{"id":22093,"date":"2011-09-25T21:25:04","date_gmt":"2011-09-25T20:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=22093"},"modified":"2015-04-02T21:26:42","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T20:26:42","slug":"the-boston-survival-guide-musings-from-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/the-boston-survival-guide-musings-from-boston\/","title":{"rendered":"The Boston Survival Guide: Musings From Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonsurvivalguide.net\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/the-humans-featuring-toyah-willcox-with-the-army-of-broken-toys-at-church-of-boston-tomorrow-night\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/www.bostonsurvivalguide.net\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/the-humans-featuring-toyah-willcox-with-the-army-of-broken-toys-at-church-of-boston-tomorrow-night\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 6px; margin-right: 6px; border: 0px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/humans11o.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"133\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"6\" \/><\/a>The Humans (featuring Toyah Willcox) with The Army of Broken Toys at Church of Boston tomorrow night!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s so much about Toyah Ann Willcox I never knew. I was familiar with this wild-haired, exotically dressed creature from another planet that was pretty much the norm in the 1980s, though her voice set her apart. I remember her album, The Changeling, released in 1982. It was dark, gothic and sensuous, and a staple of my musical diet at the time. But I had no idea that she was also deeply immersed in an acting career \u2013 stage plays, film and television \u2013 since the mid \u201870s. She worked with Derek Jarman on his punk film Jubilee and The Tempest, and in 1979\u2019s Quadrophenia. She appeared with Katharine Hepburn in the made-for-television movie The Corn is Green, and in many live theatrical roles. At the same time, she fronted a few bands before embarking on a solo music career in 1985.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 View the full article at &#8216;The Boston Survival Guide&#8217; website, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonsurvivalguide.net\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/the-humans-featuring-toyah-willcox-with-the-army-of-broken-toys-at-church-of-boston-tomorrow-night\/\" 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>The Humans (featuring Toyah Willcox) with The Army of Broken Toys at Church of Boston tomorrow night! There\u2019s so much about Toyah Ann Willcox I never knew. I was familiar with this wild-haired, exotically dressed creature from another planet that was pretty much the norm in the 1980s, though her voice set her apart. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,44],"tags":[1267,1260],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22093"}],"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=22093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22094,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22093\/revisions\/22094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}