Dreamscape's
Toyah news for October 2009 has
now been added to our News
Archive. The archive dates back
to March 2000 and now has 116
months (or 512 weeks) of past
news. Click below to race through
time & (cyber)space!
October
2009: Look back at
Toyah's guest appearance in Casualty,
the Three ToTango/Power
Of 3 charity preview
screening, the first UK live
dates for The Humans
announcement, a radio interview
with BBC West Midlands, a video
interview with Radio Borders,
more Vampires Rock dates
around the UK, Vampires Rock
reviews, Toyah on the cover of
'Edinburgh Evening News - The
Guide', press interviews with
'Aberdeen Press & Journal',
'Sunday Mercury', 'The Guide',
'York Press', 'Tea &
Philosophy', 'Nottingham Evening
Post', and 'Midlands Mag', plus
much more...
Various Welsh
newspapers/websites published a
Toyah article, Red Devil
Toyah gives Llandudno show added
bite, in early November. We
included a news item on 6th
November on it's inclusion in the
'Rhyl Journal'.
Here is a scan of the print
article from the Thursday 5th
November edition of the 'North
Wales Chronicle'. Please click on
the scan for a larger version.
Last
night's Hole In The Wall
is now available to watch online
at BBC iPlayer. Celebrities in
baco foil and hard hats throw
strange shapes to avoid being
dunked in water!! Toyah's solo
round, with ballet-type poses
before being dunked, is funny
though. Click below to watch
anytime until next Saturday.
.YouTubing
with Toyah! - The One Show/Hole
In The Wall
Toyah's two
very recent BBC1 appearances: The
One Show, from Friday 13th
November, and a preview clip of
last night's Hole In The Wall.
View them below or double click
on either to watch at YouTube.
Over at
'80s Empire' - Life In
The Neon Underground, The
Boop-A-Doop Adventures (Part One)
- tells the astounding story of a
young pop music journalist about
town, coming to you live from the
1980s. Packed with thrilling
adventures. Click below to read
or download in PDF format from
'80s Empire'.
In this
collection....
• Toyah's floating knickers!
• Peter Powell's Y-Fronts!
• Stuffed elephants in
Paris!
• The Mystery of Flapjack
The Duck!
• Simon le Bon's Lips!
• Elvis Aris (the amazing
bottom impersonator)!
• Not to mention: baby oil,
snakes, exotic dancers, big
bazoomers...
• Plus: a guest appearance
by Dolly Pop and The Raspberry
Nipples!
WARNING: Not for the very young,
the very old, people of a nervous
disposition or anyone who is
likely to be offended by pictures
of a man's bottom impersonating
the late Sir Winston Churchill!
...
While there you
might also be interested in
reading Toyah's legendary early
80s 'Flexi Pop' interview: ... Welcome
To The Working Week:Booze,
accountancy and bunny rabbits.
Long before her days in the
jungle, Toyah lived life on the
wild side... Please click
below to head back to the
Eighties!
•
Jubilee : Film24 - Saturday 28th
November : 11.00pm
• Hole In The Wall : BBC HD
- Tuesday 1st December : 00.25am
• Celebrity Life Skills :
Channel 4 - Tuesday 1st December
: 12.30pm
• Celebrity Life Skills :
Channel 4 HD - Tuesday 1st
December : 12.30pm
• Celebrity Life Skills :
Channel 4 +1 - Tuesday 1st
December : 1.30pm
• Top 50 Showbiz Comebacks :
Sky 1 - Saturday 5th December :
10.00pm
• Top 50 Showbiz Comebacks :
Sky 1 HD - Saturday 5th December
: 10.00pm
• Secret Diary Of A Call
Girl : ITV2 - Date & Time tbc
(rescheduled to 2010)
Just a reminder that
Toyah is on TV twice today. She
guests on Hole In The Wall
on BBC1, and BBC HD, at 5.30pm
this evening, along with other
guests TV chef Simon Rimmer,
actress Zaraah Abrahams and
presenter Barney Harwood.
This will be available to watch
online, for seven days, at BBC
iPlayer immediately after it
airs. It will also be repeated on
BBC HD on Tuesday 1st December at
00.25am.
Later tonight, we head back over
30 years again. Jubilee
is showing on Film24 (SKY channel
157), at 11pm. Visit the Film24
website at: www.film24.com
South
Yorkshire's 'The Star' have a new
video interview with Toyah at
their website, along with a
report on the forthcoming panto.
Snow White opens at the Sheffield
Lyceum on 11th December.
Sheffield's panto stars are
getting ready to hit the stage -
oh yes they are!
Famous names including Eighties
pop star Toyah Willcox are busy
preparing for their roles in the
Lyceum Theatre's production of
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,
which starts on Friday, December
11.
And they have plenty of lines to
learn, as this year's performance
features comedy, singing, dancing
and audience participation, as
well as lavish sets and costumes.
