{"id":19766,"date":"2014-06-19T07:44:24","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T06:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=19766"},"modified":"2014-06-19T07:50:22","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T06:50:22","slug":"kent-online-toyah-willcox-deal-astor-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/kent-online-toyah-willcox-deal-astor-theatre\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent Online: Toyah Willcox, Deal Astor Theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kentonline.co.uk\/whats-on\/news\/dramatic-costumes-for-stage-musical-18832\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/www.kentonline.co.uk\/whats-on\/news\/dramatic-costumes-for-stage-musical-18832\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19767 alignleft\" style=\"border: 6px solid white;\" alt=\"kentonline14a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/kentonline14a.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"214\" \/><\/a>A new interview with Toyah, ahead of her <em><a href=\"http:\/\/toyahwillcox.com\/event-category\/crimson-queengreatest-hits-live-2014\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Crimson Queen\/Greatest Hits&#8230;Live!<\/strong><\/a><\/em> gig at The Astor Theatre in Kent on Saturday, published yesterday by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kentonline.co.uk\/whats-on\/news\/dramatic-costumes-for-stage-musical-18832\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Kent Online<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Former \u2018high priestess of punk\u2019 Toyah Willcox may have mellowed with age but she still loves donning the dramatic costumes to become her on-stage musical alter-ego, as she tells Jo Roberts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my youth, I was happy standing out but I love that now I can be anonymous in the street. I\u2019d rather just turn it on for the stage,\u201d says Toyah, whose current conventionally blonde tresses and subtle chic contrast with the flame-haired punk appearance she sported in the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>The prolific singer has released more than 20 albums in the past 35 years. Her biggest chart hits came in 1981 with the EP Four from Toyah and the single Thunder in the Mountains. Toyah forged a three-pronged career as an actress and media personality too but she will be returning to her first love when she hits the stage at Deal\u2019s Astor Theatre this weekend with her Crimson Queen Greatest Hits show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s definitely a different part of me,\u201d she says of her musical alter ego, known for a signature dramatic look which manages to combine a futuristic vibe with retro 1980s stylings. \u201cThe majority of the time I\u2019m a businesswoman, but I can\u2019t wait to get out of the office and become my on-stage persona, I love that freedom\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kentonline.co.uk\/whats-on\/news\/dramatic-costumes-for-stage-musical-18832\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Kent Online<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new interview with Toyah, ahead of her Crimson Queen\/Greatest Hits&#8230;Live! gig at The Astor Theatre in Kent on Saturday, published yesterday by Kent Online. Former \u2018high priestess of punk\u2019 Toyah Willcox may have mellowed with age but she still loves donning the dramatic costumes to become her on-stage musical alter-ego, as she tells Jo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[947,145,27],"tags":[968],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19766"}],"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=19766"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19799,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19766\/revisions\/19799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}