GBG was lucky to spend time with Toyah Willcox whilst she was here in Guernsey, so when we asked our readers to come up with some probing questions for her, she had to answer... Here are the questions you asked Toyah.

When you look back at how you dressed in your day, do you think you would be the Lady Gaga of today?

I'm a huge fan of Lady gaga. I'm inspired by her talent but not sure about all the outfits - I'd like her to stick to a particular look for more than one day. I suppose there are similarities between her and me but there's two generations between us.

• Read the full interview, plus a review of the concert, at 'GBG' magazine by clicking below.

Toyah Willcox took Guernsey by storm in May by visiting us to perform at The Best 80's Party In The World... Ever 2. GBG just can't resist doing something a little bit different and couldn't refuse setting up this fabulous recreation of the film Quadrophenia that Toyah is famous for from the eighties... Toyah was dead impressed when she walked along Cobo and arrived to find the stage set and ready to shoot!

• View a larger version of the feature at 'GBG' magazine by clicking below.

Shameful Secrets Of The 80s : Sky 3 - Monday 12th July : 1.00am
Shameful Secrets Of The 80s : Sky 3 - Sunday 18th July : 2.10am
Nouvelle cuisine, mobile phones, big hair, Sodastream, Maggie Thatcher...this is the story of what was really going on in the decade that taste forgot.

Kavanagh QC : ITV3 - Saturday 17th July : 2.30pm (ITV3 +1 - 3.30pm)
Kavanagh QC : ITV3 - Sunday 18th July : 11.20pm (ITV3 +1 - 0.20am)
A Family Affair (1995). Legal drama series, starring John Thaw, with Holly Aird, Robert Ashby, Toyah Willcox and Lisa Harrow.

Celebrity Brides Unveiled : Wedding TV - Monday 19th July : 0.00am
In this episode punk rock Princess Toyah Willcox talks about the heartbreak of her first love, while we quiz T'Pau's Carol Decker on whether she had china on her wedding list!

Never Mind The Buzzcocks : Dave - Monday 19th July : 2.05am
Never Mind The Buzzcocks : Dave ja vu - Monday 19th July : 3.05am
Mark Lamarr hosts a special anniversary edition of the long-running pop quiz, with Phill Jupitus and Bill Bailey. Guests include 80s pop icon Toyah Willcox and Sumon Sunyal.

Hole In The Wall : BBC HD - Tuesday 20th July: 7.30pm
Anton Du Beke hosts the madcap gameshow. The celebrity contestants are TV chef Simon Rimmer, singer Toyah Willcox, actress Zaraah Abrahams and presenter Barney Harwood, captained by rugby legend Austin Healey and EastEnders' Joe Swash.

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'The Co-operative Magazine' recommend Flashback To The 80s in their current issue's "What To Do This Summer" feature:

We've selected some great events and attractions from up and down the country to keep you entertained this summer...

20th & 21st Clumber Concerts at Clumber Park, Nottinghamshire
Friday sees a Flashback to the 80s with performances from the likes of Rick Astley and Toyah, a perfect picnic spot and a fireworks show. Saturday brings you bang up to date with a Pop party in the Park with headliners Peter Andre and N-Dubz.

UPDATE: Amazon now have the release date of 'Dreamchild' as July 5, 2010 (Thanks Paul)

A very, very rare French press advert for Toyah's 1980 Safari Records debut studio album, 'The Blue Meaning'. Plus, also just a wee bit rare, five excellent photos of Toyah from early 1980.

• Please click above for slightly larger versions of these. HUGE thanks to Andi.

Anton Du Beke hosts the madcap gameshow where celebrities dress in tight silver suits and try to avoid getting pushed into a pool of cold water by a fast-moving wall.

Saturday 23rd Oct: Gaiety Theatre, Douglas, Isle Of Man
Sunday 24th Oct: Jack Rabbit Slims, Hoylake, Wirral

Toyah Willcox in Hoylake at Jack Rabbit Slims: Toyah hit the charts in 1981, with "It's a Mystery." This was followed by several other huge hits including "Thunder In The Mountains" and "I Want to Be Free." These singles were also successful on an international level.

