Released on Catmachine Music under the band name Family of Noise, the CD single 'Killing Made Easy' features Toyah on lead vocals, and includes two very different remixes; A Shot in the Dark and Lime Pickle. 

Killing Made Easy 
CD single CATCD01 

1. Killing Made Easy 
2. Killing Made Easy (a shot in the dark mix) 
3. Killing Made Easy (lime pickle mix) 

Written by Stranger/Limb/Bartram 

Toyah Willcox: verbals 
The Elusive Stranger: percussion 
Chris Limb: bass, computer, vocals 
Rob Bartram: guitar, vocals 

Numbered limited edition of 500. 

Click on the CD artwork for details on how to buy this, a great addition to your Toyah collection.

BEST OF THE 80S
Playhouse, Edinburgh, October 20

Four of the decade's biggest pop acts reunited for a cracking evening of nostalgia. Curiosity Killed The Cat kicked things off and lead singer Ben Volpierre-Pierrot - wearing one of his trademark silly hats - moonwalked across the stage and jumped into the crowd during Name And Number.

Altered Images' Clare Grogan was up next and her shocking pink frock and girly singing - especially during See Those Eyes and Happy Birthday - took the crowd back to when they were 17 and wearing leg-warmers.

Toyah - decked out in a tasselled, gold-coloured short skirt - still boasts a good singing voice and the men in the audience swarmed to the front of the stage as the 42-year-old belted out I Wanna Be Free and It's A Mystery as she did 20-odd years ago.

Last but not least, Nick Heyward of Haircut 100 performed hits such as Boy Meets Girl and Whistle Down the WInd to end a great trip down memory lane.

by Barry Gordon.

This picture << was taken at the Wolverhampton concert on Tuesday night of this week. That's John (aka Ruby), Nick Heyward's girlfriend Beth, and Toyah onstage.

Click on the pic to visit Dreamscape's 'Best Of the 80s' page, with pics and info from various dates of the tour. Please check back soon for more additions to the 'Best' page, including more pictures from Wolverhampton and Derby.

Many THANKS to John.

This was repeated late last night on the channel.

During the intro to the programme Toyah was shown saying: "I just detested disco!"

Later, commenting on David Bowie, she said: "He just looked gorgeous... He looked like a supermodel... He looked like a woman. It was just absolutely stunning."

And it has to be said she looks lovely in both.

Picture one was taken on Saturday 7th August at the Kremlin club in Befast. Picture two, with Nick Heyward, is from the 'Best Of The 80s' Tour when Toyah visited the Edinburgh Playhouse (Wednesday 20th October).

Click on the pics to view larger versions of both.

Thank you to John for these.

And because I like all you Toyah fans so much I'm saving you the trauma (!! ;o)) of having to plough through the countless pages of ex-Atomic Kitteners and Big Brother housemates to read it...

As well as Toyah, the five-page feature looks at Adam Ant, Bananarama, Kim Wilde, Duran Duran, Nick Heyward, Pepsi and Shirlie, and Spandau Ballet.

As '80s stars on 45 reach the grand age of 50!
WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
Their music defined a decade but how are they doing now that they're decades older?

Back in the '80s, hairspray sales must have gone through the roof. Every strand of hair was teased, coloured, back-combed, gelled and sprayed to within an inch of its life to make sure you achieved that all-important new romantic look. And it wasn't just the girls - the boys weren't shy about getting dressed up and spending hours in the make-up chair.

Though many struggled to replicate their '80s success in the next decade, their music still has an army of fans, as shown by the enormous success of the regular Here And Now and '80s revival tours.

One band that has seen a phenomenal comeback despite all of them being in their forties and fathering 12 children between them, are Duran Duran. With slightly thicker waistlines and a few more wrinkles the hair highlights are still there, even though their clothes are more subdued.

Though many of the '80s stars have been keen to reunite their bands, with varying degrees of success, there are others that are happy to pursue different career paths or just happily live with the memories...

