As mentioned above, two of Toyah's Christmas appearances are available to watch at BBC iPlayer: Ready Steady Cook, from Boxing Day, is available until Friday 2nd January, and Mastermind, from 28th December, is available until Sunday 4th January. Alternatively both can be downloaded in higher quality and kept for 30 days.

Toyah has been all over the TV in the last few days, as well as the above there's also been The 100 Greatest Christmas Moments, Quadrophenia, Minder, Celebrity Brides Unveiled, and Our Psychic Family (which will be repeated again in the New Year)

January is set to be a really busy month for Dreamscape. We have screen caps from Ready Steady Cook, Celebrity Mastermind, and Celebrity Brides Unveiled. More news on Vampires Rock, the Anchoress DVD, details about a new magazine cover for Toyah, and a video interview from earlier this month. As well as all that there's Dreamscape's Toyah Top 10 of 2008, Review of Toyah's year, and a rundown of what Toyah will be doing in 2009. Plus anything else that happens between now and the next update!

In the meantime, for anyone whose sleep pattern has went a bit squiffy due to Christmas, Toyah pops up on Channel 4 early this morning:

In Your Dreams : Channel 4 - Monday 29th December : 3.35am
The meaning of celebrities' dreams, beginning with Toyah Willcox.

Don't forget there are repeats of Quadrophenia, Living With The Dead, Celebrity Brides Unveiled and Our Psychic Family airing over the next week or so, taking us into 2009 and beyond.

Toyah Willcox, musician and actress, talks about her love life, and being a Taurean.

From My Spirit Radio, Toyah is interviewed as part of their Sex & The Stars series. She talks about what she finds attractive, her ideal date, life with Robert, her career and much more.

Please click here to download the interview directly or on the My Spirit Radio logo to vist the site and listen to the interview. Running time is just over 15 minutes.

Singer, actress, presenter, author... it’s hard to pigeonhole Toyah Willcox. In a career spanning over 30 years she’s had 13 top 40 singles, recorded 20 albums, written two books, appeared in over 40 stage plays, made 10 feature films and presented hundreds of television programmes from The Good Sex Guide Late to Songs Of Praise.

Now she’s back on stage in Liverpool for the first time in five years, playing The Devil Queen in Vampires Rock Christmas.

“I came up with Calamity Jane in 2003,” she explains. “And I loved every minute. Liverpool is very much my kind of place. I’ve always felt at home.

“I can’t wait to come back. Everyone tells me I won’t recognise it, but I’m sure the friendliness will still be there. And I’m so pleased I’m just about squeezing something in for Capital of Culture year.

Read the full interview at the Liverpool Echo, or here.

See you all in 2009!

Last Christmas Eve morning Toyah guested on BBC Breakfast, live from the Hexagon in Reading, where she was starring in her panto, Jack & The Beanstalk. It was a great festive way to start off Christmas Eve.

Ready Steady Cook : BBC2 - Boxing Day : 3.50pm
TV presenter Shauna Lowry competes against singer and actress Toyah Willcox in a festive edition of the culinary contest.

Quadrophenia : Sky Movies Indie - Boxing Day : 10.00pm
Quadrophenia : Sky Movies Indie - Saturday 3rd January : 10.00pm
The Who wrote and produced this energetic story of a young man disillusioned with his life in 1960s London. Phil Daniels excels as the alienated anti-hero Jimmy Cooper. Director: Franc Roddam. Starring: Phil Daniels, Leslie Ash, Toyah Willcox, Philip Davis, Mark Wingett, Sting, and Ray Winstone.

Celebrity Mastermind : BBC1 - Sunday 28th December : 6.30pm
John Humphrys invites MP David Lammy, Hairy Biker Dave Myers, actress and singer Toyah Willcox and actor David Harewood to answer questions in the famous black chair.