• View further details and ticket info on the Jack Rabbit Slims date here and here. Further information on all of Toyah's confirmed forthcoming live dates for 2010 can be viewed at The Official Toyah MySpace.

UPDATE: Both these gigs are now confirmed. More info at Toyah's Official Facebook.

It cuts between state-of-the-world speeches and random flashes of sex and violence, so there are some disconcerting jolts as the film suddenly shifts gears. One minute you’re listening to a lecture about England’s decline and fall, the next minute you’re watching a polysexual orgy or a copper being castrated with a switchblade.

The casting is odd too, with self-conscious amateurs and punk musicians rubbing shoulders with RADA lovies spitting working class gor-blimeyisms in ersatz cockney.

• Read the full review at 'SFX' here.

Memories in Music would like fans of Toyah to contact them regarding taking part in creating a portion of the display to represent her as one of the influential artists of the area. The event has support from many musicians who are loaning items from their personal collections; among them Bev Bevan, Steve Gibbons, Trevor Burton, Carl Palmer, and Steve Winwood.

They are looking for items of memorabilia to display, such as photographs, concert tickets, posters, signed items, and fan memories of concerts or of meeting Toyah. All items will be insured, kept secure during public viewing hours, and promptly returned at the end of the exhibit. If any fans are able to help put the exhibit together or staff it during opening hours, that would be great too. 

The exhibit will be held at the St Pauls Gallery in Birmingham running for one month from September 18th. Contributors are invited to the private party in the Gallery on September 17th. The proceeds will benefit Macmillan Cancer Support and Task Brasil, who work with the street children of Rio.

Further information on this and contact details can be found at the Memories in Music website here.

'Dreamchild' which has previously been reissued, in 1997 as 'Phoenix', includes the singles 'Out Of The Blue' and 'Now and Then'. It was born out of a proposed stage musical, Cindy X, which subsequently never happened. In 1994 Toyah previewed the album via two acoustic concerts at London's Mean Fiddler. Later that year she travelled the UK on the 'Acoustic Dreamchild' tour.

Toyah's highly distinctive delivery and understated vocals evoke moody and surreal imagery, giving the album the feel of a metaphysical journey. This is far more than just a "dance" album.

MA Concerts have combined some of the best supergroups and artists from the iconic decade that was the 80s, performing classic hits in the ultimate feel-good concert. Back To The 80's features some of the biggest names in 80s pop, performing live this summer at Embankment, Peterborough, including international punk rock queen Toyah rocking out with her chart topping 80s classic hits Thunder In The Mountains, I Want To Be Free and Brave New World.

Rock & Bike Festival 2010: A unique opportunity to see Steve Steinman's fabulous Vampires Rock at an open air UK festival! A full show with TOYAH WILLCOX and The Lost Boys. Don't miss this marvellous extravaganza!

Saturday 17th July: Back To The 80's, Peterborough 7.30pm
Saturday 17th July: Rock & Bike Festival, Derbyshire [Vampires Rock] 9.00pm
Saturday 31st July: The Greatest Eighties Party Ever…2: Open Air Theatre, Scarborough
Friday 20th August: Flashback To The 80s: Worksop, Nottinghamshire
Friday 10th September: New Foresters: Nottingham: Live PA

Psychic Therapy : Bio (The Biography Channel) – Friday 2nd July: 11.00am
Psychic Therapy : Bio (The Biography Channel) – Friday 2nd July: 5.00pm
Toyah Willcox (2009). Documentary biography, backed by music. Gordon Smith journeys into the remarkably diverse career of Toyah Willcox – singer, songwriter, actress, television presenter, writer and businesswoman. Psychic medium, Smith, reveals some of the star’s innermost secrets, delving into her past and predicting her future with help from the spirit world.

• There's approximately 85 photos from 84/85. There’s also a few additions to the 1983 Gallery page.