TOYAH: In the '80s it was hard to avoid Toyah, which isn't surprising judging by this picture! Toyah is now an established stage and television performer.

This wild, fiery-haired pop star of the '80s has transformed into an immaculately groomed, sleek, blonde TV favourite and West End performer - and Toyah Willcox is more surprised than anyone. She says: "When I made my name as a singer in the '80s I never guessed I'd end up as a TV presenter."

There was a time when Toyah ruled the pop charts with the likes of It's A Mystery and appeared in seminal rock films Jubilee with Adam Ant, and Quadrophenia with Sting. However following her stint on I'm A Celebrity... last year, she cemented her stage reputation by starring in Calamity Jane in the West End. She is married to guitarist Robert Fripp from the band King Crimson.

Toyah is, reportedly, out-performing herself on each successive night, sounding great, and delighting audiences at each venue. No surprise there then!

Please click on the picture to visit Dreamscape's 'Best Of The 80s' page.

• Very sad news that DJ John Peel has passed away. Toyah appeared with John on Did You See? way back in 1983. She also interviewed him in 2000 for an edition of 'Sacred Spaces', a series included in the Heaven & Earth Show. A great loss to music :o(

• 'Echo Beach' by Martha And The Muffins has, this week, been voted the 6th Best One Hit Wonder of all time. The song was a hit for the band in 1980, and, of course, was a hit for Toyah in 1987 and included on her 'Desire' album. It is also the opening song in Toyah's 'Best Of the 80s' set.

• The fourth series of I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! begins in a couple of weeks on ITV1 and ITV2. Toyah appeared in series two and was the official 'Daily record' columnist for series three. No word yet on whether she will reprise this for the new series.

Please click the picture for another memorable "moment" from Toyah's awesome career.

John Lennon... Elvis Presley... Kurt Cobain... Jimi Hendrix... David Bowie... Bono... the list of musical icons that have thrilled and inspired generations of fans crosses the decades and continues into the 21st century. But who, when push comes to shove, is the greatest? If we were to have a Rock Star Olympics, who'd be taking home the gold medal? 

Well, toss and turn in your sleep no more, because Q and O2 are joining forces to answer those questions and a whole lot more. And we need your help. Q, the UK’s number one magazine for music is teaming up with O2 the Uk's leading network for mobile music content and services to find out who is the most iconic figure in music. Ever! 

Over the next few months, a plethora of contemporary stars, celebrities and general ne'er-do-wells will be pointing Q, O2 and you in all sorts of directions but it's your vote that counts!

1. Simply text ‘QMAG’, a space, then your chosen icons name to 80202, e.g. ‘QMAG TOYAH’ to 80202. 

2.  Email us at this address Qicons@emap.com 

Please click on the image for further info.

Andi Westhorpe has added dozens of caps from a variety of Toyah TV appearances to the delight of many forum members and visitors. The thread can be found in the 'Toyah Titbits' section. Not to be missed!

• SLEEPING BEAUTY: There's also the opportunity at the forum to add your name to join a bunch of fans planning on seeing Toyah's 2004/05 panto in January. Be quick, Merx needs your decision in the next couple of days. The thread can be found in the 'Totally Toyah Talk' section.

• FAME: Toyah popped up on Channel 4 on Sunday evening. She briefly appeared on the UK Music Hall of Fame seventies edition, commenting on David Bowie. [Thanks to Corona].

• BARMY: Don't forget that Barmy Aunt Boomerang is still being shown on BBC2 at least once weekly, very ealry morning!

The item is an invite to Toyah's old home/warehouse, MAYHEM, in Battersea way back on Friday 18th July 1980. 

The occasion was filmed and some of the footage would subsequently be included in the ATV documentary TOYAH in December 1980.

Strong women who have forged their way in male dominated industries were guest speakers at the second annual Unique, Women in Business, conference.

Singer, actress and presenter Toyah and MP for Rossendale and Darwen Janet Anderson were among the speakers at the conference at Ewood Park which drew a 250-strong audience of top East Lancashire businesswomen.