Toyah is taking top billing as
the evil Wicked Queen, comedian
Damian Williams is playing Nurse
Nellie following his role as
Widow Twankey in Aladdin last
year, and BBC Radio Sheffield
host Toby Foster is making his
panto debut as Muddles the Court
Jester.
There will also be an extra
treat, as local funnyman Bobby
Knutt makes a virtual appearance
as the Man In The Mirror.
Tickets for the show, which runs
until January 10, are on sale now
priced £12 to £20. To book log
on to www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk
or call the Sheffield Theatres
box office on 0114 249 6000.
Check out Robert
Fripp's latest online diary entry
here for photos of the
day a variety of Vampire Rockers
went to lunch at Toyah and
Robert's house.
The final two Vampires
Rock dates for November 2009
are tonight at Preston Guild Hall
and Southport Theatre on Sunday.
December 1st to 5th sees five
consecutive nights of shows, the
last of 2009, in Hull (two
nights, both sold out), Buxton,
Skegness and Salisbury. Toyah and
Vampires Rock hit the
road again in late January/early
February 2010 for a run of 10
shows across the UK, including
Southampton, Perth, Darlington,
Belfast and Yeovil.
Three very
rare pictures from late
70's/early 80's classic Toyah
photo sessions have recently
surfaced online. A cropped
version of photo one was used on
the cover of 'Record Mirror' in
1978, and a variation of photo
two was used on 'The Telegraph'
magazine cover in December 1980.
Photo three is from 1979.
Dreamscape's
Toyah Store has been given a huge
overhaul, with hundreds of items
added just in time for Christmas
2009. There's Downloads, DVD's,
CD's and much more so please take
a browse. The store is in
association with Amazon UK, who
have recently revised their
pricing structure & delivery
fees.
Toyah's
self-portrait doodle from The
One Show gallery, plus a
photo of Toyah and Noddy Holder
with The One Show
presenters Christine and Adrian.
Click here or below to view
more celebrity self-portraits at
the show's website.
.Lock Stock
& Barrel - Never The Bride in
Three To Tango
'Lock Stock &
Barrel' recently reported that
music by Never The Bride, and
Toyah, is included in the
soundtrack to Three To Tango:
Three Never The Bride songs, The
Living Tree, Surprise and NTB
vintage track I'm Alive were
aired in the soundtrack to a new
movie, Three To Tango, ...
Nikki and Catherine attended the
celebrity launch last week at the
Everyman Theatre, rubbing
shoulders with some of the
biggest names in Stage &
Screen from all around the world
in attendance. The cast were
great fun to meet and included a
host of well known British
actors.
• We
already know we have a Toyah
article/interview to look forward
to in a forthcoming issue of
'Record Collector' magazine, and
there is now a possibility that
there may be an article on The
Humans in a future issue of
'Classic Rock' magazine too.
• Steve Steinman has
confirmed, over the weekend, on
the Vampires Rock forum
that Toyah won't be taking part
in the Autumn 2010 tour.
• Toyah's guest appearance
on The Lee Mack Show,
from 2005, is currently available
on the BBC iPlayer. Go here to listen to 30
minutes of comedy, plus a great
rendition of 'Sweet Child 'O
Mine'.
• This week's Hole In
The Wall, with Toyah as a
guest, will air twice on the BBC
HD channel. Simultaneously with
BBC1 at 5.30pm this Saturday, and
also on Tuesday 1st December at
00.25am.
• Hole In
The Wall will also be
available to watch on the BBC
iPlayer from 6pm this Saturday.
As we head
towards the final month of the
Noughties there has never been so
much Toyah music available. I've
chosen just nine, a mixture of
CD's and downloads, from the many
on sale. Click on each cover to
order or download.
1. Mayhem
(1985/2005); 20-track CD Reissue,
2. We Are The Humans
(2009); The Humans debut album,
3. Toyah! Toyah! Toyah!
(1980/2006); 18-track Special
Edition CD Reissue, 4. Latex
Messiah (Viva La Rebel In You)
(2007); Digital single, 5. This
Fragile Moment (2009);
9-track CD, with Toyah on vocals,
6. Good Morning Universe:
The Very Best Of Toyah: 1979-2003
(2008); 39-track double CD, 7. These
Boots Are Made For Walkin'
(2009); Digital single by The
Humans (featuring Robert Fripp),
8. In The Court Of The
Crimson Queen (2008);
Toyah's 13th studio album, 9. Take
The Leap! Plus
(1994/2006); 18-track CD Reissue
(previously only released in
Japan).
Toyah's
November blog has been added to www.toyahwillcox.com and the Official
Toyah MySpace. Read up
on The Humans, Three To Tango,
Vampires Rock, Toyah's
new PA, shopping in Chatham(!!),
and much more.
