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Two great shows ended the bands mini-tour; the first night at London's Shepherds Bush Empire on the 18th December comprised of:
Money (Everybody Loves Her), Don't Say It's Over, The Feeling Within, Can't Get Any Lower, Money To Burn, Girls In Love (first ever live performance!), Taking On The World, Something To Believe In, I Will Be Waiting, Inside Out ~ So Lonely, Word Up, Steal Your Fire, Shame On You, Welcome To The Real World, Better Days

But it seems the boys saved the best for last with an amazing show at Glasgow's Carling Academy on the 20th:
Money (Everybody Loves Her), Don't Say It's Over, The Feeling Within, Can't Get Any Lower, Money To Burn, Girls In Love (first ever live performance!), Taking On The World, Something To Believe In, I Will Be Waiting, Inside Out ~ So Lonely, Something Worthwhile (with Dante on vocals), Word Up, Steal Your Fire, Shame On You, Welcome To The Real World, Seems Like I'm Losing You, Better Days

Former Gun drummer Scott Shield was brought out to play on 'Better Days' which was a surprise and treat. The bands they played a 6 song mini-set at the aftershow in Rockers later that night which included Dante singing 'Fight For Your Right'...plus Steal Your Fire, Better Days, Word Up, Don't Say It's Over and Shame On You....

Gun rocked The Tackaroo in Cannock last night with another 70 minute set (the same as the previous nights). The were twice as good as Monday night-the sound was ace, the crowd were great and the band themselves seemed to have a blast. Awesome stuff and it bodes well for London and Glasgow.....

Gun stormed Vivaz in Scarborough last night with a 70 minute set featuring:
Money (Everybody Loves Her), Don't Say It's Over, The Feeling Within, Can't Get Any Lower, Money To Burn, Girls In Love (first ever live performance!), Taking On The World, Something To Believe In, I Will Be Waiting, Word Up, Steal Your Fire, Shame On You, Welcome To The Real World, Better Days

Together in the same room for the first time since 1994 (so I'm told); the Little Angels all met up at Michael Lee's funeral in Darlington last week. Jimmy Page was also in attendance.

It is with great sadness that I report the death of Little Angels' drummer Michael Lee. As well as been their drummer he also found fame drumming with Page and Plant, The Cult, Echo And The Bunnymen and a reformed Thin Lizzy. He died peacefully in his sleep sometime on Sunday evening/Monday morning.

Michael joined the Angels on 16th August 1988; he was there for their first single '90 In The Shade', the Big Bad EP and played on the debut album 'Don't Prey For Me'. He was a fantastic drummer and will be sorely missed. RIP.

Thanx to Robin Ellwood who was lucky enough to meet Michael a few months ago in Darlington and have this picture taken with him:

Toby and Jools will be supporting Lauren Harris at the Cathouse in Glasgow on 10th December! They will also join her on-stage for 'Steal Your Fire' during her set! Click here for tickets (they're only Ł7.50 each!)....

Gun rocked The Garage in Glasgow for the second time this year on Thursday with a Rock Radio sponsored gig apparently in promotion of The Rocker. The 80 minute set ran:

Welcome To The Real World
Don't Say It's Over
Money To Burn
Better Days
Taking On The World
Inside Out ~ So Lonely
Something Worthwhile
Word Up
Crazy You
Steal Your Fire
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Money (Everybody Loves Her)
Shame On You
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Fight For The Right (To Party) *

* featured Dante on vocals and Toby playing bass guitar. The boys were also joined by a keyboard player who may or may not have been called Greg.

I was also able to get some info from Toby regarding EP3 (three tracks practically finished and another two over 50% done; featuring Matt E on drums and Toby basically doing everything else) and the DVD (finished-sorting out the details with Townsend about how/when to release it..)

Oh, and Toby described one of the three finished tracks as "one of the best I've ever recorded". Sounds good to me.

Two Warm-up shows for the 'Taking On The World' gigs have been announced - Vivaz in Scarborough on 15th December 2008 and The Tackaroo in Cannock in the 16th December 2008. The band have reported that the warm-up gigs will be definitely content to the main shows. Both venues should be familiar to Toby fans......

Alan Thornton has announced that he is to leave his position as GUN drummer due to personal reasons. Al made the announcement through the official GUN Myspace page:

The band would like to sadly announce the departure of drummer Al Thornton who leaves for personal reasons. Al Said,

The band wishes Alan well for the future. He is to be replaced by Glaswegian player Gordon McNeil.

