#punk 12th doctor

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Hello 12th Doctor enjoyers, dinner is served

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[eminentsleet388]

CAPALDI CAPALDI CAPALDII !!!!!????? HOW DID I ONLY JUST DISCOVER THAT CAPALDI FRONTED A PUNK BAND THIS SONG IS GENUINLEY SO AMAZING SCREAMSSS

[allloudontheeasternfront]

" flamin' eamonn "

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Call me Nova (or Star if you want)

Fandoms I'm in:

Doctor who

Red Dwarf

My little Pony

Deadpool

South Park

Bojack Horseman

Scott Pilgrim

Helluva Boss

Hazbin Hotel

brooklyn 99

Music I like:

Hip hop

Rap

Nu metal

Death metal

Punk

Hobbies:

Drinking (alcohol)

Smoking (nic and grass)

Drawing

Reading (only comics tho)

Watching Cartoons [NO.1 CARTOON ENJOYER]

Extra:

I ship Rimster all the way

I'm going to start watching more anime I think

DMS OPEN AND STUFF !!

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(I say a lot of inappropriate and offensive stuff)

Languages- English and a lil Spanish

[diaryofsongs]

the lack of punk!characters in doctor who is unsettling. i mean we only got ONE punk dude and unsurprisingly its the doctor themself. where are the goth-rocknroll-skater-all-black-eyeliner-leather-wearing besties :( who get to bond with twelve on their music taste :((

[junogears2]

Me and the loves of my life, 12th and River just because

[blackstarregulus79]

Here me out, the 12th Doctor in this t shirt:

Etsy link to the t shirt:

[denimbex1986]

'With “The Giggle” finally hitting Disney+, the three David Tennant-centric Doctor Who specials have come to a close, with surprising and spoilerific results. We’ve known for ages that Neil Patrick Harris was playing a new incarnation of a 1966 1st Doctor villain, The Celestial Toymaker, but until now, nobody knew how that was going to play out. And of course, there’s the whole question of the 14th Doctor’s surprising regeneration. With deep dives into recent lore, the return of Mel (Bonnie Langford) from the 6th and 7th Doctor eras, “The Giggle” will give fans plenty to talk about for a very long time to come.

But, squeezed into all of this was one very telling line from the 14th Doctor, a kind of revelation we’ve heard before, but that truly helps to contextualize the more contemporary Doctors as being very different from the 1st Doctor, William Hartnell, for one crucial reason. Just because the 1st Doctor appears to be a literal grandfather, that version of our eponymous Time Lord is among the youngest, and least-wise of all our Doctor Who incarnations...

As Donna and the Doctor are trying to escape the domain of the Toymaker, the Doctor vaguely recaps the events of “The Celestial Toymaker.” As the Doctor explains, he allowed the TARDIS to slip into a “hollow beneath the under-universe,” which brought him in contact with the Toymaker. Interestingly, in the context of the original serial, this wasn’t the Doctor’s first meeting with the Toymaker; and that vague origin has never been outright depicted on screen. But, the more interesting revelation here is the way the Doctor talks about the events of “The Celestial Toymaker.”

“When I was young I was so sure of myself, I made a terrible mistake,” the Doctor says. Now, if you didn���t know he was talking about a William Hartnell-centric adventure, your mind might call up a vague younger version of the Doctor, perhaps even one of those secret “Timeless Children,” versions. But that’s not at all what the Doctor means here. He means Susan’s Grandfather, the 1st Doctor, the grumpy, gruff stick-in-the-mud. And the idea that gets reinforced here is fairly simple: The elderly Doctor was, in fact, the youngest and most immature version of all the primary incarnations we’ve seen.

Meanwhile, the more conventionally youthful Doctors — including the incoming Ncuti Gatwa — are considerably older than the Hartnell Doctor, meaning, they’re infinitely wiser and less immature. Part of this comes from more experience, but it also comes from the fact that the newer Doctors are, for lack of a better term, simply more Doctor-ish. Over the years, the Doctor has become more of themselves through a variety of critical points.