A new
interview with Toyah, plus a
great new photo to accompany it,
published in today's 'Buxton
Advertiser':
Queen of punk Toyah Willcox has
become queen of the vampires for
her latest musical venture.
But although the
show is all about the undead,
Toyah, who has been in the
limelight for three decades,
said: "I love life –
it's very eclectic but always
seems to fall into place."
An accomplished singer, actress,
writer and presenter, Toyah's
career has been successful and
diverse.
In fact, some may say it's been
more colourful than punk hair...
Next month, she's starring in
Vampires Rock at Buxton Opera
House. In the fang-tastic musical
set in New York in 2030, Toyah
plays the Devil Queen who's
married to the charismatic yet
demonic Baron Von Rockula.
She'd better watch out though
– because he's on the
lookout for new blood.
Throughout the highly
entertaining and tongue-in-cheek
show, there's notable rock
anthems by legends including
AC/DC, Alice Cooper, Bon Jovi,
Guns 'n' Roses, Meat Loaf and
Queen.
Toyah says: "If you like
classic rock, you'll love the
show. There's a stunning band and
beautiful dancers – and the
stage looks great."
Read the full interview online at
the 'Buxton Advertiser' website here.
Vampires
Rock played Leamington Spa
Royal Centre on Wednesday and the
Victoria Theatre, Halifax last
night. The next shows are Sunday
night at the Princess Theatre,
Torquay and Monday at Truro Hall
for Cornwall.
It has now been
confirmed that there will be a
new look Vampires Rock
website at the end of the year,
as well as a new online store. A
new Vampires Rock poster
has recently been revealed, this
doesn't feature Toyah, adding
fuel to the rumour that she won't
be part of the Autumn 2010 tour,
though please remember this is
just a rumour for now.
.Buy
Association - Toyah's French
Property Success
A new
article/interview with Toyah,
from 'Buy Association', about her
French homes.
Toyah Willcox can easily be said
to have lived her life –
from her early training as an
actor, through the
anti-establishment image she had
as a punk rocker (an image from
which she has now stepped away)
to TV presenting, writing, an
appearance on I’m a
Celebrity…Get Me Out Of
Here! and a slot as a guest
panelist on Loose Women. Toyah is
currently back on stage and
touring a production of the
musical Vampires Rock.
In between appearances on stage,
I managed to catch up with Toyah
to have a quick chat about her
overseas property ventures.
What is clear is that Toyah
hasn’t gone into any of the
property investments she has made
in the UK or overseas with her
eyes closed. What comes across is
a sense of purpose in all of the
properties she has bought –
there appears to be a clear plan
of what the property is there
for, and why it has been added to
her portfolio. This is an
approach which allows her to
become attached to the properties
bought for herself, and not to
the investment properties.
Read the full article online at
'Buy Association' here.
Toyah's very funny
edition of Celebrity Life
Skills is repeated at the
beginning of December. The
10-minute programme originally
aired on Channel 4 back in May
2005.
Celebrity Life Skills :
Channel 4
Tuesday 1st December : 12.30pm
Self Defence. Celebrities explain
how to handle extraordinary
situations using everyday objects
found around the house and
office. Toyah Willcox
demonstrates how to disable an
attacker with the aid of various
objects from the broom cupboard.
There is also a trailer,
featuring Toyah, and further info
about the series at the BDH Films
website. Visit the website here.
Welcome to Celebrity
Life Skills: Punk
princess Toyah Willcox disables
an assassin in a broom cupboard,
Huggy Bear delivers a baby from a
chest of drawers and radio
personality Nicholas Parsons
lands a plane using the contents
of a small larder.
Written, directed and produced by
BDH, this set of off-beat films
are factually accurate.
• The
Lee Mack Show : BBC Radio 7 -
Friday 20th November : 10.30pm
• Proud Parents : S4C -
Thursday 26th November : 9.00am
• Hole In The Wall : BBC1 -
Saturday 28th November : 5.30pm
• Jubilee : Film24 -
Saturday 28th November : 11.00pm
• Quadrophenia : Sky Movies
Indie - Monday 30th November :
9.40pm
• Celebrity Life Skills :
Channel 4 - Tuesday 1st December
: 12.30pm
• Celebrity Life Skills :
Channel 4 +1 - Tuesday 1st
December : 1.30pm
• Secret Diary Of A Call
Girl : ITV2 - Date & Time tbc
(rescheduled to 2010)
.Formby Times
- Toyah Stars in Vampires Rock at
Southport Theatre
A new
interview with Toyah, published
in today's 'Formby Times'. Toyah
and Vampires Rock play the
Southport Theatre on Sunday 29th
November:
Toyah Willcox is one of those
celebrities that are hard to
categorise.
Is she a singer? An actress? A
presenter?
She’s certainly done it all
and done so much that even she
can’t pinpoint where it all
began.
