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Copyright exists on all songs appearing in Smash Hits. They must not be reproduced without the consent of the copyright holders. FRONT COVER PIC: FIN COSTELLO \ p p «*» >*; /* Jr *"^^ ,-j^# Sk ^ ^.*^ "\> S*v . strayed on to discussing the of peak time, I suppose. previous night's TV, which had The outcome may be called a Mike Stand meets a girl of many parts included Jonathan Dimbleby's documentary, but it would be programme about "The Bomb" naive to take it on face value as a and Reagan's election to the US realistic presentation of Toyah. presidency, she phrased it For instance, a hobby of hers is perfectly: "You just feel like an taking pictures of society's ant in a nest". outcasts, people such as She means to be the ant you prostitutes and winos. So the notice. director wanted to film her filming them. But he put the block I LIKE Toyah a lot. It's her on the prostitutes angle (family short-fuse energy, her directness, viewing, you know) and she was the way she meets you eyeball to uneasy about tackling the tramps wHBBm tells eyeball and honestly you with a film crew lumbering that she lies sometimes and, behind her: essentially, drops her guard as if "It wasn't true to me. I didn't she genuinely had nothing to want to to do it. But I did. And of hide and nothing to fear in course these blokes didn't like their privacy being invaded. "I showed them there was no film in camera, it didn't Breaking Glass — 'I my but do any good. One of them came at walked out laughing at it. me and tried to hit me. I never run It was one big cliche." away from a man and I grabbed him and pushed him and he gave up. It was sad though because he answering your questions. showed himself to be an asshole, Whatever else, she is not whereas a lot of the winos are *- \^*fi&«fc". typically English. Not demure, just drop-outs and very Toyah as Miranda not reserved and not apologetic intelligent". about aggresively building her It will be interesting to see career, though she rightly rejects whether that embarrasing the "butch image" she's episode makes it on to our sometimes given as a result. screens. Certainly Toyah is quite There's a week of positives for capable of self criticism and has every negative moment she no objections. That episode comes out with. didn't work out quite as intended, So here's Toyah sitting but in a sense it doesn't matter opposite me in front of an electric because she is fond of upsetting fire in an upper room with a view people — anything to boot them over London's Southwark out of their complacency. OYAHWILLCOXis22. Toyah wants a//the breaks. She Cathedral. She looks good, but Before this winter she had works for them hard enough to tired. She's so wired up by TOYAH'S MUSIC is pervaded by featured in four movies, believe she's earned them. And "Sugar And Spice" every night an unsettling sensation of decay "Quadrophenia", Derek Jarman's now Hazel O'Connor's face looks that she can't sleep till about six which reminds me of Edgar Allan "Jubilee" and "The Tempest", at down her from every third in the morning and she gets up at Poe's classic horror story, "The plus "The Corn Is Green" (with billboard while the "Breaking seven to work on the music for Fall Of The House Of Usher". In Katharine Hepburn no less). On Glass" LP is right up in the her new band. "Blue Meanings" there's that TV she'd starred in a rock play "official" charts. Her hair and clothes are often same sinister feeling of an old called "Glitter", an episode of Toyah didn't like the film. luridly wild, but this afternoon building being alive: "The big "Shoestring", serials of "I think the direction is awful she's as neat as a newsreader grey building/Breathes grey "Quatermass" and "Dr. Jekyll and certain performances aren't and, she says, deliberately vapours". And Mr. Hyde", compered a I hoping much good. went to see conserving her emotions for the It's a heightened awareness weekly teens show, and acted at a good movie and some good play. Her Brummo-Cockney voice which I enjoy, though I think she f the National Theatre and the ICA competition, but I walked out % is hoarse and boyish. Ankle boots has also been capable of going (Mecca of the smartart set in laughing at it. It big was one with high heels jack her up far well over the top with a song like London). With her band she'd cliche. I have so many film ideas enough above five feet so that it "Insects" which is pointlessly released several singles and two and I would like to have had the barely registers how tiny she is. revolting: "I'm still alive and albums which commanded the chance to put into them action She has said that she spends insects crawl all over me/All over alternative charts for months on with a big budget." £700 a month, mostly her record my legs, inside my body/Bite, end and . That introductory catalogue of company's money, on clothes bite, bite, bite". Yet when I interviewed her, the appearances doesn't even but there's no sign of such "That's just my sense of first thing that pops out, include Toyah's most recent extravagance in her present humour," she explains. (Perhaps Toyah as Sharon unprompted by me, is a sort of ventures and media exposure. blackly inconspicuous attire. it's the way she tells them — Ed.) giggly gripe about not getting the When we met, she was coming to When I ask her about that ATV "I believe in the destroy-create Hazel O'Connor part in "Breaking the end of a six week run as a documentary, the result of philosophy. If I hit my foot with a Glass". dynamite punk called Sharon in a cameras following her around for hammer I would be dyeing the "I was offered it originally and play called "Sugar And Spice" at three months, she thinks that it floor red which would be nice behind my back someone said I London's Royal Court Theatre, turned out a bit and creative, you see," she couldn't get it. It was the sort of and the next day she was playing "over-acceptable" but chuckles. break I could have done with". the villainous lead in an episode unfortunately they had her under At least you can see why she's You might think that Toyah's of "Minder". their control. never worked the northern club life has been nothing but good She's also been featured in the In what way? circuit with a stand-up patter act. breaks, at least since she pulled TV Times and Sunday Times, and "The director wouldn't give me On the other hand when I saw out of the murderous life of the ATV were preparing an hour-long all the shots I suggested. For "Sugar And Spice", her Hell's Angels chapter that she documentary about her. Derek example, when we were playing performance drew lots of laughs was involved in throughout her Jarman has cast her as the "Blue Meaning" on top of out of the script despite the play's mid-teens in Birmingham. central character in his next film Battersea power station he savage atmosphere. It suits her But then you'd misunderstand: called "Camberwell Beauty", and wouldn't take a camera up in a down to the ground: she's been nominated for the helicopter. A lot of it is quite "It's great to take the piss out of prestigious London Evening Yet she says: "22 is boring.