{"id":19421,"date":"2014-05-09T12:28:38","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T11:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=19421"},"modified":"2014-05-09T12:30:14","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T11:30:14","slug":"toyah-newsy-bits-pieces-103","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/toyah-newsy-bits-pieces-103\/","title":{"rendered":"Toyah Newsy Bits &#038; Pieces!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.briangriffin.co.uk\/photography\/album-covers\/toyah-wilcox\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/www.briangriffin.co.uk\/photography\/album-covers\/toyah-wilcox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19422 alignleft\" style=\"border: 6px solid white;\" alt=\"fagendsbg14a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/fagendsbg14a.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"182\" \/><\/a>\u2022 <strong>Toyah 1980 #1<\/strong>: An original copy of the eight-page fanzine <a href=\"http:\/\/stillunusual.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Fagends<\/strong><\/a>, from 1980, recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebay.co.uk\/itm\/FAGENDS-1-PUNK-NEW-WAVE-FANZINE-CRAMPS-TOYAH-CLASH-RARE-1980-\/371041171473?pt=UK_Music_Music_Memorabilia_LE&amp;hash=item5663c6f811&amp;nma=true&amp;si=tqlisCkWz%252BUtijMIL1celGzjz58%253D&amp;orig_cvip=true&amp;rt=nc&amp;_trksid=p2047675.l2557\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>sold on ebay for a tidy \u00a377<\/strong><\/a>! It includes a review of Toyah&#8217;s Glasgow Tiffanys gig from the <em>Ieya<\/em> UK Tour. The fanzine is available to read online, via scans at the &#8216;Still Unusual&#8217; website &#8211; You may have to scroll down, there&#8217;s no direct link &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/stillunusual.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>View here&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>Toyah 1980 #2<\/strong>: Three photos, two of which are previously unseen, of Toyah from <em>The Blue Meaning<\/em> era in 1980 are on sale at photographer Brian Griffin&#8217;s website (Photos \u00a9 Brian Griffin) &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.briangriffin.co.uk\/photography\/album-covers\/toyah-wilcox\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>View these fantastic photos here&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>Echo News<\/strong>: Clare Balding rambles in Leigh: In the 26 series of the show Clare has made, she has walked with Toyah Willcox in Worcestershire, with taxidermists in Boston, and with a bereavement walking group in Shrewsbury &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.echo-news.co.uk\/news\/11197796.Clare_Balding_rambles_in_Leigh\/?ref=var_0\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Continue reading&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>Live 2014<\/strong>: Tickets for the Live Wyre Festival, which Toyah plays on Sunday 1st June, are now on sale &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livewyrefestival.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>More info and buy tickets here&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>Namechecking!!<\/strong>: Mentions for Toyah in a couple of recent online press articles: <strong>Herald Express<\/strong>: South Devon Arts Centre is also hosting artists such as Toyah, The Wurzels, Beverley Craven and China Crisis later in the year &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.torquayheraldexpress.co.uk\/God-Hell-takes-centre-stage\/story-21072064-detail\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Continue reading&#8230;<\/strong><\/a> <strong>Northumberland Gazette<\/strong>: Some pretty big names in the music industry have graced the series, including Status Quo, 10cc, Marc Almond, Alison Moyet, Toyah and Midge Ure &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northumberlandgazette.co.uk\/news\/opinion\/columnists\/alan-castle-taking-centre-stage-once-more-1-6604436\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Continue reading&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>80s Heaven<\/strong>: Toyah &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/simplyeighties.tumblr.com\/post\/83901451349\/toyah\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>View here&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Toyah 1980 #1: An original copy of the eight-page fanzine Fagends, from 1980, recently sold on ebay for a tidy \u00a377! It includes a review of Toyah&#8217;s Glasgow Tiffanys gig from the Ieya UK Tour. The fanzine is available to read online, via scans at the &#8216;Still Unusual&#8217; website &#8211; You may have to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[112,13,501],"tags":[1079],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19421"}],"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=19421"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19425,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19421\/revisions\/19425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}