Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch, revisiting their Christmas 2022 performance of Jingle Bell Rock premieres at 10.30am (UK time) on Monday. In the meantime, here’s a lovely Christmassy shot of Toyah & Robert & Tinsel from last Christmas… (Image © Toyah Willcox)
• Saturday Morning Song: Masai Boy (Live 1982) – Watch… • Toyah & Robert: UpBeat Moments – Watch… • Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch – You Give Love A Bad Name – Watch…
Press for Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch – This week covering a Bon Jovi 80s classic. (Image © Toyah Willcox)
• NME: Watch Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox cover Bon Jovi’s ‘You Give Love A Bad Name’ in new Sunday Lunch video: The musical couple are back with their latest cover and some new props – Continue…
• Brooklyn Vegan: Watch Toyah & Robert Fripp cover Bon Jovi’s “You Give Love A Bad Name” – Continue…
• Far Out: Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp cover Bon Jovi in new Sunday Lunch video – Continue…
• Brave Words: Robert Fripp & Toyah Cover Bon Jovi Classic “You Give Love A Bad Name” In New Sunday Lunch Video – Continue…
• Official Toyah TikTok: You Give Love A Bad Name – Continue…
• DGM Live: Toyah & Robert’s Weekend – Continue…
Toyah & Robert’s month-long Sunday Lunch Rock Party Tour ended last weekend in Birmingham.
Toyah tweeted: “A stunning night in Birmingham last Sunday for the finale of the Toyah & Robert Fripp Rock Party Tour! Toyah xxx”
• See more photos from the tour-closing Birmingham gig here. (Photo © Manolo Poladari)
The final date of Toyah & Robert’s 2023 Rock Party Tour was Sunday, October 29th in Birmingham. On this episode of Toyah & Robert On The Road, a glimpse at the last five tour dates, the fire of rock, the musicians, and the grooving audiences, all coming together to celebrate a Rock Party!
• Saturday Morning Song: Paranoid (Toyah & Robert Live At Isle Of Wight Festival 2023) – Watch… • Toyah & Robert: UpBeat Moments – Watch… • Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch – Happy Halloween – Watch…
Press for Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch – This week covering XYZ. (Image © Toyah Willcox)
• Brooklyn Vegan: Toyah & Robert Fripp cover XYZ’s “Nice Day To Die” for Halloween – Continue…
• Brave Words: Robert Fripp & Toyah Perform XYZ’s “Nice Day To Die” For Sunday Lunch – “Happy Halloween!” – Continue…
• Far Out: Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp cover XYZ’s ‘Nice Day to Die’ – Continue…
• Official Toyah TikTok: Halloween Edition – Continue…
• DGM Live: Toyah & Robert’s Weekend – Continue…
The middle five dates of Toyah & Robert’s Rock Party Tour (featuring Daisy the unicorn dancing onstage).
Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp
Liverpool Philharmonic Hall
16th October 2023
Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp bring their Bonkers Web show Sunday Lunch to the stage and Del Pike is there to watch the madness unfold.
What started as a fun diversion from the horrors of Covid – Toyah and Robert’s Sunday Lunch has bloomed into an ongoing project with an army of cult followers – who’d have thought it?
Their appearance at Glasto cemented the idea that their online videos were more than a passing fad, and this was a piss-take that had actual legs.
The premise; Robert Fripp, he of King Crimson fame, stares intently at a static camera, seated in his kitchen, strumming along to a classic pop/rock hit, whilst his wife, Toyah Willcox frantically sings along, manically striking shapes and dancing feverishly around the domestic studio. And all this happens at midday every Sunday.
The results are hilarious mainly, unnerving often, but always entertaining. Toyah’s outfits, which are always comically revealing, are as much a feature as the songs and performances, and often there may be a masked collaborator to add a bit of meat to the musical bones.
• Continue reading at Louder Than War. Browse a gallery of photos from this concert at Record Collector.
Toyah & Robert On The Road – The First Five Dates Of The Tour… A visit to the first five dates of Toyah & Robert’s tour – a Rock Party! – backstage, soundchecks, stories, onstage, grooving audiences… Dates & tickets at toyahwillcox.com.
In pictures: To
yah Willcox and Robert Fripp at the Royal Hall in Harrogate
Toyah and Robert’s Sunday Lunch is a YouTube channel that they started during the days of Government lockdowns.
Toyah and Robert have been married since the mid-80’s. Robert is perhaps best know for being the founder of King Crimson, but has many, many other credits to how bow, such as playing on Blondies, Parallel Lines, and Bowie’s, Heroes.
