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Toyah! (live Album)
''Toyah! Toyah! Toyah!'' is a live album by the English people, English new wave music, new wave band Toyah (band), Toyah, fronted by Toyah Willcox, released in 1980 in music, 1980 by Safari Records. Background The album was recorded on 17 June 1980 at the Lafayette Club in Wolverhampton, using the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio. The concert was also filmed by Associated Television, ATV as part of a TV documentary about the band and its eponymous singer. It aired on 18 December 1980. A live version of "Danced" was released as a single at the end of 1980 to promote the album. ''Toyah! Toyah! Toyah!'' reached number 22 on the UK Albums Chart and number 3 on the UK Independent Singles and Albums Charts, UK Independent Albums Chart, and was subsequently Music recording certification, certified silver in the UK in 1981 for selling more than 60,000 copies. The album saw its first CD release in 1990 on the Great Expectations label. A new remastered version was released on 30 October 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toyah (band)
Toyah was an English new wave band fronted by namesake Toyah Willcox between 1977 and 1983. The only other consistent band member throughout this period was Joel Bogen, Willcox's principal co-writer and guitarist. Background Back in the National Theatre, when she was 18, Toyah Willcox felt that was the right environment for her to work out how to put a band together: the theatre was full of musicians as well as actors. "Through a series of coincidences I just got involved in a punk band and that was purely from asking around y’know 'Has anybody got a band, does anyone need a singer?'" she remembered. First Toyah ended up in a punk band from Golders Green, which used to rehearse at Golders Green cemetery and even did a few gigs there. It was Glen Marks, though, who in 1976 introduced Toyah to a protege who was at his school called Joel Bogen, whom she described later as "a very accomplished musician", by far the most accomplished musician that she had met at that time. With ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |