{"id":21988,"date":"2010-02-22T13:31:42","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T13:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=21988"},"modified":"2015-04-01T13:33:35","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T12:33:35","slug":"the-humans-live-2010-a-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/the-humans-live-2010-a-review\/","title":{"rendered":"The Humans Live 2010 – A Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The Humans; Warm-up gig, Bishops Cleeve, <\/strong>somewhere in the deep dark depths of Gloucestershire<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Having been introduced to Toyah in 1980\/81 by fashion designer Richard Sorger (www.richardsorger.com), who at the time I was at school with, I jumped at the chance to see her play live. I had owned vinyl copies of Anthem and The Changeling…. I still have a cassette tape of Warrior Rock in my attic.<\/p>\n

Robert Fripp on the other hand, was a name that I had heard but I have to admit, his music, I had not. I own many CDs by Brian Eno, Harold Budd, Michael Brook etc but for some reason he had missed my radar. But not any longer! He has a new fan today.<\/p>\n

The church at Bishop’s Cleeve was full. I believe there were about 300 seats.
\nRobert Fripp started proceedings with The Humans (Chris Wong, Bill Rieflin & Toyah Willcox) joining him after the opening track.<\/p>\n

Ms Willcox started off unnecessarily nervous, or at least came across that way, but that seemed to lessen further in to the show. The audience was very receptive and appreciative.<\/p>\n

The Humans are a three piece, four when Robert Fripp joins them as a special guest. The band has two bass players and no drummer.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Humans played all of the tracks from their “we are the humans” along with a reprise of “We are the humans” at the end. This was followed by an encore comprising of excellent versions of “These Boots Were Made For Walking” and “Purple Haze”.<\/p>\n

Chris Wong’s bass playing on “Is It Wrong” stood out for me. You can hear this track on Toyah’s MySpace (http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/toyahofficial). It reminded me of Mick Karn (Japan \/ Dali’s Car \/ Rain Tree Crow) although Chris may not appreciate me saying that!<\/p>\n

I personally liked it so much that I am hoping to be able to make it to the Cambridge gig on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Review by Symon Payne<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Humans; Warm-up gig, Bishops Cleeve, somewhere in the deep dark depths of Gloucestershire Having been introduced to Toyah in 1980\/81 by fashion designer Richard Sorger (www.richardsorger.com), who at the time I was at school with, I jumped at the chance to see her play live. I had owned vinyl copies of Anthem and The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,110,44],"tags":[1247],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21988"}],"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=21988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21989,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21988\/revisions\/21989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}