{"id":10337,"date":"2012-12-18T22:00:20","date_gmt":"2012-12-18T22:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=10337"},"modified":"2013-01-02T15:53:01","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T15:53:01","slug":"10337","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/10337\/","title":{"rendered":"Toyah Newsy Bits &#038; Pieces!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/gb\/album\/i-believe-in-father-christmas\/id586394636\" rel=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/gb\/album\/i-believe-in-father-christmas\/id586394636\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10338\" style=\"border: white 6px solid;\" title=\"ibifcd12a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ibifcd12a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"202\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Toyah&#8217;s 26th UK single was released yesterday. The 1982 recording of the Greg Lake classic &#8216;I Believe In Father Christmas&#8217; is now available to download from from <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/gb\/album\/i-believe-in-father-christmas\/id586394636\" target=\"_blank\">iTunes<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/I-Believe-in-Father-Christmas\/dp\/B00AMF8KQO\/ref=sr_shvl_album_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1355735203&amp;sr=301-1\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon<\/a><\/strong> (it&#8217;s also available at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/I-Believe-in-Father-Christmas\/dp\/B00AMCVKU0\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1355785629&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=i+believe+in+father+christmas+toyah\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon.com<\/a><\/strong> for anyone outside the UK). The song was recently placed 24th in the Top 50 Best Christmas Songs Of All-Time by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prsformusic.com\/aboutus\/press\/latestpressreleases\/Pages\/FairytaleofNewYorkmostpopularChristmassong.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">PRS for Music<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>Toyah&#8217;s Christmas At The Zoo<\/strong>: The next airing for the three-hour Christmasfest is today at 7.30pm on Vintage TV.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b01pcs5s\" target=\"_blank\">BBC Radio 4<\/a><\/strong>: Neil Tennant&#8217;s Smash Hits Christmas: Neil Tennant had a life as a journalist before he became famous as a Pet Shop Boy. In fact, it was on a Smash Hits trip to New York that he had his big breakthrough with the record producer Bobby O. (Includes a brief clip from the programme)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/tvandradio\/5603194\/Todays-radio-highlights.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Telegraph<\/a><\/strong>: Today&#8217;s Radio Highlights: Thursday 20th December: Neil Tennant\u2019s Smash Hits Christmas (Radio 4, 11.30am) makes it an even better day for 6 Music-inclined listeners to start tuning to this network.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>Neil Tennant&#8217;s Smash Hits Christmas<\/strong>: Lots more online press and interest on this, including <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/episode\/tcy2j\/neil-tennants-smash-hit-christmas\" target=\"_blank\">Radio Times<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dummymag.com\/news\/2012\/12\/17\/bbc-radio-4-are-broadcasting-a-tribute-to-smash-hits-magazine\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dummy<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestage.co.uk\/features\/tv-radio\/2012\/12\/radio-reviews-blackout-ballet-the-actors-gang-neil-tennants-smash-hit-christmas\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Stage<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/55672845\" target=\"_blank\">The Resurrection Live Sessions<\/a><\/strong>: &#8216;Angel and Me&#8217;, from <em>The Changeling Resurrection II<\/em> UK Tour. &#8216;Danced&#8217; is also available <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/54139249\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Toyah&#8217;s 26th UK single was released yesterday. The 1982 recording of the Greg Lake classic &#8216;I Believe In Father Christmas&#8217; is now available to download from from iTunes and Amazon (it&#8217;s also available at Amazon.com for anyone outside the UK). The song was recently placed 24th in the Top 50 Best Christmas Songs Of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[501],"tags":[457,473],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10337"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10340,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10337\/revisions\/10340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}