In “The Giggle,” the 14th Doctor mentions that he is “a billion years old,” which is significantly older than he was back when Donna first met him in “The Runaway Bride,” at a time which the Doctor usually cited his age as somewhere in the 903 range. Is the 14th Doctor counting all the time the 12th Doctor (Peter Capaldi) spent in the confession dial? Are we also adding in all the missing years from the time of the Fugitive Doctor (Jo Martin), and other “Timeless Child” or “Brain of Morbius” Doctors who have had their pasts erased?

In a way, whether they’re a few thousand years older than the Hartnell Doctor, or a few billion, it hardly matters. The newer Doctors are simply much older and smarter than the older ones. Just because William Hartnell or Patrick Troughton might seem like senior citizens compared to Jodie Whittaker or Ncuti Gatwa, the reality is those classic Doctors are the young punks. Those are the Doctors who made the mistakes and messed up space and time, and various galaxies. In this way, the story of the new incarnations of Doctor Who isn’t about a Time Lord’s constant quest to look young. Instead, it’s all about undoing our preconceived notions of what a responsible hero should look like, and realizing the one that looks the most like a revered elder, is also the person who was likely the most reckless.'

[artistmarchalius]

@icarlydotorg

Ooh, that’s a difficult question to answer since we don’t know much about Hobie aside from his punk nature, his morals and the fact that he seems to be a dork (affectionate) like most Spider-Men tend to be. It’s also difficult to answer without knowing any of your personal headcanons.

HOWEVER, I do have at least one suggestion for you. It’s gonna sound basic, but I think Doctor Who might be a good contender and I have a few reasons why:

It’s a beloved British show that is a pretty big part of our television culture. I know Hobie is a non-conformist and wouldn’t enjoy how big or popular the series is (or how marketable it is), but if you think he would have seen at least a few episodes growing up then it might hold positive memories for him. Even if he didn’t watch it or like it, it’s such a big part of British popular media that he would at least have a passing knowledge of it.

Peter Capaldi, who played the 12th Doctor, used to be the lead singer/guitarist of punk band The Dreamboys, so there’s that. I don’t really know much about The Dreamboys so I have no idea where it falls on the punk-scale.

The Doctor is all about helping people, from saving the universe to aiding a single person just because it’s right. Also, Timelords (the Doctors people) were very strict about not interfering with other planets and people, having a strict “observation only” policy, which the Doctor, being a renegade, pretty much completely ignores because he doesn’t agree with it and wants to right the wrongs he and his people committed. I would think if a younger Hobie saw any of this, he might have subconsciously internalised some of these beliefs/messages, potentially influencing his rebel and Spider-Man nature.

Hobie is a dork, as mentioned above, and a science/inventor one at that (I’m assuming since he built a dimension hopping watch out of scraps he stole). A lot of dorks like Doctor Who and in speaking from experience. Plus creating a dimension hopping watch is very sci-fi.

And my personal favourite point: according to Wikipedia, this version of Spider Punk comes from Camden. There’s a boot shop in Camden (apparently one of the oldest in the world, traced back to 1851!) that is famous for being one of the first (if not THE first!) retailers to sell Doc Martens. It’s a family business and in the late 1970’s was a big part of the “swinging London" scene and was popular with subcultures, including punks. My personal headcanon is that Hobie got his boots from this shop. And in the window of the shop is a little Dalek (one of the main antagonists from Doctor Who).

However, an argument against this would be that Doctor Who is broadcast by the BBC, which I think Hobie would be against due to their apparent lack of impartial and objective journalism, as well as the fact that you have to pay a TV licence fee to access BBC iPlayer. Also I’m not saying Hobie would be a DW super fan or anything, he’d probably be a casual fan. But if you agree with my assessment then that’s up to you.

I also think it would be cute if he watched the Shaun the Sheep show with Mayday. Because let’s face it, Shaun is a rebel and Hobie would want to nurture that behaviour.

[hopdenerd]

Punk 12th redraw

Sorry for being dead

[cauldronofmorning]

top 5 male characters

Again in no order:

Jimmy McGill. the man is seven characters (yes amplified personality traits, but each one is different) in a trench coat, I would literally kill for him. Me and Kim are the same person.