“I think I started in acting
but I honestly can’t
remember,” she says. “I
left school and just went
straight into performing, it was
something I always wanted to do.
I would say I’m an actress
and singer but I’ve really
always combined the two.
“I view myself as a creative
person, I write music and
I’m generally very busy.
I’d say I’m definitely
a workaholic, I’m not
interested in anything
else.”
Toyah’s career spans over 30
years, but the 51-year-old shows
no sign of slowing down. She is
currently on tour in Steve
Steinman’s Vampires Rock,
which comes to the Southport
Theatre at the end of the month,
and continues to perform with her
band The Humans, as well as
record her own material.
She says: “I find what I do
a pure joy and don’t feel
like it’s work. I’m
always in a different town or
country and it’s never a
problem for me. I feel very lucky
that I get paid to do what I do.
I often think it would be nice to
be in a soap so that I could know
what I’m going to be doing
every day, because the only thing
that winds me up is being told
last minute that I have to be
somewhere else in the world the
next day.”
Toyah arguably rode to notoriety
as a pop singer on the back of
the punk revolution. But with
many of that generation settling
down into middle age cosiness,
has she retained any of the
anti-establishment values her
career was forged upon?
“A big part of that
generation was the fact that we
didn’t compromise, so in
that sense I still have that
today,” she says.
Read the full interview online at
'Formby Times' here. This has also been
published by the 'Southport
Visiter'. View that here.
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. 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.
Joe gets to play a special wall
with a mystery guest.
Hole In The Wall : BBC1 -
Saturday 28th November : 5.30pm
A great
review of 'We Are The Humans' by
The Humans, by Ian Abrahams at
his 'Spacerock Reviews' blog. Ian
has interviewed Toyah for a
future issue of 'Record
Collector' magazine:
A couple of weeks back I had the
pleasure of half an hour’s
telephone interview with Toyah
Willcox for a forthcoming
magazine feature, which gave me
the opportunity to ramble around
Toyah’s classic output and
talk to her about her current
project, the vocals and bass
focused trio The Humans.
The concept of The Humans is
essentially to mesh bass
frequencies with vocals to
achieve something both pure in
sound and which pushes boundaries
in its goal of deconstructing the
traditional pop music format
– their cover of ‘These
Boots...’ is a manifesto to
this respect you’d have to
conclude. It’s sharp, snappy
and sexy, has a vitality all of
its own and a delicious sense of
irony in its sparseness that
takes it far away from the
original. It’s available for
digital download and though
it’s not on my copy of the
accompanying album, I do
understand it is now included
with subsequent versions.
Screen
captures from Toyah's guest
appearance on last Friday's The
One Show. Toyah paid tribute
to Marc Bolan and T-Rex in a 70s
special. Please click on these
for larger versions. This edition
of The One Show is
available to watch at BBC iPlayer
and will remain there until
Friday evening.
.Toyah,
Mayhem, M.I.5 & The
Telegraph!!
.Sunday
15th November, 2009 • Thanks to
Andi.............................Internet
Keith
Smart, former lead singer and
bassist of the band M.I.5,
reminisces about the band and
Toyah at his website, and also
includes a highly rare polaroid
of Toyah, taken at Mayhem in
1980.
Keith says: "The band were
based in South London. We
rehearsed at Toyah's place in
Battersea. Toyah Willcox was a
really interesting person. She
had the most amazing hair. There
was a documentary being filmed
about her one of the times we
were there. She also appeared on
the cover of the Radio Times and
in the film Quadrophenia...
M.I.5. were rehearsing at Toyah's
once a week. There was a real
buzz about her and fans started
to gather outside... The Polaroid
photograph of Toyah was taken by
the Radio Times photographer. I
assume he was checking the
lighting and composition of the
picture. Toyah gave it to
me."
Keith also includes the famous
party invite to Mayhem where
filming took place and was
subsequently included in the 1980
ATV documentary TOYAH.
Visit Keith's website here. NB. Toyah was
never on the cover of 'Radio
Times' but around this time she
was the cover star of 'The
Telegraph' magazine.
Last
night's The One Show is
now available to watch online at
BBC iPlayer. Toyah recalls her
teenage years, being a T-Rex/Marc
Bolan fan, and even has a glitter
teardrop painted on her cheek.
She also guests live in The
One Show studio with Noddy
Holder. Click below to watch
anytime until next Friday.
If it has got
Britain talking, then it will get
talked about on The One Show.
Adrian Chiles and Christine
Bleakley present the stories that
matter from across the country.
The show goes 70s with glam rock
legend Noddy Holder. Toyah
Willcox remembers the first
single she bought; Arlene
Phillips celebrates outrageous
70s fashion; and one terrified
One Show presenter rides the Wall
of Death.
.Vampires
Rock News
.Saturday
14th November, 2009 • Thanks to
John/Paul .................Theatre
• A very recent
backstage Vampires Rock
photo of Toyah.