The platinum album selling singer and survivor of "I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here" told the audience how overcoming dyslexia stood her in good stead for dealing with the male music world of the 1980s.

Looking back on a 29-year career, she said she still had a few ambitions, including becoming a bodybuilder and starring in a soap opera, but would never appear in another reality television show. "I have loved every minute of my career and wouldn't change anything," she said. "My only regret is that my dyslexia held me back at school, but I think that helped give me the determination to achieve in other areas." Now working on an educational project to support dyslexic students, she shared her tips for success.

"Always be super efficient, it will give you peace of mind, defy expectations, always show respect and remember to network, network, network," she said. 

Fellow speaker Janet Anderson, the first woman to represent Rossendale and Darwen, entertained with her tales of overcoming practical problems created by a lack of facilities for women in the House of Commons. Jean Meshkat, chairman of Unique, said: "It was a great day. East Lancashire's most successful businesswomen in one place gave us all a great networking opportunity and the chance to share our own experiences. Our speakers gave us an interesting, insight into how they have forged their successes as women in a man's world."

Other speakers included Tricia Calway, the first North West Women's Champion and businesswomen Alwin Thompson and Liz Jackson. Unique was launched by East Lancashire Chamber of Commerce to provide a forum for women in business and to encourage others to set up on their own.

Hardy band of thirtysomethings turn out for tribute to the decade that taste forgot

Small but perfectly reformed

It's a funny thing, nostalgia.

For some the 1980s conjure up grim images of yuppie greed, spiralling dole queues and Little and Large being on TV on a regular basis.

But for others it was a magical era when Live Aid fed the world, the Dons were kings of Europe, and they got their first snog behind the bike sheds.

Howling winds and horizontal rain meant leg-warmers, ra-ra skirts and deeley-boppers were replaced by sensible winter woollies, but a hardy band of mainly thirtysomethings turned out at the Music Hall last night to pay homage to the decade that taste forgot.

"He's older and uglier, but still talented," boomed an unseen voice as Ben Volpierre-Pierrot kicked off the Best of the 80s gig.

In tribute to his host city, the Curiosity Killed The Cat frontman swapped his trademark backwards beret for a tartan "bunnet".

There were gasps when the smoothie singer doffed his hat to reveal a shock of cherubic curls.

"Only kidding," he winked as he chucked the wig to one side exposing his shaven scalp.

Ben may now be a dead ringer for REM frontman Michael Stipe, but he still had the girls screaming as he crooned the hits Misfit, Name and Number and Down to Earth.

Unbelievably, Clare Grogan looked younger than when Altered Images were top of the pops.

The baby-voiced Glaswegian vocalist looked genuinely chuffed to be on stage in Aberdeen.

She beamed: "This is the first time I've sung these songs in front of a Scottish audience in 23 years.

"Last time I was in Aberdeen I fell off stage, so will you catch me if I take a flyer again?"

Dozens of grown men, transformed once again to drooling teenagers, would have been happy to oblige.

By the time Happy Birthday rang out, Clare and the audience were clearly having a ball.

At one point she sighed girlishly: "Ooh, that's gorgeous. You're singing my songs in a Scottish accent."

Not to be outdone, one-time punk princess Toyah Willcox made an entrance to rival her many pantomime appearances.

Striding out in a velvet basque and thigh-high boots she quipped: "Has anyone seen my dress?"

She belted out rocking covers of Echo Beach by Martha and the Muffins and Sweet Child o' Mine by Guns 'n' Roses.

As the audience sang along to her angst-ridden anthem I Want to be Free, Toyah confessed: "I feel a bit of a fraud. I wrote this song when I was 12 and now I'm 46."

The nostalgia night was completed by Haircut 100 frontman Nick Heyward, who had the crowd dancing in the aisles to Love Plus One and Fantastic Day.

Wild applause at the end means it is only a matter of time before the Best of the 90s tour starts snaking round the country.

by Marc Horne

THANKS to Mark Donaldson for providing this.

