{"id":23414,"date":"2015-08-19T00:55:01","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T23:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=23414"},"modified":"2015-08-19T00:55:01","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T23:55:01","slug":"swindon-advertiser-heavens-above-fail-to-dampen-spirits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/swindon-advertiser-heavens-above-fail-to-dampen-spirits\/","title":{"rendered":"Swindon Advertiser: Heavens Above Fail To Dampen Spirits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk\/news\/13610410.Heavens_above_fail_to_dampen_spirits\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk\/news\/13610410.Heavens_above_fail_to_dampen_spirits\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13170 alignleft\" style=\"border: 6px solid white;\" alt=\"swinad13a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/swinad13a.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"24\" \/><\/a>As the bells from St Mary the Virgin rang out at 4pm on Thursday so too, on a sloping swathe of Oxfordshire farmland half-a-mile away, did a fiddle, an acoustic guitar and a mandolin. The sky was filled with threatening white-cum-greyish clouds and a mild drizzle descended but Fairport Convention were already in full flow.<\/p>\n<p>The bass heavy, Eighties, jazz-funk of Level 42 was not up my particular alley. And neither, did I think feel, would be a revival of Toyah\u2019s hits from the same era.\u00a0But the sassy blonde pixie-warrior-princess delivered a breathless show which even included some pogoing. \u201cHere I am, 57 years-old and I\u2019m still singing the punk stuff,\u201d she gasped between numbers. And singing it pretty well, too.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk\/news\/13610410.Heavens_above_fail_to_dampen_spirits\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Swindon Advertiser<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the bells from St Mary the Virgin rang out at 4pm on Thursday so too, on a sloping swathe of Oxfordshire farmland half-a-mile away, did a fiddle, an acoustic guitar and a mandolin. The sky was filled with threatening white-cum-greyish clouds and a mild drizzle descended but Fairport Convention were already in full flow. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[1189,735],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23414"}],"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=23414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23415,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23414\/revisions\/23415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}