The Official Toyah website also report that they will be announcing some more exciting news about a Toyah gig, taking place in Autumn 2008, soon.

"My great-grandfather about five times removed was the last man to be hanged in Lincolnshire so I have quite a connection with the county," says Toyah.

"Lincoln is a very rich cultural city and I really enjoy the architecture and the character there."

This time round Toyah will be performing at Gainsborough's new venue, The State Club, where the spotlight has previously been shined on superstar DJs such as Judge Jules and Lisa Lashes.

But, as ever, Toyah is not intimidated by the list of predecessors.

"My website gets a few thousand hits every week so people do know I'm coming to Lincoln," says Toyah.

"I do what I do, I'll be playing for the fans.

"I'm not trying to attract a new audience."

Having said that, Toyah believes anyone who attends who is not familiar with her music will be easily won over.

"You get used to playing for crowds that don't expect what you do," says Toyah. "What we do is a high energy rock show. Our aim is to raise the temperature and we always win people over in the end."

Toyah takes the same approach to her writing as she does to her shows. She believes that staying contemporary doesn't have to take effort.

"When I write I don't think I'm writing for young people," says Toyah. "But I live a very exciting life and my finger is on the pulse musically, so I stay contemporary."

Source: thisislincolnshire: 14/02/2008

Photo by John Shepherd. View his Toyah Galleries here.

Quadrophenia : ITV4 - Wednesday 20th February : 10.35pm
Quadrophenia : ITV4 - Thursday 21st February : 10.00pm

Jubilee : ITV4 - Thursday 21st February : 2.00am

Top Of The Pops 2 : Dave - Wed 27th February - 8.30am
Top Of The Pops 2 : Dave Plus 1 - Wed 27th February - 9.30am
Top Of The Pops 2 : Dave - Wed 27th February - 1.30pm
Top Of The Pops 2 : Dave Plus 1 - Wed 27th February - 2.30pm
Top Of The Pops 2 : Dave - Wed 27th February - 8.30pm
Top Of The Pops 2 : Dave Plus 1 - Wed 27th February - 9.30pm
More pop nostalgia and current music, introduced by Radio 2 stalwart Steve Wright. This edition includes a specially-recorded performance by Steve Balsamo. Plus Elvis Costello with 'Oliver's Army', Toyah performing 'It's a Mystery', Blur's 'Girls and Boys', and the camp classic 'It's Raining Men' by The Weather Girls.

29 MAR 2008 - CLUB LIVE PA
Birmingham Nightingales Gay Club
Live PA including new material (without band)
www.nightingaleclub.co.uk

The Nightingale, Kent Street B5 6RD (Tel: 0121 6221718)

Source: officialtoyah: 15/02/2008

HERE AND NOW - EXETER POWDERHAM CASTLE 
SATURDAY 26TH JULY 2008

Line up includes: Kid Creole & The Coconuts, Bananarama, Belinda Carlisle, Howard Jones, Midge Ure, Paul Young, The Weather Girls, Heaven 17, T'Pau and Toyah.

Tickets on sale from 15th February
Ticketline - 0871 424 4444 - 24 hrs plus booking fee
www.ticketline.co.uk
or Powderham Castle - 01626 890243 plus booking fee

HERE AND NOW - LONDON EXCEL BRITISH MOTOR SHOW
SUNDAY 27TH JULY 2008

Line up includes: Kid Creole & The Coconuts, Bananarama, Belinda Carlisle, Paul Young, Nick Heyward, Midge Ure and Toyah.

Tickets on sale today 15th February 
Tickets available from 0871 230 5593 or www.seetickets.com 
If you buy tickets to the concert you get free entry to the Motor Show that day.

The line-up for the motor-inspired festival, which runs from July 23 to August 3 at ExCeL in London, also includes Deep Purple, Jools Holland featuring Marc Almond and Squeeze.

Bananarama and Belinda Carlisle are performing as part of the Here And Now 80s Tour and will be joined by Paul Young, Toyah, Kid Creole, Midge Ure and Nick Heyward.

Music festival tickets will be sold separately but include free access to The British International Motor Show on the day of the concert. Tickets are priced at between £25 and £32.50.

More acts to be announced shortly on the show website.

This year's motor show will feature over 600 cars and promises "something for everyone from car enthusiasts to families looking for an exciting day out".

Sources: thisisnottingham / virginmedia / femalefirst: 15/02/2008

Thousands of concert goers are expected to descend on a venue near Exeter when some of the biggest music stars of the 1980s perform there. 

Powderham Castle has just announced a huge line-up of some of the decade's most popular artists for what is expected to be a sell-out gig this summer.

The news comes after it was confirmed that Irish boy band Boyzone will be staging a comeback concert at the castle on the same weekend.

The artists who have been confirmed to appear on July 26 - the day after Boyzone - have notched up 20 years of chart success and a total of 45 top 10 hits between them.

The 10 acts confirmed for the event, being billed as the Greatest Eighties Party Ever, are: The Weather Girls; Kid Creole and the Coconuts; Belinda Carlisle; T'Pau; Nick Heyward; Bananarama; Paul Young; Heaven 17; Midge Ure and Toyah Willcox.

Source: thisisexeter: 14/02/2008: Read the full story here

80S' SHOW TICKETS ON SALE

Tickets go on sale today for a concert featuring some of the top acts of the 1980s. 

Powderham Castle has announced a line-up of some of the decade's most popular artists will also be performing there this summer.

The artists who have been confirmed to appear on July 26 are The Weather Girls; Kid Creole and the Coconuts; Belinda Carlisle; T'Pau; Nick Heyward; Bananarama; Paul Young; Heaven 17; Midge Ure and Toyah Willcox.