The site came a very respectable 195th from thousands of music based websites. Not bad, especially considering the confusion of www.toyah.net being unavailable. Thanks again :o)

Please click on the DMA pic to view the Top 500 websites.

A lot of nostalgia tours are thrown together to make a quick buck. In this one the stars deserved their money.

An almost-full Sands was up dancing and singing. That sort of thing just doesn't happen in Carlisle.

Ben Volpeliere-Pierrot of Curiosity Killed The Cat fame kicked off the gig, surprising quite a few as he brought us Back Down To Earth with an impressively strong voice.

Predictably it was Clare Grogan of Altered Images who got the night jumping – spiky, hilarious and scatty, with enormous stage presence.

The music spoke for itself, journeying through Dead Pop Stars, See Those Eyes and the excellent Insects before a raucous rendition of Happy Birthday.

Toyah came out with the sole intention of having fun, treating us to a version of Martha and the Muffins’ Echo Beach and Guns’n’Roses' Sweet Child of Mine before bouncing energetically through her own hits Thunder In The Mountains, I Want To Be Free and It’s A Mystery.

Nick Heyward was a chilled out headliner in comparison, but impressed enough people to have pairs of undies thrown his way, took a couple of phone calls on stage and invited a few fans up to dance through Blue Hat For A Blue Day.

From Boy Meets Girl to Fantastic Day, he was as polished as a brass horseshoe. And just as lucky, judging by the amount of female attention he got.

MARK CAMPBELL
The Cumberland News
22nd October 2004

Their youthful images may have altered but the quality's the same 20 years on

It’s fair to say a lot of nostalgia tours are thrown together to make a quick buck. Not this one.

Sure, there’s money in it for these particular 80s stars, but their quality is still undisputed. In short, they’ve still got it.

That fact was confirmed by the rare sight of an almost-full Sands standing out of their seats, clapping, dancing and singing. This is Carlisle, remember. That sort of thing just doesn’t happen.

Ben Volpeliere-Pierrot of Curiosity Killed The Cat fame kicked off the gig. I'll be the first to admit I thought I'd be heading back to the bar. Not so.

Ben’s voice is still impressively strong. He cuts a neat figure in a sharp suit, even with a bald head, and he surprised a few punters last night.

But predictably it was Clare Grogan of Altered Images who got the night jumping, her sparky Scottish charm still rubbing off on audiences, hilarious and scatty, and with enormous stage presence for such a wee lass.

The music did enough talking by itself, journeying through Dead Pop Stars, See Those Eyes and the excellent Insects (“our Siouxsie and the Banshees phase”) before rounding off with a raucous rendition of Happy Birthday. Not a soul refused to join in.

That set the tone for the rest of the night, and by the time Toyah came out stating she didn’t care she was 46 – she was going to wear precious little and have fun – the crowd were up for it big style.

I've resisted saying it so far, but I'm going to anyway, and risk sounding ancient in the process... they don’t write them like they used to.

MARK CAMPBELL
Cumberland News & Star
16th October 2004

IT'S ALL SO VERY BIZARRE, IT CAN ONLY BE THE 80S

Big hairdos? Check. Dayglo stilettos? Check. Ra-ra skirts? Check.

You guessed it, the decade that taste forgot reared its ugly head again last night, as the Best of the 80s Tour rolled into the Playhouse.

Hard

The acts on the bill were former punk princess Toyah Willcox, Altered Images star Clare Grogan, Ben Volpeliere-Pierrot of Curiosity Killed The Cat fame and Nick Heyward.

Volpeliere-Pierrot kicked off the gig, and the 40-year-old singer had the hardest task of all in warming up the crowd.

A former teen pin-up, he still had the dance moves, and although his voice remains strong, he appeared fairly spaced-out during his 20-minute set.

After sensing the audience wasn't warming to his songs, the lanky six-footer took it upon himself to jump down into the audience to try to rouse the crowd. And when that didn't make any odds, he showed his annoyance by mumbling "there's nothing happening here" and leaving the stage.

