Sparkling set from Toyah closes Devizes Arts Festival
The stage of the Devizes’ Corn Exchange was set for a spectacular performance on Saturday night and Toyah didn’t disappoint. She took the audience, many of whom were lifelong fans, through her back catalogue of hits, including ‘It’s a Mystery’ and ‘I want to be free’. Toyah was 60 earlier this year but you wouldn’t have thought it as she danced and jumped around, wearing a gold dress which sparkled as she moved.
Her performance was even more impressive when she revealed that this was her second gig of the day!
Many of Toyah’s fans have a connection with her which goes back nearly 40 years and they loved every minute of the gig.
It was a night to remember and a fitting end to the main programme of this year’s Devizes Arts Festival.
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Absolutely stunning photos of Toyah from her gig on Saturday at Devizes Arts Festival. Please click on them to view larger versions. (Thanks to Angus | Photos © Angus Turner)
• Take a look at just some of the great Toyah Live photos Angus has contributed to Dreamscape over the years… Amazing! Thanks again to Angus.
A fab weekend of concerts for Toyah: “THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! to everyone who made Minehead, Lets Rock Leeds, Devizes and Bognor the best weekend ever! 4 concerts in 3 days…..bring it on xxx photos courtesy Gail Foster“. Click below to visit Toyah at Twitter.
Two great photos of Toyah onstage at Let’s Rock Leeds yesterday afternoon (below right) and at Devizes Arts Festival (left) last night. (Photos © Devizes Arts Festival / Let’s Rock Leeds Official)
Another busy weekend of concerts for Toyah, with a pair of 80s Weekender shows last night and on Sunday, a visit to Let’s Rock Leeds this afternoon and a band gig on the penultimate day of Devizes Arts Festival this evening. The festival runs from 31st May – 17th June. Toyah’s gig takes place at Devizes Corn Exchange.
Toyah & her Full Electric Band
Saturday 16th June: Corn Exchange: 8:00pm | £20 Standing only
From punk princess to cult stage actress and high priestess of TV, Toyah Willcox is a uniquely gifted performer and an inextinguishable flame. Charismatic, outspoken and impossible to categorise, she is one of Britain’s iconic household names – an award-winning rock legend as well as a much-loved stage/screen actress and music composer. In a career spanning over 35 years she has amassed 13 top 40 singles, recorded 24 albums and toured live across the world.
In this lively and energetic concert with her full live electric band you can expect to hear hit singles Good Morning Universe, Thunder In The Mountains and It’s A Mystery alongside classics Neon Womb, Danced and Ieya.
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Toyah is playing numerous festivals this Summer, including four in the next 10 days – Let’s Rock Norwich (26th May), Mello Festival (27th May), Irlam Live (1st June) and Wychwood Festival (2nd June) – In the upcoming weeks and months Toyah also plays Devizes Arts Festival (16th June), Here and Now Audley End (13th July), Let’s Rock Shrewsbury (14th July), Jack Up The 80s (12th August), Lively and Late (20th October), and also appears at Rewind South as a presenter (18th August). More info on all of these at toyahwillcox.com.
Tickets about to go on sale for Devizes Arts Festival
Tickets for this year’s Devizes Arts Festival go on sale on Monday (23) and chairman Margaret Bryant promise of something to suit everyone is likely to be kept.
The festival which runs from May 31 to June 17 is a unique mix of the sublime to the ridiculous with plenty in between.
The following couple of weeks will keep up the variety but many will be looking forward to welcoming Toyah to the Corn Exchange on the final Saturday (June 16) when the former punk princess will perform in the Corn Exchange from 8pm. In keeping with her punk roots this will be a standing only performance so people can sing and dance along to hits such as Good Morning Universe, Thunder In The Mountains and It’s A Mystery.
Tickets can be booked at devizesartsfestival.org.uk or at Devizes Books.
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Toyah is playing the Devizes Arts Festival in June. The festival has a duration of 18 days, running from 31st May – 17th June. Toyah’s gig takes place on Saturday 16th June at Devizes Corn Exchange.
Toyah & her Full Electric Band
Saturday 16th June: Corn Exchange: 8:00pm |
£20 Standing only
From punk princess to cult stage actress and high priestess of TV, Toyah Willcox is a uniquely gifted performer and an inextinguishable flame. Charismatic, outspoken and impossible to categorise, she is one of Britain’s iconic household names – an award-winning rock legend as well as a much-loved stage/screen actress and music composer. In a career spanning over 35 years she has amassed 13 top 40 singles, recorded 24 albums and toured live across the world.
In this lively and energetic concert with her full live electric band you can expect to hear hit singles Good Morning Universe, Thunder In The Mountains and It’s A Mystery alongside classics Neon Womb, Danced and Ieya.
• Continue reading at the Devizes Arts Festival website.
