Toyah Solo 7CD+DVD box

A new box celebrating Toyah’s career is on its way • Signed set sold out

Toyah’s solo career is to be celebrated in a new box set due next month from Demon.

Toyah Solo mops up the era from 1985 onwards when Willcox signed as a solo turn to Sony’s Portrait Records and then subsequent EG releases, and comprises of seven CDs and a DVD plus a 48 page book. (If you’re a cursory fan and a bit confused and wondering ‘hang on, wasn’t she always solo?’ it transpires that up until then, Toyah was the name of the band she fronted.)

The box charts the Birmingham post-punk lungsmith’s progression from chart star – with hits such as ‘Soul Passing Through Soul’ and her cover of ‘Echo Beach’ – to increasingly experimental artist and back again, and features the six albums Minx (released 1985) Desire (1987), Prostitute (1988), Ophelia’s Shadow (1991), Take The Leap! and Velvet Lined Shell (both 1994) alongside Remixed, Revisited & Rare 1992-98  which contains updates on some of her biggest hits.

There are 44 bonus tracks, including rarities, B sides and collaborations as well as several unreleased tracks. There is also a DVD of promo videos and a bonus new interview from 2019.

Among the extra treats, Toyah has written sleevenotes for each album and there’s an essay about this period penned by Toyah archivist and box-compiler Craig Astley. And the really good news is that Amazon UK have an exclusive edition, limited to 500 units, that comes with a print signed by Toyah (already sold out!).

Toyah Solo will be released 28 February 2020 

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CD1: MINX

1. Soldier Of Fortune, Terrorist Of Love
2. Don’t Fall In Love (I Said)
3. Soul Passing Through Soul
4. Sympathy
5. I’ll Serve You Well
6. Over Twenty One
7. All In A Rage
8. Space Between The Sounds
9. School’s Out
10. World In Action
11. America For Beginners
12. Vigilante

Bonus tracks:

13. Snow Covers The Kiss
14. Kiss The Devil
15. Don’t Fall in Love (I Said) [Extended Mix]
16. Soul Passing Through Soul [Extended Mix]
17. World In Action [Extended Mix]
18. World in Action [Action Mix]

CD2: DESIRE

1. Echo Beach
2. Moonlight Dancing
3. Revive The World
4. The View
5. Moon Migration
6. Love’s Unkind
7. Dear Diary
8. Deadly As A Woman
9. Goodbye Baby
10. When A Woman Cries
11. Desire

Bonus tracks:

12. Echo Beach [12” mix]
13. Plenty
14. Sun Up
15. ReEntry Into Dance
16. Mesmerised
17. Lion of Symmetry – Tony Banks and Toyah

CD3: PROSTITUTE

1. Hello
2. Prostitute
3. Wife
4. The Show
5. Dream House
6. Homecraft
7. Obsession
8. Let the Power Bleed
9. Restless
10. Falling to Earth
11. Jazz Singers in the Trees
12. Vale of Evesham
13. Ghosts In The Universe

CD4: OPHELIA’S SHADOW

1. Ophelia’s Shadow
2. The Shaman Says
3. Brilliant Day
4. Prospect
5. Turning Tide
6. Take What You Will
7. Ghost Light
8. The Woman Who Had An Affair With Herself
9. Homeward
10. Lords of the Never Known

Bonus tracks:

11. Harlequin (Holy Day) with Kiss Of Reality
12. Broken Special (The Island) with Kiss Of Reality
13. Face The Space (Vocal Version) with Kiss Of Reality
14. Symbiotic with Trey Gunn

CD5: TAKE THE LEAP!

1. Now I’m Running
2. Lust for Love
3. Invisible Love
4. Name of Love
5. Winter in Wonderland
6. God Ceases to Dream
7. Ieya (Revisited)
8. Waiting (Revisited)
9. Neon Womb (Revisited)
10. Elusive Stranger (Revisited)
11. Our Movie (Revisited)
12. Thunder in the Mountains (Revisited)
13. I Wanna Be Free (Revisited)
14. It’s a Mystery (Revisited)

Bonus tracks:

15. Requite Me (Demo)
16. Invisible Love (Demo)
17. Waiting (Alternate Mix)
18. It’s a Mystery (Weybridge Mix)

CD6: REMIXED, REVISITED & RARE 1992 -98

1. Tears For Ellie (Demo)
2. God Ceases To Dream (Remix)
3. Poland (One Day On Earth) (Demo)
4. Now I’m Running (Remix)
5. It’s a Mystery (Whispered Elixir Mix)
6. Lust For Love (Demo)
7. Angel (Demo)
8. Rebel Run (Revisited)
9. Good Morning Universe (Revisited)
10. Be Proud, Be Loud (Be Heard) (Revisited)
11. Desire (Revisited)
12. Obsolete (Revisited)
13. Danced (Revisited)
14. We Are (Revisited)
15. Angel & Me (Revisited)
16. Believe In You (Demo)

CD7: VELVET LINED SHELL

1. Every Scar Has A Silver Lining
2. Velvet Lined Shell
3. Little Tears Of Love
4. You’re A Miracle
5. Mother
6. Troublesome Thing

Bonus tracks:

7. Experience
8. Killing Made Easy (with Family Of Noise)
9. In Estonia (with This Fragile Moment)
10. Fallen (with Yomanda)
11. Drinking From The Gun (with Dodson & Fogg)
12. Nine Hours (with Peter)
13. America For Beginners (Nocturne Blue Redux)
14. Toyah Step Into The New World [from Invasion Planet Earth]

DVD

PROMO VIDEOS

1. Don’t Fall In Love (I Said)
2. Soul Passing Through Soul
3. Echo Beach
4. Fallen
5. Sensational
6. Toyah talks about her solo albums