{"id":17918,"date":"2013-12-16T12:20:56","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T12:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=17918"},"modified":"2014-01-19T02:32:36","modified_gmt":"2014-01-19T02:32:36","slug":"toyah-newsy-bits-pieces-81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/toyah-newsy-bits-pieces-81\/","title":{"rendered":"Toyah Newsy Bits &#038; Pieces!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 <strong>The Old Grey Whistle Test<\/strong>: New to Dreamscape&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/toyahnet\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>You Tube channel<\/strong><\/a>, a rare clip from Toyah&#8217;s 1981 Christmas Eve concert, televised live on BBC2&#8217;s <em>The Old Grey Whistle Test<\/em>. This is the final song of the concert, &#8216;I Want To Be Free&#8217;, but it&#8217;s from the TV version not the BBC Video that was released in 1982, so a slightly different ending (Thanks to Andy) &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RpFbq5qN8vw\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Watch here&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RpFbq5qN8vw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RpFbq5qN8vw\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17919\" alt=\"ogwt13b\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/ogwt13b.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/ogwt13b.jpg 620w, https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/ogwt13b-300x79.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>Toyah&#8217;s Digital Advent<\/strong>: We are being spoiled this Christmas by The Official Toyah Willcox Website. Already there&#8217;s been live footage from the <em>Love Is The Law &amp; More<\/em> Tour, great audio from 1981, rare photos from the late 70s, and today a treat from the 90s\u00a0&#8211; Visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/toyahwillcox.com\/2013\/advent\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Advent&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>Nottingham Post<\/strong>: Celebrity signed book by Nottingham care assistant auctioned for charity: Care assistant Victoria Harwood is hoping to raise funds to save endangered animals &#8211; by drawing animals&#8230; The famous signatures include Richard Kiel and singer Toyah Willcox &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nottinghampost.com\/Celebrity-signed-book-Nottingham-care-assistant\/story-20314374-detail\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Continue reading&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>Robert Fripp&#8217;s Diary<\/strong>: A selection of great festive photos have been posted to Robert&#8217;s online diary &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dgmlive.com\/diaries.htm?artist=&amp;show=&amp;member=3&amp;entry=25493\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>View here&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>Official Discography<\/strong>: There is more content being added almost daily. Great info on Toyah;s many releases over the years &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/toyahwillcox.com\/2013\/discography\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>View here&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>Toyah 1987 &#8211; 2003<\/strong>: Great news that Toyah&#8217;s back catalogue from\u00a01987 to 2003\u00a0will be made available digitally next year. Desire, Prostitute, Ophelia&#8217;s Shadow, Take The Leap!, Dreamchild, Velvet Lined Shell &#8211; all fantastic albums that will hopefully reach more people in years to come!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 The Old Grey Whistle Test: New to Dreamscape&#8217;s You Tube channel, a rare clip from Toyah&#8217;s 1981 Christmas Eve concert, televised live on BBC2&#8217;s The Old Grey Whistle Test. This is the final song of the concert, &#8216;I Want To Be Free&#8217;, but it&#8217;s from the TV version not the BBC Video that was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17920,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[501,8],"tags":[1011,989],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17918"}],"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=17918"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17942,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17918\/revisions\/17942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}