Word In Your Ear

How Toyah & Robert’s kitchen show became an Xmas rock’n’roll ding-dong


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One of our rays of sunshine in the dark days of Lockdown was Toyah and Robert’s Sunday Lunch, fizzing clips of the two of them in their Dorset kitchen, him playing off-brand rock and roll, her singing in extravagant finery, occasionally on an exercise bike. Their version of Metallica’s Enter Sandman got 8.6m views alone. One time they were dressed as bees, another re-staging Swan Lake wearing tutus. This has now flowered into an all-the-trimmings Christmas show with a full rock band touring in December. They look back here at how it started and where it’s ended up, which includes …

 

… the teenage Fripp doing the twist at the Cellar Club, Poole.

 

… Strictly judge Craig Revel Horwood’s reaction when Robert booed him on set.

 

… when the “elite newspapers” declared their kitchen shows were “genius”.

 

… where their two different audiences meet.

 

… plans for an upcoming Fripp memoir and his 1981 King Crimson diary.

 

 … things you find in old boxes in the attic.

 

… how the grumpier end of King Crimson’s supporters regard the “other Robert Fripp”.

 

… what Tony Iommi and Robert Plant thought of their lockdown clips.

 

… and what you can expect from their Christmas Party show – which involves Bowie, Blondie, Neil Young, Slade, Metallica and an inflatable penguin.

 

Toyah and Robert’s Christmas Party tickets here:

https://toyahwillcox.com/gigs/

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Word In Your EarBy Mark Ellen, David Hepworth and Alex Gold

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