Yuletide spondulations!!
(Not sure what that means but it rolls
off the tongue quite easily!) This is the
final update for a while as I've decided
to take a break from Dreamscaping. Thanks
to everyone who has contributed news,
views and photos over the last 12 months,
as always it was very much appreciated.
Thanks to everyone who visited too. Have
a great Christmas and a successful 2011!
Dreamscape
Toyah Festive 50:10 - 1
Christmas
Eve, 2010
Toyah Newsy
Bits & Pieces!
Christmas
Eve, 2010
•
Thanks to everyone who entered the
"Four From Edsel" competition.
Congratulations to the winner, Jenny
Barter from Bristol, who wins four promo
CD's, courtesy of Edsel Records. The
answer was, of course, "Love Is The
Law"! Thanks again to Val Jennings @
Demon Music.
Check
out the photo/brief info feature, on the
four excellent Toyah CD reissues from
Edsel, here.
• Celebrity Ready
Steady Cook - Christmas Special,
which aired yesterday on BBC2, is now
available to watch
online at
BBC iPlayer.
• Hole In The Wall, which
aired this morning, and does again
numerous times over the next week at
CBBC, is also
available at
BBC iPlayer.
• Shirley Anne Field,
one of the stars of The Power Of
Three, was interviewed last week by
'Celebrits'. She talked about the film
during the interview. Read it here.
• 'Hot Press' is
launching an online library of the
thousands of pictures their photographers
have taken over the last 30-odd years.
'Independent.ie' quote Courtney Love,
from an interview last year, mentioning
that she photographed Toyah in the early
80s in their "Rock pics centre
stage in Hot Press online archive"
article, published today. Read it here.
Toyah on
Christmas TV
23 December, 2010
Lots of Toyah TV
appearances, though nothing brand new
unfortunately, over the festive period.
Please click here or
below to view the full schedule. Celebrity
Ready Steady Cook - Christmas
Special, from December 2008, airs this
afternoon at 2.25pm on BBC2.
Sleeping
Beauty: The Best Of Worcester
Review
23 December, 2010
Stunning
costumes, anthemic songs and risque jokes
- it has to be panto time and this year's
offering at Malvern Theatres is a real
cracker. Sleeping Beauty received
rapturous applause from the first night
audience and quite rightly so as the
strong cast served up two hours of first
class entertainment.
The plot is thin but that merely gives
the performers more chance to sing, dance
and act up in wacky slapstrick routines.
I particularly enjoyed the mimickry in
the mirror room courtesy of Silly Billy
(Derek Moran) and Nanny Glucose (Charles
Burden).
Alexandra Gottschall and Stephen Whitson
made a delightful royal couple, David
Alcock was a madcap king while Toyah
Willcox and Wendy-Lee Purdy traded
insults as the Bad and Good Fairies
respectively.
• Read the full review at 'The Best
Of Worcester' website, here.
Sleeping
Beauty: The Stage Review
21 December, 2010
Panto
plots rarely offer anything new. Jack
goes up the beanstalk to confront
predictably the giant, Cinderella gets
her coach and her Prince, while Aladdin
hits the jackpot with the lamp.
But it is the component parts of a panto
which give it oomph and provide lift-off.
And so it is the combined strengths of
Toyah Willcox’s Bad Fairy and
Charles Burden’s superb high fashion
Nanny Glucose which underpin the evening
and deservedly draw audience cheers.
Willcox in sequins and green spot comes
down on a wire to battle it out with her
rival the Good Fairy (Wendy Lee Purdy in
pink). These time-honoured confrontations
are well staged and clearly delight an
audience willing to be entertained.
• Read the full review at 'The
Stage' website, here.
Sleeping
Beauty: Malvern Gazette Review
21 December, 2010
This
is as near the perfect pantomime as can
be.
What makes it stand out is that primarily
it sticks to the principles of what
traditionalists like to see in a panto,
while at the same time embracing many
modern areas of ‘wizardy’ with
just the right mixture of up to date
humour.
But a good panto also needs to have the
right mix in its ranks and this cast, led
by Worcestershire-based pop singer Toyah
Willcox, has it in such abundance
it’s a production that would go down
well with any audience anywhere in the
country.
