Toyah and Robert Fripp

HIS AND HERS

What music are you currently grooving to?

Toyah: Pink Noise by Laura Mvula. I’ve been a massive fan since seeing Laura at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival about six years ago.

Robert: Jón Leifs, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Peteris Vasks and Giya Kancheli as composers, and Hilary Hahn as player.

What, if push comes to shove, is your all-time favourite album? T: Roxy Music, For Your Pleasure. R: Wildfowers by Judy Collins.

What was the first record you ever bought? And where did you buy it? T: T.Rex, Electric Warrior, Vicarage Road Records, Kings Heath, Birmingham. It cost about 12s/6d. I still have it.

R: My sister Patricia and me bought two 78s for our shared birthdays, April 1957, at Poole Music Stores, Wimborne: Elvis Presley’s Hound Dog and Tommy Steele’s Singing The Blues.

Which musician, other than yourself, have you ever wanted to be? T: Tim Buckley, Carly Simon, Joni Mitchell, Bowie, Janis Joplin, Mick Jagger, Keith Moon, Jimi Hendrix, Michael Stipe, Eddie Vedder… R: It never occurred to me to be anyone else.

What do you sing in the shower? T: My new repertoire.

R: I don’t sing in the shower.

What is your favourite Saturday night record?

T: Motown, Tina Turner or Elvis Presley. I need to dance.

R: I don’t play records Saturday night.

And your Sunday morning record? T: Sibelius, Suite For Violin And Strings. R: English pastorales: Vaughan Williams, Gerald Finzi. Then a Hilary Hahn selection beginning with The Lark Ascending, on to Bernstein’s Agathon, [and finally] violin concerti.

Toyah’s Posh Pop (Demon) is out August 27. Her Posh Pop tour begins in September.