Toyah - Prostitute *Pre-Order

Release Date Friday 6th June 2025
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.

Toyah’s bold, defiant and most experimental work, the 1988 solo album
"Prostitute" is released for the first time ever as an expanded CD edition in
deluxe 7” sized gatefold packaging.
This Deluxe 2CD Edition features a previously unreleased live recording of the
album from Chichester. In November/December 1988 Toyah formed a new
band Fripp Fripp with musician/husband Robert Fripp and embarked on a 22-
date tour. On the 7 UK and 15 European gigs Toyah performed the Prostitute
album live, accompanied by Paul Beavis on live drums as the tour’s first act.
For Toyah fans and collectors, it’s a fascinating document of Toyah performing
an impressive volume of vocals, dialogue and lyrics with precision and
defiance. The package includes rare imagery, ephemera and a new sleevenote
by Toyah archivist Craig Astley.
The album was written and played entirely by Toyah Willcox and Steve
Sidelnyk who went on to record and play live with Madonna (Ray of Light,
Music), Seal and Richard Ashcroft, amongst many others. A fiercely
independent lyrical work, it is sonically also a radical departure from previous
albums comprising drums, vocal and guitar meshed with a scrapbook of
samples and found sound.
Toyah explains: “I would get up at four in the morning and capture the dawn
chorus, record church bells, snippets of conversations and producer Tony
Arnold would marry them into the tracks. We worked as if we were compiling
a scrapbook with glue and paper, old newspaper cuttings, lost love letters,
odd thoughts and tons of fractured emotions.”

CD1/ Lie Down

– Original Album

1. Hello
2. Prostitute
3. Wife
4. The Show
5. Dream House
6. Homecraft
7. Obsession
8. Let The Power Bleed
9. Restless
10. Falling To Earth
11. Jazz Singers In The Tress
12. Vale Of Evesham
13. Ghosts In The Universe
CD2/ Think of England

– Live In Chichester 15.11.1988*

1. Hello
2. Prostitute
3. Wife
4. The Show
5. Dream House
6. Homecraft
7. Obsession
8. Let The Power Bleed
9. Restless
10. Vale Of Evesham
11. Ghosts In The Universe

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