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Toyah & Robert at Glastonbury 2023: Press, reviews, photos, vidoes…

• The Guardian: Sunday at Glastonbury 2023: Elton John closes the festival in spectacular style – as it happened:

Toyah and Robert Fripp reviewed!
Acoustic stage, 4.10pm

Fresh from their popular pandemic covers series, husband-and-wife duo Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp appear on the misleadingly named Acoustic stage for a set of songs by artists that either the pop star or the King Crimson guitarist have worked with. Willcox, 65 and lithe in a glossy red catsuit, beckons their six-piece, besuited band (with Fripp front and center) to open with a fiery version of her hit Thunder in the Mountains. “We thought we were in the heavy metal tent, I’m really sorry,” she says afterwards, before shouting out her Birmingham hometown and fellow Brummies Black Sabbath – Continue…

• Financial Times: Glastonbury’s final day brings sense of an ending as Elton John bows out – Continue… (subscription required)

• Mojo: Queens Of The Stone Age, Weyes Blood And More At Glastonbury 2023, Reviewed – Continue…

• Rich’s Album Of The Day: Gig Of The Day: The pandemic Sunday Roast sessions made flesh as an eight piece. Great fun as Toyah and hubby Fripp tackle Paranoid, Heart Of Glass, It’s A Mystery and a host of other songs they’ve been involved in – Continue…

• Toyah & Robert – Live on the Acoustic Stage at Glastonbury photos – Continue…

• Toyah & Robert – Glastonbury Festival: 25.06.2023: Enter Sandman … Heroes … It’s A Mystery … Are You Gonna Go My Way.

Toyah and Robert Fripp talk the future of Sunday Lunch at Glastonbury 2023

The duo also talk about what David Bowie would have made of music in 2023, and how their upcoming tour is all about “keeping our clothes on and doing fantastic rock music”

Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox — known as Toyah & Robert — caught up with NME backstage at Glastonbury 2023 to tell about the future of their successful Sunday Lunch series, plans to hit the road, and how they handle hateful comments.

Since starting off the series as a bit of light-hearted relief during the pandemic, no one was more surprised by the sudden momentum than the couple themselves. Now, over three-years since they began Sunday Lunch, the duo have ventured out of the kitchen taken the show to the stage.

The latest of which included a debut slot at Glastonbury 2023 this weekend, where they delivered their brand of classic rock covers on the Acoustic Stage. Shortly before they took to the stage, they had a quick catch-up with NME…

NME: Welcome to Glastonbury! Let’s start by taking a look back to when you first started Sunday Lunch. Did the response catch you off guard? It seemed to get a lot of momentum very quickly…

Toyah Willcox: “It did surprise us. We were going for about eight months and it was growing and growing and growing. It started with one very simple post: 28 seconds of us jiving. Within five minutes it got about 100,000 replies from across the world. At that point, we realised that we’d posted something that basically cheered people up who were alone in lockdown.”

“NME almost championed us in a way, and what we loved about NME was they were linking the songs we were covering with the actual artists, and it had a phenomenal effect. Judas Priest wrote to us and said, ‘Thank you so much’ and we’d given them the best tour publicity they could have had when we covered ‘Breaking The Law’. They loved it!

• Continue reading at NME. (Image © Toyah Willcox)

• Saturday Morning Song: Echo Beach (1987) from Desire (Toyah & Robert – Live At Isle Of Wight Festival 2023) – Watch… • Toyah & Robert: UpBeat Moments – Watch… • Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch – Cream and lots of it – Watch…

Press for Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch – This week covering, and covered in, Cream. (Image © Toyah Willcox)

• NME: Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox douse themselves in cream while performing ‘Sunshine Of Your Love’: “It’s Cream all round” – Continue…

• Guitar.Com: Robert Fripp and Toyah cover themselves in cream while covering Cream: The latest installment of Sunday Lunch is as ridiculous as we’ve come to expect – Continue…

• Classic Rock/Louder: Toyah and Robert Fripp perform Cream cover, cover themselves in cream: Things get extremely literal in the Fripp-Willcox kitchen, with a cream-enhanced cover of Cream’s Sunshine Of Your Love – Continue…

• Consequence: Robert and Toyah Cover themselves in Cream with “Sunshine of Your Love”: The frisky couple take on the Cream classic for their latest “Sunday Lunch” performance – Continue…

• Brooklyn Vegan: Watch Toyah & Robert Fripp cover “Sunshine Of Your Love” with extra Cream – Continue…

• Yahoo!: Robert and Toyah Cover Themselves in Cream with “Sunshine of Your Love” – Continue…

• Guitar World: Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox cover Cream – as they get covered in cream: The couple take on Sunshine of Your Love with the help of dairy products – Continue…

• Brave Words: Robert Fripp & Toyah Perform Cream Classic “Sunshine Of Your Love” – Continue…

• Far Out: Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox cover Cream’s ‘Sunshine of Your Love’ – Continue…

• Official Toyah TikTok: Cream – Continue…

• DGM Live: Toyah & Robert’s Weekend – Continue…

“We realised during lockdown that classic rock changes people’s lives…”

Toyah and Robert Fripp on the healing powers of music: “We should live every year of our lives as if it’s the best year of our lives”

Robert Fripp and Toyah appeared on BBC Breakfast news this morning, 21 June, to promote their forthcoming appearance at Glastonbury, the first time either of them have played the Worthy Farm festival.

