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)
Christmas 2024, Toyah & Robert begin their five-date Christmas Party Tour of the UK this evening at the Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh.
The festive tour also plays The Fire Station, Sunderland (17th December); Komedia, Bath (19th); Indigo At The O2, London (20th) and Wulfurn, Wolverhampton (22nd).
Following the runaway success of their Sunday Lunch YouTube series, and their critically acclaimed Tour of 2023, Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp are bursting out of their kitchen again, for the Christmas Party 2024 and hitting the road for an evening of classic rock in the company of two rock legends and their band.
With the legendary artistic twists that both Robert and Toyah are renowned for, they’ll perform Toyah hits It’s A Mystery and I Want To Be Free, plus many much-loved gems, including Heroes, Rebel Yell, Welcome To The Jungle, Are You Gonna Go My Way, Paranoid and more.
• Some of the dates for Toyah & Robert’s Christmas Party Tour have Sold Out but limited tickets may be available. Visit toyahwillcox.com for further info and ticket links.
The rhythm is coming this December: Toyah & Robert Fripp’s Christmas Party Tour featuring iconic Toyah hits & stonecold rock classics in the duo’s unique fashion plays Edinburgh, Sunderland, Bath, London & Wolverhampton. Click below for ticket links…
Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp to perform at Parr Hall
Two music legends are coming to Warrington’s Parr Hall this month. And you could be there to watch.
Iconic performers and husband and wife team Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp found a whole new audience together when the short videos they recorded during lockdown started to go viral.
Toyah and Robert’s quirky virtual ‘Sunday Lunch’ performances became a runaway success during the pandemic where they covered songs and put their own twist on classics by the likes of David Bowie, Nirvana and Metallica.
Now the couple are bursting out of the kitchen this summer to reconnect with fans all over the UK, including a date at Parr Hall in August. And it could be extra exciting with it confirmed this week that Toyah will be in this year’s Strictly which is likely to start in September.
• Continue reading at the Warrington Guardian.
Toyah & Robert’s Rock Party will take over the Coro on Saturday
Ulverston will welcome an ‘iconic duo’ for an evening of rock classics this weekend.
The Coronation Hall is hosting Toyah and Robert, who are both renowned for their ‘legendary artistic twists’.
In a career spanning more than 40 years, Toyah Willcox has had eight Top 40 singles, released 20 albums, written two books, appeared in over 40 stage plays and ten feature films, and voiced and presented numerous television shows.
Composer, record producer and author Robert Fripp is best known as the guitarist, founder and continuing member of rock band King Crimson. He has worked as a studio player and collaborator with Brian Eno, David Bowie, Peter Gabriel, Daryl Hall, David Sylvian, Blondie and The Damned among others.
• Continue reading at The Mail. See also The Westmorland Gazette.
Toyah & Robert played the first two dates of their Summer Rock Party Tour over the weekend – in Frome and Evesham. Next Sunday brings their first 2024 festival date at the Isle Of Wight Festival…
• The Westmorland Gazette: Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp will perform at The Coro – Continue…
• The Mail: Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp to perform in Ulverston – Continue…
• Warrington Worldwide: Toyah and Robert set to rock Parr Hall – Continue…
• Evesham Journal: Pershore’s Toyah Willcox returns to Evesham for rock concert – Continue…
11 dates – one already sold out – from Toyah & Robert. The six-date Rock Party Tour, and five festivals, including Glastonbury and Isle Of Wight. Have you got your tickets yet? Click below.
There is now less than three weeks until the first date of Toyah & Robert’s Rock Party Summer Tour. See the dates for their Summer and Christmas tours at toyahwillcox.com. Click below for direct links to buy tickets for each of the forthcoming Summer dates.
Pershore’s own
Toyah Willcox to perform at Evesham’s Regal Cinema
Pershore’s own Toyah Willcox is set for a return to the area at the Regal Cinema.