• Vampires Rock
played St David's Hall, Cardiff
on Wednesday, and Cheltenham Town
Hall on Thursday. The next show
is at the Civic Hall, Bedworth
tonight.
• The next shows, after
tonight, will be The Royal
Centre, Leamington Spa
(Wednesday) and Victoria Theatre,
Halifax (Thursday).
• Steve Steinman recently
updated his 'Rockman Music
Newsletter'. He said:
"Vampires Rock is well
underway way and selling out all
over the place. Toyah is doing
another superb job this year and
has really gone up a gear, must
be something in the water!"
Read the full newsletter here.
Just a reminder that
Toyah is on TV twice today. She
guests on The One Show
on BBC1 at 7pm this evening, both
live in the studio and with a
pre-filmed VT on Marc Bolan.
Noddy Holder also guests on the
show, with a look back at the
70s.
This edition will be
available to watch online, for
seven days, at BBC iPlayer
immediately after it airs.
Later tonight, we head back over
30 years. Jubilee is
showing on Film24 (SKY channel
157), at 11pm. Director Derek
Jarman's controversial portrait
of early British punk which
imagines Elizabeth I paying a
visit to the future of her
sceptred isle, with the aid of an
astrologer and Shakespearean
fairy Ariel. Somewhat
overshooting the present, she
finds herself in a land of chaos
and decay in which the punks have
inherited the Earth. Made in the
year of Elizabeth II's silver
jubilee, it stars Jenny Runacre,
Nell Campbell, Toyah Willcox,
Jordan, Hermine Demoriane, and
Ian Charleson.
Toyah's 'It's A
Mystery' and 'I Want To Be Free',
both from 1981, are included on
iTunes Essentials digital
compilation, 'New Romantic',
released for download at the end
of October.
'It's A Mystery' is included in
"The Basics" and 'I
Want To Be Free' on 'Deep Cuts'.
Toyah is in good company, as the
collection boasts some legendary
New Wave/Romantic hits.
If you had the soul (and flouncy
shirts) of a consumptive
19th-century poet and the musical
circuitry of a 25th-century
android - and you were turning
heads on the streets of Soho
during the early '80s - chances
are you were a New Romantic.
Foppish shirt, powdered facial
white-out, pulsating synth
backdrop... and, of course, a
predilection for extravagant
romanticism. Such were the
trappings of the theatrical, yet
streetwise, artists who created
and defined the New Romantic
movement that turned Top Of The
Pops into a weekly carnivale
during the early '80s.
.South
Yorkshire Times - It's Panto Time
/ Panto News
There's a nip in the
air and the nights start drawing
in... the most magical time of
the year is on its way to South
Yorkshire. It's Panto time!
We've compiled a round up of the
region's top productions to help
you find your Christmas fun
– and with a gallery of
stars at the major productions
this year you are all spoilt for
choice.
SHEFFIELD: Snow
White and The Seven Dwarfs
is Sheffield Lyceum's 2010
offering, with a star-studded
cast.
The ever popular Damian Williams
stars as Nurse Nellie, Toyah
Willcox plays the Wicked Witch
and comedian and radio Sheffield
presenter Toby Foster is making
his first steps into the world of
panto as the Dame's son Muddles,
who gets everything wrong.
I caught up with Toby and Toyah
after they posed for the
customary promotional snaps. Said
Toby: "I came to see Aladdin
last year with my kids. I saw
Damian playing the dame and he
was so good at it, I decided I
would like to have a go! There is
nothing finer than making a lot
of kids laugh at Christmas. I
cannot think of a higher calling.
It is a bit odd to be working
with Toyah... when I was 14, she
was the gorgeous girl at the top
of the charts – and she is
still gorgeous".
Toyah has been no stranger to
controversy during her 30 year
career, which has seen her top
the charts with arty-punk hits
like It's a Mystery, star in
iconic films like Quadraphenia
– and latterly bare her life
in reality TV shows. She is also
now something of a veteran in the
panto world.
She said: "I have played the
Witch Queen about six times and I
love it. I do like to make the
audience hate me."
Tickets now on sale at the box
office, 0114 249 6000. Runs
December 10, 2009 to January 10,
2010. Tickets: £12 - £20.
Read the full article here. 'The Star' also
have a recent article on Toyah's
2009 panto. Go here to read that.
• Evolution
Productions, the producers of Snow
Whiteand the Seven
Dwarfs, and numerous other
pantos, have updated their
'Evolution Pantomimes' website.
The Show Whiteand the Seven Dwarfs page
now includes a larger version of
the promo flyer/poster. There is
also another great shot of Toyah
in their Gallery. Visit the
website here.
• 'Sheffield
Theatres' have also updated their
site, which now features a photo
of Toyah, with the seven dwarfs.
