kitchen stage for a cover of The Stooges’ classic I Wanna Be Your Dog. The cover is a departure from the festive tunes the pair have been covering recently, such as 12 Days Of Christmas and Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer. Instead, they’ve left the traditional festive cheer behind to bring us a cover of The Stooges’ debut single I Wanna Be Your Dog – Continue reading…

• Brooklyn Vegan: Watch Toyah & Robert Fripp cover The Stooges’ “I Wanna Be Your Dog”: After a few months of weird karaoke while King Crimson were on tour, and then very silly holiday sing-a-longs, Toyah and Robert Fripp are finally back to covering songs in their kitchen. This week’s Sunday Lunch has them taking on The Stooges’ classic “I Wanna Be Your Dog,” with Fripp giving a good punk scowl as he plays the iconic descending riff, and Toyah making good use of a prop bone. Question: Do you think they buy this stuff just for the videos or they have it laying around the house? – Continue reading…

• Metal Sucks: King Crimson’s Robert Fripp & Toyah Willcox Cover The Stooges’ “I Wanna Be Your Dog”: King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp and his wife, the actress and singer Toyah Willcox, have unveiled the latest entry in their “Sunday Lunch” series of cover videos that have captured the Internet’s attention in recent months. For their newest video, the couple have switched back to the tried-and-true formula of Robert on guitar and Toyah singing following the karaoke-like format they’ve utilized of late for some Christmas standards. They’ve also switched back to rock and roll, tackling The Stooges’ 1969 song “I Wanna Be Your Dog.” – Continue reading…

• DGM Live: Toyah & Robert’s Weekend: Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch – I Wanna Be Your Dog – RF: Fripp spikes up, straps on, and Toyah belts out a classic – from their kitchen at the Centre Of The Universe… Toyah & Robert – Burning Questions (Dec 18th) Do you both only make a living from touring and not record sales? Have you ever worn your hair like that on stage, and if not, why? Have you ever collaborated with, or performed, with musicians that cannot read or write music? RF: In search of useless answers from the deeply unqualified? And / or in search of some Fairy Fingers traversing a D symmetrical figure? Then you have come to an ideal place to be – Toyah & Robert’s kitchen at the Centre Of The Universe… Toyah At Home – Dance In The Hurricane – RF: Toyah At Home – with featured guest the just-returned, dishevelled & highly jet-lagged working-player Fripp opening his first Christmas present of 2021… – Continue reading…

• Sunday Lunch: I Wanna Be Your Dog: Fripp is home from Japan, and has strapped on his guitar for this week’s belter of a Sunday Lunch! – Watch here… (Images © Toyah Willcox)

MetalSucks’ Top 25 Most Popular Stories of 2021

Every December, we have the MetalSucks Mansion Monkeys tally up our top 25 stories of the past year, so as to better learn what you dummies like and what bands will generate the most ¢lick$. And now that the 2021 report is in, we have some interesting takeaways. For example:

• Toyah Willcox may currently be the biggest rock star in the world.
• Corey Taylor is also still quite popular.
• Everyone hates Ted Nugent.
• Everyone loves Vince Neil(‘s failures).
• People spent less time reading about the legal troubles of Marilyn • Manson and Jon Schaffer than you might assume.
• Fans still have really, really strong opinions regarding band merch.
• 2021 wasn’t much better than 2020.
• Peruse the stories you made our most popular below.

• Continue reading at Metal Sucks.

• Brooklyn Vegan: Watch Toyah and Robert Fripp Take On The 12 Days Of Christmas: Toyah and Robert Fripp are in holiday sing-a-long mode on their weekly Sunday Lunch series, and today they take on “The 12 Days of Christmas.” They’re armed with lots of props for this one, but instead of turtle doves and french hens, they’ve got household cleaning products and appliances to sub in for them, and at one point Toyah vacuums Robert’s mohawk. Will they make it all the way through all 12 days? Do you actually want them to? – Continue reading…

