Had an amazing time in Edinburgh on Monday at Queen’s Hall at Toyah & Robert’s opening gig of their Christmas Rock Party Tour.
Here are a few shots I took at this excellent concert. See more at my Instagram page by clicking below. (Photos © David Fleming)
Following their interview with Toyah in 2021, and talking Toyah in September, Toyah & Robert guested on Word In Your Ear‘s latest Podcast – How Toyah & Robert’s kitchen show became an Xmas rock’n’roll ding-dong.
• Watch/Listen at You Tube or at Apple Podcasts.
September is all about Strictly for Toyah in 2024, BUT it’s time for a surprise bonus episode of Toyah At Home. Tune in 11am on Saturday 28 September for a message from Toyah at home in the kitchen, where Robert is also around.
There’s a vintage clip of 1980s single “The Vow” filmed with autumnal vibes plus an announcement too. What could that be? What might put the red cherry on the top of the 2024 cake?
Toyah will release a new single, Roses In Chains on Friday 21st June 2024 in time for Toyah second consecutive year of appearing on the bills of the legendary Glastonbury Festival and Isle of Wight Festival.
This captivating new song is a collaboration with her long-time writing partner Simon Darlow, and features the legendary Robert Fripp, adding his signature guitar to the production.
Roses In Chains emerged through collaborative song-writing sessions between Toyah and Simon, crafting a song that delves into the intense dynamics of human relationships. “The idea behind the song is the intensity of relationships; nothing is plain sailing, but bonds are unbreakable” Toyah explains. This theme of enduring connections is powerfully conveyed through both the music and the lyrics.
• Pre save the song now by clicking on the digital cover. See further details at toyahwillcox.com.
Happy 38th Anniversary to Toyah & Robert, and a Happy 78th Birthday to Mr Fripp. See Toyah’s Happy Anniversary video, and Happy Birthday Robert. at Facebook. See also Seventy-Eight Celebrations! at DGM Live.
“Shake my left hand man, it’s closer to my heart!”: Robert Fripp recalls what happened when he met Jimi Hendrix
The pair met at London’s Revolution club in 1969.
King Crimson mastermind Robert Fripp has opened up about a heartwarming moment he once shared with guitar legend Jimi Hendrix.
Appearing on the music reaction channel Rob Squad Reactions alongside his wife Toyah Willcox, Fripp shares how the late rocker had sung praises of King Crimson after watching their set back in the day.
“This is the hand shaken by the hand of Jimi Hendrix,” Fripp delightly reveals, gesturing to his left hand.
• Continue reading at Guitar.Com.
Toyah is currently topping the Official Legacy Chart, along with Trevor Horn and Robert Fripp with their cover of Relax. The song moved up from number two to one this week. Stream or buy the track, and the album it is taken from, by clicking below.
A short message from the inimitable Toyah Willcox – Willcox and Robert Fripp about how their performance on ‘Relax’ came to be. Listen to the track here. Click below for the video clip.
Robert Fripp on the future of King Crimson: “I’m committed to another band right now – Toyah and Robert”
Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox are set to tour their Sunday Lunch rock party across the UK this Autumn.
Robert Fripp has opened up on the future of King Crimson following the success of his Sunday Lunch YouTube series with his wife and fellow musician, Toyah Willcox.
The duo began performing a range of covers on Willcox’s YouTube channel during the COVID-19 lockdowns, which rose to popularity.
Off the back of the success of their online covers, which are recorded using just an iPhone, the pair are even set to take their Sunday Lunch covers on the road with a UK “Rock Party” tour starting later this month (September).
In a new interview with Guitar World, Fripp was asked if King Crimson is definitely over, or if there is any hope for a tour in the future now that he’s so busy with this new project: “I’ve learned from having attempted to get away from King Crimson in 1974, 1984, 2003 and 2008 that it’s probably hard to say!
• Continue reading at Guitar.Com. Browse all of Toyah & Robert’s Rock Party tour dates at toyahwillcox.com.
Nice moves, Robert! Watch Fripp and Toyah’s backstage dance-off
Robert Fripp’s a 21st-century dancing man in new footage shared ahead of his autumn live dates with Toyah
We’re used to seeing Toyah Willcox throwing shapes onstage and in Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch series, but now her husband Robert Fripp has been captured getting his groove on backstage.
