{"id":11139,"date":"2013-02-01T14:48:54","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T14:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=11139"},"modified":"2013-02-01T14:50:34","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T14:50:34","slug":"toyah-newsy-bits-pieces-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/toyah-newsy-bits-pieces-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Toyah Newsy Bits &#038; Pieces!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Portrait_Records\" rel=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Portrait_Records\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11140\" style=\"border: white 6px solid;\" title=\"minxportrait13a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/minxportrait13a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/minxportrait13a.jpg 200w, https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/minxportrait13a-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Portrait_Records\" target=\"_blank\">Portrait Records<\/a><\/strong>: A history of the label Toyah was signed to for around 18 months in the mid-1980s has just been updated at Wikipedia: <em>In 1985, British singer Toyah released her album Minx on the Portrait label<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ventsmagazine.com\/chabliz\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vents Magazine<\/a><\/strong>: Dutch pop-rockband Chabliz, who play adventurous alternative rock, popnoir and gothicjazz, cite Toyah as one of their musical influences in a new interview at &#8216;Vents Magazine&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/sineadfan7\/videos?view=0\" target=\"_blank\">The Changeling Resurrection<\/a><\/strong>: Lots of video footage of Toyah&#8217;s gig at The Tunnels Bristol last April has been added to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/sineadfan7\/videos?view=0\" target=\"_blank\">You Tube<\/a><\/strong> over the last couple of days.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=M9GeejA3aMA\" target=\"_blank\">Channel 4 News<\/a><\/strong>: Is Punk Back From The Dead? is now available to watch at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=M9GeejA3aMA\" target=\"_blank\">You Tube<\/a><\/strong>. <em>As a new book is published featuring the origins of punk music in the lower east side of New York, Katie Razzall looks at how Punk magazine changed life in Britain<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I9LkDfH7sQk\" target=\"_blank\">FM<\/a><\/strong>: The epsiode of <em>FM<\/em> in which Toyah makes a, very, brief appearance, but is mentioned a lot, has recently been uploaded in full at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I9LkDfH7sQk\" rel=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I9LkDfH7sQk\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: white 4px solid;\" title=\"fmyt13b\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/fmyt13b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"176\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I9LkDfH7sQk\" target=\"_blank\">You Tube<\/a><\/strong>. Series One, Episode Two &#8211; System Addict: <em>The group try to stick to some new resolutions: Dom gives up booze, Jane gives up cigarettes, and Lindsay gives up giving up on girls. Featuring a performance by The Wombats, and guest appearance by Toyah Willcox<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kdmHO5wAhTg\" target=\"_blank\">Back To The 80s<\/a><\/strong>: The Ultimate Megamix Of The Year: A 43-minute mix which includes &#8216;I Want To Be Free&#8217; (or &#8220;Upside Down&#8221;) and &#8216;Thunder In The Mountains&#8217; and numerous other great tunes from 1981.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>Absolute 80s Radio<\/strong>: &#8216;It&#8217;s A Mystery&#8217; has just been played this afternoon on AR. Apparently the &#8216;I Want To Be Free&#8217; video is also being shown a lot on Vintage TV at the moment. (Thanks Michael)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>The Visitors<\/strong>: No, not ABBA&#8217;s 1981 album&#8230; The hits to Dreamscape last night and this morning have went through the roof. Always great news when the site is busy, though this time a large chuck of the visitors have arrived after searching for &#8220;wagon&#8217;s den geordie shore charlotte&#8221; or similar!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Portrait Records: A history of the label Toyah was signed to for around 18 months in the mid-1980s has just been updated at Wikipedia: In 1985, British singer Toyah released her album Minx on the Portrait label. \u2022 Vents Magazine: Dutch pop-rockband Chabliz, who play adventurous alternative rock, popnoir and gothicjazz, cite Toyah as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[92,501,8],"tags":[575,530,574],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11139"}],"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=11139"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11153,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11139\/revisions\/11153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}