Celebrity Brides Unveiled : Wedding TV - Sun 28th December : 5.00am
Celebrity Brides Unveiled : Wedding TV - Sun 28th December : 6.00pm
Celebrity Brides Unveiled : Wedding TV - New Year's Eve : 7.00pm
Celebrity Brides Unveiled : Wedding TV - New Year's Day : 9.00am
Celebrity Brides Unveiled : Wedding TV - New Year's Day : 3.00pm
Celebrity Brides Unveiled : Wedding TV - Fri 2nd January : 5.00am
Celebrity Luurve Weekend. 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!

Living With The Dead : Living 2 - New Year's Eve : 00.00am
Children of The Plague. Chilling series featuring a quest through the most haunted homes in Britain. Mediums Johnnie Fiori and Ian Lawless team up with paranormal investigator Mark Webb to drive out the demons who plague petrified homeowners across the country. The team head to the village home of Toyah Willcox and attempt to exorcise some menacing spirits.

Toyah was interviewed about her life and career in a two-page feature, talking about where her name came from, her early childhood, her first break in acting, her marriage, her cosmetic surgery and much more in an interesting article.

Please click here to read the full interview.

O come, all ye faithful

The festive season isn't just about parties and presents, even for the stars. Gillian Rowe talks to some well-known people about where they worship on Christmas Day, and what the occasion means to them

Toyah Willcox: Each Christmas Eve my husband Robert and I go to the midnight carol service at my local parish church, Pershore Abbey, Worcestershire. I'm normally working over Christmas, singing at rock concerts or appearing in panto, so I find myself rushing home from wherever I am to get to the service on time. The church is full to the rafters, with 300 people or more, and everyone takes communion.

I believe in remembering the Christian values of Christmas, which for me are about bringing a community together and celebrating the birth of all children. Also, for me, Christmas is more important than the New Year as a time to look over what you have achieved in the previous 12 months.

I love singing Silent Night and Away In A Manger. I first sung them at school, and we were all so innocent then. There was no persecution, terrorism or religious hatred when I was growing up in Birmingham. Of course, the history of Christianity, like many religions, is pepperd with violence, but for me the principles of Christianity are sound. I think it's important for children to be taught the power of prayer, the importance of community and compassion. For me a carol service awakens this in all children.

Toyah is currently on tour in Vampires Rock. Visit www.vampiresrock.com

WE'VE ALL DONE A FERN! - How we persuaded five stars to pose with naked honesty as they'd like to be remembered 

TOYAH: Now a TV presenter and actress, Toyah, 44, enjoyed a successful pop career in the Eighties. She is now touring in Calamity Jane. Her vital statistics are 34C-25-36. She is 5ft 1in tall and weighs 7st 10lb. She says: 

I was a tubby child - by the age of seven I weighed 8st - and this earned me the nickname 'Barrel' at school. I was only 13 when I started my first diet. My parents had obviously been concerned about my weight, as neither of them protested when I began eating just one tiny meal a day. I lost 8lb and spent the next decade on ever more outrageous diets. I think I was borderline anorexic. I was 7st and spent meals thinking about the effects of food on my body rather than enjoying tastes. 

In my 30s things swung the other way. I began a career as a TV presenter, which led to a sedetary lifestyle. I also fronted a holiday programme and spent months abroad eating local dishes. 

By 1995 I weighed 10st and felt terrible. Hitting 40 was a wake-up call: I started exercising and gave up dairy products and alcohol. I look better now than ever and I'm happier than I've ever been. 

Oddly, although I've twice been nude for film roles, I'm still self-concious about showing my body. I decided to do this because I wanted to make an age statement. We've got to challenge the Western view that older women are less attractive. 

NB: This feature was in response to TV presenter Fern Britton posing nude.

Someone (I''ll refrain from using a four-letter-word seeing as it's almost Christmas) is, for want of a better word, attacking the site daily. Hopefully the problem will be resolved soon and won't result in the site having to come offline (temporarily). Thanks for your patience.

I met up with stars of the show Toyah Willcox and Steve Steinman to find out a little more. Baron von Rockula (Steve Steinmann) jilts his wife in search of a new one and has his sights set on Pandora Honey Rosebox. While the Baron sets out to woo the young human girl, his vampire wife is dead set on making her life hellish. With the back drop of iconic rock anthems, this show is a visual and audio spectacular.