Full details on the panto,
including ticket booking info can
be found at the site. Snow
White opens on Friday 11th
December and runs through until
Sunday 10th January. Go here to visit.
'Live From
Blackpool!' were at the recent My
Story event in Blackpool.
Toyah was there too and recorded
her "Toyah's Story"
video for the BBC's Video Nation/My
Story. View the video here. Visit 'Live From
Blackpool!' here.
My Story:Everyone has a story to tell.
What's yours? Send in your
story to enter the My Story
competition. The finalists will
be asked to tell their story in a
major BBC One series. And five
people will win a fantastic book
deal. Please click below to visit
the BBC 'My Story' website.
.Toyah on TV
- The One Show
.Tuesday
10th November, 2009 • Thanks to
Paul Lomas............Television
Toyah will
be a studio guest on this
Friday's edition of The One
Show. The programme airs on
BBC1 at 7pm and runs for an hour
on Fridays. Click below to visit
their website. Toyah previously
guested on The One Show
in 2007.
.Clash -
Quadrophenia: A Way Of Life For
Thirty Years
'Clash' magazine's
December 2009 issue includes a
new article on Quadrophenia.
There is an excerpt from it at
the 'Clash Music' website. The
feature includes Mark Wingett quoting Toyah:
Quadrophenia: 30
Years On: Thirty years after its
cinema release, we dissect the
mod classic with the help of
those involved, including its
originator, Pete Townsend.
For three decades, Quadrophenia
has stood as the essential
document of mod culture - the
incendiary movement of the early
Sixties that revolved around
music, fashion, drugs and
scooters. Thirty years after its
release, Clash dons its parka and
delves into the making of a very
British phenomenon.
With an ambiguous ending, rumours
of a sequel to Quadrophenia have
always abounded. “If it
happens it will have very little
to do with me,” claims
Townshend. “Jimmy - in my
mind - never went over the cliff
with the scooter he had stolen
from Ace Face, but I didn’t
fancy his chances of survival if
he hung around in Britain. In the
album version I don’t even
know if he got off the rock. One
sequel I have heard about begins
with Jimmy in Tangier. Probably
wearing a caftan.” Mark
Wingett is at first positive:
“If it was working with that
lot again, absolutely. But only
if Franc directs it!” Then
reservedly admits:
“It’s a bit old to do a
sequel thirty years later. Toyah
[Willcox, who played Monkey] said
that if we did do a sequel we
would have call it Septicemia
instead of Quadrophenia.
We’d ride around on zimmers
instead of scooters,” he
laughs.
Toyah is interviewed
in the latest issue,
November/December 2009, of 'Your
Sheffield' magazine, in a feature
on Snow White, her panto
for 2009.
There is also a small photo of
Toyah on the cover of the
magazine. The article is also
available to read online at the
'Sheffield First' website.
Get ready to boo and
hiss - Toyah Willcox is coming to
Sheffield to play panto's evil
queen. It's going to be ....
wicked!
Rock star, style icon, actress
and vocal talent – Toyah
Willcox has demonstrated her
versatility to great effect over
the past few years. And in her
latest role, as the Wicked Queen
in Snow White and the Seven
Dwarfs at the Sheffield Lyceum
Theatre, the former chart-topper
is in her element.
Toyah is now a panto veteran,
having been performing in them
for 17 years – her first was
Peter Pan. As an accomplished
actress with film, stage and
television credits behind her,
Toyah loves the fact that panto
gives her a chance to reach out
to a new audience and help them
to discover the joy of live
performance.
She said: “Panto is
wonderful and very British. I
love the genre because there is
so much history and culture
around it.
“For many children it is the
first time they have been exposed
to live theatre, and we can
transport them away to another
place for a few hours and
hopefully encourage them to want
to see more.
“I love the audience
participation part of the show,
especially as I’m playing
the wicked witch. All the booing
and hissing is terrific
fun.”
Playing the character seven days
a week with two shows on some
days is demanding, but Toyah is
one busy lady. She has also found
the time to release a new Humans
album and fit in some TV work
abroad.
Toyah said: “I like to keep
busy. The panto is very demanding
and doing the shows keeps you
fit. I have to protect my voice,
though, and I try to avoid
talking too much between shows!
“I still love performing
live and it’s great that the
audience is still there. The
Rewind Festival is great fun as
I’m getting a chance to meet
all the other stars who had hits
in the 80s – we were all so
busy in those days I never got to
meet any of them!"
Toyah said: “Everyone who
I’ve worked with over the
years in panto always gives a 100
per cent – you can’t
give it any less.”
Read the full article online at
'Sheffield First' here. They also have a
competition to win tickets for Snow
White.
On Friday
the 'Birmingham Mail' published a
short feature on Toyah appearing
at the Alexandra Theatre with Vampires
Rock. They included extracts
from the recent article on The
Humans by the 'Sunday Mercury'.
