Toyah! Toyah! Toyah!
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Toyah! Toyah! Toyah! is a live album recorded by Toyah
Toyah (band)
Toyah is the name of the band fronted by 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 :...

 on 17 June 1980 at the Lafayette Club in Wolverhampton
Wolverhampton
Wolverhampton is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England. For Eurostat purposes Walsall and Wolverhampton is a NUTS 3 region and is one of five boroughs or unitary districts that comprise the "West Midlands" NUTS 2 region...

. The concert was also filmed by ATV
Associated TeleVision
Associated Television, often referred to as ATV, was a British television company, holder of various licences to broadcast on the ITV network from 24 September 1955 until 00:34 on 1 January 1982...

 as part of a TV documentary about the band and its eponymous singer.

The album saw its first CD release in 1990 on the Great Expectations label. A new remastered reissue Toyah! Toyah! Toyah! (Special Edition) was released on 30 October 2006 via Cherry Red Records. 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
Warrior Rock: Toyah On Tour
Warrior Rock: Toyah On Tour is a live double LP recorded on 17 July and 18 July 1982 at London's Hammersmith Odeon at the end of Toyah's 25 date The Changeling tour....

- albeit taken from a different concert of the same tour recorded for "Warrior Rock". Six of the eight bonus tracks are previously unreleased.

The new edition includes an introductory note from Toyah Willcox and a sleevenote by Craig Astley, in addition to rare live photographs.

Original LP & CD

  1. "Victims Of The Riddle" – 3:30 (Willcox/Hale/James/Bogen/Bush)
  2. "Indecision" – 2:35 (Willcox/Bogen/Bush/Henry)
  3. "Love Me" – 3:00 (Willcox/Bogen/Bush)
  4. "Visions" 4.15 (Willcox/Bogen/Bush)
  5. "Tribal Look" – 3:30 (Willcox/Bogen/Bush/Francis/Bray)
  6. "Bird In Flight" – 4:00 (Willcox/Bogen/Bush/Francis/Bray)
  7. "Danced
    Danced (Live)
    "Danced " is the fifth UK single from the post-punk band Toyah, fronted by Toyah Willcox. Their first and only live single, it was released at the end of 1980....

    " – 5:30 (Willcox/Bogen/Bush)
  8. "Insects" – 2:45 (Willcox/Bogen/Bush)
  9. "Race Through Space" – 3:06 (Willcox/Bogen/Bush)
  10. "Ieya" – 8:30 (Willcox/Bogen/Bush)

2006 CD bonus tracks


  1. "Ghosts" (Willcox/Bogen/Bush/Francis)

  2. "Neon Womb" (Willcox/Bogen/Bush)

  3. "Love Me" (Willcox/Bogen/Bush)

  4. "Waiting" (Willcox/Bray)

  5. "Street Creature" (Willcox/Bogen)

  6. "Neon Womb" (Willcox/Bogen/Bush)

  7. "Dawn Chorus" (Willcox/Bogen/Spalding)

  8. "War Boys" (Willcox)


1980 concert

  • Toyah Willcox
    Toyah Willcox
    Toyah Ann Willcox is an English actress and singer. In a career spanning more than thirty years Toyah has had 13 top 40 singles, released 22 studio albums, written two books, appeared in over forty stage plays and ten feature films, as well as voicing and presenting numerous television shows...

     - vocals & noises
  • Joel Bogen
    Joel Bogen
    Joel Bogen is an English rock and punk guitarist. He worked with Toyah Willcox from the late 1970s to 1983 as the guitar player in her eponymous band and was the co-writer on nearly all of the material they recorded. Bogen also produced Heaven, the 1997 debut album of neo soul artist Jai, for M&G...

     - guitar
  • Charlie Francis - bass
  • Steve Bray - drums
  • Peter Bush - keyboards

1982 concert

  • Toyah Willcox - vocals
  • Joel Bogen - guitar
  • Phil Spalding
    Phil Spalding
    Philip Spalding also known as Phil Spalding, is an English bass player. He is best known as a session musician and player of Fender Precision Bass guitars...

     - bass
  • Keith Hale - keyboards
  • Simon Phillips
    Simon Phillips
    Simon Phillips is an English jazz, pop and rock drummer.-Career:Phillips began to play professionally at the age of twelve in his father's Dixieland band for four years. He was then offered the chance to play in the musical Jesus Christ Superstar...

    - drums
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