Toyah tells me that this is a “proper rock show with a collection of rock songs from Kiss, Bon Jovi and Billy Idol” and like any good rock show there is the promise of pyrotechnics and licks of flames. Steve tells me however that the show has a very British feel to it, with moments of “British humour and Carry On” he tells me that this is something that “doesn’t take itself too seriously” and is “meant to be silly”.

As the show is on only two days after Christmas there will also be some Christmas songs to enjoy including references to Christmas hits such as Wham’s Last Christmas. Again Steve talks about the “tongue in cheek” humour of the show and tells me that it’s always changing. In the Liverpool show there will be references to the city and The Beatles and that a lot of his dialogue is ad-libbed, which Toyah tells me ‘keeps [her] on [her] feet’ 

This year marks Steve’s twentieth year in the industry and Toyah has been in the business even longer. I ask Toyah what her aims are for her career, after having a long career in music, TV, radio and now theatre. She tells me that she likes "doors to be open" and "enjoys variety". After celebrating her fiftieth birthday this year she "is determined to just have fun this year". Working with a band with an average age of twenty is very good for your ego, believing “50 is sexy”, she seems to be enjoying what she is doing now and for the minute is “enjoying rocking and rolling”.

Steve tells me that he just wants "this train to keep going" with the show moving to London in the New Year. Time will tell where it ends up. 

Vampires Rock is the perfect antidote to Christmas and is sure to get you on your feet in preparations ready for New Year’s celebrations. This is guaranteed to be a fun and entertaining evening, so dust of your air guitar and book your tickets now by visiting www.accliverpool.com or calling the Echo Arena Box Office on 0844 8000 400.

Quadrophenia : Sky Movies Indie - Boxing Day : 10.00pm
Quadrophenia : Sky Movies Indie - Saturday 3rd January : 10.00pm
The Who wrote and produced this energetic story of a young man disillusioned with his life in 1960s London. Phil Daniels excels as the alienated anti-hero Jimmy Cooper. Director: Franc Roddam. Starring: Phil Daniels, Leslie Ash, Toyah Willcox, Philip Davis, Mark Wingett, Sting, and Ray Winstone.

Calamity Jane was a huge success for Toyah half a decade ago. The show toured the UK from September to November 2002, and January to June 2003 (with a break in late April/early May for Toyah's stint in the second series of I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!), then transferred to London West End's Shaftsebury Theatre from June to September of 2003.

There was speculation that Toyah would reprise her role as Jane for a further tour but this never happened.

December 1979: Shoestring (Find The Lady) broadcast on BBC1 in the UK. Toyah plays Toola, alongside Trevor Eve, Gary Holton and Christopher Biggins. The Toyah band also appear and play a brilliant version of 'Danced' over the end credits. 

December 1980: 'Toyah! Toyah! Toyah!' - Live! album released.... 'Danced (live!) single released.... ATV Documentary TOYAH broadcast on ITV. Toyah guests on Minder. 

December 1981:'Four More From Toyah' (EP) released.... Toyah and band are on the UK/European 'Good Morning Universe' tour.... Christmas Eve concert, from Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, London, broadcast live! on BBC2's Old Grey Whistle Test to millions of viewers, and BBC Radio 1. 

December 1982: Toyah promotes 'Be Proud Be Loud (Be Heard)' in Italy.... Appears on Pop Goes Christmas (ITV) with a host of other singers/bands. Toyah performs the Greg Lake classic 'I Believe In Father Christmas'.... Toyah and band do a mini tour of the UK. 

December 1983: 'The Vow' is released in the UK.... Toyah appears on various TV shows promoting the single.... Toyah and band travel the UK with the 'Rebel Run' tour. 