(honorary mention to Chuck for making me want to strangle him and cry on his dumb cardigans at the same time, tragic abusive fucker)

Kendall Roy. plastic Jesus, would rather drown himself to escape in a mimicry of taking responsibility, and doesn't know how to exist if people don't need him.

actually Albert Rosenfield as the only man in Twin Peaks who doesn't project on Laura and recognises BOB as the evil that men do/the cycles of abuse, and not just a get out of jail free card. (I do have sympathy for Leland! he got abused too! but BOB preyed on his urges and it's not just BOB bad/Leland good)

11th Doctor for being the fairytale hero and monster all at once and the 12th Doctor for best character development from prickly asshole to punk grandpa.

Withnail. He's gay and doomed, how can I not.

[vellichordragon]

doctor who catch-up talk; spoilers may be present for people still watching through nu-who. be warned! (12th doctor era)

my partner and i are just about at the end of our time with the 12th doctor as we play catch-up with the show, and i am going to miss him so much. i love his willingness to call out human-centric thinking, capitalism, bigotry etc.

he kind of gives me punk rock grandpa vibes and that's who i'm trying to become as i get older.

but now i don't want him to leave even though i'm super excited for jodie and it's gonna be so hard to say goodbye

but the sooner we catch up, the sooner i can watch the specials and look forward to lots of delightful ncuti gatwa doctor and that's all going to be fucking wonderful. i'm so happy to be back in this fandom.

also i love missy so much. i am pretty sure she "dies" in the next episode for us because I kinda spoiled it, but i'm gonna miss her to death too. i'm gonna miss her feral energy but i also wish they continued with this unconventional healing journey she's on instead of killing her and making her attempt to reconcile be a "mistake" for the master/mistress character.

like, seeing her express genuine emotions and want to connect with the doctor so desperately honestly made me tear up so much. it hit me close to home. wanting to make it up to someone from your past and be friends with them again is hard. it hurts. it's work. and sometimes it doesn't go well in the end and you don't reconnect.

AND THE WAY HE HELD HER HANDS. AND THEN PULLED BACK. AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH. MY FUCKING HEART.

ok. i'm cool. i'm good.

and i absolutely maintain that missy x 12 is an extremely queer ship

don't fucking @ me i am RIGHT and you KNOW IT /lh

[whatilistenedtoatwork]

From June 12th to June 16th, 2023

12-06-23

LOU REED “Berlin”; ED ALLEYNE-JOHNSON “Purple Electric Violin Concerto”; WILSON PICKETT “I’m In Love”; THE COUP “Kill My Landlord”; LEONARD COHEN “Songs Of Love & Hate”; DIZZEE RASCAL “Maths & English”; WILSON PICKETT “Hey Jude”; KINKS “Live At The Hippodrome, 1974”; SAM COOKE “Hits Of The 50’s”; NED’S ATOMIC DUSTBIN “Godfodder”

13-06-23

ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA “Face The Music”; THE SMITHS “The Queen Is Dead”; THE FALL “Grotesque (After The Gramme)”; SUPER FURRY ANIMALS “Fuzzy Logic”; CAN “Tago Mago”; MARVIN GAYE & KIM WESTON “Take Two”; JUDAS PRIEST “Sad Wings Of Destiny”; JURASSIC  5 “Quality Control”; SCARFACE “Mr. Scarface Is Back”; MARTHA REEVES & THE VANDELLAS “Heat Wave”; BOBBY WOMACK & J. J. JOHNSON “Across 110th Street”; SPIN DOCTORS “Turn It Upside Down”; MORRISSEY “Your Arsenal”

14-06-23

JAMIROQUAI “Synkronized”; COLDCUT “What’s That Noise?”; BOBBY WOMACK “Understanding”; THE ROERT CRAY BAND “Bad Influence”; TALKING HEADS “Remain In Light”; OZZY OSBOURNE “Speak Of The Devil”; GARBAGE “Garbage”; SAM & DAVE “Soul Men”; JULIANA HATFIELD “Hey Babe”; NIGHTMARES ON WAX “A Word Of Science: The First And Final Chapter”; RICHARD & LINDA THOMPSON “Shoot Out The Lights”

