Above are three of my current favourites but there are numerous Toyah clips to enjoy: classic songs, live appearances, videos, tv interviews, quiz shows and much more... including The Official Toyah YouTube Channel.

A few more photographs of Toyah at Maspalomas Pride from earlier this month. Please click on them for larger versions.

Starring Toyah Willcox, The Power of Three centres on three women in their 50s who team up to transform their lives and fulfil their lifelong ambitions.

Filmed primarily in Hampstead and Belsize Park, the film promises to showcase the highlights of north London as well as celebrating the power of friendship and community.

Producer Ann Cameron said: “The story is all about our shared experiences. We’ve all been there, and we look at life in the same way.”

Ms Willcox plays Michelle, a struggling film director who is finding it hard to crack the highly competitive old boys’ network of the film business.

Friends Olivia and Lizzie, played by award-winning actresses Brümilda van Rensburg and Robin Craig, decide to pool their strengths to help Michelle realise her dreams.

In a case of art imitating life, the plot bears an unmistakable resemblance to the making of the film where the trio of female producers Ms Cameron, Yvonne Deutschman and Thereza Snyman decided it was time to tackle the lack of feature films portraying older women.

Ms Cameron, originally from Canada, said: “We realised that no-one was making movies for people like us, so the inevitable question was – what are we going to do about it?”

In the past five years they have worked to turn an original idea into a script, canvassing support among fellow film professionals and coming up with the simple concept of dividing out proceeds according to the contributions.

South African entrepeneur Ms Snyman said: “Everyone involved takes ownership of the project, because they are the project.

“The enthusiasm and commitment is amazing.”

After the groundbreaking success of Calendar Girls and Mamma Mia, two films that dared to cast older actresses in leading roles as opposed to the usual character parts, it seems the film industry is finally grasping the potential of older women.

Ms Deutschman said: “If we’d been doing this two years ago we wouldn’t have had as much interest, but now the over-50s is rapidly becoming a proven film-going audience.”

The Power of Three will premiere in London in the autumn.

The amazing Toyah Willcox on stage at Maspalomas Pride 2009 - taken from GBC Television UK Ltd's Official DVDs of Gran Canaria Pride 2009 - available soon at www.GBCTelevision.com

• Places2Stay: Blackpool Pride festival attracts record numbers
According to the Blackpool Gazette, over 10,000 people attended events on the Golden Mile over the two days, including a picnic in the park and music concerts. Celebrity guests to make an appearance at the new venue on Dickson Road included 1980s singing legend Toyah Willcox and former S Club 7 singer Jo O'Meara.

• Blackpool Gazette: Colourful parade's Pride of the Prom
More than 10,000 smiles said it all – Blackpool was very proud of itself.
Record crowds gathered on the Golden Mile over the weekend for the resort's fourth annual Pride event. This year's diversity festival was in a new location with Dickson Road in front of Funny Girls chosen to be at the heart of the action. The road was closed off to traffic so a stage could be created which hosted live acts including eighties singers Toyah Willcox and Hazell Dean and SClub 7's Jo O'Meara.

Toyah, have you ever visited Gran Canaria before?  And what made you take up the offer? This is the first time I've been to Gran Canaria, and when Sparkles Showbar asked me to take part in their Gay Pride celebrations I welcomed the opportunity.  It was good fun riding on the float this afternoon and seeing my many fans.

Have you managed to see anything of the island whilst here? No, only the hotel room, as usual!

Where is your next tour and when? Firstly it's back to the UK, where I have a number of tours organised throughout the country at various festivals and big parks, then I'm off to Seattle to write another album, then on tour again in the US.  Autumn will find me back in the UK to start the new Vampires Rock show.

Read the full interview here.

Read the article here.

This episode, and the previous four of series two of Ashes to Ashes, is available to watch at BBC iPlayer. Click on the screen caps for larger versions.

Directed by Chris Newby (Madagascar Skin) and starring Pete Postlewaithe and Christopher Eccleston, Anchoress is a visually arresting story of religious conflict set in the Middle Ages. After having a transcendental vision, a young girl becomes an Anchoress (a virgin who is walled up in a chamber in the church) and her enclosure gradually begins to threaten the foundations of the whole community.

Starring: Natalie Morse, Gene Bervoets, Toyah Willcox, Pete Postlethwaite, Christopher Eccleston, Michael Pas, Brenda Bertin, Annette Badland, Veronica Quilligan & Julie T. Wallace.

A collection of video clips of Toyah onstage in Blackpool.

Toyah was due to play her set outside but because of adverse weather conditions it was moved inside. She was onstage for around 30 minutes. Robert was also in Blackpool and Toyah mentioned it was their Wedding Anniversary.

At the end of the PA Toyah was presented with a birthday cake (see the photos above) and everyone sang Happy Birthday to her.