December 1984: Toyah spends December recording her, as yet untitled, new album. This would eventually be released in 1985 as 'Minx'.... The Ebony Tower, with Toyah, Laurence Olivier and Greta Scaachi, is shown on ITV. Toyah appears on the Christmas Eve edition of Pop Quiz. 

December 1987: Toyah films Midnight Breaks.... Completes her run as Mabel in Three Men On A Horse at the Vaudeville Theatre in London. 

December 1988: Prostitute/frippFRIPP tours Europe.... Boudicca is broadcast on BBC1, with Toyah and Tony Robinson. 

December 1989: Toyah appears as Mary Lou in Whale, at the Lyttleton Theatre, South Bank, London. 

December 1990: The Tale Of Little Pig Robinson is shown on UK TV.... Toyah records 'Kneeling At The Shrine' which is released in 1991 by Sunday All Over The World.... Toyah appears in concert with Girlschool, calling themselves the She-Devils, at the 'Women In Rock' festival.... Plays Miss Scarlet in the Christmas edition of Cluedo on ITV. 

December 1992: Toyah hosts the arts programme First Night on TV in the Midlands region.... Films a ten-part series for inclusion in Good Morning With Anne & Nick. 

December 1993: Toyah rounds off the highly successful UK 'Take The Leap!' tour. 

December 1994: Toyah rounds off the 'Has God Ceased To Dream You?' UK tour. 

December 1996: Toyah appears in Jack & The Beanstalk at the Theatre Royal in Norwich. 

December 1997: Presenting TOYAH on VH1.... Appears in Jack & The Beanstalk at the Churchill Theatre in Bromley, Kent. 

December 1998: Toyah presents Boys From The Black Country - The Slade Story on BBC Radio 2.... Appears in Jack & The Beanstalk at the Richmond Theatre in Surrey. 

December 1999: Toyah continues to work on her autobiography, which would be published in August 2000, titled; 'Living Out Loud'.... Appears on the Slade tribute documentary It's Slade.... Plays the title role in Peter Pan at the Marlowe Theatre in Kent. 

December 2000: Toyah plays the Wicked Queen in Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs at the Gordon Craig Theatre in Stevenage, Kent.

December 2001: Toyah places at number 48 in 'Q' magazine's '100 Greatest Women In Music' poll.... Helps launch the Christmas festivities in Stockport.... Plays the title role in Aladdin at the Plaza Theatre in Stockport. 

December 2002: Toyah appears naked in the 'Daily Mail'.... Guests on the Open House panto special, with Gloria Hunniford, on Channel 5.... Toyah records an interview for inclusion in the Rock Legends documentary, shown in January in Carlton/Central TV region of the UK.... Plays the title role in Aladdin at the Anvil in Basingstoke. 

December 2003: Helps launch Christmas festivities in Ashford, Dover and Whitstable.... Appears as the Wicked Queen in Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs at the Marlowe theatre in Kent. 

December 2004: Toyah stars as the Wicked Fairy Queen in Sleeping Beauty at the Marlowe Theatre in Kent... She also attends the UK premiere of the Bobby Darin "biopic" film Beyond The Sea... and parties at Shirley Bassey's Christmas get-together... Toyah also guested in the audience of The X Factor and appeared on Blue Peter... Toyah was also all over the Christmas TV schedules. 

December 2005: Toyah, once again, played the Wicked Queen in Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs, this time at the Milton Keynes Theatre.

December 2006: Toyah plays two Christmas gigs with The SAS Band... She begins her role as Siobhan in the BBC Radio soap Silver Street... Toyah plays the final show of the 'Hitmakers' UK Tour... She is interviewed by the 'Daily Mail' and 'The Independent'... and guested on BBC Radio 2's Radio Rivron... And Toyah's panto for 2006 was Aladdin, she played The Genie Of The Lamp alongside Chico.

December 2007: Toyah plays two gigs with the SAS Band... Plays the title role in Jack & The Beanstalk at the Hexagon in Reading... Toyah turns on the Christmas lights in Bracknell... The 'Lesser God' video premieres on You Tube... Toyah & John attend Shirley Bassey's 70th birthday party... Toyah is the cover star of the Christmas issue of 'Woman's Weekly'... & guests on the Christmas Eve edition of BBC Breakfast.