15-06-23

STEPHEN MALKMUS & THE JICKS “Pig Lib”; OTIS REDDING “Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul”; ESTELLE “The 18th Day”; SQUAREPUSHER “Big Loada”; FONTELLA BASS “The New Look”; DINOSAUR JR. “Bug”; AL GREEN “Let’s Stay Together”; JAMES BROWN “Sex Machine”; UNDERWORLD “Second Toughest In The Infants”; NIGHTMARES ON WAX “Carboot Soul”; GORKY’S ZYGOTIC MYNCI “Bwyd Time”; THE JAMES TAYLOR QUARTET “The Money Spyder”; THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND “Brothers & Sisters”

16-06-23

BUD POWELL “The Amazing Bud Powell: Vol. 1”; DIANA ROSS & THE SUPREMES “Let The Sunshine In; ROTARY CONNECTION “Aladdin”; DAN FOGELBERG “Souvenirs”; CHARLES MINGUS & HIS JAZZ GROUPS “Mingus Dynasty”; OTIS REDDING “Pain In My Heart”; COUNTING CROWS “This Desert Life”; FUTURE SOUND OF LONDON “ISDN”; DAFT PUNK “Human After All”; COLDCUT “Let Us Play”

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LIFE AND TIMES WITH VANESSA FELTZ BBC1, 2000

VANESSA (voiceover) : From punk rocker to Shakespearean actress, distinctive sounding singer to religious programmes presenter Toyah Willcox has had a surprisingly varied career. Toyah was born in 1958 into a middle class family in Birmingham and  had a difficult start in life TOYAH: When the midwife delivered me, apparently the first thing my mother said “is everything there?” and the midwife said “yes ... but” because the right side had developed and the left hadn't so it was just overdeveloped. I had longer legs, longer arms. Clawed feet So everything was turning in like that (twists her arms) and a twisted spine, but relatively easy to deal with. I apparently went into plaster for six weeks. That was to set the spine and the legs. And then when all that came off, it hadn't worked. So it started 10 years of physiotherapy which my mother was taught to give me VANESSA: It's quite amazing to hear somebody describe themselves as non-perfect. I think most people don't even have to grapple with the concept of whether they're perfect or not. They just are 

TOYAH: I wasn't aware of it until I went to school and then I became known as Hopalong. Because of the gate how I walked and also because my speech impediment was very, very bad then. I could hardly speak at all. And apparently my tongue used to hang out of my mouth, which was comical. So people were very, very cruel and it was only when I was with other children that I was aware of my imperfections. Otherwise, I was quite happy (laughs) VANESSA: What you are as a little kid, who, as you say, is not quite perfect and of course you were, as I suppose could have only been expected, quite badly bullied at school 

TOYAH: I was badly bullied, but I was an incredible tomboy. I've always loathed being a girl. My fight against gender started very early. So at school I was incredibly boisterous. I was the one who was always breaking bones, always smashing my teeth I can remember, at the age of five, climbing a climbing frame in pouring rain, mud below me and tight rope walking this climbing frame. I came off it, smashed my nose, smashed my teeth and then started to play with the blood. I really was a very weird kid. And I think even though people bullied me they were slightly wary of me VANESSA (voiceover) Even at a tender age Toyah was starting to rebel against society's views of what the future held for her as a woman TOYAH: I was brought up in a time when women had expectations about their future forced upon them. And I loathe every angle of those expectations. Marriage, children. If you're lucky you could be a secretary, or you may go to university and be a doctor, but you would retire and have children and you would settle down and you'd run the house. I'd rather be dead than have any of those things 

VANESSA (voiceover) 1970: Toyah’s mother was taken into hospital with a serious illness TOYAH: It was my 12th birthday. I got out of bed and no one could find her. She she wasn't in the house, which was completely unusual because she always drove me to school - otherwise I wouldn't go. And she always made us breakfast. She’d disappeared. Couldn't find her VANESSA (voiceover) Toyah’s mother feared that she was dying and didn't want the children to see her in such pain TOYAH: I got a phone call at the school. The headmistress called me into the office to tell me that my mother was possibly going to die. She'd been found hiding under my brother's bed where her bladder had burst because of a gallstone. Imagine the pain! So I wasn't allowed to visit her even though I was told that she was dying. And within the month or two months she was away I changed. I changed radically 

By the time my mother got back she was unrecognisable. She'd probably gone down to about six and a half stone. Clothes were just hanging off and I walked in the house and dad came out of the kitchen and said “there's someone here to see you”. And Mum walked out and I really really wanted to hug her and I didn’t and that was the end of our relationship for a long time VANESSA: Have you hugged her since? (Toyah shakes her head) Why not? 

