TOYAH'S BLOG -
NOVEMBER 2009
Hello my friends,
The universe is sailing full steam
ahead being it's usual miraculous self................Simon Darlow's partner
bought Joseph Sebastian into the world on Sunday the 1st November. On the 3rd
November my friend Tracy Egan bought William into the world and the week before
three close friends delivered another three babies onto the planet.
THE
HUMANS albums one and two have their release dates in Japan now, as does IN THE
COURT OF THE CRIMSON QUEEN. CRIMSON QUEEN is scheduled in Japan for January 2010
and THE HUMANS follow. HUMANS 2 will be recorded in Seattle at the end of March
and ready for release in the early autumn of 2010. As will THE HUMANS LIVE IN
ESTONIA with Robert Fripp.
I'm excited about everything!
The planet Saturn is
in my career chart for the first time in 28 years, the last time it was in this
position was 1981, a very good year indeed!
I finally managed to
see THREE TO TANGO, (which may become THE POWER OF THREE again!)
It was a
grossly uncomfortable thing to experience, seeing a movie that features me in
90% of it, in front of a paying audience. The experience wasn't helped by the
fact I had a small operation on my right hip only 24 hours earlier and I was in
a lot of discomfort. ( I'm now completely back to normal! ) Whenever I see myself, in whatever
context, I need to be alone so I can come to terms with this incredibly short,
limping, lisping, over excited human being I see before me, who bears no
relationship to the person I think I am.
The film works, it
needs a little tweeking in the edit still. It's a great film for women. It's
message is strong and fits the MUMA MIA audience in that it says women in their
50's are just coming into their prime and they should get ready to party with
the rest of their life.
The music in the
film is mainly NEVER THE BRIDE (excellent!) and songs from IN THE COURT OF THE
CRIMSON QUEEN. I'm ok in it, I need to see it again and just SEE the film, not
sit there analyzing every thing and cringing at every move I make. That said
the rest of the cast are fantastic!
VAMPIRES is doing
brilliantly and is as fun as ever. I love the fact that the boys in the band are now
attracting screaming women! Birdy especially. The front row worships
him!
As for me, I'm being
very well behaved and supportive of Nickki Millar, no more tourettes text (these
are text that go through the gammit of obscenity thru to the practical joke!)
just plain good encouragement for someone who will be one of the world's
greatest drummers very soon. Bless him!
Well I lie………… about
being well behaved, I did stick a whole roll of white gaffa tape around the set
last night with obscene messages written upon it so when the lights came up
Nickki had a whole books worth of obscene suggestions to read, all aimed at
him................reams and reams of the stuff!
It made him laugh.
Luckily!
I would like to tell you lots of gossip but I have none! My life
is one constant stream of work, when I am not on stage, which is most nights, I
am with film crews in the daytime. I'm doing a lot of filming for THE ONE SHOW.
Then in the hours in between filming and Vampires going on stage I am with
journalists…………it is endless!
John Wain has become
my full time PA because I could no longer cope with the work load, so he drives,
feeds and gets me to the hotels each day which has revolutionized my life and
has allowed my agents to add more work!!!!!!!!!!!! Luckily John has a personal
life, which he illuminates us all with in the dressing rooms. Seriously he
should write a book because he makes Joe Orton look like Tinky
Winky.
We went shopping in
Chatham last week. Now shopping and Chatham are not two words you'd expect to
see in the same sentence, but I was appearing there and the town has a great
Debenhams and that's where I get my husbands Christmas presents from. I did the
same last year and wasn't put off by the fact I got searched leaving the store
because I had spent so much money. So I didn't expect the same to happen ever
again, because it was blood obvious who I am, the names on the sodding credit
card!
Low and behold,
after spending HUNDREDS!!!!!!!! As we left not only did I get searched but so
did John. Every bag, every receipt painstakingly gone over. It occurred to me
that whilst they so publicly did this they must have had about 10k worth of
goods shoplifted from the store! I will go back again next year, believe it or
not, I enjoyed the experience. Especially john shouting at the top of his voice
“Search me! Search me!”
I might even pay for
a billboard to go up in the town…………VISIT CHATHAMS DEBENHAMS THE ONLY SHOP WHERE
THEY SEARCH BUYING CUSTOMERS!
BE PROUD, BE LOUD, BE HEARD, BE
SEARCHED.
LOVE TOYAH
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