Please visit The Official Vampires Rock website for further info on this.

In The Court Of The Crimson Queen: CD Of The Year
by Jimi LaLumia

I must devote some space to what is, for me, the event of the year, a new CD, "In The Court Of The Crimson Queen" by UK pop/rock icon Toyah. She's been married to King Crimson founder/guitarist Robert Fripp since 1985, and the CD title is a play on Crimson's 'Court Of the Crimson King", a late 60s timepiece. Let's take a look, track by track:

SENSATIONAL: This is a thumping, rousing call to arms which showcases all aspects of Toyah's vocal stylings and range. Presenting a positive message, the tune is couched in updated 70s glam riffs, calling to mind T.Rex and Ziggy-era Bowie.

LATEX MESSIAH: This is the first track that appeared in the spring of 08, on You Tube, My Space and elsewhere, to let the worldwide faithful know that Toyah was back, full of sound and fury. This enjoyed a great deal of attention as her first digital only release ever, charting on the itunes rock countdown several months ago, it's another radio ready rocker.

HEAL OURSELVES: This is the tender side of Mrs.Fripp, this sort of material will be more apparent when her side project, The Humans (with R.E.M.'s current drummer) appears in 2009, hopefully. Toyah involves herself in numerous positive projects, so this sounds like a natural outgrowth.

LESSER GOD: This is a forceful vocal and vibrant track, she is currently performing it onstage in the UK as the Vampire Queen in "Vampires Rock", a stage show in which she is prominently featured. (The show is comprised of rock anthems of the 70s and 80s, and is going down a storm everywhere it plays. "Vampires" will hit Vegas in 09, it has been whispered...)

ANGEL IN YOU: So many bite size rockers on this CD, riffs galore while Toyah soars. This type of material is begging for a proper Toyah tour, perhaps after she's done with "Vampires" (Since her strings of success in the early 80s, Toyah has never done a U.S. gig, amazingly. Her UK label never managed to get her stuff released here, which is a sad loss for American rock fans.)

LOVE CRAZY: The particulars of Toyah's unique 'love it or hate it'' vocals are on display in this tune, and it is remindful of her 1982 classic album "The Changeling", which was produced by Steve Lillywhite, of U2 fame. This sounds like it would be another live stage favorite.

BAD MAN: This is a slower 70s sounding sizzler, again highlighting Toyah's dramatic turn on vocals (which come through strongly, thanks to her career in films and theatre over the decades), she has been cited by Evenesence's Amy as one of her influences, and you can really hear that on this track.

HYPERVENTILATE: Acoustic guitar chords ring out, another inspirational life lesson from this divine diva; she'd be well received by hippies based on the harmonic meanderings on this particular tune.

COME: And here's the stadium rocker, the one that would bring the crowd to their feet at the Warped Tour; this would sound right at home as one of the token rockers for current Top 40 radio.

LEGACY: An aptly titled conclusive track, thoughtful and insightful, and a fitting finish to the CD of the year. Now go find your copy on itunes, and enjoy. 

Sirens! 100 WOMEN WHO ROCK YOUR WORLD...As Voted By You.

In Spring, Q asked you to name those female singers, songwriters and all-round movers and shakers that help float your musical boat. You responded with your customary speed, wit and enthusiasm. After months spent knee-deep in e-mail printouts, bus tickets, papyrus, lavatory roll (unused, thank the gods) and whatever else you chose to scrawl on, we proudly deliver your final verdict.

Toyah ranked ahead of the likes of Annie Lennox, Destiny's Child, Janet Jackson, Alison Moyet, Whitney Houston, Cyndi Lauper, Cher, Tina Turner & many more. Even more surprisingly was the complete omission of most of her contemporaries, Kim Wilde, Hazel Oconnor, Clare Grogan, Danielle Dax etc. 

"A singer, actress, and presenter who has brought punk to panto, Toyah Willcox... 

