{"id":21980,"date":"2010-02-19T13:25:04","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T13:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=21980"},"modified":"2015-04-01T13:26:27","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T12:26:27","slug":"gloucestershire-echo-toyah-ready-to-rock-cheltenham-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/gloucestershire-echo-toyah-ready-to-rock-cheltenham-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Gloucestershire Echo &#8211; Toyah Ready To Rock Cheltenham Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 6px; margin-right: 6px; border: 0px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ge10a.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"354\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"6\" \/>A new Toyah interview, by the &#8216;Gloucestershire Echo&#8217;:<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Toyah Willcox And The Humans Come To Cheltenham<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Former pop punk star Toyah Willcox has chosen a Bishop\u2019s Cleeve church to kick off her new tour.<\/p>\n<p>St Michael\u2019s and All Angels Church will be filled with fans of the singer, who shot to fame 30 years ago with hits such as It\u2019s a Mystery.<\/p>\n<p>Her new band The Humans will play a free, intimate gig at the church, which has a capacity of 200 people, on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Joining the one-time princess of punk on stage will be REM drummer Bill Rieflin.<\/p>\n<p>Toyah, who has had 13 top 40 singles, recorded 20 albums and toured the world, said: \u201cWe have a strong association with Bishop\u2019s Cleeve artist PJ Crook.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd a long-standing relationship with Cheltenham.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Toyah and her husband, guitarist Robert Fripp, are patrons of Cheltenham Art Gallery &amp; Museum and she said her mother, who was a touring dancer, worked in a theatre in Cheltenham before she was born.<\/p>\n<p>This will be her first gig in Cleeve, but Robert has already played at the church twice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am so excited about it,\u201d said Toyah.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full interview online at &#8216;This is Gloucestershire&#8217; <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk\/gloucestershireheadlines\/Toyah-ready-rock-Cheltenham-church\/article-1847915-detail\/article.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Toyah interview, by the &#8216;Gloucestershire Echo&#8217;: Toyah Willcox And The Humans Come To Cheltenham Former pop punk star Toyah Willcox has chosen a Bishop\u2019s Cleeve church to kick off her new tour. St Michael\u2019s and All Angels Church will be filled with fans of the singer, who shot to fame 30 years ago [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[145,27,44],"tags":[1141],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21980"}],"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=21980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21981,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21980\/revisions\/21981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}