Filmed by Willcox just moments before the pair were due to perform at Wickham Festival in Hampshire on August 6, the footage shows the King Crimson guitarist getting lost in Rod Argent’s rather splendid extended Mellotron solo in The Zombies’ classic She’s Not There.
• Continue reading at Classic Rock/Prog.
Following their Sensational appearances at the Isle of Wight Festival and Glastonbury Festival, Robert Fripp will be a special guest playing with the band for Toyah’s upcoming gigs in July!
01 July: Sittingbourne Party In The Park
20 July: Leeds Morley Town Hall
21 July: Holmfirth Picturedrome
22 July: Castleton Devil’s Arse Cave
28 July: Milton Keynes International Festival – officially a Toyah & Robert date
29 July: Holt Festival, Norfolk
• Tickets and full details are on the Gigs page at toyahwillcox.com.
Happy Anniversary to Toyah & Robert, and a Happy 77th Birthday to Mr Fripp. See DGM Live’s Seventy-Seven Celebrations! celebrating Robert’s day… and It’s Toyah & Robert’s 37th Anniversary today at You Tube.
Toyah Willcox says she was ‘negotiating’ monogamy during marriage to Robert Fripp
‘When we first got together there was a tsunami of women trying to claim him,’ Willcox said
Toyah Willcox has opened up about the early years of her marriage with Robert Fripp in a new interview.
Willcox, 64, and Fripp, 76, got married in 1986, and recently reflected on their nearly 40-year relationship.
Speaking to The Times, Willcox said Fripp proposed to her within a week of their second meeting in 1985, with the couple tying the knot on the King Crimson guitarist’s 40th birthday.
Willcox added she had to explain her “version of monogamy” to him, referring to the “tsunami of women trying to claim” Fripp.
“When we first got together there was a tsunami of women trying to claim him. It was breathtaking. I got very bored of the number of people who felt they had to tell me they’d slept with him,” she explained. “I was, like, ‘Go f*** yourself.’”
• Continue reading at The Independent. NB. This article is an extract from Toyah & Robert’s interview published this week by The Times/The Sunday Times.
Toyah & Robert have some specials airing over the Christmas weekend. As well as this morning’s, just aired, Toyah At Home, there is an Upbeat Moments Of The Week this Christmas Eve evening, Toyah & Robert – Merry Christmas and Sunday Lunch – Jingle Those Bells!! on Christmas Day. There is also Episode 21 of Robert At Home airing any minute now!
Sending a huge THANK YOU to Toyah & Robert for gifting everyone so much in 2022: Albums, singles, tours, reissues, blogs, Sunday Lunch, At Home, Objects Of Desire, Upbeat Moments and, essentially, just a lot of entertainment, happiness and much needed… joy!
The new ‘Posh Redux’ version of Sensational featuring Robert Fripp on guitar, was released on Friday as a preview digital single to stream and download.
Following her Top 30 hit album Posh Pop and Isle of Wight Festival performance Toyah unveils details of the new ‘Rhythm Deluxe Edition’ of studio album In The Court of The Crimson Queen, presented as a prequel to Posh Pop.
The definitive version of the album now contains Toyah’s unique interpretation of the iconic song Slave To The Rhythm, featuring Robert Fripp on guitar and produced by Simon Darlow, co-writer of the original track. The album also contains three brand new remakes of Sensational, Heal Ourselves and Latex Messiah featuring the Posh Pop Three of Toyah, Simon Darlow and Robert Fripp. Plus exclusively revised artwork and lyrics for the album.
• Watch the video below or at You Tube. Yesterday’s Toyah At Home was a Sensational special, watch here, and today’s Sensational Magical Sunday Lunch, here. Stream/download Sensational (Posh Redux) here.
Stream or download Toyah’s new single… It’s Sensational!
Tomorrow’s Toyah At Home brings the premiere of the new single – and accompanying video for – Sensational (Posh Redux). The single features Robert Fripp.
In today’s Toyah At Home episode, Toyah introduces the video to Sensational which receives a new single release in its new remixed version, featuring the Posh Pop Three including Robert Fripp on guitar. Premieres 11am, Saturday 17th December. (Image © Toyah Willcox)
Toyah & Robert have just opened (separate) official accounts at TikTok. Visit Robert Fripp’s here, and click below to visit and/or follow the Official Toyah Willcox TikTok.
