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Toyah / Revelations

5CD anthology of B-sides, rarities, etc

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Toyah / Revelations box set

Toyah has announced Revelations, a rarities collection featuring material from the band’s time on Safari Records (1979-1983).

Revelations provides an alternate history of the Toyah Wilcox-fronted new wavers by way of B-sides, outtakes, instrumentals, alternate versions, home demos and live tracks. Record label Cherry Red say that “it has been designed to perfectly complement the album catalogue reissue programme”. Remarkably, given how comprehensive the individual album reissues were, 50 of the 102 tracks on Revelations are previously unreleased. The box has been compiled by by Toyah archivist Craig Astley alongside Joel Bogen, co-founder, composer and guitarist with the band.

This is a 5CD set, in a clamshell box, with each disc in an individual wallet. These are accompanied by a 40-page booklet.

Revelations is a 5CD box set

Disc one collects all of the band’s Safari B-sides (including rarities such as ‘Sphinx’ / ‘For You’ – originally given away on a 7” flexi-disc with Flexipop! magazine). This is the first time these tracks have been collected on one release and is essentially an upgrade of 1984’s 12-track rarities collection Mayhem (though completists will want to keep hold of the 2005 Mayhem reissue as it features bonus tracks not available here).

The second disc consists of 20 instrumentals, six of which are newly mixed from the original multi-tracks. CD3 collects 20 alternate takes and mixes, 13 of which are previously unreleased. CD4 compiles 22 studio outtakes and home demos – again, 13 are previously unreleased. And CD5 features 18 previously unreleased live tracks, including a newly discovered recording of a sold-out Birmingham show from 20 May 1981 – five days after the lease of Anthem.

A 2LP vinyl set is effectively a B-sides only collection, replicating the tracklisting on CD1 of the box set and is pressed on ‘grey smoke’ coloured vinyl.

Revelations will be released on 21 August 2026 via Cherry Red.

Tracklisting

Toyah / Revelations box set

Revelations Toyah /

    • CD1: B-Sides
      1. Gaoler – 2020 Remaster
      2. Tribal Look – 2020 Remaster
      3. Revelations – 2021 Remaster
      4. War Boys – 2021 Remaster
      5. Angels & Demons – 2021 Remaster
      6. Walkie Talkie – 2022 Remaster
      7. Alien – 2022 Remaster
      8. Sphinx – 2022 Remaster
      9. For You (Unfaded Version) – 2022 Remaster
      10. Street Addict – 2022 Remaster
      11. Voodoo Doll – 2022 Remaster
      12. Clapham Junction – 2022 Remaster
      13. In The Fairground – 2022 Remaster
      14. Urban Tribesmen – 2022 Remaster
      15. The Furious Futures – 2022 Remaster
      16. Stand Proud – 2022 Remaster
      17. Warrior Rock – 2023 Remaster
      18. Paradise Child – 2023 Remaster
      19. Laughing With The Fools – 2024 Remaster
      20. To The Mountains High – 2024 Remaster
      21. Baptised In Fire – 2024 Remaster
      22. Haunted – 2024 Remaster
    • CD2: Instrumentals