Gig at The Garage on 30th October 2008...see www.ticketweb.co.uk for tickets....

December 2008 - Takin' On The World
18th - Shepherds Bush Empire, London
20th -Carling Academy, Glasgow

GUN – 'TAKING ON THE WORLD'
Saturday 20th December: Carling Academy Glasgow
Forming in Glasgow in 1986, GUN enriched the glory days of rock 'n' roll having shared stages with the likes of The Rolling Stones and Iron Maiden. Following a ten year break, the band reform to play their debut 1989 album 'Taking On The World' in its entirety for the very first time.
Tickets on general sale Monday 22nd September at 9am
Tickets available online @ www.ticketweb.co.uk or phone 0844 477 2000

Ooops - forgot the songs at the start of August! The final three tracks from Milton Keynes are available for download now.....!

New video added to the TJTV page - GUN performing 'Don't Sat It's Over' from Rockers.....enjoy...

Shame On You
Welcome To The Real World
Better Days
Money To Burn
Taking On The World
Don't Say It's Over
Inside Out ~ Enter Sandman ~ So Lonely
Word Up
Steal Your Fire

Shame On You
Welcome To The Real World
Better Days
Don't Say It's Over
Word Up
Steal Your Fire

Well, my 30th birthday present from the band was a very enjoyable set on Clyde Radio tonight. The tracks played were Welcome To The Real World, Better Days, Don't Say It's Over, Shame On You, Steal Your Fire and Word Up. And it sounded ace! bodes well for Rockers and T in the Park next weekend. And 'Don't Say It's Over' is rapidly becoming my favourite Gun song.

The next three tracks from Milton Keynes are up on the Music page, as well as the entire Gun set from Manchester....enjoy....!

The gig planned on 10th July 2008 at Rockers has been cancelled due.....recording commitments by the band! I've no idea what this concerns yet but will post details as soon as I have them!

Card purchases for tickets are being refunded or tickets can be returned to the place of purchase.

The 11th July show at Glasgow has sold-out and the band have added an extra date at the same venue on Thursday 10th July 2008!!! Tickets are also Ł10.00 in advance and can be purchased at www.ticketweb.co.uk and www.seetickets.com - see you there! Support is again from Fakes.

Three new videos uploaded to TJTV; Toby and band playing the best version of 'Don't Pray For Me' I've heard (yet!). And two videos of Toby acoustic at Rock Radio in Glasgow in January 2008. Enjoy.....

Gun will be playing a session on Billy Sloan's Radio Clyde show on Sunday the 6^th July (my birthday no less!). You can listen in online here, from 7pm UK time but note that fans outside the UK may not have access this stream due to licensing restrictions. However, I'm sure someone will record it and put it online ;)

Also, Gun will be warming up for their appearance at T In The Park with a gig at Rockers in Glasgow on Friday 11th June. Tickets are Ł10.00 in advance and can be purchased at www.ticketweb.co.uk and www.seetickets.com - see you there! Support from Fakes (whoever they may be.....)

And I've finally had something resembling enough time to type up the Angels bits and Toby's quotes from April's Classic Rock magazine.

""We believed we had the biggest balls on the planet" says Toby Jepson (Little Angels). "It's part of growing up in Scarborough. The place itself generated a feeling that everything was possible. We emerged out of this white middle-class England with all the energy in the world, and watched Bon Jovi explode on the scene and wanted to be that. We had no streetwise sense at all. I wanted to be Bon Jovi. I'll tell you why - we always used to moan, there's never any rock on the radio, never any on TV. We'd all cram into each other's houses to watch The Tube and hope there'd be a metal band on, and there never was. I think they did a Motley Crue special once and we couldn't believe it. So when Bon Jovi happened they blew open the doors. It was okay to play guitar and look like a girl."

"I remember Bruce [Dickinson, Little Angels' guitarist] turning up in a codpeice because he'd got this week's Kerrang! and there was Manowar on the cover. He had this fur codpiece he'd made. We said: 'Bruce, maybe not...' I remember going on stage in my dad's ruffled shirt. Daft. We had an idea that we should be dressing up, and we approximated it"

"Every single time we picked up Kerrang! everything was in the Marquee," says Toby Jepson. Me and Bruce got on a National Rapide bus and stayed with some friends of his father in St John's Wood. We walked the streets of London for four days. Everywhere there was a sign that said live music, we walked in and asked if we could play. Being as green as grass we had no idea they were going to say: 'Well yeah - if you pay..'"