Toyah's Blackpool set list: Are You Gonna Go My Way, Echo Beach, Thunder In The Mountains, School's Out, It's A Mystery, Sweet Child 'O Mine, I Want To Be Free, and I Love Rock 'N Roll.

Camera crews filmed both of Toyah's sets, and both were also recorded. It looks like there are plans for a CD and possible DVD release.

The interview With Roxy Epoxy & The Rebound is at the Popwreckoning website. The full article can be viewed here, or by clicking the photo of Roxy..

PW: So who are some of your influences and inspirations?

Roxy Epoxy: Seriously though, I think the main people that I had in mind while writing were Nina Hagen and Toyah Willcox. Lene Lovich and Hazel O’Connor. Those are the four I have been citing a bunch.

Actress, singer and TV presenter Toyah Willcox films reports for the BBC Holiday Programme.

How many visa stamps are in your passport?
I have a very thick ten-year passport which always gets questioned when I go to Israel. They think I must be a terrorist because I also have a Polish visa. I get interrogated every time, even though they know me - I have a hit satellite show in Israel. I have lots of American visa stamps because my husband, who's a musician, works in Los Angeles (inset) for two weeks a month, and I pop over to see him all the time.

What is your favourite place to visit?
It would have to be Estonia, where I will be making a movie this year. It's sensational, totally unspoiled. Amazingly it's full of Scottish people who went there three years ago for a football match that never happened - and they never came home. There are lots of Scottish pubs and you can live there on about pounds 10 a week. Israel is also fantastic. It's never dull and is full of extremes. On my last visit I was filming for the BBC's Holiday Programme and I had to live like a nomad in the Negev desert for six days. Then I'd pop back to Eilat to have a bath and it was like being in Las Vegas.

What was your worst experience?
I was touring in Poland five years ago and it was difficult getting food. And when you turned taps on all that came out was sludge, so no-one used the bath. There was also a huge alcohol problem.

What is your favourite form of transport?
I love flying. Yachts are awful because you get stuck with people. I can be anonymous on a plane.

Who is your ideal travelling companion?
I like travelling on my own, I'm a very insular person. I just love getting on a plane with magazines and a good book.

What essentials would you never leave behind?
A handbag and a toothbrush. Once I went to LA and that's all I took because I have clothes at my husband's place. Customs were very suspicious because I didn't have a suitcase.

Toyah's set list on Sunday included 'Thunder In The Mountains', 'I Love Rock 'N Roll', and 'Are You Gonna Go My Way'.

Check back soon for more of Alec Kelly's fantastic Toyah in Gran Canaria photos.

Toyah also contributes to another song, 'On Bass', on the album. This is confirmed here.

There are reviews of the album here and here. It is also available to buy via Amazon, and there is information about it at the DGM website.

HoLEY vOid is the inimitable audio sitcom with a twist of variety performance.
The setting is 'HoLEY vOid', a glamorous Earth tribute entertainment venue on a spaceship.

The stellar musical guests are alien tribute acts to themselves!

The core characters who run the HoLEY vOid (a flying telepathic cocktail waiter, a multi-armed cyborg and a lone human) battle baddies or solve a mystery - with help or hindrance from the cast and special guest stars.

Paul Daniels, Debbie McGee, Toyah Willcox and Ruth Madoc join the adventure in Normal Space.

Escape to a place where the credit crunch is HoLEY vOid...

• In other Toyah related sitcom news - the complete first series of FM has just been released on DVD - For completists only I would assume as Toyah's guest appearance, in Episode Two, lasts around 10 seconds!

• Toyah was mentioned yesterday morning on BBC Radio Devon, on the Judy Spiers Show, in a feature on Quadrophenia - The Musical (Thanks to Stephen)

• Toyah is namechecked in an article at www.yourcanterbury.co.uk, on Paul Hendy's book "Who Killed Simon Peters?".

• Unfortunately availability of 'We Are The Humans' has been slightly delayed.

• Remember The Eighties, the website the album is exclusively available through until it is released on iTunes, issued this information:

Thank you so much for pre-ordering the new album from Toyah / Bill Reiflin / Chris Wong's new project 'The Humans'.

In a perfect world the albums would be all packed up right now ready to be posted to you in the morning, however it turns out that the world is not quite perfect and although the jiffy bags are all addressed and stacked up, I still haven't actually received the albums from the pressing plant. Apparently a printing problem has meant that a whole new set of covers has had to be printed which has led to delays with the delivery.

The albums are due to be delivered any day now (I'm afraid that at the moment I can't be more specific than that) and will be packed and shipped out to you as soon as possible, but it only seemed fair to warn you that they might not be shipped tomorrow as planned. Sorry... [Thanks to Minna]

In the meantime, the film's Facebook page is still available, as is the Official Website. Both have lots of background info on the film. The 'South Africa Times' have already published an article on the film.