Dreamscape – Toyah Willcox Fansite

Yesterday was day nine of toyahwillcox.com’s, excellent and eclectic, countdown to the start of the Songs From The Intergalactic Ranch House tour, with an acoustic version of ‘Dreamscape’ being made available. Today a Sheep Farming In Barnet archive has been added to Toyah’s Official Website. Open door ten by clicking below…

• Toyah has been tweeting over the last few days about possible outfit ideas for the Intergalactic Ranch House tour, saying she may wear something different for each date, and posting a photo of a previously unseen design by Melissa Caplan.

Yesterday there was another instalment of “Ask Toyah” via door seven at toyahwillcox.com’s countdown to the start of the Songs From The Intergalactic Ranch House tour, and today “The Live Archive 1978 – 1983” has been launched. Open door eight by clicking below…

It’s day six of toyahwillcox.com’s countdown to the Intergalactic tour and today things have went all Sugar and Spice. Click below to open door six.

The tour countdown continues, today it’s a look at one of the most legendary points of Toyah’s career (for me anyway): The 1980 ATV documentary TOYAH. Open door five by clicking below…

Day Four of the official countdown to Toyah’s Songs From The Intergalactic Ranch House UK Tour. The sheet music that was available for a selection of Toyah’s early 80s singles has been added to the new toyahwillcox.com archive. Open door four by clicking below…

It’s the third day of toyahwillcox.com’s countdown to Toyah’s Intergalactic tour and it’s a retrotastic goodie today: A flashback to Tales Of The Unexpected: Blue Marigold, which also launches an ACTING section at the Official Website which will feature pages on roles from Toyah’s acting career to date. Open door three by clicking below.

The countdown to the start of Toyah’s new tour, Songs From The Intergalactic Ranch House, continues today at toyahwillcox.com. There’s the launch of a new archive section… Remember Toyah make-up from 1982? Open door two by clicking below. (Thanks to andy)

17 days until the Autumn Intergalactic Ranch House Tour kicks off. The countdown is now live: In a land of broken dreams only tears are free…

The countdown to the start of Toyah’s new tour, Songs From The Intergalactic Ranch House, commences today at toyahwillcox.com…

Things are hotting up for Toyah’s Songs From The Intergalactic Ranch House Tour… Over the last few days Toyah tweeted: “The minx is sounding sensational. It is going to b the best set in decades. Real suprises. Real Power“, and “War machines, fascist regimes / Laser beams, futurist dreams #‎IntergalacticRanchHouseTour‬ Sneak Preview coming 01.10.14 to ‪#‎ToyahTV“, along with a great photo at Instagram. Click below for details on all the dates. (Photo © Official Toyah)

• New ToyahTV webisodes have also been uploaded – Including one for Andy Doble’s birthday – Happy Birthday Andy!!

There’s now less than a month until the autumn Songs From the Intergalactic Ranch House tour kicks off on 18th October at The Institute Birmingham.

Taking in selections from Minx, Crimson Queen and a supersonic selection of Safari classics. Tickets for Birmingham opening night on sale at See Tickets. For details on all of the dates visit The Official Toyah Willcox Website.

SAT 18 OCT: BIRMINGHAM HMV INSTITUTE
THU 23 OCT: LEEDS UNIVERSITY UNION
FRI 24 OCT: GLASGOW CLASSIC GRAND
SAT 25 OCT: MANCHESTER ACADEMY 3
FRI 7 NOV: BRIGHTON HAUNT
FRI 14 NOV: SOUTHAMPTON BROOK
SAT 15 NOV: BRISTOL FLEECE
SAT 22 NOV: LONDON O2 ACADEMY ISLINGTON

• Browse all of Dreamscape news on Songs From the Intergalactic Ranch House… here.

Toyah @ Twitter today: “learning ALL IN A RAGE, DONT FALL IN LOVE and SOUL PASSING THRU SOUL 2day. talk about walk down memory lane”

Not long now until Toyah revisits the Ranch House…

It has now been confirmed that songs from Minx will be included in the Songs From The Intergalactic Ranch House Autumn tour, the first time anything from the 1985 album has ever been performed live by Toyah (though for some reason I thought that ‘Don’t Fall In Love’ had been played live at some point at a PA, I’m obviously mistaken or mis-remembering). Click below for the full tour dates schedule and links to buy tickets.