It’s slick, funny and caters for all
ages – with plenty of slap-stick
nonsense, romance, mystery and intrigue,
and one or two quite risqué moments! But
all done in the best possible taste...
Toyah is the Bad Fairy, but she looked
and sounded pretty good in her duel with
the also impressive Good Fairy (Wendy-Lee
Purdy) as good, as panto decrees,
eventually won the fight over evil.
• Read the full review at the
'Malvern Gazette' website, here.
Dreamscape
Toyah Festive 50:20 - 11
20 December, 2010
Dreamscape
Toyah Festive 50:30 - 21
17 December, 2010
Top Of The
Pops?
17 December, 2010
It's looking likely that
full, unedited, archive editions of Top
Of The Pops may be aired by BBC4
sometime in the first part of 2011.
Copyright issues are still being
negotiated but if this does go ahead it
will be the first time the full shows
have been broadcast in the UK for many
years.
Dreamscape
Toyah Festive 50:40 - 31
16 December, 2010
Sleeping
Beauty: Opens Tomorrow!
15 December, 2010
Sleeping Beauty
at the Festival Theatre, Malvern with
Toyah in the lead role as Bad Fairy,
opens tomorrow evening at 7pm. This is
Toyah's 14th panto, her first was Jack
& The Beanstalk in 1996, and the
second time appearing in Sleeping
Beauty. Further info/book tickets by
clicking below.
Re-Joyce:
Live in Coventry
15 December, 2010
'Re-Joyce (In The Bleak
Midwinter)' is continuing to do well on
Amazon's Singles chart. Hazel performed
the single live in Coventry at the
weekend. View it at 'You Tube' here.
Worcester
News: Stars Say New Gifts Are
Great
15 December, 2010
Pantomime
stars paid a visit to a Worcestershire
charity shop to help launch a Christmas
gift appeal.
Toyah Willcox and other stars of the
Sleeping Beauty pantomime, which is
currently running at Malvern Theatres,
joined forces with Archie the Oxfam goat
to launch the charity’s range of
Christmas gifts at the Oxfam shop in
Church Street, Malvern, on Thursday.
Ms Willcox, children’s TV presenter
Derek Moran, panto stalwart Charles
Burden and stage star Wendy Purdy were
all on hand to unveil the festive range.
The Oxfam Unwrapped gift scheme is used
by the international charity to help
communities living in poverty around the
world.
• Read the full report at the
'Worcester News' website, here.
Toyah Live
2011
15 December, 2010
The first (at this stage)
scheduled 'From Sheep Farming To Anthem'
gig at HMV Institute, Birmingham has had
to be moved by the promoter to Sat 16
April 2011. Ticket info here.
More gigs for 2011 are now being
advertised online (including a date in
Oxford) but until these are officially
confirmed it's pointless mentioning them
here.
Dreamscape
Toyah Festive 50:50 - 41
13 December, 2010
Re-Joyce: In
Amazon UK Top 10 Singles
12 December, 2010
Great News! As
of this evening at 6pm 'Re-Joyce' was at
number eight on the Amazon UK
Music/Singles chart. It was also just
about to enter the Top 700 of their
entire music catalogue.
As well as being
available on CD from Amazon, the single
can be bought from HMV Coventry, Midnight
Records, Coventry Market and Myton
Hospices.
Digitally it is currently available at UK iTunes, Ireland
iTunes
and US iTunes.
Toyah on
Christmas TV: Celebrity Ready
Steady Cook
12 December, 2010
The BBC Christmas
TV schedules were confirmed last week,
and the Christmas 'Radio Times' is now on
sale. Both confirm that Toyah is, once
again, part of BBC festive viewing, with
another airing for the Christmas Special
of Celebrity Ready Steady Cook.
This was originally broadcast at
Christmas 2008, and this year it airs on
Christmas Eve Eve (or as most people call
it, 23rd December!).
It's not just on BBC though, Toyah is
once again all over Christmas TV. Please
take a look below for our festive viewing
update.
Celebrity Ready Steady Cook :
BBC2
Thursday 23rd December : 2.25pm Christmas Special - Toyah
Willcox and Shauna Lowry. Singer Toyah
Willcox and TV presenter Shauna Lowry
battle it out to see who'll be Christmas
number one in the kitchen as Ainsley
Harriott hosts another twenty-minute
cooking challenge.