      CD2 Instrumentals

      1. Revelations (Instrumental) *
      2. Angels & Demons (Extended Instrumental) *
      3. The Door Is A Whore (Early Instrumental)
      4. Walkie Talkie (Early Instrumental)
      5. For You (Early Instrumental)
      6. Masai Boy (Early Instrumental)
      7. Alien (Early Instrumental)
      8. Street Addict (Early Instrumental)
      9. Voodoo Doll (Early Instrumental)
      10. In The Fairground (Extended Instrumental) *
      11. Good Morning Universe (Extended Instrumental) *
      12. Castaways (Early Instrumental)
      13. The Druids (Early Instrumental)
      14. Angel & Me (Early Instrumental)
      15. The Packt (Early Instrumental)
      16. Life In The Trees (Early Instrumental)
      17. Dawn Chorus (Early Instrumental)
      18. Brave New World (Early Instrumental)
      19. Laughing With The Fools (Instrumental) *
      20. Dreamscape (Alternate Instrumental) *
    • CD3: Alternate
      1. Watch Me Sane (Chappell Session) *
      2. Computers (Chappell Session) *
      3. Problem Child (Chappell Session) *
      4. Last Goodbye (Alternate Mix) *
      5. War Boys (Extended Version) *
      6. It’s A Mystery (Extended Version) *
      7. Revelations (Alternate Vocal)
      8. I Am (Acoustic Version)
      9. I Want To Be Free (Early Version) *
      10. Thunder In The Mountains (Early Version) *
      11. Voodoo Doll (Early Version) *
      12. In The Fairground (Extended Version) *
      13. Angel & Me (Early Version) *
      14. Paradise Child (Early Version)
      15. Run Wild, Run Free (Early Version)
      16. Castaways (Early Version)
      17. Brave New World (Razzmatazz Mix) ^
      18. Street Creature (Razzmatazz Mix) ^
      19. Broken Diamonds (Early Version) *
      20. Dreamscape (Alternate Version) *
    • CD4: Rare
      1. New Track #2 (Instrumental Outtake) *
      2. Eyes (Instrumental Outtake) *
      3. Problem Child (Chappell Instrumental) *
      4. Watch Me Sane (Chappell Instrumental) *
      5. Last Goodbye (Alternate Instrumental) *
      6. Computers (Chappell Instrumental) *
      7. It’s A Mystery (TOTP Version)
      8. Japan (Instrumental Outtake)
      9. Television (Instrumental Outtake) – 2026 Remaster
      10. Dropped Earring (Instrumental Outtake)
      11. Clapham Junction (Instrumental Outtake)
      12. Warnings (Instrumental Home Demo)
      13. High Times (Instrumental Home Demo)
      14. Frustration (Instrumental Home Demo) *
      15. Are You Okay (Instrumental Home Demo) *
      16. Power (Instrumental Home Demo) *
      17. Harry Music (Instrumental Home Demo) *
      18. Decorating (Instrumental Home Demo) *
      19. Moods (Instrumental Home Demo) *
      20. I Explode (Home Demo) *
      21. School’s Out (Home Demo)
      22. Perfect Day (Home Demo)
    • CD5: Live
      1. War Boys (Live, Birmingham Odeon 20.05.1981) *
      2. Victims Of The Riddle (Live, Birmingham Odeon 20.05.1981) *
      3. Race Through Space (Live, Birmingham Odeon 20.05.1981) *
      4. Obsolete (Live, Birmingham Odeon 20.05.1981) *
      5. Insects (Live, Birmingham Odeon 20.05.1981) *
      6. Marionette (Live, Birmingham Odeon 20.05.1981) *
      7. We Are (Live, Birmingham Odeon 20.05.1981) *
      8. Jungles Of Jupiter (Live, Birmingham Odeon 20.05.1981) *
      9. Waiting (Live, Birmingham Odeon 20.05.1981) *
      10. Neon Womb (Live, Birmingham Odeon 20.05.1981) *
      11. It’s A Mystery (Live, Birmingham Odeon 20.05.1981) *
      12. Danced (Live, Birmingham Odeon 20.05.1981) *
      13. I Want To Be Free (Live, Birmingham Odeon 20.05.1981) *
      14. Indecision (Live, Birmingham Odeon 20.05.1981) *
      15. Voodoo Doll (Live, Dublin RDS 26.11.1981) *
      16. In The Fairground (Live, Amsterdam Paradiso 11.12.1981) *
      17. Life In The Trees (Live, Brixton Fairdeal 16.06.1982) *
      18. Be Proud Be Loud (Be Heard) (Live, Lancaster University 10.12.1982) *
      * Previously unreleased
      ^ Previously available on vinyl only

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