{"id":22026,"date":"2010-10-16T14:06:08","date_gmt":"2010-10-16T13:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=22026"},"modified":"2015-04-01T14:09:19","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T13:09:19","slug":"total-production-magazine-human-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/total-production-magazine-human-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Total Production Magazine: Human Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"An interesting feature on The Humans, and interview with sound engineer Paul Nicholson, from the April 2010 issue of ‘Total Production’ magazine.<\/p>\n

On the recent debut tour by Toyah Willcox’s new outfit, The Humans, The foh and monitor mixes – and the live recording – were all engineered by Paul Nicholson who explained all to Mark Cunningham at London’s Scala…<\/strong>
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\nIn February, The Humans – the new outfit featuring singer Toyah Willcox, Bill Riefl in of R.E.M. and Chris Wong, with honorary member Robert Fripp (of King Crimson fame) on spaced-out guitar – played their first UK live shows in the wake of their d\u00e9but album, We Are The Humans.<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/span>\"\"<\/strong><\/span><\/a>After intimate warm-up shows in West Country churches, the four-piece astonished audiences at The Assembly in Leamington Spa, Cambridge\u2019s The Junction and The Scala in London\u2019s Kings Cross, where TPi saw them in all their experimental glory.<\/p>\n

Inspired covers of Nancy Sinatra\u2019s \u2018These Boots Are Made For Walking\u2019 and Hendrix\u2019s psych-rock classic \u2018Purple Haze\u2019 were the only vague nods to Toyah\u2019s 1980s pop past. With Mr. Fripp onboard – her husband of 24 years and a globally-worshipped God of Prog – there was never going to be anything mainstream about these gigs.<\/p>\n

Their intriguing sound has been variously described as \u2018art rock\u2019, \u2018twisted funk\u2019 and \u2018complex\u2019. Arguably, all three labels stand up and though not comfortable listening, the audience – with exception of one individual who clearly bought his ticket to hear the singer reprise her 1981 hit \u2018It\u2019s A Mystery\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Read the full feature at the ‘Red Square Audio’ website, <\/span>here<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An interesting feature on The Humans, and interview with sound engineer Paul Nicholson, from the April 2010 issue of ‘Total Production’ magazine. On the recent debut tour by Toyah Willcox’s new outfit, The Humans, The foh and monitor mixes – and the live recording – were all engineered by Paul Nicholson who explained all to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[145,44],"tags":[1258],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22026"}],"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=22026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22027,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22026\/revisions\/22027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}