Toyah enters, greets Gloria, and slaps her thigh...

Gloria: You've lost so much weight! 

Toyah: I've been touring Calamity Jane for months. It's made me lean and mean! 

Christopher Biggins: Her muscles are incredible 

Toyah: I have to swing from rafters and I'm thrown everywhere. It's good. And that's just in my dressing room! 

Gloria: It seems odd that someone who was always very different...panto seems to be almost tame. 

Toyah: You think it's tame to dress like a boy twice a day, go onstage and pretend to be male, and marry a woman at the end of the show? I think it's the best thing anyone could ever do! I know what you're saying. I don't think I would ever have dreamt 20 years ago that I would have done panto. Now that I've done it for 10 years I'm passionately in love with it. 

Gloria: You've done it consecutively for 10 years? 

Toyah: I think I have. I started off as Peter Pan, and after I got flown into every wall of every theatre in the country by disreputable flymen... Once in Wimbledon, there's a scene where all four children have to fly and we all got wrapped around each other's wires, and we were just dangling there. The curtain had to come down, the show stopped, and the ladders out to get us down. 

Gloria: Now, talking about the weight loss. Toyah in the paper last week, looking really good. 

Gloria shows the picture in the Daily Mail. 

Toyah: I think we all would if we were hanging upside down! 

Gloria: When they said 'Will you do a picture nude for The Mail'...? 

Toyah: I was drinking in a bar and I overheard the editor of The Mail talking about this photo session, and I said 'Can I do it?'. I like to do things that are a challenge and I got to the photo session and thought 'What have I done?'. It was all men in the room and I was really nervous. I hadn't eaten for about three days to keep the stomach flat. We did about 20 polaroids, the photographer would let me see what it looked like, so I trusted him. He let me see the first polaroid and he made me look so good. I looked better than when I was 20. So I ripped off the gown and I said 'Come on, lets go for it!'. He said 'Excuse me Toyah, we can't show as much as you're showing'. I was really rather relaxed by the time we got going. 

Gloria: Were all the girls together? 

Toyah: No. We had a closed set. We were one after the other. I heard that Sian Phillips was very happy about it. I think Claire Sweeney was shocked. No one told her it was a nude photo shoot. I tell you why I didn't mind doing it. For the last two years I've been studying life drawing, where you draw the naked body... 

Gloria: Oh, that old excuse? 

Toyah: I've come across every shape and form you can find on this planet. After two hours of drawing someone, you don't care whether they're dressed or not. I think it helped me. 

Gloria: Was it for charity? 

Toyah: No! I wanted to do it. It was for me! I feel that, here we are in our mature years... 

Gloria: Mature? How old are you? 

Toyah: I'm 44.

Gloria: That's not mature, for goodness sake! Talk to Christopher about maturity. 

Toyah: Women are looking really good and I think we have to ring our own bell and say 'Come on!'. 

Gloria: So your husband, Robert Fripp, will be getting this photograph up on the wall, 6 by 6? 

Toyah: I didn't tell him. I told my mother and she said 'What have you done?'. But then my husband went and bought it on Saturday morning. He came into the bedroom very quiet. I said 'Are you cross?' and he said 'No, it's gorgeous'. 

Gloria: So he will be getting the 6 by 6 feet for Christmas? 

Toyah: I'll be giving it him! 

Gloria: Calamity Jane etc. Obviously you're doing a lot of stage work. When you're doing a musical like Calamity Jane and then you switch into panto. It's quite a switch isn't it? 

Toyah: It's incredibly different. Everything I've learnt about comic timing I've learnt doing panto. Normally I'm a serious actress, with Shakespeare and new plays. I wanted to study comedy and I felt that the best way to do it was panto. You're working with these incredible dames and they know everything there is to know about comedy. I'm incredibly grateful to panto for the technique it teaches. The timing. Calamity Jane and panto are very different, but it meant with Calamity Jane I'm much braver with the text. I'm much braver with delivering lines and I think I have panto to thank for that. 

