{"id":25956,"date":"2016-07-06T15:39:52","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T14:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=25956"},"modified":"2016-07-08T18:13:12","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T17:13:12","slug":"sunday-post-10-questions-for-rebellious-toyah-willcox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/sunday-post-10-questions-for-rebellious-toyah-willcox\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Post: 10 Questions for Rebellious Toyah Willcox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sundaypost.com\/in10\/entertainment\/10-questions-for-rebellious-toyah-willcox\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.sundaypost.com\/in10\/entertainment\/10-questions-for-rebellious-toyah-willcox\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25920 alignleft\" style=\"border: 6px solid white;\" alt=\"sundaypost16a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/sundaypost16a.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"52\" \/><\/a>Singer and actress Toyah has had many Top 20 hits and appeared in films with stars such as Katharine Hepburn. She has also written several books. She starred at The National Theatre with John Gielgud, and she acted alongside Laurence Olivier in TV\u2019s The Ebony Tower.<\/p>\n<p>Toyah will be singing at The Rewind Festival, Scone Palace, Perth, on Sunday, July 24.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why do the Rewind Festival?<\/strong><br \/>\nThe audience there is from three to 83 and I seem to get rediscovered by every new generation. It\u2019s very rewarding. It becomes a party for all of us and every song is a hit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do audiences say to you?<\/strong><br \/>\nUsually they say their mothers hate me because I\u2019m the reason they dyed their hair as a teenager, or because I got them expelled from school.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Are you still a rebel?<\/strong><br \/>\nI prefer to think that I\u2019m just not a conformist. If that makes me a rebel, then I guess that\u2019s what I am.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is image still important when performing?<\/strong><br \/>\nYes, but I\u2019m 58 now and I don\u2019t want to look stuck in the past, so when I dress for stage I try to be age appropriate and reinterpret the songs for today.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0Continue reading at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sundaypost.com\/in10\/entertainment\/10-questions-for-rebellious-toyah-willcox\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Sunday Post\/in10 Magazine<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singer and actress Toyah has had many Top 20 hits and appeared in films with stars such as Katharine Hepburn. She has also written several books. She starred at The National Theatre with John Gielgud, and she acted alongside Laurence Olivier in TV\u2019s The Ebony Tower. Toyah will be singing at The Rewind Festival, Scone [&hellip;]<\/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":[1004],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25956"}],"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=25956"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25972,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25956\/revisions\/25972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}