{"id":24742,"date":"2015-12-18T08:55:32","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T08:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=24742"},"modified":"2015-12-18T09:05:01","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T09:05:01","slug":"retro-man-blog-toyah-at-the-garage-islington-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/retro-man-blog-toyah-at-the-garage-islington-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Retro Man Blog: Toyah at The Garage Islington London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/retroman65.blogspot.co.uk\/2015\/12\/toyah-tuesday-club-at-garage-islington.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/retroman65.blogspot.co.uk\/2015\/12\/toyah-tuesday-club-at-garage-islington.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24743 alignleft\" style=\"border: 6px solid white;\" alt=\"retromanblog15a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/retromanblog15a.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"230\" \/><\/a>There&#8217;s a great new Toyah feature\/review, of last month&#8217;s <em>Proud, Loud &amp; Electric<\/em> gig at The Garage, just published at the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/retroman65.blogspot.co.uk\/2015\/12\/toyah-tuesday-club-at-garage-islington.html\" target=\"_blank\">Retro Man Blog<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Toyah + The Tuesday Club at The Garage Islington London<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So, be honest now, what was your first gig? Mine wasn\u2019t The Sex Pistols at the 100 Club Punk Festival, or The Who at Leeds University Refectory. I didn\u2019t see Iggy smear peanut butter all over himself while crowd surfing at the Cincinnati Pop Festival and I never saw The Clash at the Victoria Park Rock Against Racism Rally. Nope, my first ever gig was Toyah on June 06th 1981 at the Hammersmith Odeon, the \u201cAnthem Tour\u201d in fact and I was 15 years old. Now, why I should feel a little bit guilty admitting this I\u2019m not sure, but you know how snobby us music fans can be sometimes. But as Toyah herself might say, I should be \u201cproud, loud and heard\u201d and not try to cover up the facts just because it might not be thought of as very \u201ccool\u201d. However, your first gig is rather like your first kiss, buying your first 7\u201d single or going to your first football match, it\u2019s something that stays with you forever. Due to many and varied reasons it was impossible for me to get to many gigs in my teenage years so the whole experience of that first live show was magical.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at <a href=\"http:\/\/retroman65.blogspot.co.uk\/2015\/12\/toyah-tuesday-club-at-garage-islington.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Retro Man Blog<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a great new Toyah feature\/review, of last month&#8217;s Proud, Loud &amp; Electric gig at The Garage, just published at the Retro Man Blog. Toyah + The Tuesday Club at The Garage Islington London So, be honest now, what was your first gig? Mine wasn\u2019t The Sex Pistols at the 100 Club Punk Festival, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[145,27,110],"tags":[1290,1498],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24742"}],"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=24742"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24747,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24742\/revisions\/24747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}