Click below to read the full
report, and to view The Humans
feature see our 8th October news.
Vampires Rock
played a trio of sold out shows
over the weekend: Birmingham's
Alexandra Theatre on Friday, the
Ipswich Regent last night and
Kings Lynn Corn Exchange tonight.
The next show is at Venue Cymru,
Llandudno on Tuesday night.
Keep an eye on the
Official Vampires Rock
website, www.vampiresrock.com, it
may be having a bit of a makeover
soon.
•
Quadrophenia : Sky Movies Modern
Greats - Mon 9th November :
0.00am
• Proud Parents : Channel 4
- Monday 9th November : 12.30pm
• Proud Parents : Channel 4
+1 - Monday 9th November : 1.30pm
• Jubilee : Film24 - Friday
13th November : 11.00pm
• Quadrophenia : Sky Movies
Modern Greats - Thu 19th November
: 1.05am
• Shoestring :
Alibi - Thursday 19th November :
7.00am
• Shoestring : Alibi +1 -
Thursday 19th November : 8.00am
• Shoestring : Alibi -
Thursday 19th November : 10.00am
• Shoestring : Alibi +1 -
Thursday 19th November : 11.00am
• The Lee Mack Show : BBC
Radio 7 - Friday 20th November :
10.30pm
• Secret Diary Of A Call
Girl : ITV2 - Date & Time tbc
(rescheduled to 2010)
.This Fragile
Moment - CD On Sale Now!
.Friday
6th November, 2009 • Thanks to
Owen Keenan.....................Music
The 'This Fragile
Moment' CD is now available to
buy. It is on sale exclusively
through the new Iapetus Media
store, parent company of Unsung
Records.
This Fragile Moment
[feat. Toyah]
This Fragile Moment is an
eclectic musical assemblage
fronted by the charismatic
English vocalist Toyah Willcox.
Recorded in Estonia this summer,
the self-titled album centers
around predominantly improvised
live-in-the-studio performances
by Toyah, bassist Chris Wong (of
Toyah's other current project The
Humans), producer & touch
guitarist Markus Reuter, plus the
members of Estonian duo Fragile:
Arvo Urb (drums) and Robert
Jürjendal (guitar).
Please click here or the screenshot
for more info on buying the CD.
.Rhyl Journal
- Red Devil Toyah Gives Llandudno
Show Added Bite
A show with real
bite will be coming to North
Wales this month when Vampires
Rock swoops into Llandudno.
Singer and TV personality Toyah
Willcox will be vamping it up as
the Devil Queen, the long
suffering wife of Baron Von
Rockula, played by Steve
Steinman.
Promising to be a show like no
other, Vampires Rock has a twist
of rock, a hint of musical
theatre and is jam packed with
the a host of legendary anthems.
Toyah said: “I’m
thrilled to be part of the show
again in 2009! I’ve done a
lot of theatre in the past and
this show is so much fun. Where
else could you get to dress up in
costumes like this and sing your
favourite rock songs?”
Read the full article here. There are similar
Toyah/Vampires Rock in
Llandudno reports at 'North Wales
Daily Post' here, 'Chester
Chronicle' here, and 'Runcorn &
Widnes Weekly News' here.
.Three To
Tango - Toyah Music
.Thursday
5th November, 2009 • Thanks to
Katy........................Music/Film
Some interesting
news on Three To Tango
(aka Power Of Three):
Toyah's 'Sensational' and 'Come',
both from the 'In The Court Of
The Crimson Queen' album, are
included in the film. Another
track from the album may also be
included.
Toyah also appears
on the closing credits of the
film, singing a new song,
possibly '21st Century
Supersister'?
.Vampires
Rock - Big Screen/Enjoy Truro
.Wednesday
4th November, 2009 • Thanks to
Zoe Clow............Press Clips
Vampires
Rock plays the Hall For
Cornwall in Truro on Monday 23rd
November. The show is featured in
the latest issue of
Cornwall-based magazine 'Big
Screen'. 'Enjoy Truro' also has a
Vampires Rock feature at
their website. Both include great
Toyah/Vampires Rock
photos. Please click below to
view a larger version of the 'Big
Screen' scan, and here for 'Enjoy Truro'.
Toyah's first film,
the now iconic Jubilee,
gets another TV airing later this
month, this time on the Film24
channel. Toyah plays Mad, in the
"punk epic", alongside
numerous others who went onto
successful music and acting
careers.
Visit the Film24
website at: www.film24.com
Jubilee : Film24 - Friday
13th November : 11.00pm
Derek Jarman's fantasy tale of
life in a post-punk Britain.
Toyah Willcox, Adam Ant and
Richard O'Brien star. Strong
language, nudity, sex scenes,
violence and adult themes.
Director: Derek Jarman. Starring:
Jenny Runacre, Nell Campbell,
Toyah Willcox, Hermine Demoriane,
Ian Charleson, & Karl
Johnson.