"GN'R were the greatest band I've ever seen live," says Toby Jepson. "It made us realise what a real band was about. It was a turning point. We went down there thinking: "Who are this band? They're gonna be rubbish.' We went back to Scarborough thinking: 'You know what? That was the real deal.'"

"My experience of the major label system was that we were 'the rock band' at Polydor. As we got a bit older and a bit wiser we realised they were trying to flog us as a pop band. It was very much 'Let's try and make them look like skaters or surf dudes'. We'd go into A&R meetings and ask: 'What do you think of the demos?' And the A&R guy would go: 'I dunno, what do you think?'"

"It might sound hopelessly naive, but I don't really know why the Little Angels split up. We were treading the boards at the Albert Hall, we'd just had a No. 1 record and toured with Van Halen and Bon Jovi. I can remember the discussions were: 'America's never going to accept you because of Nirvana.' But we were always very eclectic and we could have emerged with a record that sounded different. I think we could have survived."

"I came out bereft that we'd split up and for the next six months, I didn't know what had hit me. I'd spent 10 years working, and it had come to nothing. I put out my solo album and it was a disaster. I thought to myself: 'Man, this business is fucking tough...' I ended up in a van, having to tour-manage myself. It was a stark world. I realised I hadn't understood the business at all."

The word is that Little Angels won't reform - Bruce Dickinson is now a successful music teacher, Mark Plunkett manages Ronan Keating and Mark Richardson now plays in Feeder. Toby is writing songs, singing with Fastway, and appeared with Gun at their recent re-formation show. "I'm absolutely committed to re-entering this business," says Toby Jepson. "I feel a lot more ready for it now. What it's made me realise is that there is a market for classic rock. I said to Steve, my manager, the other day: 'What I am is a good rock singer'.

"You have to have an appreciation of what you're good at because at this age it's all you've got, and I'm a rock singer."

Little Angels - Don't Pray For Me: The big chorus wasn't an entirely American phenomenon.

The Rock and Blues Festival (at which Fastway are playing) is now back-on! See their website at www.rockandblues.uk.com for information/tickets etc. It's a two day event 25th and 26th July 2008 - Fastway are playing on Saturday 26th July.

Also, the next three songs from Milton Keynes are on-line now. In the next few days I'll get the recording of Gun from Manchester on-line for you to listen to......

Watch Gun & Toby performing 'Word Up' and 'Steal Your Fire' live from Manchester on the TJTV page....!

Toby is now confirmed as the new lead singer for Gun following his debut with them in January. They are playing Manchester (as below), T In The Park on 10th July 2008 and have also mentioned new material and a headlining tour as well as a few other festival appearances.....

In celebration/happy co-incidence I have uploaded Gun (with Toby of course!) playing Better Days to the Music and TJTV pages.....as well as the usual monthly solo MP3s.....enjoy!

Toby is confirmed to play at Rock Radio's Manchester launch party with Gun on 5th May 2008. It's a free for all in Manchester city centre and Gun will be onstage about 4pm for 45 minutes.........see you there!!

Last week Toby posted an update on his website - link here. The gist is that this year will be more focused on Fastway and Gun than the solo stuff; although EP3 of Guitar, Bass And Drums is definitely coming.....

I've uploaded the next three tracks from Milton Keynes to the Music page for you to enjoy, including an awesome Somebody Else......

Toby features quite a lot in this months (April 2008) Classic Rock magazine. There's a 6 page feature on "Brit-Rock" which includes several quotes from Toby (taken from an interview from March last year!) as well as a review of The Garage gig in Glasgow on 10th January 2008.

And is equally positive about his turn fronting Gun too. The second last paragraph of the review reads...

There's also a small picture of Toby in the now-famous kilt, as well as few other pics from the show including Thunder.

I've uploaded Toby, Bruce and Rich playing 'Womankind' on MTV's Most Wanted in 1993 to YouTube. Watch the video on TJTV or download the remastered MP3 on the Music page.....

I know the news is a little quiet at the moment but I'm told it's all go behind the scenes, EP3 hasn't been forgotten for a start!