But it was nothing compared to the antics of Nick Heyward.

The former Haircut One Hundred frontman wandered on wearing a brown cord jacket and red scarf combo, looking more biology teacher than pop star. He then spent the majority of his time spouting some nonsense about a failed relationship, his bandmates' star signs and dolphins... the oddness of it all was only topped when he held aloft a huge sword and started screaming "freedom".

Fortunately, though, the girls were on hand to restore some sanity to the proceedings.

First up was Clare Grogan of Altered Images, and despite this being her first time on an Edinburgh stage for 23 years, the Scottish singer had the crowd dancing in no time.

Charisma

Her charisma is enormous for such a small lass, and her raucous rendition of Happy Birthday rolled back the years.

Looking 20 years younger in a red Parisian showgirl's costume, thigh-high black suede boots and matching gloves, Toyah kept the tempo high with her upbeat renditions of It's A Mystery, Thunder In The Mountains and Echo Beach, before an unlikely cover of Guns N' Roses' Sweet Child O' Mine showed she still likes to rock.

Listening to the banter from the crowd on the way out, they all seemed to agree that Toyah and Clare Grogan were the stars of this 80s revival show.

As for Nick Wayward and Ben Whatshisname? Couldn't they have gotten Kajagoogoo or Tears For Fears instead?

Gary Flockhart

Toyah played at the Edinburgh Playhouse on Wednesday night for the first time in 22 years, and it has to be said she didn't look or sound any older than she did way back in 1982 on 'The Changeling' Tour. Okay, the outfit might be a million miles away from Melissa Caplan but it does actually work when seen in person. Toyah did look very cute in the kilt she wore for the finale of the show too. 

Ben (Curiosity Killed The Cat), Clare (Altered Images), and Nick Heyward all played to the appreciative crowd but in my, and many other's, opinion Toyah was easily the best thing about BEST OF THE 80s!!

Toyah reminisced about last playing the city all those years ago, and about dislocating her knee onstage in Calamity Jane at the Festival Theatre more recently. She also spoke about how much she was enjoying the tour and spending time with Clare, Nick and Ben.

Ruby joined Toyah, wearing a mini-kilt,, Clare and Nick onstage at the end of the Edinburgh gig for a brilliant singalong rendition of Haircut 100's FANTASTIC DAY. And it was.

Echo Beach
Thunder In The Mountains
Jungles Of Jupiter
Rebel Run
It's A Mystery
Sweet Child O Mine
I Want To Be Free
Fantastic Day

Thanks to John, Merx, Alec and Steven for a fantastically, brilliant day. Please check back soon for some great pix from the Edinburgh show.

While the reality TV generation might know her only as a star of I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here, those with longer memories know better. Toyah Willcox, the punk princess who became an 80s icon, has done it all. 

From acting on the West End to presenting Songs of Praise, she has become a star of stage, screen and concert hall - her unique voice and high-energy performance style winning her the Best Female Singer accolade at the 1983 British Rock and Pop Awards. 

Long before Toyah was a pop star, however, she was an actress. Indeed, by the time she scored her first Top 40 success with the anthemic It’s A Mystery in 1981, the diminutive performer had not only worked with the National Theatre but had also left her mark on the movie world, appearing in Derek Jarman’s seminal punk epic Jubilee and the cult classic Quadrophenia. 

Still, for many, it’s for her music - songs that roused a generation - that Toyah is remembered. As such, it is hard to believe that when the Best Of The 80s concert tour hits Edinburgh next Wednesday and Toyah stands in the wings ready to rock the Playhouse, it will be exactly 22 years since she last bounded on to the very same stage. For Toyah, however, it will be as if she’s never been away. 

"I don’t feel that I’ve stepped away from anything that much to be honest," says the singer who shares the Best Of The 80s bill with Clare Grogan of Altered Images, Ben Volpeliere-Pierrot from Curiosity Killed The Cat and Nick Heyward.