Some
Three To Tango related news from,
Never The Bride, a band featured
in the film:
Three Never The Bride songs, The
Living Tree, Surprise and NTB
vintage track I’m Alive were
aired in the soundtrack to a new
movie, Three To Tango, …
Leading lady Toyah Willcox, who
also has music in the film,
expressed how much she loved
Never The Bride’s music as
did the other leading ladies,
Brümilda van Rensburg, South
Africa, and Robin Craig, Canada.
Also among the cast are Shirley
Anne Field and another Dame with
a Bond connection! As Dame
Shirley Bassey was singing
Goldfinger for Bond, the latest
Dame in our lives, Dame Margaret
Nolen, was being painted gold all
over. She’s a big music fan
and plans to see NTB in action at
one of her old haunts, The Bulls
Head in Barnes.
The movie was preceded by a
fabulous champagne reception
followed by an auction in aid of
the Breakthrough Charity.
Thousands were raised for Breast
Cancer Research and the evening
was hailed as a huge success.
Toyah is featured at
BBC Video Nation. Her short video
"Toyah's Story" was
only added yesterday and is
already listed as one of the Top
Video Extras on the Video Nation
site:
Singer,
actress and TV presenter Toyah
Willcox tells us about her
dyslexia, teenage rebellion and
stealing a teacher's car.
Toyah Willcox went
to the My Story event in
Blackpool to encourage others to
share their stories. Toyah tells
us about her struggle with
dyslexia and how she has had to
find ways to fulfil her need to
write. She also shares one of the
less known moments of her life
during the years of her teenage
rebellon when she stole a
teacher's car.
.Toyah/Vampires
Rock - Brighton & Manchester
.Monday
2nd November, 2009 • Thanks to
Damon/Michael...........Pictures
Vampires
Rock played the Brighton
Centre on Saturday, Damon King
caught up with Toyah and John
backstage at the show. Michael
O'Brien is also pictured with
Toyah, at the Opera House,
Manchester on Sunday 25th
October.
Toyah was
interviewed, about Vampires
Rock, by Brighton's Juice
107.2 on their Juice Drive
show on Friday afternoon.
.YouTubing
with Toyah! - Celebrities &
Their Psychics
Celebrities
& Their Psychics,
originally broadcast by Living TV
in 2002, has been added to
YouTube over the weekend (via
five clips). Toyah appears
throughout the programme.
.
.This Fragile
Moment - MySpace
.Sunday
1st November, 2009 • Thanks to
PJ/Stephen.......................Music
This
Fragile Moment are now at
MySpace, with details on their
album and song samples.
This Fragile Moment is an
eclectic musical assemblage
fronted by the charismatic
English vocalist Toyah Willcox.
Recorded in Estonia this summer,
the self-titled album centers
around predominantly improvised
live-in-the-studio performances
by Toyah, bassist Chris Wong (of
Toyah's other current project The
Humans), producer & touch
guitarist Markus Reuter, plus the
members of Estonian duo Fragile:
Arvo Urb (drums) and Robert
Jürjendal (guitar).
The results are a unique
amalgamation of the talent
involved, standing apart from
Toyah's previous work, speaking a
language of its own. This album
will resonate not only with
Toyah’s core fan-base but
also with a wider audience given
the collaborative nature of the
group and the broad musical
spectrum of the performances.
The self-titled album will be
released on Unsung Records
(UR012CD) on December 1st 2009. A
pre-order link will be made
available on November 9th.
Album Tracks: 1.
Stones, 2. Break The Mould, 3.
Don't Even Try, 4. Run With Me,
5. Boredom Is A Killer, 6.
Fragile, 7. Blow The Pain Away,
8. Born Broken, 9. In Estonia
Just a reminder that
Toyah is on TV twice today. She
guests on Hole In The Wall
on BBC1, and BBC HD, at 5.30pm
this evening, along with other
guests TV chef Simon Rimmer,
actress Zaraah Abrahams and
presenter Barney Harwood.
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. 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.
Joe gets to play a special wall
with a mystery guest.
• A very recent
backstage Vampires Rock
photo of Toyah.
Just a reminder that
Toyah is on TV twice today. She
guests on The One Show
on BBC1 at 7pm this evening, both
live in the studio and with a
pre-filmed VT on Marc Bolan.
Noddy Holder also guests on the
show, with a look back at the
70s. 
Some interesting
news on Three To Tango
(aka Power Of Three):
Toyah's 'Sensational' and 'Come',
both from the 'In The Court Of
The Crimson Queen' album, are
included in the film. Another
track from the album may also be
included.
Toyah's first film,
the now iconic Jubilee,
gets another TV airing later this
month, this time on the Film24
channel. Toyah plays Mad, in the
"punk epic", alongside
numerous others who went onto
successful music and acting
careers.
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