Source: thisisexeter: 15/02/2008

The sale, at which Toyah will be present along with a camera crew, is now being held on Tuesday 26th February (no time has been specified) at:

Chiswick Auctions, 1 Colville Road, London W3 8BL

This year the Wisley Music Festival, from June 12 to 14, welcomes soprano Lesley Garrett on Thursday 12, with songs from her latest album and a finale of Last Night of the Proms favourites. 

A familiar face on television and in the West End, she currently presents a weekly Saturday night Opera show on Classic FM. Lesley is joined by  American tenor Paul Austin Kelly and the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra.

On Friday 13, Wisley will rock to the stars of the 80s. when Belinda Carlisle, Nick Heyward, Toyah and Clare Grogan will be together for a night of non-stop hits.

The final show on Saturday 14 pays homage to musical greats, with The Counterfeit Stones supported by Buddy Holly and The Cricketers. 

Gates open each evening at 6pm, and the music starts at 7.30pm, so there’s plenty of time to enjoy a picnic beforehand. Concerts end at 10.15pm with a fireworks finale.

Tickets are on sale at: 0844 412 4650 or visit the website at www.rhs.org.uk/wisley.

Source: www.woking.co.uk: 08/02/2008

The makers of the programme would love as many fans as possible to go along to the sale, at which Toyah will be present along with a camera crew. It is being held on Friday 15th February starting at 9:30am at:

Weller's Auction House, 70 Guildford Street, Chertsey, Surrey KT16 9BB

Through the docu-film Julien gives us a unique insider's insight into the highly respected British filmmaker who died in 1994 of an AIDS-related illness. Accompanying the biopic film is an exhibition of Jarman's paintings and Super-8 films curated by Julien. 

Those who remember flares from the first time round won't want to miss Jarman's iconic films including 'Jubilee' (1977), probably his best known Super-8 co-starring Adam Ant, Toyah Willcox and Jordan with cameos from Siouxsie and the Banshees and The Slits. A landmark punk era classic. Ten years later, Jarman made 'Caravaggio' which picked up on the same theme as his earlier film, 'Sebastiane' (1976) in its focus on how "man's character is his fate".

23rd February until 13th April 2008 
Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gardens, Westminster, London. W2 3XA 
Telephone: 020 7402 6075

Never Mind The Buzzcocks : VH1 UK - Monday 18th February : 10.00pm Music quiz hosted by Mark Lamarr with team captains Phil Jupitus and Sean Hughes. Guests are Tom Gray, Toyah, Kele Le Roc and Adam Bloom.

Quadrophenia : ITV4 - Wednesday 20th February : 10.35pm
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.

Jubilee : ITV4 - Thursday 21st February : 2.00am
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. Director: Derek Jarman. Starring: Jenny Runacre, Nell Campbell, Toyah Willcox, Jordan, Hermine Demoriane, and Ian Charleson.

Quadrophenia : ITV4 - Wednesday 20th February : 10.30pm
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.

Jubilee : ITV4 - Thursday 21st February : 2.00am
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. Director: Derek Jarman. Starring: Jenny Runacre, Nell Campbell, Toyah Willcox, Jordan, Hermine Demoriane, and Ian Charleson.

• A retro edition of The Kenny Everett Television Show, from 26 years ago this very month, February 1982, aired on the ParaComedy 2 channel on Tuesday night. Toyah performs and is transformed into Kenny. Kenny does likewise. (Thanks to Paul Lomas for the info & Kev @ Mermaid Days for pics)

• Toyan on TV: Proud Parents : S4C - Wednesday 13th February : 1.15pm
Toyah Willcox. Proud Parents looks at a celebrity's life through the eyes of their parents. Performer, author and TV star Toyah Willcox visits her dad aboard his beloved boat.

Leopard Films, the production company that makes Cash in the Attic for BBC1, are currently producing a special celebrity series of the show and Toyah is one of their guests. She will be appearing alongside her friend John Wain and together they will sell a collection of antiques gathered from her house at an auction in order to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support.

They are trying to encourage as many fans as possible to come along to the auction and bid on her items so that they can raise as much as possible for the charity!

The sale, at which Toyah will be present along with a camera crew, is being held on Friday 15th February starting at 9:30am at:

Weller's Auction House
70 Guildford Street,
Chertsey
Surrey 
KT16 9BB

Among the items on sale will be a black box record player from the 1960s which will include a signed Toyah record.

The main feature is titled "Stand And Deliver", Toyah is quoted in an accompanying one-page article.

Karma Chameleons: Their names were definitely on the list - the Blitz Kids recall the club's door policy and gender-bending scene.

Toyah Willcox: 80s pop star; broadcaster and actress:
Toyah opened her warehouse, Mayhem, for Blitz pre-parties. "Having come from punk, where women really reinvented how we were treated, what was wonderful about the new romantic movement was that it wasn't sexist atall. It was slightly kind of 'Bloomsbury', in that it reinvented people's sexuality. People became very open about homosexuality, bisexuality, and tried to redefine everything. Everyone was an individual, but also very stylish. And because the boys were so feminine, it empowered the women as well."

Steve Strange, Rusty Egan, Boy George, Robert Elms and Midge Ure are also interviewed.

Never Mind The Buzzcocks : VH1 UK - Monday 18th February : 10.00pm Music quiz hosted by Mark Lamarr with team captains Phil Jupitus and Sean Hughes. Guests are Tom Gray, Toyah, Kele Le Roc and Adam Bloom.