TOYAH: Umm … Not a hugging family. There's big barriers. (Toyah’s visibly upset) But we know we love each other. (Above, Toyah with her dad Beric and brother Kim) VANESSA: So at this point punk arrives on the scene. For you it must have been a gift from heaven because it must have been all you were looking for in some kind of rebellious expression TOYAH: It was fantastic because the first time in the world I realised that wasn't alone. I went to a club, I went to “Bogarts” - this was in Birmingham and I heard that the Sex Pistols were playing. I thought never heard of them but I'll go anyway and I walked into this club and there were 300 people in this club that all looked like me VANESSA: How did you look at the time? TOYAH: I had black hair but I had green and yellow at the front and the back was all yellow. So I was very punky and I was dressing in bustbin liners and I had a little kind of Andy Pandy (a 1950's children's TV series) suit which I dyed black and I was wearing that and up until this point I'd be laughed at in the street, buses wouldn't stop for me and taxes wouldn't take me home

VANESSA: Explain the appeal of something which is so, on the face of it, unattractive and repellent TOYAH: I disagree! VANESSA: Unappealing! TOYAH: I just I thought I looked really beautiful VANESSA: Oh, you thought you looked gorgeous? TOYAH: Yeah, I thought it was the best way I could look. And up until that point I'd always wanted to look different because I felt different. My expression of punk was I wanted to show how I was feeling internally - that I didn't feel part of the norm. I didn't feel part of everyday life. So I wanted to express it. And this gave me a licence to do it and I did it with a vengeance and I felt extraordinarily beautiful What I liked about this was it made the kind of gender statements that I have been desperate to make all the time. And that was I am not a woman. I am not a man. I am a person and it works 

VANESSA: It's around this time in your teens that you become involved with the Old Rep Theatre and do you start thinking "I want to be an actress" yet? Have you sort of always had that thought? TOYAH: I knew I wanted to act and sing the first time I saw "The Sound Of Music" with Julie Andrews running up that hill in that opening sequence. When I started the Birmingham Rep Theatre School I was 14. I started going Friday evenings for my dancing lessons. Saturday morning for drama I knew exactly what I wanted by then and I wouldn't be swayed. Even a visit to the careers officer when I was 15 - I sat down in the office and she said “what do you want to be?” and I said “I'm going to be an actress and I'm going to be a singer.” And she said “yes, of course” and then put some leaflets about nursing in front of me. I just left the room and I said “just remember my name because one day everyone will know it” VANESSA (voiceover) 1975: Toyah left school with one O-level and started full time at drama school and she soon got a job as a dresser to actress Sylvia Syms TOYAH: I loved it.  I'm very good at being subservient in a perverse sort of way. As soon as I walked into Sylvia Sym’s dressing room on the Monday - she was on tour, she arrived at the Alexandra Theatre in Birmingham and I walked in and I said “is there anything I can do for you, Miss Syms?” and she said “oh, I was starving!” So I went off and got her a sandwich and I said “when do you like your cup of tea? And how do you like it?” 