Toyah Fan
Videos: New You Tube Channel
12 December, 2010
A great new 'You Tube'
channel, "Toyah Fan Videos" has
just been opened by Minna, of the groovy
"Toyah Willcox Interview
Archive". Visit it here,
and the Interview Archive, here.
Toyah on
Christmas TV
12 December, 2010
Changing
Faces : Living - Thursday 16th December :
4.40am
Changing Faces : Living +1 - Thursday
16th December : 5.40am Kylie Minogue. Unique new series
that delves into the lives and looks of
the hottest celebrities using archive
footage and digital aging technology.
Changing Faces follows Kylie Minogue's
rise from girl-next-door to global icon.
Also airing on Living HD.
Secret Diary Of A Call Girl :
ITV2 - Sunday 19th December : 2.10am
Secret Diary Of A Call Girl : ITV2 +1 -
Sunday 19th December : 3.10am
Series One. Episode Two. Belle finds
herself in a difficult situation when she
meets an attractive author at a sex
party. He is not the man she came with -
should she ditch the client who brought
her, or remain professional? Starring:
Billie Piper, Toyah Willcox, Aleksandar
Mikic, Jamie Sives, Aislinn Sands and
Scarlette O'Harlette. Also airing on ITV2
HD.
Top 50
Showbiz Comebacks : Sky 1 - Monday 20th
December : 1.00pm
Top 50 Showbiz Comebacks : Sky 1 -
Wednesday 22nd December : 11.00pm
Top 50 Showbiz Comebacks : Sky 3 - New
Years Eve : 2.00am
Christopher Biggins presents a
celebratory countdown of the stars and
shows that have been binned, but bounce
back even bigger. Who, or indeed what,
will hit the top spot?
Secret Diary Of A Call Girl :
ITV2 - Wednesday 22nd December : 2.30am
Secret Diary Of A Call Girl : ITV2 +1 -
Wednesday 22nd December : 3.30am
Series One. Episode Eight. Belle thinks
she has hit the big time when an American
film producer gets her an interview to
join a group of exclusive prostitutes who
work with the world's wealthiest men.
However, working for the mega-rich comes
with its own price tag and Belle soon
starts to miss her independence.
Celebrity Ready
Steady Cook : BBC2 - Thursday 23rd
December : 2.25pm
Christmas Special - Toyah Willcox and
Shauna Lowry. Singer Toyah Willcox and TV
presenter Shauna Lowry battle it out to
see who'll be Christmas number one in the
kitchen as Ainsley Harriott hosts another
twenty-minute cooking challenge.
Hole In The Wall : CBBC -
Christmas Eve : 9.00am
Hole In The Wall : CBBC - Boxing Day :
4.35pm
Hole In The Wall : CBBC - New Years Day :
9.00am
Hole In The Wall : CBBC - Monday 3rd
January : 9.30am
TV chef Simon Rimmer, singer Toyah
Willcox, actress Zaraah Abrahams and
presenter Barney Harwood try to avoid
getting pushed into a pool of cold water
by a fast-moving wall, captained by rugby
legend Austin Healey and EastEnders' Joe
Swash.
The 100 Greatest
Toys With Jonathan Ross : E4 - Christmas
Eve : 4.20pm
The 100 Greatest Toys With Jonathan Ross
: E4 - Boxing Day : 6.55pm
Presented by gadget, gizmo and toy
collector extraordinaire Jonathan Ross,
100 Greatest Toys with Jonathan Ross is a
three hour countdown of the nation's
favourite toys and games. Includes a very
brief rare clip of Toyah at the Rubik's
Cube championships in 1981. Also airing
on the +1 channel.
The 100 Greatest Christmas
Moments : More4 - Christmas Eve : 8.10pm
The 100 Greatest Christmas Moments :
More4 +1 - Christmas Eve : 9.10pm
Jimmy Carr counts down the 100 festive
moments that remain indelibly stuck in
the nation's memories.
Celebrity Brides Unveiled :
Wedding TV - Christmas Day : 2.00pm
Celebrity Brides Unveiled : Wedding TV -
Boxing Day : 6.00am
Celebrity Brides Unveiled : Wedding TV -
Boxing Day : 10.00pm
In this episode punk rock Princess Toyah
Willcox talks about her wedding in 1986
to Robert Fripp, while we quiz T'Pau's
Carol Decker on whether she had china on
her wedding list!
