{"id":25788,"date":"2016-06-21T06:20:55","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T05:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=25788"},"modified":"2016-06-21T06:20:50","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T05:20:50","slug":"the-courier-perths-bid-backed-by-toyah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/the-courier-perths-bid-backed-by-toyah\/","title":{"rendered":"The Courier: Perth&#8217;s City Of Culture Bid Backed by Toyah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecourier.co.uk\/fp\/news\/local\/perth-kinross\/187558\/pop-star-toyah-backs-perth-bid-city-culture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.thecourier.co.uk\/fp\/news\/local\/perth-kinross\/187558\/pop-star-toyah-backs-perth-bid-city-culture\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25789 alignleft\" style=\"border: 6px solid white;\" alt=\"courier16a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/courier16a.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"196\" \/><\/a><strong>Perth\u2019s bid to be the UK\u2019s City of Culture is being backed by pop star Toyah Willcox<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The \u201880\u2019s hit-maker believes the Fair City is in rude health to challenge for the prestigious honour, and that the annual staging of the Rewind Scotland festival at Scone Palace can only boost the locality\u2019s case.<\/p>\n<p>The Birmingham-born singer and actresss regularly visits the area and was a popular draw at Perth Concert Hall when the musical Vampires Rock enjoyed sold-out stints at the venue in 2009 and 2010.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t surprise me that Perth is bidding to become the UK City of Culture,\u201d Ms Willcox said. \u201cI think Perth deserves that recognition as much as any other city.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think cities that preserve their own culture and look after it, and are in touch with their own history, as well as supporting the local population, deserve to be City of Culture. I think it\u2019s a very good thing to have happen and I wish Perth the best of luck.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecourier.co.uk\/fp\/news\/local\/perth-kinross\/187558\/pop-star-toyah-backs-perth-bid-city-culture\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Courier<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perth\u2019s bid to be the UK\u2019s City of Culture is being backed by pop star Toyah Willcox The \u201880\u2019s hit-maker believes the Fair City is in rude health to challenge for the prestigious honour, and that the annual staging of the Rewind Scotland festival at Scone Palace can only boost the locality\u2019s case. The Birmingham-born [&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":[1382,1513],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25788"}],"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=25788"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25795,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25788\/revisions\/25795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}