Gloria: Do you have lots of songs in this? 

Toyah: Calamity Jane? I'm singing all the time. 

Gloria: No, panto! 

Toyah: Yes I've got enough songs. I've got about five. I wanted to open with (sings) "I feel good...da da da...I knew that I would now". We open with that. My leading lady sings 'Fields Of Gold' - absolutely beautiful. I get to sing (sings) "Once in a lifetime, every man has a moment". 'We're In The Money', some good, traditional songs. The one thing that transfixes children is the story between good and evil. I think any child, up to the age of 75, is transfixed by this story, and pantomime is so fantastic for good overcoming evil. It is when you can hear a pin drop, especially with Aladdin, when he goes into the cave and thinks he's lost. They know the genie is going to appear but Aladdin doesn't. There's this icy hush and I think that's gorgeous, it's very exciting to experience that. 

Gloria: When do you open? 

Toyah: We have a public dress rehearsal next Thursday, and we open on Friday 13th (December). 

Gloria: Good timing. And one day off for Christmas? 

Toyah: Yes, but it's enough. You can eat 10,000 calories in that day and not worry about it. 

Gloria: You're fine. You never know who might ask you to do another nude photograph in the New Year! You're doing Calamity Jane in the New Year? 

Toyah: Yes, I'm back into Calamity. Open in Glasgow on 18th January and then on the road right through till May. 

Gloria: Thank you, Toyah Willcox. 

Open House with Gloria Hunniford - Channel 5: 6th December 2002

Four years ago, Christmas 2004, Toyah was in the audience for the semi-final of the first series of the show. She was interviewed on the ITV2 show The X-Tra Factor by host Ben Shepherd. 

Toyah mentioned that she thought Steve Brookstein was "technically brilliant", and that she liked G4 because of "the arrangements, the choreography.... fantastic!" 

Ben asked Toyah which of the judges she would have liked as a manager when she "was a singer" (doh!!), Toyah replied: "Sharon (Osbourne), she's great, even my mum likes her!" 

Toyah said she is a Steve supporter: "I'm 46, I want to keep working till I'm 70, I want Steve to win. He's got my older vote."

If you hold tickets for this performance please contact box office for further details 

www.worthingtheatres.co.uk [ Tel: 01903 206 206 ]

Friday 23rd January: SAS Band New Year Bash (Warm Up Gig)
The Brook, Southampton

Saturday 24th January: SAS Band New Year Bash
IndigO2, London

Saturday 22nd August: Henley Music Festival

After these dates the cast take a rest to gear up for the huge Christmas show at Liverpool Arena & Convention Centre on Saturday 27th December.

The Echo Arena is the Arena half of ACC Liverpool situated on the Liverpool waterfront which opened January 25 2008. The BT Convention Centre is the other half of the complex and opened in April 2008.

The Arena has 7,513 permanent seats around three sides of a central floor suitable for indoor sports events. The capacity for end-stage or in-the-round concerts is 10,600 including floor seating.

Anyone interested in seeing how the Arena looks can see it this Sunday. The BBC Sports Personality of the Year show will take place there and be broadcast live on BBC1.

The celebs reveal all about the very best pressies they've ever found under the Christmas tree. Amazingly, they aren't all diamonds and sports cars. 

TOYAH WILLCOX 
'A lifesize terracotta statue of a horse and warrior. On Christmas day in 1991, my husband insisted I walk around the garden and there it was. I still love it.' 

Also included in the article were: Christian Slater: Star Trek t-shirt, signed by William Shatner, Denise Van Outen: Cabbage Patch Kid doll, Oprah Winfrey: Bugs Bunny slippers, Jack Nicholson: A lump of coal (strange, but true!), Louise: A bulldog puppy, Jon Bon Jovi: An electric guitar, and Steve Martin: Peace and love all over the world. And a bicycle!

Whatever happens this Christmas, this won't be a your average Christmas show as the main cast members Steve Steinman and Toyah Willcox put their own version of a panto!