In the meantime, here are the first three live tracks uploaded from The Pitz, Milton Keynes on 14th September 2008

Had a lot of requests for this so I'm please to announce that you can now download the three acoustic tracks played by Toby at The Garage in Glasgow on 10th January 2008 on the music page.

Also, if anyone is interested.....I am currently in the process of transferring all my old Little Angels videos onto DVD with a view to making a compilation DVD. So if anyone has any footage they'd like to contribute please email me.....

On 10th January 2008 Toby played at The Garage in Glasgow. Twice in fact! Firstly a short acoustic set on his own, and then fronting Gun. Gun had recently received an award from RockRadio who asked them to play at their 1st Anniversary bash; original Gun frontman Mark Rankin was unavailable/unwilling to do it so Toby got a call and fronted instead!

And you can read Gun fans' reactions here

Toby Acoustic Set:
Happy Ever After
Don't Pray For Me
Young Gods ~ Won't Get Fooled Again

Gun Set:
Welcome To The Real World
Better Days
Steal Your Fire
Taking On The World
Word Up
-- Encore --
Steal Your Fire

Notes:

The final 3 tracks from Fastway @ Download are now available for download, and I've uploaded pictures (finally) from the September/October tour. See the individual pages on the Tourography.....

The next three Fastway tracks have been uploaded to the Music page, along with a new TJTV page featuring Toby videos from over the years (mainly the ones I've uploaded to YouTube).

Also, I've uploaded a September/October 2007 Tour "scrapbook" featuring a load of photo's I took whilst on tour. Some concert pics, some soundcheck and some completely random ones......clicky here

BTW, if there is anything you would like to see on this website then just let me know! Email is nige@jepfans.com

I've uploaded the first video from the September/October 2007 tour to YouTube - watch it here!! More coming soon....

Hopefully another "exclusive" on the Music page for you guys to Download - the first three tracks of the Fastway set at the Download Festival, Donnington on 10th June 2007. I've also updated some of the September/October tour gig pages with tickets scans/setlists etc....

During the day yesterday Toby and band held a "materclass" at The University of Hull in Scarborough (!). This comprised of an introduction/Q&A session, a performance (of Happy Ever After and Ta-loo-la and associated deconstruction of both songs) and then some workshops.

Then in the evening a full scale concert was performed, two support bands Indecent Disco and ?????? then the main act:
Setlist:
Breakdown
Motivated
Happy Ever After
Kickin' Up Dust
Ta-loo-la
Somebody Else
All Roads Lead To You
Forgiveness
Unwind
Slippin' Through Your Fingers
Inside Out
Doing The Best That I Can
Overloaded
Lucky
Young Gods

NOTES:

Final two songs from Bristol unloaded finally. Full lyrics to Guitar, Bass and Drums EP2 are now available! Lots of tour stories, photos, setlists and gubbins coming in the next two weeks. Once I've caught up on sleep........

I've also updated a few other songs' lyrics in places, and added brief details on a "new" Mr Thrud song.

The next two songs from Bristol are now available for download. The final two songs won't be available until after the tour ends now (i.e. Mid-October)!

EP #2 recording is now completed with mixing currently on-going in sunny Scarborough. The final tracklist of the second (of three) EPs is:
1. Ta-loo-la
2. Money Goes (Ebb And Flow)
3. Lucky
4. Learn To Fly
5. Doing The Best That I Can

Setlists from Dirty South and Chepstow are up, along with the next three songs from Bristol

The first of two videos for 'Overloaded' - this is a compilation of clips from the March/April 2007 tour -see here

Fastway’s first gig for 17-odd years is a secret warm-up gig tomorrow (Wednesday 6^th June) at the Islington Academy Bar, N1 Centre, 16 Parkfield Street, London, N1 0PS
www.islington-academy.co.uk

Tickets are Ł6 and doors open at 7:00pm. There will be a support act. Fastway will only be playing for 45 minutes; they will be running through their festival setlist.

This will be Toby’s onstage debut with the band. Rehearsals have been going well and Toby is very keen to get out on the road!

The Fastway events scheduled so far are as followed:

Sweden Rocks 9th June
Download Tuborg Stage 10th June (on-stage 7:30pm)
Fields of Rock Holland 16th June
Grass pop Belgium 22nd June
Wakken Open Air Germany 3rd August.

