Set-List: Good Morning Universe, We Are, Be Proud Be Loud (Be Heard), Neon Womb, Thunder In The Mountains, Race Through Space, Our Movie, Echo Beach, Obsolete, Jungles Of Jupiter, Rebel Run, The Packt, Brave New World, Rebel Yell, It’s A Mystery, Danced, Sensational, I Want To Be Free, Encore: Demolition Men, Ieya.
Toyah plays a full-band gig in Northampton tonight, at The Roadmender – with “tons of Toyah classics” on the set-list. There are still a few tickets left, click below to buy…
Some classics – including The Packt – are being dusted down for this Friday’s atmospheric gig at London’s Islington Academy. Support is by Cauda Pavonis and 111. Click below to buy tickets for what is sure to be an unmissable Proud, Loud & Electric gig.
From Toyah to Tony Hadley: four retro gigs an hour from Teesside
Fancy a blast from the past? From the best of the 80s to the days of punk here’s four star name gigs you can find within an hour’s drive of Teesside:
1. Former punk princess Toyah is heading for the Boro: The singer and actress brings her Proud, Loud and Electric tour to The Longlands Club, Middlesbrough on Sunday, July 31.
In a career spanning over 35 years, Toyah has amassed 13 top 40 singles, recorded 24 albums and toured live across the world. The gig, with her full live electric band, includes hit singles Good Morning Universe, Thunder in the Mountains and Its A Mystery alongside classics Neon Womb, Danced and Ieya.
This weekend is Proud, Loud & Electric for Toyah, with two full band gigs being played. At The Spa Bridlington on Saturday, and Longlands Club, Middlesborough on Sunday. Click below to browse Toyah’s Official Gig page for further info and ticket links.
The new wave singer-songwriter will head to London’s Islington Academy on September 9 and the Fleece in Bristol on October 23. Tickets go on sale at 9.00am on May 23.
Toyah confirmed via Facebook that the upcoming shows will be fully electric and feature a new band. (*nope, new gigs were mentioned, not a new band)
Toyah Upcoming Tour Dates are as follows:
Fri September 09 2016 – LONDON O2 Academy Islington
Sun October 23 2016 – BRISTOL Fleece
• Continue reading at Stereobaord. NB: Sigue Sigue Sputnik will support Toyah at the Islington Academy. Browse the Official Toyah Gigs page.
Tomorrow (Saturday 20th February), Toyah Willcox will grace the Bungay stage, with the full Toyah band. The uniquely gifted performer is outspoken, charismatic, impossible to categorise and one of Britain’s iconic household names, an award winning rock legend as well as a much loved stage and screen actress and music composer. This is a standing only show, at 8pm, with tickets £25.
• Continue reading at the Beccles & Bungay Journal. This is a full band Proud, Loud & Electric gig. Buy tickets here.
Tons of new dates have been added to Toyah’s Official Gigs page, including a number of acoustic and electric concerts and a handful of festival appearances. Browse the list by clicking below.
There’s a great new Toyah feature/review, of last month’s Proud, Loud & Electric gig at The Garage, just published at the Retro Man Blog.
Toyah + The Tuesday Club at The Garage Islington London
So, be honest now, what was your first gig? Mine wasn’t The Sex Pistols at the 100 Club Punk Festival, or The Who at Leeds University Refectory. I didn’t see Iggy smear peanut butter all over himself while crowd surfing at the Cincinnati Pop Festival and I never saw The Clash at the Victoria Park Rock Against Racism Rally. Nope, my first ever gig was Toyah on June 06th 1981 at the Hammersmith Odeon, the “Anthem Tour” in fact and I was 15 years old. Now, why I should feel a little bit guilty admitting this I’m not sure, but you know how snobby us music fans can be sometimes. But as Toyah herself might say, I should be “proud, loud and heard” and not try to cover up the facts just because it might not be thought of as very “cool”. However, your first gig is rather like your first kiss, buying your first 7” single or going to your first football match, it’s something that stays with you forever. Due to many and varied reasons it was impossible for me to get to many gigs in my teenage years so the whole experience of that first live show was magical.