Discussion: Toyah

I got to know her with the film 'Jubilee' in which she played a main role next to Adam Ant. With music from them both, Brian Eno, Chelsea, Siouxsie and the Banshees (a bit) and Wayne County & the Electric chairs it is a quite interesting movie about the future of England where the media has taken control of the country: anarchy, death, sex and desolation.
Through this film Toyah Willcox got into music and in that same year she formed her own band, simply named Toyah.
With her own name she produced fourteen albums, but unfortunately not that consistent. Her music varies from punk, rock, new wave and gothic to pop and extreme commercial, and from experimental, psychedelics, to very smooth and even housemusic. It just might be one of the reasons she's taken not that seriously in music (at least not since her worst album 'Minx').
Nevertheless i loved her in the eighties. Untill the release of 'Love is the Law' her music went through some changes too, but it was in a quite sensible way to understand.
Besides acting and presenting tv-programs she's still making music. But i just can't get a hold on her. Sometimes under the name 'Toyah', sometimes with the name 'Sunday all over the world', with or without her husband Robert Fripp.......So i got all her albums till 'Dreamchild', but after that i gave up.
Albums that are really great: Sheep Farming in Barnet, Blue Meanings, Anthem, The Changeling, Warrior Rock, Prostitute, Ophelia's Shadow, the Lady or the Tiger and Dreamchild. Yet if you get curious: all of these albums sound totally different.

>>By Sanvean


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