"We’re all reinventing what we did in the 80s. We have the most amazing band, they are great musicians and they are reproducing what we did 22 years ago. I stand in the wings and watch Ben and Clare and Nick and I’m having a f***ing great time."

The Edinburgh gig will be the tenth in a 20-date tour and the 46-year-old, who has lost little, if any, of her youthful enthusiasm and energy, is holding up well, although being back on the road is proving a "novel" experience. 

"I can’t tell you how good it’s going," she says. "I thought that four such diverse artists wouldn’t work, but it’s bizarre. Ben is almost like a soul/reggae artist; Clare is incredibly true to the early 80s with that very off-the-wall contemporary sound; I’m very rock and then Nick is dance, almost. But it’s working well just because we are all so different." 

Birmingham-born Toyah is no stranger to the Capital. The singer first toured here in 1979 with her eponymous band to play the legendary Tiffany’s - a venue she revisited the following year. With their star continuing to rise, Toyah graduated to playing the larger Odeon in 1981, before packing the Playhouse just 12 months later. 

More than a decade later she returned to the city. However, this time it was Toyah the actress who commanded the Festival Theatre in the 1993 national tour of Peter Pan and then in 2000 she made her Fringe debut as Dora Marr in Picasso’s Women at the Assembly Rooms. 

Toyah last visited the city two years ago as tomboy cowgirl Calamity Jane, next week she promises she’ll sport a very different look. "A common statement that has been falling from my lips is ‘as I get older I seem to be wearing less’," she laughs. "I tell you, my outfit . . . I walked on stage on the first night and the audience screamed. I was like a mini-version of Cher but without the long legs." 

The screams were a reaction to her costume which she has described as being a "dinky little number that only needed a metre of material to make." 

"I’ve been starving for a month because this costume has a 20-inch waist," she says. "It’s reminiscent of a little circus girl in Victorian times, except I’ve taken the innocence away and added a little S&M - it leaves nothing to the imagination. 

"I saw it on a transvestite and said ‘I have to have that’. So I went to a costume maker in Manchester who makes clothes exclusively for men to look like women and said: ‘I’m really sorry. I know you have never made a costume for a woman and you don’t know how our busts really go or how our crotches are shaped, but I have to have this costume’." 

As a bonus, just for the Playhouse gig, Toyah will also be wearing a "special" kilt made for her by Edinburgh kilt-maker Howie Nicholsby. It’s just one of a number of surprises planned for the night. 

"We’re supposed to do 35 minutes each, but we are all over-running," she confesses. "We’re doing all our singles. Claire is doing her singles and favourite tracks and I’ve added a Guns and Roses number because I think it’s quite unfair to expect Claire’s or Nick’s fans to sit through songs of mine they might not know, so I’ve added Sweet Child of Mine and the audience go absolutely bonkers." 

Sweet Child of Mine is one of the three musical surprises the singer has planned . . . the other two she’s staying tight-lipped about. 

Perhaps surprisingly, considering her success in the 1980s, Toyah reveals that the last two years of her life have been the busiest. She has performed 446 shows to over half a million people - 11 of these shows were part of the Here and Now Concert Tour where she realised her ambition of playing Wembley before a crowd of 16,000 screaming fans. 

Alongside all of this, last year she took time out to survive 12 days and nights in the Australian jungle for last year’s I’m A Celebrity . . . Get Me Out Of Here. 

Before embarking on the Best Of The 80s Tour last month, Toyah confided to fans reading her website (www.toyahwillcox.com) that she was "straining at the bit to be on the road again." 

"I haven’t been on a tour bus for approximately 18 years and I want to know if I can do it without irritating the do-da out of everyone," she wrote. "Although I do at least four gigs a month, I’m never on a tour bus. 

"This whole concept of being on a bus with your bag of laundry driving until four in the morning and eating chips - I haven’t lived like that for 22 years. You just have to surrender to it and it has novelty value so far." 

And when the Best Of The 80s tour bus pulls into the Capital on Wednesday, Toyah predicts that her 1981 Top Ten hit I Want To Be Free will be the song from her set that drives everyone wild. 