Celebrity Fantasy
Homes : Home - Tuesday 28th December :
11.00am
Celebrity Fantasy Homes : Home +1 -
Tuesday 28th December : 12.00pm
Celebrity Fantasy Homes : Home - Tuesday
28th December : 7.00pm
Celebrity Fantasy Homes : Home +1 -
Tuesday 28th December : 8.00pm
Gaby Roslin helps Toyah Willcox search
for a second home in Richmond upon Thames
with a budget of £650,000.
Greatest Christmas
Adverts : Channel 5 - Tuesday 28th
December : 8.00pm
Greatest Christmas Adverts : Fiver -
Sunday 2nd January : 5.00pm
Greatest Christmas Adverts : Fiver +1 -
Sunday 2nd January : 6.00pm
A rundown of the nation's all-time
favourite Christmas television adverts.
Featuring the good, the bad and the ugly
of festive ads, alongside commentary from
the actors who starred in them and the
people who were convinced to part with
their hard-earned cash.
Minder : ITV4 -
Saturday 8th January : 8.00pm
Minder : ITV4 +1 - Saturday 8th January :
9.00pm
Minder : ITV4 - Sunday 9th January :
7.45am
Minder : ITV4 +1 - Sunday 9th January :
8.45am
Minder : ITV4 - Sunday 9th January :
12.15pm
Minder : ITV4 +1 - Sunday 9th January :
1.15pm All Mod Cons. Series 2, episode
8. Drama series about the shady dealings
of a spiv and his reluctant sidekick.
Terry is asked to get rid of some
squatters, leading Arthur to dream of a
future as a property developer. Also
airing on ITV4 HD.
Dreamscape:
Site Update
12 December, 2010
Just to let all visitors to
the site know that I'll be taking a break
from updating Dreamscape for the first
few months of 2011. The last update, for
the time being, will be just before
Christmas!
Malvern
Gazette: Panto Stars Launch New
Gift Range
12 December, 2010
The
cast of this year’s Malvern
pantomime, Sleeping Beauty, were in town
this week helping to launch a new range
of unusual gifts at the Malvern Oxfam
shop.
The panto stars, including pop star and
TV presenter Toyah Willcox,
children’s TV favourite Derek Moran,
panto stalwart Charles Burden and actress
Wendy Purdy, were at the Malvern shop in
Church Street to unveil Oxfam’s
latest range of innovative charity
presents, Unwrapped.
• Read the full report at the
'Malvern Gazette' website, here.
Central
Tonight: Screen Captures
7 December, 2010
Screen caps from Central
Tonight's 'Re-Joyce' report. Please
click below for larger versions.
Central
Tonight: O'Connor Bidding For No
1
7 December, 2010
Yesterday's
Central Tonight report on the
release of 'Re-Joyce' is available to
watch online here.
The race is on for the Christmas Number
One single with whoever wins the X Factor
squaring up to the likes of Sir Cliff
Richard. Also bidding for the top spot is
The Hazel O'Connor Collective - a
get-together of 80s stars, aiming to
raise thousands for hospices across the
UK. It's a cause that's close to the
Coventry singer's heart - as Andy Bevan
explains.
Re-Joyce:
Full Promo Video @ You Tube
7 December, 2010
The full promo video for
'Re-Joyce (In The Bleak Midwinter)' is
now online at 'You Tube'. Watch below or
click here to
view at 'You Tube' [ Thanks to Paul Cable
]
Myton
Hospice: Help Us Get Into The
Charts
7 December, 2010
Help
us get into the charts this Christmas -
download charity single Re-Joyce today
Hazel O'Connor and stars including Toyah
Willcox and Carol Decker have recorded a
charity single to raise money for us.
Re-Joyce was written by Hazel for her
mother Joyce who spent last Christmas at
our Warwick hospice. It is now available
to download from iTunes at http://bit.ly/gkwnQZ
It is track one. By buying it this way
you can help us get it into the charts.
A CD with several different versions of
the song is also avalaible to buy from
our hospices and shops for £3.99 and 90
per cent of the proceeds will be donated
to us with ten per cent going to Help The
Hospices. To buy this CD online click here.