All of Dreamscape's coverage of Toyah's gigs from earlier this year at The Robin, Wolverhampton, and The Asylum, Birmingham is also now back online. This includes photos, reviews, interviews & much more. Click here for The Robin, here for The Asylum, or on the respective banners below.

Bargain Hunt Famous Finds : Home – Sun 13th June : 2.00pm
Bargain Hunt Famous Finds : Home +1 – Sun 13th June : 3.00pm
Toyah Willcox v Kiki Dee. The bargain-spotting continues, here with rock queens Toyah Willcox and Kiki Dee shopping for hidden gems at an antique centre in Farnham, Surrey.

• Please note that a number of other gigs and appearances are being advertised by promoters/ticket bookers/websites – None of these have, so far, been officially confirmed by Toyah.

Toyah, looking trashionably awesome, on the catwalk at Brighton Fashion Week 2010 on Thursday.

It's a so-so overview of Toyah's performance but the reviewer does concludes his review of Toyah's set with... "all in all she put on a good show"

• Read the full review here.

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She was the punk queen of the late-70s and 80s who dared to be different - and even 30 years on, she remains adamant she's just being herself. Ahead of a performance in Guernsey later this month, Toyah talks to Nicci Martel about making music, following fashion and going under the knife.

Toyah Willcox has a CV as colourful as her 80s neon hair. Bouncing from cult films to narrating the Teletubbies, presenting Songs Of Praise and singing songs called Latex Messiah, the woman who was once punk's leading sprite has had an unpredictable career.

But since exploding onto the scene in the late-1970s as an anti-establishment figure, dolled up like Ziggy Stardust's mad little sister, Toyah has always made one thing abundantly clear - she does things her own way.

'I didn't want to be different, but the thing is, I am different. And I don't mean that to sound big headed - I was born the way I am,' said a characteristically chirpy Toyah.

'I'm very, very small, I have a lisp and a slight gait in my walk, and these kind of things are hard to iron out. To conform, you can't be quirky and different. I think I probably did things differently but it wasn't deliberate. It was just me.'

Toyah is a dynamo. She enthuses at a million miles an hour. No subject was off limits as she conversed me through a whistle stop tour of her life, making the bizarre and outrageous sound as ordinary as toasting bread...

Read the full interview here.

• Many thanks to Paul Lomas for these. Visit his Toyah Fans Club Facebook, here.

All of Dreamscape's recent "Classic Toyah Interviews" are now back online. View them here.

Lobster Rocks, Says Toyah Toyah Willcox best remembers Guernsey for its lobsters.

The 80s pop star, in the island to co-headline an event with that theme at Beau Sejour tonight, had not seen one before a day trip here at the age of seven and was amazed by the size of them.

Toyah's Holiday Memories Lobster was on the menu for a visiting celebrity yesterday.

Eighties pop star Toyah Willcox - pictured on the baclony of the Cobo Bay Hotel, which has been at the centre of a controversy over musical matters - is in Guernsey to co-headline with The Beat at tonight's 80s party at Beau Sejour. The island left an impression on her when she was last here as a young girl.

The singer and actress visited on a day trip while holidaying with her family in Jersey. 'I think I was about seven at the time and I remember coming over on the hydrofoil. My mother ordered a lobster and I had never seen anything like it. I was overwhelmed by the size of this crustacean,' she said.

Ms Willcox said she loved the islands' coasts. 'The coastline of the Channel Islands is spectacular, especially when the tide is out - it almost looks space-age. I am a very keen walker and it is definitely a place I would like to come back to,' she said.

Ms Willcox said she was looking forward to tonight's party. 'I don't know what to expect. No performance is ever the same and you can never predict what they are going to be like but I am hoping there will be a good crowd who remember the 80s as well as a new generation,' she said.

• Many thanks to Paul Lomas for these. Visit his Toyah Fans Club Facebook, here.

• Dreamscape news for January and February 2010 has now been archived. View that here.

• 'Guernsey Press' featured two articles on Toyah in May, including a double-page interview. [Thanks to Paul Lomas for the info]