{"id":24518,"date":"2015-11-14T23:39:18","date_gmt":"2015-11-14T23:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=24518"},"modified":"2015-11-14T23:39:18","modified_gmt":"2015-11-14T23:39:18","slug":"if-you-were-there-released-today-in-1980-danced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/if-you-were-there-released-today-in-1980-danced\/","title":{"rendered":"If You Were There: Released Today in 1980: Danced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ifyouwerethere1980s.wordpress.com\/2015\/11\/14\/released-today-in-1980-danced\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/ifyouwerethere1980s.wordpress.com\/2015\/11\/14\/released-today-in-1980-danced\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24519 alignleft\" style=\"border: 6px solid white;\" alt=\"danced15a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/danced15a.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/danced15a.jpg 220w, https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/danced15a-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a>Toyah Willcox first made the cover of Smash Hits on 27 November 1980, the day before her band Toyah released a \u2018live\u2019 album. It had been recorded at Wolverhampton\u2019s Lafayette Club on 17 June 1980; the gig was also filmed for inclusion in a television documentary about Willcox and her band. Of the documentary (a \u2018fly-on-the-wall\u2019 in which she was followed around over a period of months), she spoke about her unhappiness at being under the control of ATV, the station producing it: \u201cThe director wouldn\u2019t give me all the shots I suggested. For example, when we were playing Blue Meaning on top of Battersea Power Station he wouldn\u2019t take a camera up in a helicopter. A lot of it is quite personal though, down to fights with the band in the dressing room.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of the tracks performed at the Wolverhampton show, Danced, was issued as Toyah\u2019s fourth single: \u201cA live album \u2013 Toyah! Toyah! Toyah! \u2013 contains further tracks recorded at this concert but Ghosts and Neon Womb [the B-side songs] are available only on this single,\u201d the sleeve notes ran.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at <a href=\"https:\/\/ifyouwerethere1980s.wordpress.com\/2015\/11\/14\/released-today-in-1980-danced\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>If You Were There<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toyah Willcox first made the cover of Smash Hits on 27 November 1980, the day before her band Toyah released a \u2018live\u2019 album. It had been recorded at Wolverhampton\u2019s Lafayette Club on 17 June 1980; the gig was also filmed for inclusion in a television documentary about Willcox and her band. Of the documentary (a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[142,27,87],"tags":[1492],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24518"}],"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=24518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24520,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24518\/revisions\/24520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}