{"id":17905,"date":"2013-12-14T11:40:25","date_gmt":"2013-12-14T11:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=17905"},"modified":"2013-12-16T12:33:09","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T12:33:09","slug":"christmas-countdown-christmas-eve-1981","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/christmas-countdown-christmas-eve-1981\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Countdown: Christmas Eve, 1981"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/tag\/christmas-countdown-2013\/\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/tag\/christmas-countdown-2013\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17906 alignleft\" style=\"border: 6px solid white;\" alt=\"christmas12e\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/christmas12e1.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"60\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">We&#8217;re counting down to Christmas at Dreamscape&#8230;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Christmas Eve, 1981<\/strong>. Toyah play to millions (figures mentioned sometimes suggest over 10 million viewers) on <em>The Old Grey Whistle Test<\/em> on BBC2, beamed live from the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Toyah was in top form this night and no wonder as it was the end to a hugely successful year: hit singles, an album that reached number 2 and stayed on the chart for the rest of the year, three sell out tours, topping year-end music polls, magazine covers, numerous television appearances&#8230; Here\u00a0are screen caps from\u00a0the original BBC2 Christmas trail for their 1981 Christmas Eve schedule.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/togwt81a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17907\" alt=\"togwt81a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/togwt81a.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/togwt81a.jpg 620w, https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/togwt81a-300x112.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re counting down to Christmas at Dreamscape&#8230; Christmas Eve, 1981. Toyah play to millions (figures mentioned sometimes suggest over 10 million viewers) on The Old Grey Whistle Test on BBC2, beamed live from the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Toyah was in top form this night and no wonder as it was the end to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17908,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[981],"tags":[987],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17905"}],"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=17905"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17911,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17905\/revisions\/17911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}