{"id":25791,"date":"2016-06-21T06:19:17","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T05:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=25791"},"modified":"2016-06-21T06:19:17","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T05:19:17","slug":"write-wyatt-new-toyah-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/write-wyatt-new-toyah-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Write Wyatt: New Toyah Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"writewyatt16b\"<\/a>A new interview with Toyah – one of the best for quite a while – has been published by the Write Wyatt<\/strong><\/a> blog.<\/p>\n

Getting up close and personal with Toyah<\/strong><\/p>\n

Regular readers of this blog won\u2019t be surprised that this scribe is an avid viewer of BBC 4\u2019s Top of the Pops re-runs, a point I soon confess to my latest interviewee, Toyah Willcox.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh, God bless those!\u201d<\/p>\n

The more recently re-aired shows take me back to my early teens, at a time when this highly-recognisable West Midlands raised actress and singer was enjoying a string of hits, not least the distinctive It\u2019s a Mystery, Thunder in the Mountains and I Want To Be Free.<\/p>\n

Admittedly, you\u2019ve always had to wade through a lot of rubbish on Top of the Pops, recent examples ranging from Captain Beaky and Joe Dolce to The Snowmen and Starsound. But it also makes me realise how many great characters there were in music at the time. \u2018Old bloke with rose-tinted nostalgic specs\u2019 alert, but the charts today just don\u2019t seem to have that same level of OTT theatricality. This was after all an era when the disparate likes of Adam Ant, Buster Bloodvessel, Clare Grogan, Hazel O\u2019Connor, John Lydon, Lee John, Siouxsie Sioux and Ms Willcox herself were beamed into our front rooms on Thursday nights. Just where are the characters now?<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was phenomenal back then. There were big characters out there. We all had to perform live and came up performing live. There were very few contrived acts. A very different time. We also all wrote, and I think it\u2019s really important to write your own material. It was almost a dirty word to do somebody else\u2019s song.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had to be coerced into doing Echo Beach (1987). That was a hit for me, but I felt a sense of shame at the time. Now I absolutely love performing it. Back then it was really important that the songs were your voice.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 Continue reading at Write Wyatt<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new interview with Toyah – one of the best for quite a while – has been published by the Write Wyatt blog. Getting up close and personal with Toyah Regular readers of this blog won\u2019t be surprised that this scribe is an avid viewer of BBC 4\u2019s Top of the Pops re-runs, a point […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25791"}],"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=25791"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25794,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25791\/revisions\/25794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}