''Toyah! Toyah! Toyah!'' is a live album by the

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new wave band Toyah, fronted by

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, released in

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Background

The album was recorded on 17 June 1980 at the Lafayette Club in

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, using the

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. The concert was also filmed by ATV as part of a TV documentary about the band and its eponymous singer. It aired on 18 December 1980. A live version of "

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" was released as a single at the end of 1980 to promote the album. ''Toyah! Toyah! Toyah!'' reached number 22 on the

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and number 3 on the

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, and was subsequently 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 2006 via

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. This expanded edition features extra live tracks from 1980 and from the 1982 '' The Changeling'' tour. The latter tracks include those cut from the abridged CD release of '' Warrior Rock: Toyah on Tour'' – albeit taken from a different concert of the same tour. Six of the eight bonus tracks are previously unreleased. The new edition includes an introductory note from

and a sleevenote by her archivist Craig Astley, in addition to rare live photographs. In May 2022, the album was re-released by

, adding four live tracks previously cut from the album, and a DVD with the 1980 ATV documentary.

Track listing

Original release

2022 expanded deluxe edition

Personnel

;Band members *

– vocals & noises *

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– guitar * Peter Bush – keyboards * Charlie Francis – bass * Steve Bray – drums *

Phil Spalding Philip Spalding (born 19 November 1957, London, England) is an English bass player. He is best known as a session musician and player of Fender Precision Bass guitars. He has played and appeared with performing artists such as Mick Jagger, Sea ...

– bass (1982 material only) * Keith Hale – keyboards (1982 material only) * Simon Phillips – drums (1982 material only) ;Production *

Nick Tauber Nick Tauber is a British record producer best known for his work with Thin Lizzy, Toyah and Marillion in the 1970s and 1980s. Nick Tauber continues to manage, produce, and consult with acts/artists/and producers. In the late 1990s, Tauber was in ...

– producer, mixing * Phil Harding – engineer

Charts

Certifications

References

External links

Official audio stream
on

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The official Toyah website
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