Toyah also has an established history in music with It’s a Mystery, Thunder in the Mountains and I Want to Be Free – to name a few.
They were a welcome addition to the Royal Hall in Harrogate, on Saturday 7 October 2023.
• Continue reading at the Harrogate Informer. Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch Tour is on the road now – Browse venues at toyahwillcox.com.
A second review of Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch Rock Party Tour – this one for the second concert at Cheltenham. Again, this review includes spoilers.
Gig Review: Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp
“Sunday Lunch” Cheltenham 1st October 2023
Accompanying me for this gig was a friend who started his musical journey at the same moment in time as myself – late 70s to early 80s – and aside from our ailments, all we talk about is music. However, little did I know the entire night was to be all about relationships…
The grandiose setting would have seemed incongruous a few decades ago for the Punk-pixie Toyah Willcox. The galleried space and Corinthian columns are very much of the classic style. However, I guess the contemporary Toyah too is very much the classic heritage act.
Together with her husband Robert Fripp, the duo have been framing their love of music with regular “Sunday Lunch” uploads on YouTube. The covering of classic songs has amassed a huge following and even bigger reactions. The premise is one of fun and self-parody. Tonight was no different…
As the statesmen of the stage, Fripp took to his stool, after offering an unconditional kiss for his iconic guitar. Although, for the remainder of the gig the guitarist’s unflinching gaze was reserved, hereon in, for his wife of 37 years. Unapologetically, their relationship was at the crux of the show.
• Continue reading at Slap Mag. Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch Tour is on the road now – Browse venues at toyahwillcox.com.
A comprehensive review of the opening – sold out – date of Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch Tour. Please note, this review includes spoilers, such as the full set-list etc.
Wimborne, Tivoli Theatre
Saturday 30 September 2023
This is where it started, during lockdown. It’s had 120 million views. Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox broadcasting totally unexpected duo renditions from home. It went viral. People looked forward to it.
The Tivoli sold out in hours rather than days. Wimborne, Dorset is Robert Fripp’s home town. As explained tonight he first went to the Tivoli when it was a cinema with his sister (who was running the lobby sales stand tonight) when he was five. He proposed to Toyah thirty-seven years ago just along the road. He is the local hero. They could easily have sold out Bournemouth Pavilion judging by the way tickets flew off the shelf. I expect they could have sold out the cavernous BIC, but no, it’s a home town gig in the Tivoli. While it’s a small venue, I have seen such as Robert Plant, Judy Collins, Albert Lee and The Manfreds there.
For many of us in this audience Robert Fripp goes back to The League of Gentlemen and Giles, Giles and Fripp as well as King Crimson. As I increasingly realised working on the record labels on my Around & Around site, we were privileged to live in 60s Bournemouth. (The ‘Greater’ Bournemouth area includes Poole, Christchurch and Wimborne). Robert Fripp, John Wetton, Greg Lake, Michael Giles, Richard Palmer-James, Gordon Haskell (just to name King Crimson connections first), Lee Kerslake (The Gods, Uriah Heep), Zoot Money, Andy Somers (Police), Tim Mycroft (Sounds Nice), Al Stewart, John Rostill (The Shadows), Bob Jenkins (Room, Be Sharp), Pete Ballam (Bram Stoker), Dave Anthony’s Moods, Trendsetters Ltd, The Dowlands. Check out the Bournemouth Beat Boom website for the most detailed information on all of these. As a booming tourist town, Bournemouth simply had far more venues than most places so spawned bands who could actually find plenty of gigs.
• Continue reading at Peter Viney’s Blog. Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch Tour is on the road now – Browse venues at toyahwillcox.com. (Photo © Peter Viney)
Win: Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp coming to Basingstoke
Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp are going on tour and will be in Basingstoke in October – and you can win free tickets with the Gazette.
The married pair are bursting out of the kitchen and going on tour with Toyah’s full ‘Posh Pop’ band.
Enjoy an evening of Sunday Lunch reminiscing and full rock music, familiar from their hit YouTube series, with Robert on guitar.
With the exciting artistic twists that both Robert and Toyah are renowned for, they’ll perform Toyah’s hits such as It’s A Mystery and I Want To Be Free, plus many much-loved songs, including My Generation, Heroes, Teenage Kicks, Rebel Yell, Slave To The Rhythm, Smoke On The Water, Are You Gonna Go My Way, Paranoid, and more.
• Continue reading, and enter the competition to win gig tickets, at the Basingstoke Gazette.
