| 14 March : Retro Toyah - Top
Of The Pops 2 |
 Top Of The Pops 2 dusted
down and aired once more Toyah's second
ever appearance on Top Of The Pops,
from March 1981, last night on BBC2. This
was the Toyah band's second performance
of 'It's A Mystery' on the long running
music show. Steve Wright, Top
Of The Pops 2 host, must be one of
very few people who still thinks cracking
a joke about Toyah's lisp is even
remotely amusing! He used the jibe at the
very start of the show, and again after
the Toyah clip. He introduced Toyah by
saying, "Long before she started
appearing on Give Us A Clue(?!!)
and Through The Keyhole, there was
Toyah!"
 During the clip
the on screen text was: 'Here's someone
else hitting the stages of the nation.
Toyah's on tour with a bunch of 80's
icons, including Adam Ant and those bits
Of Spandau Ballet who aren't related.
Ra-ra skirts and snoods will be de
rigeur.'
The
Toyahtastic blast from the past ended
with silly Steve Wright commenting,
"That was Toyah, 'It'th A Mythtery',
and she was mad. She was using those cool
hair colours long before they were even
invented!".
Top
Of The Pops 2 have a poll going on at
the moment for viewers to vote for their
favourite TOTP performance. Zoom over
& vote for a Toyah clip at
www.bbc.co.uk/totp2
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| 14 March : 'When Rock Ruled
The World' |
 Toyah apeared on
last night's When Rock Ruled The World,
"celebrating the loud appeal of rock
music". Toyah commented,
"When I think of rock I think more
of the look than the music. Every bloke I
knew as a teenager was a rock fan. They
all had the cliched look, the long hair,
the fuzzy sideboards and a bit of a
beard".
Toyah
said of Alice Cooper, "The main
problem was he wrote a song called 'Dead
Babies'!", Hawkwind, "I went to
see Hawkwind when I was 12 and I spent
the whole of the concert running away
from a naked woman", and Black
Sabbath, "Everyone talked about
Black Sabbath playing Birmingham and they
were just stunning. I didn't even know
what Black Sabbath meant but after seeing
them I admit I did go out and buy all
these really rubbishy, crap books on the
occult".
Toyah's
final comment on the show was, "If I
wrote a song about beasts tearing the
limbs and heads off children it would
sell, sadly!".
Next
week's programme is called When
Shoulder Pads Ruled The World, a look
back at the 80's, so it's more than
likely that Toyah will turn up as a
'talking head' on it too.
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| 14 March : 'Love Is The Law'
CD - Latest News |
 It looks like
the names being added to the petition
list has now slowed down considerably.
There is now well over 100 names on there
but I doubt if that figure would have
much effect on persuading Safari that it
could be viable for them to issue a 'Love
Is The Law' CD. I'll keep the petition
online until the end of June so perhaps
hundreds more names will be on there by
then. Someone made an
interesting comment, suggesting that
maybe 'Love Is The Law' could be released
as a limited edition CD at a slightly
more expensive price. I'm sure everyone
who has so far added their name to the
list would be willing to pay a little
extra if it means finally getting an
official 'Law' CD to add to their
collection.
I will
certainly suggest that when I send the
petition. For anyone who hasn't added
their name yet, please click the pic to
go and "do yer bit"! - Thanks:)
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| 14 March - No Liquid News |
At the
weekend the Liquid News website
had Toyah and Adam Ant listed as the
guests on the BBC1 weekly edition of the
show. However on Monday afternoon, just
hours before the show was broadcast, the
guest info changed to Jenny Eclair and
Tess Daly.
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| 14 March : Toyah & Cleo |
| Some
of you may have noticed Toyah cropping up
in various magazines and newspapers as
part of the Cleo advertising campaign
recently. I've even included a few of the
press pics on this News page over the
past few months. Now it seems, according
to last week's Daily Mail, that Toyah
didn't even realise she was being
featured in the Cleo campaign and
certainly didn't give the company
permission to include her. Thanks to Paul Lomas.
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| 14 March : Here And Now |
 This is the latest 'Here And
Now' tour advert, taken from the daily
paper Metro. As mentioned
previously the Brighton gig (18th April)
is now entirely sold Out, and the Glasgow
gig (28th April) has been moved from the
SECC to the Clyde Auditorium.
Hopefully
press coverage will begin in the next few
weeks as it is just over a month until
the start of the tour. Last year's tour
received a fair amount of attention so
here's hoping version two does too.
More
information on the tour can be found @
Dreamscape's Here And Now
Page.
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| 14 March : More TV News |
From
the sublime to the ridiculous! Toyah
appears on Top Of The Pops 2 last
night hollering the fantastic 'It's A
Mystery' accompanied by the cool as ****
Joel Bogen, and the day previously she
was teamed up with Keith Chegwin on Under
Offer on Challenge TV! Talk about
polar opposites. Challenge continues to
show Under Offer every day at 3pm.
Toyah will also be popping up on Mystic
Challenge this morning, at 11pm, on
the channel.
Toyah
was mentioned on a recent Class Of...,
the nostalgia quiz show hosted by Zoe
Ball on BBC2. Apparently one of the
female guests just missed out on the
chance of 'being' Toyah on the the weird
80's kid's pop show The Mini Pops.
Toyah
is doing the voiceover for the current
Marie Curie Cancer Charity adverts on
television.
Thanks Claire Ormrod.
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Toyah was also recently featured
on the front page of Cardiff newspaper
the 'South Wales Echo'. This was an ad
for the paper's Whats On guide and I
think there must have obviously been
something about Toyah in there though I'm
not sure what. Toyah is wearing her
famous spiky collar so at a guess I'd say
it was something linked to the first
'Here And Now' gig that will be taking
place at the Cardiff International Arena
on 18th April.
On Thursday it
was announced that Adam Ant had withdrawn
from next month's 'Here And Now'
nationwide arena tour. 
Toyah guested on Jono Coleman's
Breakfast Show on Heart FM on Friday
morning (15th March). Unfortunately I
didn't hear the interview but a generous
member of the Liquid News
Messageboard (thanks BF) supplied me with
this quote from Heart FM: 
This is a recent
advertising feature that Toyah was part
of for Provamel Soya Milk. 
Well, a very big thanks for the
immediate and positive resonse to the
suggestion of "DREAMSCAPE - A TOYAH
WILLCOX FANZINE". I didn't really
think there would be much interest or
enthusiasm for such a publication in
2002, but as usual I was wrong. 
The 'Here And Now' concert at
the Brighton Centre on Thursday 18th
April has now completely SOLD OUT. This
is the second gig of the tour and has
beaten the Wembley show, rumoured to be
almost sold out months ago, as the first
to shift every ticket.