The punk rock singer will perform at the Evesham venue on Saturday, June 15 alongside her husband and King Crimson member, Robert Fripp. Willcox and Fripp’s Rock Party will be performing a range of rock classics on the Regal Stage following the viral success of their popular web series ‘Sunday Lunch’. Willcox said: “We can’t wait to rock you out.”
• Continue reading at the Evesham Journal.
Toyah & Robert’s Rock Party is out on the road this summer. Get your tickets for the headline concerts, plus the previously announced Christmas dates, now by clicking below.
Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp coming to Warrington’s Parr Hall
Two music legends are coming to Warrington’s Parr Hall this summer.
They are both renowned in the music business in their own right, but iconic performers and husband and wife team Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp found a whole new audience together when the short videos they recorded during lockdown started to go viral.
Toyah and Robert’s quirky virtual ‘Sunday Lunch’ performances became a runaway success during the pandemic where they covered songs and put their own twist on classics by the likes of David Bowie, Nirvana and Metallica.
• Continue reading at the Warrington Guardian.
Toyah & Robert’s month-long Sunday Lunch Rock Party Tour ended last weekend in Birmingham.
Toyah tweeted: “A stunning night in Birmingham last Sunday for the finale of the Toyah & Robert Fripp Rock Party Tour! Toyah xxx”
• See more photos from the tour-closing Birmingham gig here. (Photo © Manolo Poladari)
The final date of Toyah & Robert’s 2023 Rock Party Tour was Sunday, October 29th in Birmingham. On this episode of Toyah & Robert On The Road, a glimpse at the last five tour dates, the fire of rock, the musicians, and the grooving audiences, all coming together to celebrate a Rock Party!
The middle five dates of Toyah & Robert’s Rock Party Tour (featuring Daisy the unicorn dancing onstage).
Toyah & Robert On The Road – The First Five Dates Of The Tour… A visit to the first five dates of Toyah & Robert’s tour – a Rock Party! – backstage, soundchecks, stories, onstage, grooving audiences… Dates & tickets at toyahwillcox.com.
In pictures: To
yah Willcox and Robert Fripp at the Royal Hall in Harrogate
Toyah and Robert’s Sunday Lunch is a YouTube channel that they started during the days of Government lockdowns.
Toyah and Robert have been married since the mid-80’s. Robert is perhaps best know for being the founder of King Crimson, but has many, many other credits to how bow, such as playing on Blondies, Parallel Lines, and Bowie’s, Heroes.
Toyah also has an established history in music with It’s a Mystery, Thunder in the Mountains and I Want to Be Free – to name a few.
They were a welcome addition to the Royal Hall in Harrogate, on Saturday 7 October 2023.
• Continue reading at the Harrogate Informer. Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch Tour is on the road now – Browse venues at toyahwillcox.com.
A second review of Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch Rock Party Tour – this one for the second concert at Cheltenham. Again, this review includes spoilers.
Gig Review: Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp
“Sunday Lunch” Cheltenham 1st October 2023
Accompanying me for this gig was a friend who started his musical journey at the same moment in time as myself – late 70s to early 80s – and aside from our ailments, all we talk about is music. However, little did I know the entire night was to be all about relationships…
The grandiose setting would have seemed incongruous a few decades ago for the Punk-pixie Toyah Willcox. The galleried space and Corinthian columns are very much of the classic style. However, I guess the contemporary Toyah too is very much the classic heritage act.
Together with her husband Robert Fripp, the duo have been framing their love of music with regular “Sunday Lunch” uploads on YouTube. The covering of classic songs has amassed a huge following and even bigger reactions. The premise is one of fun and self-parody. Tonight was no different…
As the statesmen of the stage, Fripp took to his stool, after offering an unconditional kiss for his iconic guitar. Although, for the remainder of the gig the guitarist’s unflinching gaze was reserved, hereon in, for his wife of 37 years. Unapologetically, their relationship was at the crux of the show.
• Continue reading at Slap Mag. Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch Tour is on the road now – Browse venues at toyahwillcox.com.