Asked about the Toyah and Robert’s Sunday Lunch videos “which spread such joy” during lockdown, Toyah gave a bit of insight into the thinking behind them.

“We realised during lockdown that classic rock changes people’s lives and it gives people the chance to visit really good memories. For me, it will be David Bowie’s Life On Mars, which I first heard when I was 12. Every time I hear that song, I’m taken back there. And very much the concept of what we are doing is taking people back to classic rock, but also introducing new generations – who’ve just come from the dance tent – to Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, or even introducing them to classic Blondie.”

The presenter commented that the age range of people entering Glastonbury for the festival was huge. “Let’s face it,” said Toyah, “we should live every year of our lives as if it’s the best year of our lives and age should not be something that we judge.”

• Continue reading at Classic Rock/Louder/Prog. (Photo © BBC)

Sept/Oct Tour tickets on sale now!

After wowing crowds at Isle of Wight Festival & Glastonbury 2023, Toyah & Robert are bursting out of the Sunday Lunch kitchen to hit the road this September/October.

An evening of hits & rock classics including I Want To Be Free, Heroes, Sensational, Enter Sandman, Kashmir, Thunder in The Mountains & more!

If you were wondering what Robert Fripp and Toyah are like on tour, wonder no more

Much to humanity’s delight, pro-shot footage of Robert Fripp and Toyah performing Billy Idol’s Rebel Yell at the Isle Of Wight festival has emerged

Over the last few years, Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox have built a new, enthusiastic and unexpected audience, with the entire internet seemingly in thrall to their long-running-although-currently-dormant series of Sunday Lunch videos.

Could they cut it on the road? That was surely the question on everyone’s lips when the frisky duo announced a series of ‘Rock Party’ dates, during which they’d perform many of the songs that have so enriched our lives.

In late May the first audiences bore witness to the pair’s live antics, as the King Crimson man and his bride played a pair of local shows at Worcester’s Huntingdon Hall. Amongst the songs performed were Metallica’s Enter Sandman, Black Sabbath’s Paranoid, ZZ Top’s Sharp Dressed Man, and, perhaps most remarkably, Kashmir by Led Zeppelin.

• Continue reading at Classic Rock/Louder. See also Metal Sucks, Ultimate Guitar and Ultimate Classic Rock.

BBC Breakfast: Ahead of their Sunday performance at Glastonbury 2023 Catch Toyah & Robert on BBC Breakfast at 07:50am on BBC One, Wednesday 21st June (aka later this morning)…

Vectis Radio: Isle of Wight Festival 2023 – Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp on taking their Sunday Lunch on tour and the covers you haven’t heard yet: After their barnstorming set in the Big Top, Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp chat to Nik and Kieren about their upcoming tour, working together after 37 years of marriage and the tracks you haven’t heard them cover live… yet! – Listen at Audio Boom…

As previously mentioned, highlights from Toyah & Robert’s Isle Of Wight Festival set were included on Sky Arts coverage of the music festival over the weekend. Here is their performance of Rebel Yell. (Thanks to Minna)

YouTube hits Toyah and Fripp at Isle of Wight Festival in Photos

The husband and wife musical partnership of Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp — both from strangely different but equally experimental musical backgrounds — performed their popular Sunday Lunch Live show in the Big Top.

It was enjoyed by the musically nostalgic and those of younger generations perhaps searching for their own musical roots to follow.

Sunday’s afternoon show was, as you would expect with Fripp, musically precise, while Toyah showed infectious, punk-rooted enthusiasm with her performance.

She performed a set which included some of her solo classics, It’s a Mystery and I Want to Be Free, together with some great pop standards, such as Bowie’s Heroes and Billy Idol’s Rebel Yell.

• Continue reading at Isle Of Wight County Press. Toyah & Robert were also included on Sky Arts’ Isle Of Wight Festival Highlights 2023, with further airings this week. See videos of Toyah & Robert at the Isle Of Wight at Toyah’s official Instagram.

Swanfest 2023: 73 pictures from Swanmore College with Toyah Willcox, Artful Dodger, Blazin Squad and Ben Haenow

Here are dozens of pictures of families enjoying themselves at Swanmore College’s annual festival Swanfest.

This year the line-up saw 1980s icon Toyah Willcox perform with her husband Robert Fripp, early 2000s hip hop act Blazin Squad, garage act Artful Dodger and X Factor winner Ben Haenow.

Hundreds of people enjoyed a warm day on the school playing fields on Saturday – and photographer Keith Woodland filled his camera’s memory card with plenty of great pictures.