Screen captures from Hazel's
appearance on this morning's Daybreak.
As well as a great interview with Hazel,
there was also a short clip of the
'Re-Joyce' video, including footage from
last month's launch gig. Watch the Daybreak
interview at 'You Tube' here.
Click on the caps for larger versions.
• A fantastic
report has just aired on ITV Central
Tonight, with clips of the
'Re-Joyce' video, plus interviews with
Hazel, Joyce, Toyah, and Carol Decker.
Re-Joyce:
Available Now!
6 December, 2010
'Re-Joyce
(In The Bleak Midwinter)', by The Hazel
O'Connor Collective, is out today and
available to download via iTunes, as well
as being on sale as a physical CD single
at selected music retailers.
As well as the "Single Mix"
featuring the full Hazel O'Connor
Collective, a variety of other mixes,
with various members of the Collective on
lead vocals, are available at iTunes as
an album of seven tracks. The "Toyah
Mix" of the single can also be
downloaded.
Go here
for the "Single Mix", as well
as the "Toyah Mix" and the
various others (at iTunes).
Malvern
Gazette: Christmas Lights
Switch-On A Big Success
6 Dec, 2010
This
year’s Christmas lights switch-on
was a ‘huge success’ with the
streets packed with families and
shoppers. There was a festive bustle in
the town with street entertainment, carol
singing, bands and a fairground carousel.
Panto star and pop singer Toyah Willcox
performed the actual switch on and sang
for the crowds that filled the streets
which were closed to traffic for the day.
Toyah was in character as the Bad Fairy
and led a parade prior to the lights
switch-on with hundreds of children
carrying glowing paper lanterns through
the streets accompanied by the
town’s Samba Band.
• Read the full report at the
'Malvern Gazette' website, here.
Scotland
Courier: Scone Palace To Host 80s
Rewind Festival
6 Dec, 2010
The Human League, Boy
George, Heaven 17, ABC, Marc Almond,
Midge Ure, 10CC, Tony Hadley, Toyah
and... Perth's own Fiction Factory.
These are the kind of names to look
forward to seeing live on stage at a
massive open-air festival just announced
for Scone Palace next summer.
The 80s Rewind Festival — which
boasts the biggest line-up of that
decade's artists since Live Aid - will
bring 20,000 people to the event each day
to see around 25 chart-topping 80s acts
perform in the beautiful grounds of the
historic palace. Around 10,000 of those
will be camping from Friday, July 29 till
Sunday, July 31.
• Read the full report at the
'Scotland Courier' website, here.
Four From
Edsel: Feature/Competition
5 December, 2010
Now
Online: Our Toyah CD Reissues |
Four From Edsel feature.
Check out the photo/brief info feature,
on the four excellent Toyah CD reissues
from Edsel, here.
Edsel generously gave Dreamscape promo
copies of each CD for a competition
prize: Question (very,
very easy question!): Which of these CDs
contains the song that has the same title
as this website?
Please email your answer to david (@)
toyah.net - closing date for entries:
23rd December. Winner of the four CDs
will be announced here and notified on
Christmas Eve.
• Many thanks to Val Jennings at
Edsel Records/Demon Music.
BBC Radio
Shropshire: Late Show Interview @
iPlayer
5 December, 2010
As previously
mentioned, Toyah guested on Keith
Middleton's Late Show last night
on BBC Radio Shropshire (and networked to
other BBC Midlands stations) in a
pre-recorded interview.
Toyah appears approximately 1hr 46mins
into the show and the interview lasts
around 33 minutes. She talks about woman
flu, Birmingham, how her career started,
how she feels/felt about the
"Princess of Punk" tag,
rebellion, tv work, her first tv
appearance, I'm A Celebrity, the
Great Walk To Beijing, ghosts, the
evolution of panto, Sleeping Beauty,
a very busy gig diary for the forthcoming
year and more.
There was also plays of 'I Want To Be
Free', 'Brilliant Day', 'Thunder In The
Mountains' and 'It's A Mystery'.
• The full show can be listened to
at BBC iPlayer for the next week, here.