So she always had a cup of tea at the beginning of the show, in the middle of the show and then at the end, and it was absolutely fine because I had the privilege of standing in the wings watching her work, which taught me more than any theatre school could ever teach me. I loved dressing. I dressed Simon Williams, Sylvia Syms, the whole of Dad’s Army, which was a difficult experience because I was madly in love with Ian Lavender, who would not wear clothes when I was in his dressing room. So that was my first experience of lust VANESSA: There must have been something remarkable about you. I mean obviously there is because you were a dresser and suddenly you're kind of discovered. Somebody sees you and realises that you're not just going to be a dresser. You're going to be an actress 

TOYAH: I was paying my way through drama school by dressing and also doing extra work. My very first day’s extra work at Pebble Mill BBC I made £12. And it was on a retro play about a 1950s rock band with Kate Nelligan starring in and all I had to do was sit at the cafe table watching the band. But little did I realise that everyone was watching me. And I was getting all the close ups in the scene even though I didn't have to talk So the next day I get a call at the theatre school from a director who'd heard about me and wanted to meet me. He was called Nick Bicât and he was trying to cast a young girl in a play. The story was this young girl wanted to appear on Top Of The Pops so badly she breaks into the studio. So Nick came to the drama school to see me and that was it. I got the part, a lead in play ("Glitter", above) VANESSA: Just like that TOYAH: Just like that VANESSA: I know the drama school kept saying “no, audition all the others” -

TOYAH: Yeah, they refused to tell Nick who I was. And they refused to let him see me singly because I wasn't the best student. And so Nick came. He knew who I was immediately. He said I just stood out in the crowd and I went down to London and auditioned but he just knew I'd got the part A clip of “Glitter” plays TOYAH: A wonderful irony from this was that when it showed on telly three months later, Kate Nelligan was watching it, not knowing who I was and that I'd been an extra that day in her play. And she said to Maximilian Schell, who was directing at the National Theatre - “that girl has to be in our play” So I was called down to the National Theatre and joined the company. I was the youngest member of the National Theatre Company in 1976 VANESSA (voiceover) Offers of work flowed thick and fast for Toyah. Derek Jarman cast her in the role of “Mad”, a pyromaniac in his punk film “Jubilee”. And in sharp contrast, she worked opposite Katharine Hepburn in the film “The Corn Is Green” 

1979 was the year that Toyah played the part of “Monkey” in the film “Quadrophenia”, and on television the part of “Sal” (in "Quatermass") TOYAH: When I got “Quatermass” I was finishing off “Quadrophenia”, so I was night shooting “Quadrophenia” and day shooting “Quartermass”. So I actually got pneumonia halfway through that. Sir John Mills was in it and I was playing this kind of tribal love child who was wanting to go to another planet in a spaceship

VANESSA (voiceover) Despite her success as an actress what Toyah really wanted was to be famous for her music. She formed a band but the rock and roll lifestyle took its toll on her health TOYAH: I formed the band and I realised that if I wasn't sexually attractive to the audience, I wasn't going to be doing the band any favours VANESSA: Through your teens you did balloon and get quite potch TOYAH: Yeah. When I was 20 I was a good three stone heavier than I am now. Purely I think because I was lonely, therefore rather than doing what normal people do at night I was eating VANESSA: Was it an effort to to lose weight ultimately? TOYAH: I started taking diet pills but I've taken them recreationally. You could buy them in the bags and just you know, pop them away. And it would mean I'd go on average three days without eating, have a meal, three days about eating, have a meal

Why I'm still alive I think is a miracle. Because I was taking about five of these really strong amphetamines a day and not sleeping. Drinking an awful lot of alcohol to try and come down from it. And I went from being about 11 and a half stone - and I'm only five foot tall - to being seven stone I was just a person of extremes and I do have an addictive nature. I like my habits. I like extremes. I like danger. I'm a real adrenaline junkie. So the whole attraction of popping amphetamine and frightening living daylights out of people because I’d do the most stupid things like climb roofs, climb cranes, steal cars. (It was a) really mad time in my life VANESSA (voiceover) 1981 was the year that propelled Toyah to stardom with her first hit “It's A Mystery”. Finally her childhood dream became a reality TOYAH: It was heaven. The day before, just lounging in the bath at midday, and the phone rang and it was the record company saying “you're on Top Of The Pops tomorrow” and I said “how?! Why?!” And they said “It's A Mystery" has gone straight into the Top 40” I was like “nooo!” (pulls a face) because I hated “It’s A Mystery” 

