In 2018, the band played one show in Montebello, Quebec , for the city’s annual Rockfest music festival, marking the first time in the band’s 38-year history that they played a show in Canada.
The band’s song “Nellie the Elephant” was used by Tesco in their toy advertisement in October 2014.
The Album After the Last One was released in 2012. The band has been on a “The Tour After the Last One” and started a range of Toy Dolls-themed real ales under the label “The Beer After the Last One”.
For their thirtieth anniversary in October 2009, the band received congratulatory messages from a selection of musicians, including Baz Warne from the Stranglers , TV Smith from the Adverts , Jake Burns from Stiff Little Fingers , and NOFX manager Kent Jamieson.
Since then, the band has continued to release albums and to tour widely, mainly across continental Europe, South America and Japan. After a gap of fourteen years since their last gig in Britain, 2007 saw a string of UK dates taking in cities from Glasgow to London, including a “homecoming”…
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In 2006, The Toy Dolls contributed their cover version of ” Toccata in Dm ” to the album project Artists for Charity – Guitarists 4 the Kids , produced by Slang Productions, to assist World Vision Canada in helping underprivileged kids in need.
To celebrate the band’s twenty-fifth anniversary in 2004, the official biography, The Toy Dolls: From Fulwell to Fukuoka , was published by Ardra Press.
The band released a best-of album, Ten Years of Toys . 1993 saw the popular live song “I’m a Telly Addict” on the album Absurd-Ditties . In 1997, the band released One More Megabyte , which featured references to computers, mainly in the lyrics of its title track, and in…
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For Christmas 1982, they released their punk rendition of ” Nellie the Elephant “, a classic children’s song, which hit No. 1 in the UK Indie Chart . In 1983, they released their debut album Dig That Groove Baby . In 1984, their re-issue of “Nellie the Elephant” reached No.…
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Scott left the band in 1980 and was replaced by Dean James for four months over the summer of 1980. James later returned to the band from 1985 to 1988 as bassist. Flip left in 1983, marking the beginning of a revolving door of drummers and bassists that would characterise…
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