Toyah on
Christmas TV
5 December, 2010
100
Greatest Christmas Moments : More4 - Sun
5th Dec: 12.45pm
100 Greatest Christmas Moments : More4 +1
- Sun 5th Dec: 1.45pm
Jimmy Carr reveals the greatest Christmas
moment of all time. From the moment when
George Bailey's guardian angel earns his
wings in It's a Wonderful Life to Dawn
and Tim's long-awaited kiss under the
mistletoe in The Office, this programme
counts down the 100 festive moments that
remain indelibly stuck in the nation's
memories.
Celebrity Fantasy
Homes : Home - Sunday 5th December :
8.00pm
Celebrity Fantasy Homes : Home +1 -
Sunday 5th December : 9.00pm
Celebrities hunt for a new home. Gaby
Roslin helps punk pop princess Toyah
Willcox search for a second home, in
Richmond upon Thames, with a budget of
£650,000.
Celebrity
Brides Unveiled : Wedding TV - Tuesday
7th December : 8.30am In this episode punk rock
Princess Toyah Willcox talks about her
wedding in 1986 to Robert Fripp, while we
quiz T'Pau's Carol Decker on whether she
had china on her wedding list!
Psychic
Therapy : Bio - Thursday 9th December :
8.00pm
Psychic Therapy : Bio - Friday 10th
December : 0.00am
Psychic Therapy : Bio - Friday 10th
December : 12.00pm Toyah Willcox. Psychic medium
Gordon Smith reveals some of the star's
innermost secrets, delving into her past
and predicting her future with help from
the spirit world.
Toyah Live
2011: From Sheep Farming To
Anthem
2 December, 2010
All
good (good?, make that utterly amazing!)
things come to those who wait... Is this
just the best news to end the year on?
Thanks to Toyah for such awesome news and
toyahwillcox.com for < that amazing
photo/promo image!
Toyahwillcox.com can exclusively reveal
Toyah will perform a series of special
gigs, From "Sheep Farming" To
"Anthem": Classics Revisited
Live throughout 2011.
Celebrating the 30th anniversary of her
breakthrough hit It's A Mystery and the
platinum LP Anthem, these live dates will
include selections from her first three
albums, "Sheep Farming In
Barnet", "The Blue
Meaning" , "Anthem". This
period includes some of Toyah's biggest
and greatest hit singles. This series of
concerts will celebrate the hits but
feature a a sprinkling of material not
heard since some of Toyah's early tours
from the late 70s and early 1980s.
One of the first From "Sheep
Farming" To "Anthem" gigs
is confirmed to take place on 26 March at
the HMV Institute, Birmingham and tickets
are on sale now.
There will be further details and
confirmed date list announced on the Gigs
page at www.toyahwillcox.com soon. Keep
an eye on the official Toyah facebook
page too for updates and to talk about
the concerts.
Stratford
Herald: Princess of Punk Switches
On Bidford Lights
2 Dec, 2010
A
report from today's 'Stratford-Upon-Avon
Herald' on Toyah (Christmas) lighting up
more lives at the weekend!
Princess
of Punk Switches On Bidford Christmas
Lights
Actress, singer, songwriter
and former Princess of Punk Toyah Willcox
who brought the warmth of her personality
to a freezing Bidford-on-Avon on Sunday
evening when she performed the
village’s Christmas lights
switch-on.
Addressing the crowd gathered in the
packed village square in what’s
become a traditional carnival atmosphere
for this occasion, she said she was proud
to be in Bidford and told the children
she’d bumped into Father Christmas
on her way there. . . She then asked
everyone to join her in a count-down from
ten to switch on the lights. As soon as
the lights went on there was a
magnificent fireworks display.
After the inevitable autograph-signing
session Ms Willcox returned to the home
of her friends Derek and Carina Goddard
further up Bidford High Street where she
was treated to a fine dinner of home-made
chicken curry.
• Visit the
'Stratford-Upon-Avon Herald' website, here.
Coventry
Telegraph: Christmas Songs...
2 December, 2010
Christmas
Songs That Are Real Festive Treats
As
the chilly winter air descends and days
begin to get unpleasantly short, it can
only mean that Christmas is well on the
way. To many the seasonal shop can be a
nightmare, not just for the credit card
meltdown and the hustle and bustle of the
relentless crowds, but mainly on hearing
that far too familiar Christmas song for
the umpteenth time.