Toby has been announced as guest lead singer for Fastway on their upcoming Festival appearances over the summer. For most of you - this will mean their performance at Download on 10th June. Toby has stressed that this will not affect his solo career - the September/October tour poster is still going ahead as planned etc and work is well underway on EP #2 which should be recorded in June/July....more when I have it! Track rumours so far include the long-in-development I Never Lied To You (I Just Didn't Tell The Truth), Picking Up The Pieces, a re-recording of Twisted Rhapsodies track Pure but I'm also told that Toby has been busy writing loads of new material too! I guess we'll see.

In the meantime, enjoy the new downloads on the music page - the next three tracks from Bristol.......

New audio tracks uploaded - the first three tracks from the Fleece in Bristol on 28th March 2007. So if you didn't make it to any of the gigs (and if not - why not?!?!?!) then this could your first chance to hear Toby's new band.

New tour dates announced for September/October :) Also, mini March/April gigs reviews uploaded. Pics and proper reviews coming soon.....

What a great tour! Highlights must include the stealing of the show at Shepherds Bush Empire and the final three shows (Newcastle, Scarborough and Cannock) which were simply awesome! Especially the version of Somebody Else at Cannock! Full tour details/reviews/photo's coming soon......

Guitar, Bass And Drums EP#1 is released today!!! Tour starts tomorrow in Edinburgh! Lyrics (as best I can make out) are available on the Albums page and there's a sample of 'Overloaded' on the Music page.

I regret that the final two tracks from Hammersmith Odeon won't be available until after the tour now. But I figure Toby touring is better anyway! Especially since he's promoting an awesome new EP. This is some heavy stuff and I can't wait to hear it live - especially 'Somebody Else'.....

Wanna hear a new song??!!?? Go to http://myspace.com/burnoutbandslam and listen to 'Overloaded' (lyrics and chords coming soon) and enjoy! This is a good representation of the rest of the EP in terms of rockiness! Great stuff!

Two new Hammersmith Odeon tracks added, along with the front cover to Guitar, Bass and Drums EP#1.

The Scarborough gig has been moved to 5th April 2007 - all tickets remain valid for the re-scheduled date. And an extra gig in Birkenhead on the 24th March has been confirmed.....tour pages updated accordingly.......

Well - it's been a while since I updated the Albums page but I'm very very very pleased to report that I've done so! Guitar, Bass and Drums EP#1 is now up. No cover art or lyrics yet sadly.

Tour dates are here for March and April are here: Scarborough, Edinburgh, London, Bristol, Mansfield, Hull, Farnborough, Oxford, Newcastle, Leighton Buzzard and Cannock - I'll see you soon!

Also the first (of 3!) EPs has been announced. Guitar, Bass and Drums EP#1 will be released on 5th March 2007. Pre-orders are being taken now(ish) at Townsend Records.

HAPPY NEW YEAR Everybody! Here's hoping 2007 does prove the be the year of Toby Jepson. Tour dates and release dates for the new tracks should be coming very soon and frankly (to quote an old Little Angels demo) I can't wait!!!!

In the meantime, I've uploaded another two tracks from the Hammersmith Odeon gig for you to enjoy. And if anyone wants to design some artwork for the show then that would be great. Might even have a competition and give something away to the designer of the best set.....

The next three tracks (Product Of The Working Class, Kickin' Up Dust & Juvenille Offender from Hammersmith Odeon 91 are available now!

First of all - HAPPY BIRTHDAY TOBY! The main man is 39 today. In celebration/happy coincidence I've uploaded a load of new songs to the Music page - Enjoy :)

Reviews and setlists are up for the tour, along with a video of 'Too Much Too Young' from Dudley!

Tours over :( But it was great to say the least. Pictures, reviews and setlists all coming very soon along with some "new" songs......

If you haven't checked the Music section out yet I advise you do so soon as I'll be removing all the old tracks soon to make way for the new ones.

2 new gig dates added to the tour section, plus one unconfirmed. Full tour details coming soon.....

Toby is confirmed to play at Z Rock 06 Pt 2 on Sunday 24th September - Dudley JB's. Tickets for the show will go on sale April 18th!

