Best UK Indie Chart number one single of 1981

Four from Toyah - Toyah

^ this is the one with 'It's A Mystery' on it btw. I never really 'got' Toyah.

Slim pickings this time.

Actually, if you discount Toyah, not so bad.

My pick goes "ee ee o ee ee o ee ee "

I went for Joy Division over UB40 in the 1980 poll so this time it's One in Ten over Ceremony.

"New Life"

jeez, I've never even heard of Toyah before. are they worth checking out?

http://www.45cat.com/image/087/thumb/toyah-ieya-safari-2-t.jpg = Toyah

"I want to be free" is about not wanting to go to Nursery, or something...

Toyah was like a watered-down and famously lispy new wave version of Siouxsie Sioux.

Future wife of Robert Fripp!

And first voice on every Teletubbies episode.

The other thing is she had this melodramatic but really weedy warrior-queen image thing going on.

and a huge promotional push before "It's a Mystery" that kind-of didn't work at the time.

Oh, OK, an episode of "Shoestring", a 'nice' private-eye telly prog.

Toyah was like a watered-down and famously lispy new wave version of Siouxsie Sioux.

I am intrigued, tbh.

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I am intrigued, tbh.

Well her band were no Banshees, that's for sure. Think they were mostly session guys slumming it.

Then Bobby Fripp came along and whisked her away from all that

lol what a terrible list :(

'Ceremony' or Discharge I guess

interesting to see Toyah in the indie charts, though Ceremony clearly wins this.

I saw Toyah walking around at an ATP once.

Ceremony
Dreaming of Me
New Life
Too Drunk to Fuck

Voted Ceremony - it's prob my all time favorite song tbh

Or at least in the top 5

Might vote for 'Procession', always seems a bit underrated and forgotten about.

This was a hell of a year to be a crustie btw.

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Poor old Toyah!

YAY!