A comprehensive review of the opening – sold out – date of Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch Tour. Please note, this review includes spoilers, such as the full set-list etc.
Wimborne, Tivoli Theatre
Saturday 30 September 2023
This is where it started, during lockdown. It’s had 120 million views. Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox broadcasting totally unexpected duo renditions from home. It went viral. People looked forward to it.
The Tivoli sold out in hours rather than days. Wimborne, Dorset is Robert Fripp’s home town. As explained tonight he first went to the Tivoli when it was a cinema with his sister (who was running the lobby sales stand tonight) when he was five. He proposed to Toyah thirty-seven years ago just along the road. He is the local hero. They could easily have sold out Bournemouth Pavilion judging by the way tickets flew off the shelf. I expect they could have sold out the cavernous BIC, but no, it’s a home town gig in the Tivoli. While it’s a small venue, I have seen such as Robert Plant, Judy Collins, Albert Lee and The Manfreds there.
For many of us in this audience Robert Fripp goes back to The League of Gentlemen and Giles, Giles and Fripp as well as King Crimson. As I increasingly realised working on the record labels on my Around & Around site, we were privileged to live in 60s Bournemouth. (The ‘Greater’ Bournemouth area includes Poole, Christchurch and Wimborne). Robert Fripp, John Wetton, Greg Lake, Michael Giles, Richard Palmer-James, Gordon Haskell (just to name King Crimson connections first), Lee Kerslake (The Gods, Uriah Heep), Zoot Money, Andy Somers (Police), Tim Mycroft (Sounds Nice), Al Stewart, John Rostill (The Shadows), Bob Jenkins (Room, Be Sharp), Pete Ballam (Bram Stoker), Dave Anthony’s Moods, Trendsetters Ltd, The Dowlands. Check out the Bournemouth Beat Boom website for the most detailed information on all of these. As a booming tourist town, Bournemouth simply had far more venues than most places so spawned bands who could actually find plenty of gigs.
• Continue reading at Peter Viney’s Blog. Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch Tour is on the road now – Browse venues at toyahwillcox.com. (Photo © Peter Viney)
Win: Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp coming to Basingstoke
Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp are going on tour and will be in Basingstoke in October – and you can win free tickets with the Gazette.
The married pair are bursting out of the kitchen and going on tour with Toyah’s full ‘Posh Pop’ band.
Enjoy an evening of Sunday Lunch reminiscing and full rock music, familiar from their hit YouTube series, with Robert on guitar.
With the exciting artistic twists that both Robert and Toyah are renowned for, they’ll perform Toyah’s hits such as It’s A Mystery and I Want To Be Free, plus many much-loved songs, including My Generation, Heroes, Teenage Kicks, Rebel Yell, Slave To The Rhythm, Smoke On The Water, Are You Gonna Go My Way, Paranoid, and more.
• Continue reading, and enter the competition to win gig tickets, at the Basingstoke Gazette.
Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch Rock Party Tour premieres on Saturday, with a Sold Out gig at Wimborne Tivoli, and continuing through October.
• Browse all the gigs at toyahwillcox.com, and see the tour countdown at Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and You Tube Shorts.
At Home In The Cotswolds with Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp
Fancy a delicious treat? Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp are taking their stonkingly popular Sunday Lunch rock video-performances on tour. Katie Jarvis asks all the important questions, including which of them does the washing up
It’s the first week of lockdown: a Sunday in April 2020. Six-am and a warm sun is rising.
In the outside world (whatever that might mean in April 2020), everyone is feeling unnerved; scared, even. The pandemic has started; people are prisoners in their own homes; time on their hands but – in a possible first – no one has the slightest idea what to do with it.
Oh – except for Toyah Willcox, that is.
Out in the garden of her Pershore home, she’s doing what she feels to be The Obvious. ‘If we’re stuck in this house for weeks,’ she thinks, ‘I’m going to put a ball gown on.’
Which she does. Pearlescent, fishtail, clingy, strappy, sheer; one of those inspired charity-shop buys.
• Continue reading at Great British Life.
