Toyah: Sheep Farming In Barnet, 2CD/1DVD Deluxe Edition

• 2CD and DVD edition of this classic album.

• Remastered and expanded deluxe release of Toyah’s debut ‘Sheep Farming In Barnet’.

• Produced by Steve James and Keith Hale (Blood Donor), the album reached number 1 on the UK Independent Albums in February 1980.

• With sleevenote by Toyah’s archivist Craig Astley, researched with input from co-writer/ guitarist Joel Bogen.

Including the 7” single ‘Victims Of The Riddle’ (1979), Toyah’s very first release that was followed by six-track mini-album ‘Sheep Farming In Barnet’. That mini-album was then expanded to a full length 11-track album (originally for the German market) in early 1980 by adding the ‘Victims’ 7” A-Side/B-Sides and some further tracks also recorded at Chappell Studios, London.

With a fully illustrated 24-page booklet containing an introductory note from Toyah plus rare and unseen imagery including album cover shots taken at RAF Fylingdales Early Warning site, Yorkshire.

This expanded edition features 30 bonus tracks made up of non-album singles, rarities and demos. Amongst the 20 previously unreleased tracks are versions originally recorded for Shoestring, the original improvisation vocal that became ‘Victims of The Riddle’ and the band’s first ever pre-signing 1978 demos.

Includes a DVD (NTSC/Region Free) containing two features with Toyah Willcox; an interview about the album/period, a track-by-track album interview and an exclusive acoustic three-song session of songs from the era – all filmed August 2020. The DVD also includes rare archive TV footage available on DVD for the first time ever including a 1979 interview/performance clips of Race Through Space filmed at Toyah’s Battersea warehouse ‘Mayhem’ for broadcast on What’s On (ITV Midlands-only region) and two songs filmed in February 1980 for BBC’s The Old Grey Whistle Test.