She laughs: "It’s hysterical because here we are singing about schooldays and the whole audience are up on their feet screaming their heads off. I’m also doing Jungle of Jupiter which is mind-blowing but I Want To Be Free somehow turns the whole of my act into a riot."

By Liam Rudden
Edinburgh Evening News
Thursday 14th October 2004

Looking great (this was only recorded last Tuesday), she joked along with host Mark Lamarr, and her team captain Bill Bailey.

For anyone who missed this, it is scheduled to be repeated this coming weekend...

Never Mind the Buzzcocks : BBC2 - Sat 16th October : 11.30pm

HUGE THANKS to Andi Westhorpe for this picture and the page of screen captures that can be viewed by clicking on it. 

This was the final show in which the winners were announced. And they were:

1st - Billy Connolly
2nd - Victoria Wood
3rd - Ronnie Barker
4th - Dawn French
5th - Frank Skinner 

Thanks to Andi Westhorpe for the screen capture.

Toyah also made an appearance on UK TV on Sunday night. This was BBC3's End Of Story.

The BBC commissioned eight best-selling authors from a mix of genres to write the first half of a short story. these stories were then distributed around the country in book form and made available on the BBC website. Anyone over 16 could then write the second half of one of the stories.

Thanks to Dave (aka Corona) @ the Dreamscape Forum. 

Air your opinions on anything and everything Toyah related.

The forum can be accessed by clicking on the logo above or via the main page of Dreamscape. Come on... we're waiting! ;o)

Echo Beach
Thunder In The Mountains
Jungles Of Jupiter
Rebel Run
It's A Mystery
Sweet Child O Mine
I Want To Be Free

Toyah and the other BEST OF THE 80s bands are taking a couple of days off before playing at The Orchard in Dartford this coming Wednesday night, The Olympia in Liverpool on Thursday, Sands Centre in Carlisle on Friday and, rounding off the week, at the Lacy Hotel in Holme on Saturday.

Thanks to John for the info. Thanks also to Elaine (aka Zillah Minx) for the picture of Toyah (taken on the opening night of the tour @ the Corn Exchange in Kings Lynn).

Please click on the picture to view more pictures from the first three nights of the tour, at Dreamscape's BEST OF THE 80s page.

Following the news that Toyah added REBEL RUN to her set-list, there is the "possibility" that another much-loved single could be included sometime during the tour.

What about playing DREAMSCAPE? Pwetty Pwease?

No information on whether RIVER DEEP, MOUNTAIN HIGH, or HANGING ON THE TELEPHONE will be included too.

Please click on the picture of Toyah to visit Dreamscape's new BEST OF THE 80s section. There's a GALLERY of live pictures waiting for you ;o))

Many THANKS to John.

Echo Beach
Thunder In The Mountains
Jungles Of Jupiter
It's A Mystery
Sweet Child O Mine
I Want To Be Free

Last night , at the Marina Theatre in Lowestoft, Toyah added 'Rebel Run' to her set. There is the possibility of more changes as the tour progresses through the UK.

Toyah, Nick Heyward, Claire Grogan (Altered Images), and Ben Vul-avant (Curiosity Killed the Cat) will be at the Corn Exchange in Kings Lynn. Thursday sees the tour bus arriving at the Marina Theatre in Lowestoft, Friday the Assembly Hall in Tunbridge Wells, and Saturday @ the Auditorium in Grimsby.

There is then a four day break before Toyah and co. play at The Orchard in Dartford.

If you are going to any of these intital dates I'd really appreciate any info or pictures that could be added to Dreamscape. Have a great time.

And GOOD LUCK to Toyah, Nick, Claire, and Ben. Have a great tour!

Still on the subject of the tour, Toyah was featured at the 'This Is The Lake District' website and in 'The Westmorland Gazette' last week.

The feature used the same "ra-ra skirts, fluorescent socks" blurb as previous articles have done. And pictured Toyah, via the fantastic Dean Stockings image that is now synonomous with this tour.