Toby Jepson is playing a one off show in London as a warm up for the Norwich show at:
Amersham Arms, New Cross, London
The venue is right outside New Cross station
It will be tickets on the door, strictly first come first served.
Ticket price Ł7
Time of show TBC
Opening act will be 'The Dean Howard Band' (Ex T'Pau) + another TBA
Box office 0208 6922047

A new download (on the music page) and some more gigs reviews/setlists up. Photo's will be coming soon I promise!

New guitar chords added to Guitar page; Paperthin, Juvenile Offender, Forbidden Fruit and I Want Love

New reviews on the Tourography page plus two new downloads; Unwind and Forbidden Fruit - both played acoustically by Tobe and Nick on Radio York on 13th January 2006. Enjoy!

By the way, if you attend any of the upcoming shows I'd love setlists/photo/reviews wherever possible. My next gig will be either Birmingham or Manchester.

Last night was a blast! Vivaz in Scarborough got rocked by the band and it was great to see Toby and the guys back on stage finally. Full review on on the Tourography page.

A few people asked me about this last night I'll mention it here; Nick will be selling copies of two of his solo albums (Kiss My Stupid Mouth and Godspeed) at the shows, priced Ł8 each (I think!). They both showcase Nick's amazing guitar playing which you are familiar with as well as his piano playing, song-writing and singing skills which are equally good. The albums are less main-stream than Toby's music but very good nonetheless, best described as a mixture of Frank Zappa, XTC, Francis Dunnery whilst retaining their own individuality!

Due to a small cock up, the date for the YORK FIBBERS warm up show is changing.

Instead of WEDNESDAY the 18th JAN the show will now take place on the following day THURSDAY the 19th JAN

Tickets will obviously be honoured and refunds made in full should this need to be the case.
Please contact the venue for details, the website address and box office numbers are below or accessible through the live page on www.tobyjepson.com

Unfortunately the club double booked Toby with an act that cannot change due to it being on a scheduled tour.
We sincerely hope all those who hoped to attend still can.

The support act are a local Scarborough band called the Variants and they are fantastic.

Toby and band will be playing 2 warm-up gigs at Vivas in Scarborough on 17th January 2006 then Fibbers in York on the 18th January 2006.

And also - thanx all! I've been inspired by your emails and have dug out some more MP3s to share - not the best quality but I hope you like them! See the Music page for details.

I shall be removing some of the older tracks soon so if you've not downloaded them yet - get them ASAP! Also, if there's any tracks you'd like to see put up let me know and I'll see what I can do......

Well, I've waited along time to post news this good but finally - Toby will be touring with Thunder in January / February 2006! Sorry it took me so long to post this news but I've been on holiday!

Dates are:
JANUARY 2006
Friday 20th : CITY HALL, NEWCASTLE, ENGLAND
Saturday 21st : ACADEMY, GLASGOW, SCOTLAND
Sunday 22nd : CITY HALL, SHEFFIELD, ENGLAND
Tuesday 24th : BIC (SOLENT HALL), BOURNEMOUTH
Wednesday 25th : ST. DAVID'S HALL, CARDIFF, WALES
Friday 27th : DOME, BRIGHTON, ENGLAND
Saturday 28th : CORN EXCHANGE, CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND
Sunday 29th : COLSTON HALL, BRISTOL, ENGLAND
Tuesday 31st : ACADEMY, BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND

FEBRUARY 2006:
Wednesday 1st : UEA, NORWICH, ENGLAND
Friday 3rd : ACADEMY, MANCHESTER, ENGLAND
Saturday 4th : HAMMERSMITH APOLLO, LONDON, ENGLAND

Photo's and reviews added for the two shows from the weekend in Scarborough. See the tourography page. Also, download a short sample of Unwind from the first nights gig on the Music page.

Review and setlist of Tobe's first show since 2002 on the tourography page. Photo's coming soon.

Tobe has added an extra show on Friday 10th December at the Stephen Joseph Theatre Scarborough as part of Mojos Music Cafe Night. Tickets can be bought from the SJT box office (01723) 370541.

Dean Howard's Volume One CD featuring Toby is available now from www.townsend-records.co.uk. Toby wrote and sings on the track 'Cacophony'. Lyrics on the lyrics page!

Toby will be performing for the first time since H2002:beached on Sat 11th December 2004 at the Stephen Joseph Theatre Scarborough at Mojos Music Cafe Night & will be performing new material. Tickets are priced at Ł6.50 (with 3 supports all acoustic) and can be bought from the SJT box office (01723) 370541.