• Toyah At Home: In The Fairground – Watch… • Robert At Home: Episode 14 – Watch… • Toyah & Robert: Objects Of Desire – Watch… • Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch – Can Your Pu$$y Do The the Dog? – Watch…
Press for Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch – This week covering The Cramps. (Image © Toyah Willcox)
• Guitar.Com: Toyah Willcox And Robert Fripp Cover The Cramps’ Can Your Pussy Do The Dog?: Fripp’s oft-used “bollocks!” also makes a cameo this time round – Continue…
• NME: Watch Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox cover The Cramps’ ‘Can Your Pussy Do The Dog?’: The latest edition of Sunday Lunch sees the pair cover a 1986 track – Continue…
• Classic Rock/Louder: Watch Toyah and Robert Fripp revamp The Cramps’ Can Your Pussy Do The Dog?: Yes, they’re still at it – Continue…
• Brooklyn Vegan: Watch Toyah & Robert Fripp cover The Cramps’ “Can Your Pussy Do The Dog?” – Continue…
• Brave Words: Robert Fripp & Toyah Perform The Cramps Classic “Can Your Pu$$y Do The the Dog?” – Continue…
• Turn Up The Volume: Pussy Toyah And Dog Robert Fripp Always Lunch Together On Sunday – Continue…
• DGM Live: Toyah & Robert’s Weekend – Continue…
• Toyah At Home: Unboxing Rainbow & Vintage Neon Womb – Watch… • Robert At Home (and Away): Episode 13 – Watch… • Toyah & Robert’s Objects Of Desire – Watch… • Toyah & Robert’s Halloween Sunday Lunch – Children Of The Grave – Watch…
Press for Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch – This week covering Black Sabbath. (Image © Toyah Willcox)
• Guitar.Com: Toyah And Robert Fripp Take On Black Sabbath’s Children Of The Grave For Halloween: “It’s proper scarey!!!” – Continue…
• NME: Watch Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox celebrate Halloween with Black Sabbath cover: The latest ‘Sunday Lunch’ sees the musical couple take on ‘Children Of The Grave’ – Continue…
• Classic Rock/Louder: Halloween chaos as Toyah and Robert Fripp mutilate Black Sabbath’s Children Of The Grave: It’s Halloween in the Fripp-Willcox kitchen and horror is paying its annual visit – Continue…
• Brooklyn Vegan: Watch Toyah & Robert Fripp cover Black Sabbath’s “Children Of The Grave” for Halloween – Continue…
• Consequence: Robert Fripp and Toyah Take on Black Sabbath’s “Children of the Grave” for Halloween: The couple get spooky with the metal classic – Continue…
• Far Out: Watch Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox’s Halloween performance of Black Sabbath – Continue…
• Brave Words: Robert Fripp & Toyah Share Sunday Lunch Halloween Special – Continue…
• Metal Injection: Robert Fripp & Toyah Willcox Celebrate Halloween By Covering Black Sabbath’s “Children Of The Grave”: Now 100% more spine-tingling than usual – Continue…
• DGM Live: Toyah & Robert’s Weekend – Continue…
• Toyah At Home: The Anthem Specials: Part 3 – Watch… • Robert At Home (and Away!): Episode 8 – Watch… • Objects Of Desire: The Toyah Edition 2 – Watch… • Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch – It’s Officially The One & Only – Watch…
Press for Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch – This week covering Chesney Hawkes (with Chesney Hawkes). (Image © Toyah Willcox)
• NME: Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp enlist Chesney Hawkes for ‘The One And Only’ cover: This edition is labelled an ‘interlude’ as Fripp is currently on tour – Continue…
• Brooklyn Vegan: Watch Toyah & Robert Fripp cover Chesney Hawkes’ “The One and Only” with Chesney Hawkes – Continue…
• Guitar World: Robert Fripp and Toyah recruit Chesney Hawkes for the latest ridiculous installment of Sunday Lunch: Fripp lets Hawkes handle guitar duties on a Surf Green Fender Tele while he gets bread rolls batted off his head by his wife. Yes, really – Continue…
• DGM Live: Toyah & Robert’s Weekend – Continue…
