{"id":22006,"date":"2010-02-27T13:45:34","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T13:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=22006"},"modified":"2015-04-01T13:47:34","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T12:47:34","slug":"the-humans-live-2010-financial-times-4-star-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/the-humans-live-2010-financial-times-4-star-review\/","title":{"rendered":"The Humans Live 2010 – Financial Times 4-Star Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The ‘Financial Times’ have reviewed Wednesday’s gig at The Scala;<\/span><\/p>\n

The Humans, Scala, London<\/strong>
\nBy Ludovic Hunter-Tilney <\/span><\/p>\n

The Humans are an art-rock band featuring two bassists \u2013 one, confusingly, is REM\u2019s drummer Bill Rieflin \u2013 and Fripp on guitar. Willcox, in a black PVC top, a memento of her 1970s punk roots, led the line with expressive vocals, twirling dances and stylised stage movements: Stevie Nicks meets Brechtian cabaret.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The twin bass players, occasionally complemented by programmed beats, played sinewy, rumbling rhythms, a kind of twisted funk, with Fripp contributing a range of guitar effects, from gnarly riffs and a pounding cover of Hendrix\u2019s \u201cPurple Haze\u201d to delightfully subtle chimes. <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

On this basis the work of Mrs Robert Fripp and Mr Toyah Willcox, as Willcox introduced herself and her husband, deserves a far wider audience.<\/em><\/span>\"4<\/p>\n

Read the full review at ‘FT.com\/Arts’ <\/span>here<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

‘SwimathonPete’s Blog’ offers an interesting perspective of the Bishops Cleeve warm-up show in his Toyah Toyah Toyah<\/em> post. Read that <\/span>here<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. (Thanks to Paul Lomas)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The ‘Financial Times’ have reviewed Wednesday’s gig at The Scala; The Humans, Scala, London By Ludovic Hunter-Tilney The Humans are an art-rock band featuring two bassists \u2013 one, confusingly, is REM\u2019s drummer Bill Rieflin \u2013 and Fripp on guitar. Willcox, in a black PVC top, a memento of her 1970s punk roots, led the line […]<\/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\/22006"}],"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=22006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22007,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22006\/revisions\/22007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}