The Toy Dolls tickets

The Toy Dolls: Rebels Within a Rebellion

The punk genre has been characterized, for the most part, by aggressive music carrying serious social and political messages. The Toy Dolls put a fresh spin on a hardening stereotype back in the UK at the crest of the new 80s wave. Songs like Spiders in the Dressing Room and Firey Jack established the band as feel-good, up tempo purveyors of good clean fun.

Schedule

The Toy Dolls embarked on their first national tour across England in 1980, and will soon repeat the feat for the umpteenth time. On this trip, however, they will be globetrotting their way to international destinations. They will travel across the Atlantic for a string of U.S. West coast shows, then head to western Europe. This leg of the touring starts in Germany and leads to a string of shows across France from Bordeaux to Lyon and ending in Paris. Subsequent travels will take the band to Slovakia, the Czech Republic, back to Germany and on to Poland.

Trivia

Olga plays a Fender Telecaster guitar, and the band plays every show in their signature obnoxious sunglasses. They have worn loud eyewear on every record cover except for the album One More Megabyte. Their song Nellie the Elephant was originally written by Peter Hart and Ralph Butler. Every Toy Dolls member has been given a nickname to go by while in the band. In 2004, the band released Our Last Album? So far it has been followed by two more releases.

Band

When the Toy Dolls showed up on the scene in South Shields, England in 1979, they took the punk genre by storm. Michael Olga Algar is the only founding member who is still blazing a trail, but he hasn't been without plenty of company along the way. He has shared the stage with a total of 26 different band mates over 35 years who have helped him crank out super-fast delta blues-style rock anthems yelped out in his signature high-pitched screech.

Breakthrough

The band's first release was a single in 1981 entitled Tommy Koweys Car which included the song She goes to Fino's on the B side. The record quickly sold out of its initial printing, which is now a sought-after collector's item.

Hit Albums

In early 1982 the band signed to the Volume label and released the single Nellie the Elephant just before Christmas. The tune was a cover of a theme song to a 1950s television show called Nellie the Elephant

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It reached No. 1 on the UK Indie Chart and was re-released in 1983 as part of their debut album Dig That Groove Baby

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By 1984 the song was again on the charts, this time climbing to No. 4 on the UK Singles Chart where it remained for 14 weeks. The band then quickly released A Far Out Disc. Since then they have released many albums, featuring spoofs of popular songs like Blue Suede Shoes, Livin' La Vida Loca and The Final Countdown.

Show Experience

The Toy Dolls tickets will offer fans the chance to experience the band's music in the environment in which it was intended to be heard. The live show is a rapid fire succession of their monstrous library of hits as the members run about in matching suits while jumping up and down and playing with feverish precision. To this day Olga maintains his happy-go-lucky demeanor and has become, as some might say, even cheekier than he was before. Confetti, fizz, and colored foil decorate the stage, the venue, and the fans once the band is done, and yes, they always play an encore.