Dreamscape | The Toyah Willcox Fansite

A special update to In The Fairground: Andrew York’s Arternative Universe. Andrew has just completed the amazing “Anthemscape” and you can view it in the site’s Anthem gallery.

One of the famous “Toyah bonnets” by Gary Price. This was the first one (an MG) from 1981 and, apparently, he did numerous others over the next couple of years. He got stopped by a policeman in the early hours of Christmas Day 1981 while travelling home from the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane ‘Good Morning Universe’ gig and when ‘I Want To Be Free’ was in the charts kids used to dance round the car at traffic lights. By Spring 1982 he was on the dole and working on a portfolio to apply to go to Chelsea Art College. At this time he couldn’t afford to run the car so it was kept in a garage.

By around mid 1982 Gary was working on a third bonnet and was planning another two – he was hoping when they were all complete that there would be a photo session done with Toyah. Unfortunately this didn’t happen. It sounds as though there were various artworks designed for subsequent bonnets. This first one was in loads of magazines (at least eight by early ’82) and on Nationwide and TISWAS!!!

• Click here to view a larger version. (Thanks to Andi | Photo by Tara Nowy)

Five more recent radio interviews with Toyah are now available, as transcripts, over at Lärwi’s fantastic fansite The Toyah Willcox Interview Archive: Radio Eagle, BBC Radio Derby, BBC Radio Leicester, BBC Radio Wiltshire and BBC Radio Humberside. Catch up on all of Toyah’s recent radio interviews and appearances in Dreamscape’s news feed here.