I thought it was the worst song I've ever recorded. And they said “no, it's true.” And when I turned up, at BBC Wood Lane … oh, I was just so excited! I can't tell you how wonderful it was. And in retrospect, it was probably the most boring day of my life. You just sit around in the dressing room all day and then do your song I was bullied about everything … Everyone ridiculed me for saying I wanted to sing. Here ... I had the flag and I was putting it on top of Everest for the first time. It was fantastic! (Below, performing "It's A Mystery" on Top Of The Pops 19.2.1981) 

VANESSA (voiceover) In 1983 things went from strength to strength for Toyah. Her music career was booming and her fame began to escalate TOYAH: “It’s A Mystery” moved me into the league which was commercial success and being an international name. And not being able to drive down any road without seeing posters with my face on in every shop window VANESSA (voiceover) Just when she thought it couldn't get any better she was offered a part alongside Sir Laurence Olivier in a TV drama (Below, "The Ebony Tower", Toyah with co-stars Laurence Olivier, Roger Rees and Greta Scacchi) TOYAH: I wasn't in awe of working with Laurence Olivier because I'd worked with Katharine Hepburn so many years earlier, and I knew what to expect. That generation of actors has an etiquette that you must keep to. You either call them Sir or Madam or Lord Olivier. And with Lord Olivier ... we just sat and talked hour upon hour about when he formed the National Theatre, when he worked with Marilyn Monroe, when he met Joan Plowright, when he married Vivian Lee 

We got on incredibly well and as for working with him, the hardest thing was that he and Katharine Hepburn worked at a different pace. Modern style of acting is much more natural, it's much more quicker, it's much more throwaway. So you had to just bear in mind that you're making those two generations meet. But it was a really fabulous film to work on. We were treated like stars VANESSA (voiceover while a clip from “The Ebony Tower” plays) Toyah had to strip off completely during some of the scenes TOYAH: As I was maturing, I wanted to be a sexier person. So part of me really wanted to do those naked scenes, yet the rest of me was aware that I was kind of kneeling, therefore my breasts weren’t going to be seen from the best point of view and my thighs weren't going to look good So it was worrying and I starved myself two months to do those scenes. But once you're actually doing it and your director has actually kindly stripped off to be naked with you, there is a kind of enjoyment about it 

VANESSA (voiceover) In 1985 at a charity lunch Princess Michael of Kent introduced Toyah to rock guitarist Robert Fripp from the band King Crimson (below with Toyah) TOYAH: He approached me to do a charity album with him. So I moved down to his studio in his house near Bournemouth and worked with him and within a week he proposed! VANESSA: What made you say yes to him so very quickly? TOYAH: He is the most extraordinary human being I've ever known. He's kind, spiritual, super intelligent and does not manipulate you in any way through fear or intellectualism. He straight down the line. He's truthful, to the point of hurting but you can't help but admire someone like that. And I knew as soon as I met him that this was someone that I could take that journey with where you grow, where everything is an event. I thought this will make a really good marriage VANESSA (voiceover) And on “This Is Your Life” Toyah’s husband made his feelings for her extremely clear after hearing “Freedom”, the track they wrote together (Clip of “This Is Your Life” plays: MICHAEL PARKINSON: Robert, that music really did come from the heart ROBERT: (tearfully) I fell in love with my little wife when she sang that and I haven’t fallen out of love with her since)

VANESSA: They look like tears are the most acute love. I've never seen anything like it! (Toyah laughs) He's just sobbing at the sheer vista of you being there, isn’t he? TOYAH: He's extraordinary. He really really loves me. At the same time he’ll go go off on tour for a year and he will phone me up in tears every day telling me how much he loves me. He's an extraordinary pot of juxtapositions. He really loves me, but we see very little of each other 

VANESSA: I was just going to ask you about that because this is a dynamic that fascinates everybody whoever holds fort about the subject of your marriage. Why does he have to be away so much? TOYAH: He’ll never be at home! He'll never do it VANESSA: What's he doing all the time? Why is he always away and why don't you just go with him? And why aren't you together more? What’s it all about? (Toyah laughs) TOYAH: I refuse to be a rock and roll wife. My career has always been my priority. And it's the same with him. We're nomadic, basically. We are both nomadic and the distance between us actually holds us together VANESSA: You don’t want to be separate! You want to be together! TOYAH: You do in the beginning, and I think then children come and children hold that mesh together. But we we didn't have that in the equation of our relationship VANESSA: It's not an accident that there are no children. You took the decision to be sterilised and it's what you wanted to do and yet having done it, you immediately felt, you say, robbed of your femininity 