Christmas and 'Silent Night' are the normal things you tend to think of at this time of year, but rock fans will be jumping for joy as the Vampires come to Liverpool Arena and Convention Centre (ACC) on Saturday, 27 December 2008... 

The Vampires Rock show is now a world famous hit already, but for Christmas they have added that extra bite, with some well known names in it and a whole lot darker and a whole lot more fun! The cast will be rocking the night away with some of the best known rock anthems ever, including some number 1 Christmas classics... 

If you do not know what it is all about then a quick intro. The show is set in the year 2030, the undead are livelier than ever, especially in club 'Live and Let Die', where Baron Von Rockula (Steve Steinman) and The Devil Queen (Toyah Willcox) reside. Sadly for The Devil Queen, the Baron is on the look out for a new bride. In the words of The Devil Queen "I would say 'over my dead body', but then I'm already dead, aren't I?!" so the story is set... Unlike other musical plays, no two nights are quite the same, so if you think you have seen it, think again. The Story is told, as you might have guessed by now, through the songs written by some of Rocks legends including Brian May 'Queen'; Paul Crook 'Meat Loaf' and Eddie Ojeda 'Twisted Sister'. With amazing stage set, pyrotechnics, "VERY" beautiful dancers and of course Steve Steinman's famously powerful vocals and sense of humour, make sure you'll be on your feet. So get out your air guitar and get ready to rock around the Christmas Tree this year! 

Last week we got a chance to interview Toyah and Steve as they took a look around the new Arena. They informed us that "this year's show will have some bite" and that they could not wait to do the show. 

Click here to visit the website and listen to the interview. Click here to enter the competition.

Keep checking back to Dreamscape's Advent Calendar for more festive screen captures from Open House, and a transcript of the interview.

Clambering through dust and clutter, the dynamic duo managed to raise £1,750 by finding and auctioning off hidden antique treasures on a special celebrity edition of the popular TV show, Cash in the Attic. In addition, David Wilson Homes North West has donated a further £1000 to the money raised, taking the total to an impressive £2,750.

On hand to present the cheque to Grace Bennett, fund raising manager from Macmillan Cancer Support, at David Wilson Homes Woodbury Park development, John commented: "I would like to say a huge thank you to everyone involved with the fund raising effort and especially to David Wilson Homes for their support and generosity in helping to raise such a fantastic amount of money.

"The presentation was a great way to mark my return to the Woodbury Park development and I am delighted to be a part of the David Wilson Homes team again."

Shohreh Bowler, sales director for David Wilson Homes North West, added: "John and Toyah did such a fantastic job raising money that we wanted to show our own support for them and this worthwhile charity by adding to the donation. They both have shown a real dedication and passion through raising the money. John is a real asset to the David Wilson Homes team and we are all delighted to have him back on board at Woodbury Park."

Accepting the cheque on behalf of Macmillan Cancer Support, Grace thanked the team for all of their support: "We were really excited when we heard that John and Toyah were going to be starring on Celebrity Cash in the Attic for the charity - it is a great show and we thoroughly enjoyed watching them trying to raise as much as possible for Macmillan. We were even more delighted when we found out that David Wilson Homes was going to add another £1,000 to the pot and would like to say a big thank you to everyone involved for all of their hard work. Macmillan Cancer Support works to improve the lives of people affected by cancer and this money will help make a genuine difference to those who need it most."

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The pop singing sensation is currently touring in Vampire Rock, a musical about Baron Von Rockula's search for a new bride. The show includes a host of popular rock anthems. 

For more information and tickets visit www.vampiresrock.com.

• Pop Goes Christmas was shown as part of Kaleidoscope Christmas Event and Charity Auction - Saturday 6th December 2008 in Stourbridge, West Midlands. Toyah, as we all know, performed 'I Believe In Father Christmas' on the show, originally broadcast in December 1982 on ITV.

• Toyah is namechecked in a Drowned In Sound article on Florence And The Machine.

• The Guardian also namecheck Toyah in their article on Alex Roots.