Well may I offer three songs that have
local connections, and both hark back to
the more traditional Christmas song, but
for all the right reasons.
Re-Joyce from the Hazel O’Connor
Collective has a strong message too, not
just of Christmas, but of life, and the
joy of living for each moment.
The gathered cast included, Hazel
O’Connor, Toyah Willcox, Carol
Decker, Pauline Black, Ranking Roger,
Vince Hill, Neville Staple, Bob Brolly,
The Subterraneans and The Bluja Project
plus Moya Brennan, Kid Creole and Neil
O’ Connor who weren’t present
on the night but are on the recording
expertly produced by The Grammy award
winning Roger Lomas.
• Read the full article at the
'Coventry Telegraph' website, here.
Official
Toyah: December/Christmas 2010
Blog
2 December, 2010
Toyah’s
December/Christmas 2010 Blog has been
added to The Official Toyah website.
Re-Joyce:
Toyah Mix (Preview)
1 December, 2010
The
Official Toyah website has an exclusive
preview of the, beautiful, "Toyah
Mix" of 'Re-Joyce (In The Bleak
Midwinter)'. Alongside the main single
mix, some special solo versions will also
be released, including Toyah's.
Details
on how to download/purchase the single
will be announced soon.
• Click here to
visit toyahwillcox.com's multimedia
section. View all of Dreamscape's Hazel
O'Connor Collective/'Re-Joyce' news here.
Last
Christmas...
1 December, 2010
Thanks to those of you who
have been in touch to ask whether we
would be having an Advent Calendar this
year. Unfortunately it's a ho-ho-no!, but
do click below to take a look at previous
December pages in the News Archive for
loads of "Toyah @ Christmas"
bits & pieces.
PS. The "Toyah
@ Edsel" feature/competition
mentioned last month will be online soon!
Re-Joyce:
Released Monday 6th December
1 December, 2010
'Re-Joyce
(In The Bleak Midwinter)' is released
next Monday.
Here is a message from 'The Hazel
O'Connor Collective' fundraising
Christmas single Facebook group:
The Hazel O'Connor Collective's
fundraising Christmas single is due to be
released in 6 days. It is imperative that
it is purchased between Monday 6th
December and Sunday 12th December to give
it the best chance of a chart entry by
avoiding a clash with the X-Factor single
which is due to be released the following
week.
The 'Re-Joyce' single will be available
to buy from most major record stores and
download sites. On the release date (6th
December) there will be an interview with
Hazel O'Connor plus the first national
television airing of 'Re-Joyce' on ITV1's
'Daybreak' at around 8am (subject to
change) and also the single will be
played on ITV's 'Central Tonight'
(Midlands) between 6pm and 6.30pm on the
same day.
Please show your generosity and support
by purchasing a few copies if you are
able. It is an excellent Christmas single
as I'm sure those of you fortunate enough
to have already heard it will agree, and
for a most worthy cause. Proceeds from
the single will be going to Myton Hospice
in Coventry where Hazel's mum (Joyce) has
received care and treatment for cancer.
•
View further info on the release of
'Re-Joyce (In The Bleak Midwinter)',
download info, and how to help the single
chart at Facebook groups, here
and here.
It is absolutely crucial that the single
is purchased (CD or digital download)
between Monday 6th December and Sunday
12th December to ensure chart entry. [
Thanks to the Hazel O'Connor fansite
'Will You'. Visit here ]
Toyah Guests
With The SAS Band... Tonight!
1 December, 2010
Welcome
to a busy December for Toyah... beginning
tonight with a guest appearance at The
SAS Band's Xmas Concert at The Brook,
Southampton.
Toyah guests at another SAS Band gig at
The Brook tomorrow night, as well as
Bisely Pavilion, Surrey on Saturday. Both
of these are sold out.
Hazel
Collective/Re-Joyce: Launch Gig
Photos
1 December, 2010
View a great collection of
photos, from the Hazel O'Connor
Collective/'Re-Joyce' single launch gig
in Leamington Spa on 16th November, at
the Hazel fansite 'Will You', here or
by clicking below.
• More
excellent photos from the gig: View Loz
Moore's, here,
and John Coles', here.
