Toyah - Desire *Pre-Order

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

Released by Edsel, Toyah’s 1987 studio album Desire receives its first ever
standalone CD reissue in a new expanded edition, in deluxe 7” sized gatefold
packaging. Originally issued on the EG label, the album was produced by Mike
Hedges (Siouxise & The Banshees) and recorded at the legendary Abbey Road
Studios in the autumn of 1986.
This deluxe 2cd edition includes a second disc of 18 rare and ‘desirable’
bonus tracks including the 12” mix of lead single Echo Beach plus outtakes
and B-Sides from the album sessions. Excitingly six previously unreleased
tracks feature including the long-awaited release of the post-Desire rarity We
Play Machines.
Rare live concert recordings of Desire songs have been unearthed especially
for this release; Revive The World performed at The Orange Club, Kensington
with Kiss Of Reality in 1992, Desire and Moonlight Dancing from 1994 plus
Echo Beach from Toyah & Robert Fripp’s summer 2024 Rock Party Tour.
The Desire album recording sessions ran concurrent to Toyah starring in the
Strand Theatre revival of celebrated musical Cabaret. Toyah appeared as the
lead Sally Bowles, alongside Wayne Sleep in the Gillian Lynne-directed
production. Although a cast recording was made of the Strand production it
was before Toyah took over the role of Bowles. Ten years later, Toyah revisited
Cabaret with a recording of four songs, one of which is a duet with British
actor Nigel Planer. This marks the first time these tracks have ever been
included on a Toyah release.
The Desire album includes an eclectic set of musicians across the 11 tracks
with guest guitar spots from Ronnie Wood, Robert Fripp, and The League of
Crafty Guitarists. Engineered by Haydn Bendall (Hounds of Love), the album’s
lead single was a sparkling cover of the 1980 Martha & The Muffins’ new wave
hit “Echo Beach”.

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