• Guitar.Com: Fripp and Toyah’s Cover of 12 Days Of Christmas is Completely Unhinged: The Christmas cheer continues – Sunday Lunch’s Fripp And Toyah have, in the spirit of the season, gifted us all with a new cover of a Christmas classic. In the kitchen this time: an unforgettable rendition of 12 Days Of Christmas. The Frippcox household is still decorated as festively as ever, including Robert Fripp’s forehead, which again reads “Grinch.” The large sign that reads: “Fripp’s ma Christmas Bitch” is, of course, still present – Continue reading…

• Metal Sucks: King Crimson’s Robert Fripp & Toyah Willcox Sing “The 12 Days of Christmas”: King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp and his wife, the actress and singer Toyah Willcox, have unveiled the latest entry in their “Sunday Lunch” series of cover videos that have captured the Internet’s attention in recent months. The duo’s new video finds them continuing their holiday series with “The 12 Days of Christmas,” following their covers of the Christmas classics “Silent Night” and “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.” Toyah and Robert once again sing together to a backing track as they have been on the other holiday tunes – Continue reading…

• DGM Live: Toyah & Robert’s Weekend!: oyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch – 12 Days Of Christmas… Toyah & Robert – Burning Question (December 4th, 2021)… Toyah At Home and Back On The Road!! (December 4th, 2021) – Continue reading…

• Sunday Lunch: 12 Days Of Christmas: The Frippcox household take on another festive classic… and well you get the idea, look out for the classic Fripp facial expression at the end! – Watch the video…    (Images © Toyah Willcox)

Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox share cover of Shirley Bassey’s ‘Goldfinger’

This week’s Sunday Lunch sees the pair reunited and doing things shaken not stirred

King Crimson founder Robert Fripp and his wife, singer Toyah Willcox, have shared a cover of Shirley Bassey‘s ‘Goldfinger’.

The pair launched their Sunday Lunch video series last year, sharing renditions of songs by Nirvana, David Bowie, Metallica, Billy Idol, The Rolling Stones, Judas Priest, The Prodigy, Guns N’ Roses, Alice Cooper and more through Willcox’s YouTube channel.

• Continue reading at the NME. See also Metal Sucks.

Toyah Willcox Covers “These Boots are Made for Walkin’” for King Crimson’s Robert Fripp

King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp is still on tour in the U.S., but his wife, actress and singer Toyah Willcox, has continued with the duo’s popular “Sunday Lunch” videos in his absence as “love letters” to her husband, with Fripp’s hotel room reactions edited in alongside Toyah’s performances.

For this week’s video, Willcox delivers a solo cover of Nancy Sinatra’s 1966 hit “These Boots are Made for Walkin’.” “The kitchen’s waiting! Sunday Lunch wants ya back!” Toyah taunts, before adding, “These puppies want you home!” while aiming the camera at her chest as Fripp lets out a spirited laugh.

• Continue reading at Metal Sucks.

Toyah Willcox Covers “Light My Fire” for King Crimson’s Robert Fripp

King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp is still on tour in the U.S., but his wife, actress and singer Toyah Willcox, has continued with the duo’s popular “Sunday Lunch” videos in his absence as “love letters” to her husband, with Fripp’s hotel room reactions edited in alongside Toyah’s performances.

For this week’s video, Willcox delivers a solo cover of The Doors’ “Light My Fire,” changing the taunt of song’s refrain from “Come on baby, light my fire” to “Come on Bobby.” “I’m keeping the bed warm for you,” she teases as the song wraps up, adding “the sofa and the carpet too” as Fripp expresses his admiration and amusement, quipping, “I think it’s time to go home.”

• Continue reading at Metal Sucks. Watch the Latest Sunday Lunch/Love Letters at You Tube.

Video: Toyah Willcox Covers “Because the Night” (Patti Smith, 10,000 Maniacs) for King Crimson’s Robert Fripp

King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp is still on tour in the U.S., but his wife, actress and singer Toyah Willcox, has continued with the duo’s popular “Sunday Lunch” videos in his absence, with Fripp’s hotel room reactions edited in alongside Toyah’s performances.

For this week’s video, Willcox delivers a solo cover of “Because the Night,” originally written and recorded by Bruce Springsteen and Patti Smith but best known by many for the rendition 10,000 Maniacs performed on MTV Unplugged. “Hubba hubba,” Fripp says as he watches, before adding, “I love you.”

• Continue reading at Metal Sucks. (Images below © Toyah Willcox)