View all of Dreamscape's Hazel O'Connor
Collective/'Re-Joyce' news here [
Thanks to Stephen Bennett ]
Hazel
Collective/Re-Joyce on TV
1 December, 2010
Daybreak : ITV1 -
Monday 6th December : 6.00 - 9.00am
ITV Daybreak covering the official
release of 'Re-Joyce (In The Bleak
Midwinter)'. (May not air in all
regions).
Central Tonight : ITV1 - Monday
6th December : 6.00pm
The story behind Re-Joyce with interviews
with the participants and also Joyce
herself. There will be clips of the
video, the Leamington Assembly gig, and a
look at the work of Myton Hospice.
(Airing in the ITV Central region)
www.itv.com/central
Live Brum:
Toyah at HMV Institute 2011
1 December, 2010
HMV
Institute, Birmingham: 26th March 2011
From punk princess to high priestess of
TV, Toyah Willcox is a uniquely gifted
performer. Charismatic, outspoken and
impossible to categorise, she is one of
Britain’s iconic household names
– an award-winning rock legend as
well as a much-loved actress and music
composer. This is a one off home town
show. Toyah will perform her Sheep
Farming album.
Christmas in
Malvern: Big Switch On
1 December, 2010
Christmas
in Great Malvern gets off to a bang with
a full day of festivities on Saturday 4th
December. Bring the whole family along to
enjoy music, arts, entertainment and so
much more.
The day includes our biggest ever arts
and craft market, a festive food market,
Wyvern FM and a host of local choirs,
musicians and dance groups, street
entertainers. face painting, a climbing
wall, a mobile farm, and of course Santa
in his grotto.
And as the light fades, the magical
lantern parade will set off at 5.15pm
heading up Church Street lead by a samba
band, dancers and Christmas tree stilt
walkers.
The lights will be switched on at 5.30pm
by chart-topping pop singer and star of
this year's pantomime, Toyah Willcox,
who'll also sing a few favourite
Christmas songs.
Dreamscape
News Archive: October 2010
1 December, 2010
Dreamscape's
Toyah news for October 2010 has now been
archived. Look back on '100 Hits:
Electric Eighties' CD, Celebrity
Fantasy Homes, 'Record Collector'
reviewing 'Dreamchild', live shows in
Gran Canaria, Hoylake and Blackpool, the
new Official Toyah and The Humans
websites and much more.
Malvern
Gazette: Crowds Expected At
Lights Switch-On
1 Dec, 2010
Huge
crowds are expected to turn out in Great
Malvern on Saturday, December 4, for the
town’s festive lights switch-on
event.
A 30-foot Christmas tree, donated by
Leigh Sinton Farm and Nurseries, now
takes pride of place in Belle Vue Island
ahead of the big day.
Nick Beard, of the Leigh Sinton business,
said he was delighted to help bring a
festive feel to Malvern. “We just
thought it would be a nice thing to do
for the town,” he said.
“We’re a local business and
Malvern is our nearest town, so its nice
to be able to support it.”
The Norwegian spruce was hoisted into
place using a crane on Monday (November
29) and been decorated this week. Its
lights will be switched on by Malvern
Theatres panto star Toyah Willcox at
5.30pm on Saturday.
• Read the full report at the
'Malvern Gazette' website, here.
Chester
Chronicle: Iconic 80s Acts To
Perform in Chester
1 Dec, 2010
Former biker pub is
attracting iconic 80s acts to perform in
Chester
A
host of 80s legends are making a comeback
– and it’s all thanks to the
new landlord of a Chester pub.
Acts including Steve Strange, Toyah
Willcox, The Christians and China Crisis
are heading to the Chester Bells,
Grosvenor Street, after its reopening on
Saturday (December 4) with a gig by
members of 80s band A Flock of Seagulls.
Keyboard player Jim Duff, 48, a former
session musician who lives in Buckley,
has taken over the venue with business
partner James Oldham.
• Read the full report at the
'Chester Chronicle' website, here.
The BBC Christmas
TV schedules were confirmed last week,
and the Christmas 'Radio Times' is now on
sale. Both confirm that Toyah is, once
again, part of BBC festive viewing, with
another airing for the Christmas Special
of Celebrity Ready Steady Cook.
Changing
Faces : Living - Thursday 16th December :
4.40am