• Continue reading at The News. See photos from Swanfest 2023 at Toyah’s official Facebook.

• Saturday Morning Song: Computer (1979) from Sheep Farming In Barnet (Unplugged performance/2020) – Watch… • Toyah & Robert: UpBeat Moments – Watch… • Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch Revisited – Are You Gonna Go My Way – Watch… (Image © Toyah Willcox)

Toyah & Robert perform David Bowie’s Heroes at Stone Valley South Festival 2023 – Robert Fripp played Lead Guitar on the original recording of Heroes, from the album of the same name and also released as a single in 1977.

Congrats to Toyah – The official You Tube channel just hit 200k of followers/fans.

• Toyah At Home: June 2023 – Sizzling Summer Festival Edition – Watch… • Toyah & Robert: UpBeat Moments – Watch… • Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch Revisited – Back In Black – Watch… (Image © Toyah Willcox)

Toyah & Robert have played a number of concerts and festivals over the past couple of weeks, with gig goers saying they “stole the show”. See Facebook for photos from Irlam Live Festival, Stone Valley Festival South + two special gigs at Huntingdon Hall, Worcester. (Photo © Robert Fripp)

A few clips of a great day at Stone Valley Festival South in Ware on May 28. Featuring Toyah, From The Jam, The Beat, The Selecter and Ocean Colour Scene. (Thanks to Choose 80s).

Toyah and Robert guested on Mike Sweeney’s BBC Radio Manchester Show yesterday.

Mike chats with Toyah and Robert about their career ahead of their show at The Lowry later this year.

• Listen to the show, for the next month, at BBC Sounds.

“We’re thrilled to announce that TOYAH & ROBERT are playing the Acoustic Stage at Glastonbury 2023 on Sunday 25 June!” Toyah Willcox

Glastonbury announced the full line up on 24 May:

The Acoustic Stage is a festival within a festival. For the last thirty years or so, people have been trooping up to the hill to the haven of the Acoustic field. The crowds visit the Acoustic Stage to either avoid the rain and, maybe even, the sun – in the sanctuary of super-duper circus tent – or, to hear acoustic, song-based music. Mostly it’s blues, folk, contemporary or country music, but…..it’s not always played on acoustic instruments.

The Acoustic Stage has had the pleasure to welcome Ray Davies, Christy Moore, Joan Baez, Jackson Browne, The Waterboys, Robert Plant, The Moody Blues featuring… Michael Eavis, John Prine, Art Garfunkel, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Keane and The Bootleg Beatles, amongst many others.

• Continue reading at toyahwillcox.com.

Becky Hill, Toyah and possibly Harry Styles to perform at Glastonbury

The Glastonbury line-up has been released and several county stars feature.

Some of the most popular artists from Worcestershire will take to the stage at the country’s biggest music festival later this summer.

Bewdley’s Becky Hill and Pershore’s Toyah Willcox are among the names set to appear. But there are rumours that another locally born musician could be joining them.

• Continue reading at Worcester News.

• Saturday Morning Song: Blue Meanings (1980) from The Blue Meaning (Special Edit 2021) – Watch… • Toyah & Robert: UpBeat Moments – Watch… • Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch – Radar Love – Watch… This week, see also: • Toyah & Robert’s Rock Party – Sensational A Capella – Watch… • Toyah & Robert’s Rock Party – Enter Sandman A Cappella – Watch…

Press for Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch – This week covering Golden Earring. (Image © Toyah Willcox)

• NME: Watch Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp cover Golden Earring’s ‘Radar Love’: “I’d believe anything from this kitchen” – Continue…

• Brooklyn Vegan: Watch Toyah & Robert Fripp cover Golden Earring’s “Radar Love” – Continue…

• Brave Words: Watch Robert Fripp And Toyah Perform Golden Earring’s Smash Hit “Radar Love” – Continue…

• Far Out: Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp cover ‘Radar Love’ by Golden Earring – Continue…

• Turn Up the Volume: Toyah And Robert Have a ‘Radar Love’: On the seventh day – almost 3 years ago – Toyah Willcox and her beloved husband Robert Fripp (King Crimson) started their Sunday Lunch Sessions as a fun pastime while being locked up in their kitchen due to that shit virus – Continue…

• Official Toyah TikTok: Radar Love – Continue…

• DGM Live: T&R’s Rock Party Weekend – Continue…

Stone Valley Festival South: Toyah provides moment of magic with a Fripp down memory lane

But Stone Valley South invariably also serves up a surprise – delivered this year by Toyah.

The former punk pixie-turned-New Romantic warrior queen in a post-apocalyptic chariot took an unenviable early spot, but drew a huge crowd.

As an early adopter of her 1980s make-up brand, available in Woolworths, I made the effort to join them. Frankly, I was curious about exactly what kind of novelty act we would see, but she was pure class.

For the uninitiated, Toyah Willcox has been married since 1986 to musician Robert Fripp, founder and guitarist of prog rockers King Crimson.

• Continue reading at Bishop’s Stortford Independent.