Please note that this is an all acoustic show & has very limited tickets (only 100!) & it's a very intimate gig so hurry! over half have sold already.
Any queries to dicko@beached.net

I've had loads of people ask about this track, so....in celebration of Tobe's birthday (tomorrow!) - I've uploaded Toby singing with Six Yard Box on 'Pictures Of Matchstick Men' from their 'Imagination Is Greater Than Knowledge' album.

For those of you who haven't heard about this; Toby sang vocals on this track for the band in 1993.

Toby has made a guest appearance on Dean Howard's debut solo album. The album also features Ian Gillian, Danny Bowes and Ben Matthews.

NB: Dean, the former T'Pau/Ian Gillian Band/Bad Company guitarist, is the guitar player on the original demo version of 'Forgiveness'.

No release date yet but Dean has a distribution deal with Townsend Records so they should carry the album soon hopefully.

A new MP3 has been added to the music section - Toby singing with Rolan Bolan (see below) from the H2004 Beached festival!

Another photo from H2004 Beached - Toby duetting with Rolan Bolan on 'Twentieth Century Boy' from the Saturday show!

Also, a photo of Tobe and Nick having a last minute rehearsal before their set in 2002:

A couple of new downloads, 'Slipping Through Your Fingers' and 'Some People Are More Equal Than Others' performed by Toby & The Whole Truth.

Add guitar chords/tab to 'Beginning To End', 'I Won't Be With You' and 'England Rocks'.

Nick Dunne (Tobe's guitarist on Refresh) is currently on tour with Kate Rogers - dates below:

For those of you interested, here is a link to a video of Nick playing piano on the title track of Kate's new album St. Eustacia.

A Christmas present for you all - the other Rock City tracks taken from a bootleg recording. See the music section.

Twisted Rhapsodies is finally out now. I also received a bonus 3 track CD as an MP3 Club member. Lyrics to all tracks are available now.

Add the words to 'Overrated', 'Schizophrenia Blues', 'Babylon's Burning' and 'Might Like It Better' in the lyrics section.

Twisted Rhapsodies is available for pre-order finally at www.townsend-records.co.uk - tracklist and lyrics are on the albums page.

Nick Dunne (Toby's guitarist on 'Refresh' on the March and July 2002 tours) has recorded a new album called 'Anhedonia' which is available now - send me an email for ordering information.

The tracks are:
* Anhedonia Pt. 1
* Born Yesterday
* The Knot
* Anhedonia Pt. 2
* Bez do pice
* Seen And Not Heard
* Lucy

Some new live tracks to download in the music section, taken from the Leeds gig in March last year.

Sad news today unfortunately - Toby has announced his decision to leave the music industry (see his email below). I intend to keep this website open and I'll provide live songs for download periodically (both Toby and Angels stuff).

I've added the lyrics to 'Pure' and 'Lullaby' as well as a review of the Beached H2002 festival appearance from August. I've also put a little info up about two unreleased Little Angels tracks - see the lyrics section for details.

The tours over :( Complete setlists are now available. Pics and reviews coming very soon.

The band recorded the Nottingham gig for a live EP. Now word on the release date yet.

Tour dates now available - see the Tour section for details. Ricky Warwick is confirmed as tour support.

Ricky Warwick (ex-The Almighty) might be Toby's support act for the July/August tour.

Toby will be touring the UK again in the last two weeks of July and early August. Haven't heard the dates and venues yet sadly....

I'm told Toby will be touring the UK again in the last two weeks of July and early August - similar venues to the last tour with 1 or 2 exceptions. Nothing confirmed yet but keep an ear out and an eye to the ground (or something!)

And so endeth the tour, 17 fantastic gigs. Concert reports and photo's coming soon but setlists available right now.

Sample of the new Toby track, 'Breakdown', is now available for download on the music page <-----

'REFRESH' EP Track listing:
1. Unwind
2. Breakdown
3. Forgiveness
4. Refresh Yourself
5. My Aim Is True

Tentative release date is the 22nd February. One track has been left off and the EP is now a 5 track, presumably either 'Pure' or 'I Never Lied To You, I Just Didn't Tell The Truth' - both of which were recorded during the sessions. In which case I suggest Toby sell the latter to Meatloaf - looks like one of his song titles after all!