Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch: More Press
Further press for yesterday’s Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch, including Rolling Stone and Classic Rock!
• Rolling Stone: Robert Fripp, Toyah Willcox Cover Smashing Pumpkins’ ‘Bullet With Butterfly Wings’: The video is part of the pair’s weekly Sunday Lunch series – Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox have been serving up their Sunday Lunch cover series on YouTube for over a year, and for their latest effort the pair has unleashed a raucous version of Smashing Pumpkins’ “Bullet With Butterfly Wings.” In the video, the King Crimson guitarist takes on guitar duties while Willcox, clad in a revealing goth top with literal butterfly wings, gives the vocals a punk rock flair. The pair, filming in their kitchen, get some visual help from a dramatic wind machine – Continue reading…
• Classic Rock/Louder: Wind machines, nipple tape…must be time for Toyah & Robert Fripp’s Sunday Lunch: This week everybody’s favourite wacky couple cover The Smashing Pumpkins’ Bullet With Butterfly Wings – As we’re sure you’re all well aware by now, Sunday Lunch at the Willcox-Fripp household is about much more than mere Yorkshire puddings and roast taters. Week after week, Toyah and Robert deliver highly entertaining, kooky covers of some of rock’s biggest hits, performed for the most part, it seems, as a way of adding some spice to their relationship. If you find yourself questioning whether you should really be watching Toyah flirtatiously dance while rocking nipple tape much to her husband’s delight, don’t worry, you’ve just stumbled upon their Sunday Lunch series, which by the way, probably shouldn’t be played on your work computer – Continue reading…
• Guitar.Com: Fripp and Toyah Get Their Grunge On With Cover Of Smashing Pumkins’ Bullet With Butterfly Wings: “Bullet With Butterfly Wings as you’ve never seen or heard it before.” – Robert Fripp and Toyah Wilcox’s Sunday Lunch covers series is back: on the table this week, a take on Smashing Pumpkins’ Bullet With Butterfly Wings. Last week, the pair headed back to the old school punk they covered all across January for a special Valentine’s Day rendition of Too Drunk To Fuck by The Dead Kennedys. Other punk classics they covered included Blitzkrieg Bop by The Ramones and Should I Stay Or Should I Go by The Clash – Continue reading…
• Far Out: Robert Fripp and Toyah release cover of Smashing Pumpkins: King Crimson bandleader Robert Fripp has issued a cover of ‘Bullet With Butterfly Wings’, featuring wife Toyah Wilcox on lead vocals. The song is a cover of a Smashing Pumpkins tune that was released in the 1990s. The song sits among a series of covers the duo have recorded in their spare time. This recording is notable for Fripp’s casual tone, as the guitarist says “bollocks” as he hits the wrong notes at one juncture in time. The pair have been releasing video renditions of rock numbers since 2021, performing numbers written by The Clash, The Prodigy and Alice Cooper – Continue reading…