Could songs from Minx be played live this Autumn for the very first time? – An excerpt from the latest Breaking Through newsletter mentions the possibility: “The autumn live dates as previously reported will focus on the Safari catalogue with some resurrected rarities putting in an appearance. There’s also a chance that one or two (maybe even three!) selections from Minx may just make a live debut too. They will be tried in rehearsal so it’s all still to play for. It would be the first time ever they’ve been performed in a Toyah set list”.

There’s great Toyah content in, the just published, Issue 12 of Classic Pop magazine. She is pictured and mentioned in a review of Let’s Rock Bristol. There’s also a competition to win tickets for the Songs From The Intergalactic Ranch House UK Tour. Click below to visit the Classic Pop website. (Thanks to Lärwi for the scans)

Full dates, and links to buy tickets for Toyah’s forthcoming Autumn tour…

Toyah Willcox is performing at a Bristol venue in November.

The ‘high priestess of punk’ and TV personality has a career spanning 30 years. She has had 13 top 40 singles, including I Want To Be Free, It’s A Mystery and Thunder In The Mountains, and recorded 20 albums.

During this time she has presented a variety of television programmes including Watchdog and Songs Of Praise.

She will be performing a set list featuring many of her classic songs and rarities from the Safari catalogue through to Crimson Queen.

• Continue reading at Mercury 24.

Toyah is celebrating her iconic past (and present!) later this year via the, recently announced, UK tour Songs From The Intergalactic Ranch House… & Beyond!, with eight dates in October and November.

The IRH, as many call it, was, of course, Toyah’s official fan club for the first four years of her music career (later becoming simply the Toyah Fan Club and then Tellurian). Tickets are already on sale, and the full tour dates are:

SAT 18 OCT: BIRMINGHAM HMV INSTITUTE
THU 23 OCT: LEEDS COCKPIT
FRI 24 OCT: GLASGOW CLASSIC GRAND
SAT 25 OCT: MANCHESTER ACADEMY 3
FRI 7 NOV: BRIGHTON HAUNT
FRI 14 NOV: SOUTHAMPTON BROOK
SAT 15 NOV: BRISTOL FLEECE
SAT 22 NOV: LONDON O2 ACADEMY ISLINGTON

The Official Toyah Willcox Website: Intergalactic Ranch House Tour Announced: Toyah is pleased to announce a new eight-date tour beginning 18 October in her hometown Birmingham. Songs From The Intergalactic Ranchouse will feature a set list focusing on Toyah’s Safari Records catalogue which boasts the top 40 hit singles Good Morning Universe, Thunder In The Mountains, It’s A Mystery, I Want To Be Free and Rebel Run. Alongside this will be classics Neon Womb and Danced which were first seen and heard on our screens on the much-loved BBC programmes The Old Grey Whistle Test and Shoestring – Continue reading…

This Is Not Retro: Toyah Announces ‘Songs From The Intergalactic Ranch House’ Autumn Tour: Toyah will play an eight-show Autumn tour under the title ‘Songs From The Intergalactic Ranch House’, a reference to the name of her fanclub during the early part of her music career through to 1983 – Continue reading…

Stereo Board: Toyah Announces Songs From The Intergalactic Ranchouse Tour: Toyah Willcox has lined up autumn dates for her Songs From The Intergalactic Ranchouse Tour. Exclusively for these eight dates, the set will also include a cherry-picked selection of rarer Safari songs including b-sides/EP tracks or rarely performed album cuts. Some material from Toyah’s most recent album ‘In The Court Of The Crimson Queen’ will also feature live – Continue reading…

• View more details on the Songs From The Intergalactic Ranch House tour here. Browse all of Toyah’s confirmed live dates for 2014 at The Official Gigs page. Read our Toyah Live 2014 news here.