TOYAH: Yeah. Very, very odd feeling. Knowing I didn't want children, knowing I didn't want to accidentally get pregnant and go through all those decisions of whether you keep it or lose it. And there was another factor - because I don't have a full socket in the hip on the right side that can dislocate. I have to be very, very careful with dislocation So pregnancy would have meant that I'd have to spend the last three months of the pregnancy kind of in a chair or lying down. So I got sterilised. There's no problem in me making that decision, but when I woke up after the sterilisation I thought “what have I done? I've I've actually played with God's decision of who and what I am”. I felt very strange about it. Now I don't at all, but for the first year of being sterilised, I felt weird VANESSA: So no part of you now thinks, oh gosh, I wish I’d just left it to chance or happenstance? 

TOYAH: (Shakes her head) I really am very, very firm in knowing that I don't want children. Obviously now I'm 42 ... I mean, I suppose I could, but I've never had those feelings or that calling never VANESSA (voiceover) In 1991 Toyah started presenting television programmes. (Back at the interview) This is yet another unexpected incarnation. By this time you've been so many people and done so many things. Classical Shakespearian actress, you've been an absolute top selling singer and suddenly you’re a TV presenter.  Did you ever dream of doing something like that? TOYAH: No! Never dreamed of doing Panto either! (Vanessa laughs) What happened was I was in Los Angeles visiting Robert who was working on an album and a phone call came from England. And it was my agent and she said, “Oh, you really don't want to do this. But there's this programme that's asked you to present it” and I said, “well, actually yes, I do!”

Because I'd never done it and I wanted the experience and it was the Midlands version of “01-For London”. It was called “First Night” and I spent a year doing that. It taught me how to present, taught me how to interview. taught me how to write as a journalist, and I haven't looked back since then VANESSA (voiceover) For the next 10 years Toyah went on to present a rich variety of television and radio programmes. (Back at the interview) Nobody can say you're not a grafter, you're extremely hard working and always have been TOYAH: I love my work. I live for my work, and nothing can substitute my work. I'm very, very honest about that and my friends understand that and my husband understands that in a way that he's the same. I only get any sense of calm or satisfaction when I'm working If I'm not working, I'm almost a manic depressive. I'm just not worth knowing. But now I'm slowly moving back towards being a film actress and TV actress with doing “Barmy Aunt Boomerang”, which is a BBC children's programme (Below with Richard Madden) VANESSA: By the way my children say congratulations on your Australian accent - it’s magnificent 

TOYAH: (in a thick Aussie accent) Oh, bless them sweetheart. I think that's just so kind, dear little Sheilas (Back to normal accent) I do “Aunt Boomerang”, which I based on Barry Humphries (who plays "Dame Edna Everage") (they both laugh) I just finished the feature film “Most Fertile Man In Ireland”

VANESSA: Tell me about that TOYAH: I was working in Malaysia, got a phone call - could I do a day's filming in Dublin? So I got the next plane to Dublin. Shot all my scenes in one day and a miniscule role but the pivotal role in the whole story. I play a fertility doctor who cannot have children in Northern Ireland who finds a man that is so fertile he can make sterile women pregnant. It’s a comedy (they both laugh) And there you have it. A day's filming and I'm in, really, one of the best films that will be out next year VANESSA: What do you think the future holds? How would you like it to pan out? TOYAH: How I’d like it is very different probably what it holds. I would still like to sing but it's got to be on my terms. I can't handle huge fame like that ever again. I love my independence. I love being able to walk into a supermarket and browse but I want to be a film actress, a TV actress and I want to sing and I want to write books but I know I will not be sitting at home being idle VANESSA: I have a feeling all those things will happen and more. I would not be surprised if you were suddenly an astronaut. I really wouldn't! (Toyah laughs) Toyah Willcox, thank you very much indeed TOYAH: Thank you 

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