Looking back at Toyah’s magnificent 1981 breakthrough album and its dystopian, rebellious sci-fi concepts.

Looking back at Toyah’s magnificent 1981 breakthrough album and its dystopian, rebellious sci-fi concepts.
Trying to define the most slippery of music trends is a fool’s game – but tracing the connections between various genres is fascinating.
Exploring the extraordinary Sixties French girl singers and their fluffy, disposable and brilliant music.
The Eurovision entries are not entirely representative of a nation’s musical output – here are some stranger, cooler or eccentric variants.
The odd parallel universe of easy-listening cover versions of revolutionary acid rock classics that proliferated in the 1960s.
The oddly forgotten musical recordings by the British cult movie queen.
How a German playboy used the notoriety of being falsely accused of being a serial killer to become an unlikely 1970s celebrity.
A psychedelic, conceptual study of nature and mystery from a unique and vital artist.
A 1978 sci-fi variety show even more unlikely than the Star Wars Holiday Special.
In which introspective, personal studies of human frailty and despair are turned into vacuously bouncy dancefloor bangers, metal misfires and saccharine pop show tunes.
The misplaced egotism of the here today, gone later today pop star.
The once heard, never forgotten recorded works of the unique singer and video producer.